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Start Strachan. He's the next JJ

The quietly great year by our ST is getting louder

Outside of Ben Johnson and Steichen, the interviewed field dwindled down to Kellen Moore, Mike Kafka, Ken Dorsey, Frank Reich, & Ejiro Evero...(Campbell and Wilks were never happening) That's honestly not the best lot to choose from. Just speculating -- I gotta wonder if really, Steichen didn't want to be here rather than the rumors that he didn't vibe with Tepper. I mean, after being a big field, the pickings got slim quickly. Seemed like our lovely Tepper/Fitt unit jumped on the only guy left that made them feel comfortable. They didn't want to gamble on the others that weren't on the Ryans/Gannon/Steichen/Johnson coordinator-level hype. There was Reich just sitting there with his "plan" and they didn't want to look lost after the SB still interviewing and not knowing who to go with.

At this point, hell, I would've been fine with experimenting on Kellen Moore over what we've endured with Reich. After Ben Johnson decided to stay and reports came out we weren't set on Steichen, it all started to smell so wrong. And we were all sold eventually by the coaching staff, not so much the HC himself. It was a long sell, but eventually everyone got hyped because of the parts around him, never Reich himself. I really think Frank thought he could execute some cool swan song of a coaching stint here before retiring in 4-5...he should've just taken a break for a season. You can tell he just looks drained. Just uninspiring and deflating...like the games we're watching haha

We keep dicing up pieces of sh*t into tinier pieces of sh*t. And then when the dust settles, Tepper's like "you know what? I think we need to keep dicing this up"

hahaha, oh man gotta love K&P

I really hope we win convincingly if a dub occurs. If we win by simply not being as terrible as Chicago in a 17-13ish affair, then we'll feel a bit stuck, no different than a loss.

As always, there's a good balance to find between proclaiming a young kid a bust and that he's infallible because of how bad the supporting cast is. He's done some good, there's good content out there, there's no issue supporting him. Proceed with passively bashing eachother...

I'm speaking to the context of the NFL.com/ESPN realm. There's solid content if you seek it no doubt.

The former MTV reality show guy has a point but didn't make a good argument. Citing other QBs in different situations like Elway won't help. It's like no one wants to actually speak to Bryce's performances. The team is one of the worst we've fielded in franchise history, so there's that to deal with that gives some obvious buffer for judgement.

Yeah there's been some abnormally high ones this year like Hutchinson and Byron Young (rookie) in the high 80s so perception was a bit skewed. Most top guys are in that high 70s to low 80s range.

Sounds like a personal problem

Looks like OP could be telephoning a Reddit thread that got traction and hyperbolized Schefter’s Monday interview.

Troy Franklin and/or Rome Odunze are the guys I want to target. They’re going to translate and fit the bill for what we need.

Was thinking of driving down from Madtown for this one at the start of the season but it became less and less worth the dinero. We ended up doing a Scandinavian-style northwoods fall retreat instead. Worth it.

Bryce makes it to the West Loop Nobu Wednesday night for their overrated miso cod. Game is an 11-11 tie. The Bears are the worst 3rd down defense and second worst RZ defense so we get spicy with 3 field goals. Also land a safety off a punt snap misfire. Bears get a FG, TD+2PT. Bryce makes a few plays over 20 yards. I'm gonna guess 2 or 3. Some big time stuff. Sweat gets 2 sacks A giant Chicago rat disrupts gameplay with portillos beef hanging out of his mouth

I don’t think you’re picking up what I’m putting down or you didn’t realize how that sounded on your end. Whatever. Continue with the..well, whatever this has turned into

Like, why spend all the time with the post and then end with that?

Lots of chatter without hitting this dead on - McVay runs stretch zone concepts. We are not running stretch zone, we are throwing out a lot of basic inside split zone concepts that set up mesh and simple triangle reads..Reich has loved this his entire career. it’s boring as sh*t and uninspiring. Also loves those thick receivers that don’t gain great separation, grabbed another in Mingo. Then has maybe 1 go-to gadget guy (Campbell, Royal, etc). Then combine that with slowly progressing crossing routes and badly timed screens. This is not a McVay mold, not even close. That would require stretching defenses horizontally and vertically — heavy misdirects, pre-snap motioning, none of that is happening. Sure, Brown may have had heavy input in the room to build this out, but this is Reich’s offense. It’s pretty glaring. This is Reich 101. Truth is Bozeman is having an absolutely awful season next to guards who have no business playing (until Corbett returned). One of the biggest issues. He’s also no longer calling out protections, Bryce is trying to do that more. And he’s not ready for what he’s trying to do presnap. Add that up with having a crap HC who is implementing an archaic 2010s scheme, bad WRs, and a poorly performing rookie QB, and you get this..

If you're a hot commodity, let's say Ben Johnson, Shane Waldron, Frank Smith next year, I imagine Tepper is the one thing that will give pause. On one end, it will be a juicy contract, on the other, it's an involved owner. It's not a comfortable situation that any guy will just accept. If Tepper wants to approach this in a fresh way and find a way out of this mess, he absolutely needs to take a step back, hire executives to run football opps and have them build a team for him. Just relax, spend money on the execs in the NFLs pipeline that can be a Roseman type to run the ship.

I'd add the GB shootout for the playoffs in 99. But yep, pretty much this.

Let us not forget one of our top-3 MNF games ever against NE with the clutch drive to beat Brady in the final minute. Oh and the 10 point 4th qt comeback in Seattle against the LOB

If we lose, we've got Dallas and will be staring at 1-9 heading into a Levis clash. Oh boy that could be a juicy affair.

Honestly, the worst outcome is us barely scraping a win in a low scoring affair versus Tyson Bagent. That puts another seed into this idea we could make something out of a Fitt/Reich setup. This needs to either be a resounding, "we're not as bad as you think" win, or I think a low scoring win is just as bad as a loss. It'll probably be some 16-10 type BS.