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On top of it all, he still can't get a consistent damn blue set for our colors. I swear there's like 4 variations out there and this new blue they released isn't even being used.

We have the same OL coach and 4 of the 5 starters from last season. When it comes down to it, even the change to zone concepts shouldn't be this terrible as you still had blemishes of it last season. It was just power run focused. And what doesn't get mentioned is that, as in modern defensive schemes, they are not mutually exclusive. Every NFL team, scheme or not still runs zone concepts for their run plays like 40%+ of the time. We just never deployed the super zone heavy stuff teams like the Cowboys, Titans, Rams and Vikes do. Like people said, man/gap assignments where the focus is just to power block seemed to work much better, but honestly, I can see why they thought they could transition to zone heavy. Corbett and Moton seem okay, they know how to contain, not just attack. They honestly looked FINE for stretches last night. The problem is that Bozeman and the LG-of-the-week are getting spanked every down and jut seem lost. Icky is struggling mightily as a sophomore. He's concerning me in a big way right now. We may need to add LT back to the needs list. That and Bozeman's regression and lack of ability to adapt to what they're deploynig is a huge indictment on Fitt, Reich, Campen, everyone.

We're in reverse CO/WI wise, I'm in Madison, WI these days.

There were so many jello shots passed around that season (for ea score) many second halfs are fuzzy memories lol. I do remember bringing my friends from Boston there and we got a few people we met there to post-game at Retro Room near my apartment. That was a wild one. Oh the mid-20s...

The days where I lived in Denver and went to Shelby's during 2015 seem like another lifetime ago.

That is hilarious because I brought up the same point in our casa. My wife was working late in the office and I joked, "honey, we scored", she was surprised because it was dead quiet. I had zero reaction to the PR for a TD. I don't think I've ever had that before. Not oohing and awwing, let's go, or any "dad sound effects" or anything. It was more "oh well that's interesting, looks like we may get a TD...well looky there we got one"

Even with the 45 yard bomb, the YPA was 4.9 last night. Without it? 3.78 YPA. WTF

It's true and it's even more depressing knowing it should have been the complete opposite. 1st overall pick, brand spanking new QB and coaching staff. That should be the birth of a new era and we did this..

It's been a while... 11/8/18: The Day That Changed Everything Our record that day: 6-2 Our core: Cam Newton, Luke Kuechly, Christian McCaffrey, James Bradberry, KK Short, DJ Moore, Ryan Kalil, Taylor Moton, Greg Olsen, Thomas Davis Since then: 24-59 We all know what happened. And we all know what we didn't do in response.

Well damn, sometimes you can look really silly in retrospect. This is one of those times! Owning it.

He may need a consultant to hire a consultant at this rate lol. The last help he received did him no favors. He's definitely going to the wrong minds for help. DT just needs to find the most obvious choice for an in-tune, well regarded mind and throw all the money at him and say--"hey blah blah, this is your operation now, make me a winner" We had someone pretty interesting in the pipeline in Mike Borgonzi if we would have just hired top down at the start of this mess instead of Rhule. My guess is that he wanted that greater role but we had Rhule in place as the coaching/czar/Pee-Wee Belicheck. Andy Weidl, Joe Hortiz, just find the obvious FO guy.

This franchise is the house undergoing a major renovation, rather than a total rebuild, but is sitting with weather protection, uncompleted, slowly withering away, year after year, as an eye sore on the street.

I'll give him 2024 with a new staff. However, I think the lesson learned is that physical limitations don't go away because of other intangible qualities. They remain, and will be exacerbated with better competition. You need to craft something that suits them in order to succeed. Unfortunately Bryce isn't a guy that can be dropped into a system. He's someone who needs to be built around, a highly curated environment. And they haven't built, rather dropped him into a Reich offense. Seems like we have a staff who aren't the nuts and bolts coaches running an offense in a mechanical fashion. Evero seems to be the closest thing. Brown is looking like he should've stuck with the Shanahan tree.

What I’m saying is that it’s his team and he’s still the one that needs to hire an exec. That’s what I’m saying. Picking the right guy for that role is just as a task as picking a GM. And a lot of those guys are exec/GM combos. I mean, it’s Tepper’s move no matter what.

And it’s only wasted breath to keep saying he’s “stupid” or whatever. He hasn’t hired the right guys yet..sure. Okay, so let’s keep trying. Not much else to do other than peace as a fan.

What’s super laughable are the dissertations that we’re made from 1-2 throws in the first few games…that apparently showed how ready Bryce is. The kid just isn’t cutting the mustard. I like him as a dude but it is not looking promising, no matter the talent around him. He got lucky with 3 passes that should’ve been INTs tonight. He doesn’t look big enough, vision isn’t there because of it, he can’t outrun linemen, he’s just so f*cking limited

who's ready for the Cowboys?!

I mean, yeah. Shoot until you sink it. Unless you want Reich to stay? Or you want to somehow magically poof him away as owner. We get it, people have no faith in the owner. Always the stranger reaction from the fan's side of things unless you're just looking for backup from other fan's that you're obviously right in the assertion he's been doing this ownership thing poorly.

I thought the same thing tonight and almost puked in my mouth a little.

I'm not even sure the Bears were trying to win. Like, we just submitted.

I'm just pulling out 1 of maybe 3 shinier names in the poo basket. Not committed to the replacement, I mean, this is a Hackett situation. Even worse honestly. Funny enough, Evero has experienced both.

Not to mention, it was obvious we weren't even playing for a win. We were playing for a long range overtime pushing FG. Like wtf. Some of the worst coaching and playing I've ever witnessed tonight. This franchise is in rubble

Anyone. The top dude needs to go. This is worse than Hackett. It truly is.

Fitt and Reich can go tonight for all I care. Pathetic. We lost to Eberflus and Bagent. Like, there's no reconciling the football we saw tonight.