Bear Hands

That draft was so easy. Ladd fell into your lap at 33. Take him. DeJean fell to 39, take him. No bullshiit trades. Could’ve easily been those two and Trey Benson.

He hit a 59 yarder in college last year and was 5/5 from 50+. Coaches are failing the moment.

He’s an example of not letting your vision for how you think everyone’s vibes should be supersede what’s on the damn field.

Took over DeJean, Ladd, Mikey, & Frazier. It’s usually silly to complain in retrospect but this time it’s totally justifiable. Everyone recognized the reach. It was absurd.

Yeah when he rolls out of structure, it’s either that or in empty sets where he looks best I’m speaking to a deliberate quick dropback to give him space to step into things. All the short guys do it but he tends to set very shallow so always has to bail out if the line loses even just a bit of leverage. He’s too short to step up into it but also doesn’t have the space to do it.

I don’t know what it was today, but his size seemed like a major issue against the Cards. Just seemed like he really couldn’t see the field well (even worse than usual)

Even when you watch the mediocre QBs with tight pockets, they can stand and fling. Tua, Penix, Purdy, they can step up in tight pockets and make the throws Bryce’s size doesn’t allow him to do that — his dropback speed and running ability is not remotely close to Kyler or Russ so he doesn’t create that space to step into things when he finds his sight lines. He’s just running scared if we’re not in an empty set vs softer zone packages.

You had a chance to win the game. Had some penalties go our way to keep it alive. And you couldn’t get it done. The QB, coaching and team failed. But in those situations, it really does fall on the QB. The best can March us right down field. He can’t outrun a 39 y/o Calais Campbell

Rozeboom is bad

I dislike that this is the perception being made. Some of the most successful defenses deploy a base 3-4. And everything is very scheme fluid these days with how safety, nickel and LB roles have evolved over time. I agree, it takes time, but we simply grabbed the wrong personnel. It's not the 3-4, it's that we're playing a scheme without suitable LBs for deployment. We don't get good enough edge setting at OLB and don't have the smart & alert ILB play. Compare to what Evero learned in. That had Willis/Bowman...we had a guy in Jewell who knew how to do it and pretty well, not from Evero but straight from Vic. The best we could find was Rozeboom and are trying to develop Trevin (threw him in with the wolves) which is not ideal. Meanwhile, the vets at EDGE do not have the run stopping chops you expect.

Some of this was good offensive playcalling against our front (the 4 & 1 for example). But interesting on that one it was our 3-4 personnel but we technically had 5 with hands in the dirt. I wouldn't call that a 5-2 but it's what 3-4 teams do in these run commit scenarios. So that playcall restricts us from having 1 more guy to be more fluid in space on the strong side, and we lose lateral containment. Good job by our new safety to call it out presnap, but bad execution by Wallace and Jackson IMO. Trevin with the error. He saw the motion and shifted but took an initial angle towards the handoff not the anticipated location. Bad field awareness. So he was now behind and the Jags had 2 guys to engage Jackson & Moehrig on the outside. Jackson just kind of sloppily engaged Strange. Outside of that, one of the biggest things I'm noticing is a severe, and I mean severe, lack of presnap communication on our defense. It just seems to be Moehrig. He had some iffy angles this game but was far and away doing the most to get our guys in the right place presnap. I think Moehrig is trying to do everything and then some so he's going to be caught out of place because of this. Rozeboom and Wallace aren't doing that (and other things) which is a major concern. Rozeboom took such a excessive first few steps in that last clip, he just gave the Jags a cozy opening to float in a completion. You could see he was pissed. The 2 ILBs in our scheme need to be communicators and quick decision makers. Trevin has the quickness but not the awareness or decision making. Rozeboom doesn't have the quickness and is just average/below-average. We need help there if we want any sort of decent defense this season. The line and OLBs have the ability to stop the run, but not when these 2 are making terrible decisions and allowing teams to play in the middle of the field.

