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Definitely think the Cowboys will be a good barometer game. If they stomp this offense and nothing is changing, yeah, maybe just sit him for the rest of the season. I don’t know, why not just play him if no bad habits are forming? That’s why we have this “all star” coaching staff right? I would like to see him beat a Levis led Titans though. They could at least give us that. It’s just crazy how they can’t create any sort of offense, it’s an embarrassment. Never forget “we built the defense first, then the offense, so we felt we were in a place to go and get our QB” Fail. Shame.

Don’t really believe this concept you can ruin a QB by playing him. Bad QBs just get found out more quickly within bad organizations. Sure a poor supporting cast will cause losses and give them bad stats, but you should still be able to see glimpses of the talent. It can cause bad habits but nothing a good QB can’t shake. Still here trying to be patient. There have been some radar blips.

Yeah Bryce has been standing in the pocket fine, doesn’t seem frazzled. The OL is bad but metric wise they’re like 23 in pocket protection and there have been plenty of stretches with adequate time. WRs, coaching and Bryce’s own play are bigger contributors IMO. Not a fan of the David Carr syndrome thing…We witnessed “Carr syndrome” which was really just David Carr not being a legit QB and never comfortable in an NFL pocket.

I think the timing could work out nicely after getting steamrolled by the Cowboys. Hell, maybe it's Christ Tabor if not Evero or Staley...he's done the interim thing before and his unit has consistently been the most disciplined and prepared this year. We do that, get the classic firing spark and beat Levis and the Titans. Maybe they could show some life down the stretch and we end up 4-13.

Alrighty, all stays the same moving forward. Freaking lovely.

Thinking about coaches fired year 1. There's other guys you could point to like Tomsula, Meyer, Chud, & Wilks, actually, quite a lot in recent memory...but Hackett is the freshest. How does this compare in lack of competency? The in-game decisions recently (i.e kicking, not knowing who's on the field, etc.) made this seem eerily comparable. Hackett somehow got to week 16 at 4-11 before being canned. If Reich lasts this week, we've got 8 games left. We'll likely be 1-9 headed to Nashville to face Will Levis and Derrick Henry. If not this week, when do we hit eject? And our we experiencing what could be argued the worst coached season in NFL history? Does this compare to Hackett, Kitchens, or Tomsula yet?

I wouldn't mind drafting a backup honestly. That's how yuo can find a potential diamond in case Bryce doesn't work out. Then you're talking the Michael Pratts of the world.

Yeah if anything, WRs are the ones that make the quickest splashes out of the gates. Teams are finding quality in the top-4 rounds every year the past 5-6 seasons. We just keep picking the duds. AJ Brown, Deebo, Metcalf, Diontae, JJ, G Wil, Lamb, St. Brown, Chase, Aiyuk, Higgins, Pittman, Waddle, Nico, Olave, Watson, Pickens, Dell, whether high pick or mid-rounds, we're continuously missing out on talent. We're just flat out picking the wrong dudes.

He's the guy making Bo Nix look like a top prospect. He's having a mammoth season. The Pac-12 this year has so much talent. Big locker room guy, vocal, speedy, smooth, big play threat. Really solid guy, some stuff to work on but you can't teach his in game quickness. Already considered one of the top WRs in Oregon history. I find him and Odunze super impressive.

Looking further down the road, still think Troy Franklin is the WR that makes too much sense for us in the 2024 draft. Still pounding hard for that guy. Haven't felt that way about a receiver this early before but he's just exactly what we need.

Yeah that's where it gets a bit frustrating. I honestly prefer gravitating to a more zone heavy approach given where the league is at, but Icky is struggling mightily. It essentially opens up that huge need that we've struggled with since Gross yet again. Combine the line struggles with not having the receiving talent, it's just a bad recipe. Funny enough, something I never noticed but Reich's (arguably) best offensive year as a playcaller was when his top receiver was a TE in Zach Ertz with a combo platter at WR in Alshon, Torrey Smith, & Agholor and a 3+ headed RB room. Nothing seems to fit anyhwere right now. Square peg round holes at every turn.

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.