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Man, that first drive feels like forever ago. The momentum swung.

Hey, still think Robinson was a bad pick and he won’t be able to make up for Mariota? Oh, don’t think I’m happy about losing right now. I’m just not going to think Robinson is a bad pick and somehow he won’t makeup for the loss (lol at calling it a loss) of Mariota. That’s just blind homerism. Robinson will be solid.

Yeah, we gave them the momentum and they flipped the field so 1st and 20 forces a bad play in the red zone.

That 4th and 1 was awful. I don’t get why we never do QB sneaks. I know Jarrett cam inside but on a QB sneak he couldn’t get there in time. Not under center and they have time to clog the middle.

He always has. He wasn’t good last year unless he had big holes. He turned his back while trying to go forward. Terrible short yardage RB. Why is Sanders not out there? Please tell me we don’t think Hubbard is on the same level. Oh well, waste of a great start. Not a good call or run at all.

$32m per year.

Cam did still have Olsen and CMC that year, both of whom were over 100 receiving in the playoff game. The WRs sucked, especially after trading KB and Funchess getting hurt. Lol, makes me laugh saying that but KB was unfortunately still better than the crap we had at the end of that year. It’s also funny to see you talk about the WRs like that because the optimism was overflowing not that long ago about our WRs this year. I still wish we did the Burns trade because with Kupp starting the year on IR, that 2024 Rams pick has a decent chance of turning into Harrison Jr. Bryce needs serious weapons. Heck, pick 36 could have netted us a TE like La Porta with a small trade up.

Playoffs? Remember 2021 with Rhule when we started 3-0? There was talk of bye weeks and how we could get the top seed.

Taylor was lined up so completely different on runs and passes, they didn’t run the ball effectively at all.

Still helped. Pacheco averaged 2.9 ypc after averaging 4.9 last year. Mahomes had a bad game, well off his paces last year especially 5.8 ypa when his career average is 8.1. Note that KC was held in check by the #30 2022 scoring defense. A team we steamrolled because they played nickel D all day when all we did was run.

@GRWatcher said the same on the previous page and I said that during the game thread. When it was a run he lined up on the LOS. It was crazy obvious.

Ok? Was anyone really scared of Mariota either? Point was more about someone acting like Robinson couldn’t replace the 438 yards Mariota supplied. Personally, I’d rather play Mariota than Ridder/Robinson, but is either scary? No. Also, it’s truly comical in here about how much poo pooing is being done on the Falcons run game when then Huddle loved our simple run the ball offense last year as we closed in on a playoff spot. We’ll need to stop the run tomorrow because we are going to see a lot of it.

No. I think he knew Zappe would get through so he was basically taking a free look at Corral. He saw in a week what took us almost 2 years and 2 draft picks.

Still unfathomable that we spent a 2nd, a 3rd, two 4ths, one 5th and one 6th to replace our $31M one year investment in Teddy with $24M Sam, Baker and Matt. I mean, if you include losing Bradberry’s 3rd round comp pick (and the 6th we got back), we paid $60M and lost 3 day 2 and 3 day 3 picks for the pleasure of watching that poo for 3 years.

They are very bearable but losing Mariota is not the reason they are.

Huh? Mariota had 438 yards rushing. The rest of the team had 2280 yards rushing. You don’t think Robinson can replace Mariota’s incredible 438 yards? That’s 17 yards rushing from Robinson and an extra 9 yard pass from Ridder per game. Are you still drunk from last night? I’m hoping our run D steps up but Mariota being replaced by Ridder and Robinson doesn’t make me feel relieved.

Agreed. This to me is like our drafting sometimes where we didn’t look ahead to future strengths and seem to draft to the weaknesses of a draft instead of the deeper parts to get value. As soon as we knew we were turning down that haul, get the extension done. To me there was no reason to wait. If they needed to see more, you take two 1sts and a 2nd from a team that’s on the last year of their window (shut quickly). If you don’t need to see more and turn down that deal you see Crosby (whose stats are just a bit better) and Chubb getting deals and Bosa needing a deal a year later. You immediately say give him the $23.5M per year that Crosby got and handover a nice bonus to make Burns happy.

Agreed. We were 7-10 and got Young and an amazing staff but we are being told to expect a worse season where we won’t be talking playoffs? We aren’t a 1-2 win team like most top picks join. I still feel like Young has to do great for us to win and we went 7-10 with some serious poo at QB.

He is but I agree that I feel like he has to play really well for us to have win games. If he has an OK game, not sure I like our chances.

Agree. Some people are black or white with things. Preseason doesn’t matter. No, wins and scores in preseason don’t matter because it’s never apples vs apples and so many players who won’t impact real games play a ton. What matters is when your starting players are making mistakes or losing 1 on 1 matchups. That’s concerning and a big reason why many say we didn’t look good. It’s amazing to me that that is hard to understand. Just look at the homer posts that went from playoff talk due to assumptions that we improved more than our NFC South opponents mainly due to having the #1 pick. I agreed with them that we had a good shot. Then preseason rough play happened and those same people posting tons of threads on tempering expectations and saying we shouldn’t think playoffs.

Looking forward to Sunday but it has been a long 5 years and this offseason hasn’t really gone great. WR injuries, not signing Burns after turning down a haul, some seriously bad play in preseason games even if we all know scores/wins don’t matter and of course the eternal optimists talking playoffs before the preseason games only to start posting about tempering expectations after the preseason games. I was pretty excited for Young and still am about him but not really sure how we’ll do. It sure seemed like we plugged our QB hole and even with some growing pains there, the new staff should be able to outdo Rhule/Wilks.

Yeah, I’m sure Samir’s playing hardball like he did to Thomas, Chosen and Donte. We aren’t very good at setting prices or seeing far down the road or we wouldn’t be here. We should have known our negotiations would be best when Crosby/Chubb are signing, not when Bosa is.

Taylor is ridiculous and he’s false starting almost every time. He is lining up normal when they run. Almost wondering why Detroit hasn’t keyed in on it. The refs sure don’t seem to be calling anything on the OLs. I wonder if that will continue.

No chance I am reading that book, but luckily your last paragraph is enough. So you are saying the NFL exists because they and the networks figured out that selling advertising time was profitable, but advertisers are funding the NFL out of the goodness of their hearts because they make more than NFL owners? I love the bolded part. The number of NFL fans that watch drives the NFL and networks to make a ton of money but it’s not because of how much money the NFL fans spend on advertisers’ products. That begs the question or WTF would companies advertise if it didn’t get them any return on their investment. You are saying that the stupid companies are just throwing money to advertise but don’t care about whether or not their advertising actually has an ROI. That or you are saying that advertising doesn’t actually work but stupid companies just do it anyway. A quick search got me this definition, which seems to imply that, gasp, companies advertise in NFL games to get NFL fans to buy their products or services: Product advertising is the organizational strategy of increasing sales by promoting products to potential customers. Seems to imply that that companies actually do want to advertise, funding the NFL revenue from the networks, because they expect to increase sales. Amazingly, sales increase because NFL fans buy stuff.

Ok, you are doubling down that Ford, P&G, AT&T and Disney make their money on anything other than us consumers? They don’t need the NFL or it’s fans but they can just afford to advertise and pay a premium for no reason because they could succeed without it? That’s a terrible way to run a business by paying premiums for advertising when they don’t need to advertise. There is no fallacy, corporations make money by consumers spending money on their products. They advertise with the networks because they are in business to make money and maximize profits. Acting like companies pay for eyeballs without caring or knowing that they advertisements are actually effective makes no sense. At the end of the day, the networks pay for the rights because they make money from the advertising and the advertisers make money from consumers buying their products.