The answer: If a QB is bad, it's front and center. It's an issue to glaring to ignore and it simply mutes the other problems. That's just the reality. Same goes with a bad coaching situation. (I don't think we're here yet, getting close at DC)

If you bench him, you’re trotting in Dalton who was absolutely terrible after his first chunk yardage performance last season. He has also had a lot of random injuries and is getting up there in age. So you really just have to keep playing Bryce unless you’re willing to trade midseason. But if you make a trade for some mid backup talent, like let’s say Brandon Allen, it’s a sign you’re looking at the exits and you have to commit to being done with Bryce. So I say you ride him out. Scenarios: 1-He has a unprecedented turnaround 2-He does pretty bad but never so awful that we can’t finish the year. Spirits stay aight until late in season. We trade him in the offseason for a late rounder. Draft or Sign our new QB (or both) 3-He does so bad, Dave loses the locker room and we need to make a drastic move. We bench, try Dalton, trade/sign a backup plan, he eventually gets cut if not traded

We're not very good on either side of the ball. It's been a thing for a while now.

Even if it is a shtick, I'm getting second hand embarrassment in here. Ciao. Lock.

And I don't care. Don't bring it up. Talk football.

Hopefully you're running SP and Grammarly for that client of yours

I mean, you're welcome to the opinion. The ban anticipation is an odd thing to say.

For the Cards: Will Johnson was excellent week 1. He looked like that high R1 level talent people thought he was (outside his injury concerns). Still can have issues vs. man They almost entirely retooled their defense from last year, even more than the Jags but have the same coaches. Their new front-7 is a really interesting bunch, but either new or inexperienced. They should absolutely be attackable. Their running game is a good one. Which if established early could open things up for MHJ and McBride. But the receivers after Harrison are not good, so I feel our defense matches up well. That being said, if our LBs play like week 1, it could be a very long day. Could see long sustained drives by AZ, not giving us much time to respond or have dud drives.

Don't want to make a new thread but at this point, year 3, eye-test should be all we need if the results aren't good. We should be able to tell if it's what we've been watching for a few years or not.

To be fair, I kind of like Bo but he was BAD this past weekend.

lol. It's almost as if some are realizing the worse a sports team is, the more negative its fan base becomes. Mind blowing stuff.

I want to know if Bo Nix is rated as the worst week 1 on PFF because he hands down was the worst QB this past weekend. Even moreso than Tua. If he's not, then PFF may need to work on their algo haha.

That's one of the most sober and honest breakdowns I've seen of Bryce. That guys is being as real as can be. No sugar coating, no tepidness to critique, blunt and straight to the point.

It doesn't look like he will. As someone else mentioned, what he does allows him (or he thinks it helps) to maximize field vision. It doesn't seem he trust himself to read during his drops if he went conventional. At his size, he's trying to survey as much as he can with his back-skip/hop before that weird hitch and turn once he's good and dropped back. Kyler and Russ for example are very deliberate and quick, good footwork mostly, with higher release points. And honestly, they both have 1-1.5" on him height wise. And Bryce plays small, lower release point, he will just throw quick on his backfoot rather than step up into the pocket and take a lick. In the process, he loses so much potential torque. It's 101 stuff but it's like all media has an agreement to not acknowledge it. He usually had the extra second at Bama to readjust into comfortable position. They called it him being this lose street-style "Point Guard", winning out-of-structure, but you still need proper damn mechanics! I don't get the collective analytic community ignoring this for so long. It's some of the worst footwork you'll ever see, and it doesn't look like he cares to fix it. It's year 3. Taking out arm strength, I felt like once I really saw the difference in him vs. contemporaries like Kyler/Russ mechanics wise, his problems were so obvious. And he's just comfortable doing his thing, doesn't want to go out of that comfort zone, and it doesn't translate. At the end of the day, I think he's simply below the physical threshold. His size just doesn't work at this level with his arm strength and lack of frame for being a runner. You hate to say it, because people love to see this type of kid beat the norm, but I think we're simply below the threshold.