CanadianCat

As a land developer 'sprawl' is a mixed word. Sprawl is usually referred in a negative way as it insinuates things being spread out and being ineffective. But I would argue that most citys that are not land locked against a mountain or ocean need to accept sprawl because people dont want to build up. A land planners wet dream would be to have an entire city only take up 1 square mile and be 1 mile in elevation but thats not the reality for most cities in North America.

He does foot pics on OF.

Im all for starting rookie QB's to get that learning curve out of the way and take advantage of the rookie wages.. but at this point we have to sit him the rest of the year. We cannot afford him to get hurt at the end of this season, impacting the start of next when we WILL have a new scheme and coaching staff.. I think this is officially a worse year then the 'Pickles' year.. and I watched ALL those games.

I hope the oline dominates this weekend just for the comedic factor.

Why are we even debating this.. This would never be allowed just by rules of the salary cap. Andrew Brandt did a podcast talking about how dumb of an idea this is.. if you want to get into depth of that I suggest you listen to it.

At least half of this board cannot afford a game ticket, nevermind ownership of a team.

I think we would be having a different conversation if our WR's caught some of the deep passes that Young threw as well..

I honestly think this all boils down to the massive regression of the oline. We left last season thinking that would be a strength going in to the season. So the entire scheme was built on that assumption.

Bryce has proven he can be a winner. Literally everyone else on the team has not. Im finally ok with firing all the coaching staff and the GM and rebuilding this thing around Bryce... like we have a choice anyway..

I dont think the offensive philosophy behind the signing was a bad one. I think the idea was to be able to play a spread offence and let Bryce be the distributor of the ball. This I believe was built on the believe that the oline would continue as it finished last year, which was a strength of the team. The oline is in shambles and thus there is zero time to throw. Coupled by the fact that the WR's cannot get seperation we have what we are watching. Its made worse by the fact that even we take deep shots, the WR's tend to breakoff their routes early because they know the pressure that gets to Bryce, which is why we have seen over thrown balls on deep shots often. Bryce us throwing the ball to where they should be.. Overall its a mess. Its really hard to watch.. I'll continue to watch but its not an enjoyable experience..

Probably just dreaming at this point but I would love to see #88 start getting snaps in place of Chark.

Slow down there.. hes not calling him Luke, but he is saying that was a Luke(esk) type performance... which is was.

your a satly MFer. Like all the time.

As Foxy would say.. "it is what it is"

If people are freaking out now, I cannot imagine this place when Young signs his second deal. We haven't had to pay QB's for a while.

Im totally ok paying Burns 30 a year. We got lot of cap and a rookie QB. This is the time to pay our non QB players. This is 'textbook' our window to acquire and retain talent.

Good perspective.

Im excited for the future still guys. Yeah its tough right now but I feel like the long term is positive. Our OC is widely regarded as a stud, so Im excited to see him get his opportunity. Our DC has a good track record. Last 2 games have been tough but I think thats mostly because the offence was not supporting them. Things have been rough, really rough. But lets not forget that most people only saw us as a 5-6 win team. Looking at the rest of the schedule we have a pretty good shot of getting that. We actually have a pretty good chance to win the next 3 and build up those positive vibes. Likely we will make some big moves in the offseason. Im in it for the long haul. We will be just fine.

... the current owner of the Broncos had not bought the team before the trade was made ... But quite honestly I dont get the hate with Tepper. He wants to win and will make big moves to win. I would rather swing big than not at all. Also guess what?! If Reich sucks, Tepper will move on. The contract wont keep him from continually pushing for excellence. You guys all complain about inaction with Richardson, now you complain about an owner that takes action. This place makes my head spin.

you made me choke on my coffee with this one, ha!

Agree 100% my fellow Manitoba. At this point why not open things up. We are not winning the division. Use the rest of the year to see what the team is good at and build on that for next year. Reich should hand over the play calling - as he always said he will do, and give that experience to the OC. 2023 needs to be a foundation for 2024 - as it always should have been.

A rational answer. I appreciate this post.

If we fire Reich this season, who will want to come here to coach? The entire league knows we have a bad roster. THE ENTIRE LEAGUE. Could we be coached better? Yes but firing him will do more damage long term than any good. I agree that Frank needs to hand over the play calling however.

This was always the plan and Reich knows this. He just needs to be the HC.

I mean I have young kids and dont need them inundated with cursing, but that said.. its a football game.. people have high emotions and i can teach my kids they dont need to say all the words they hear.