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The decision to pull Bryce is not on Canales. No coach that actually respects his team would allow this level disaster to continue. Dan sure wouldn’t keep him in either. Does anyone see this dude as any better than this? He may single handidly break Vegas because a line is almost impossible with him. This is clearly a T call. Andy probably salvages a couple TDs in the effort. If Bryce starts next week… yikes.

Everyone knows why. It’s not Canales’ call.

There is z-e-r-o, nada, GOOD reason to have Bryce continue to play. He’s going to end up getting our o line injured because of the stunts and double teams they will have to deal with on every single play.

Getting the first pick allowed us to choose the worst #1 pick in draft history. What indication have we seen that suggests a better decision will be made this go round. If anything, this org would be much less likely to do something dumb with pick 12 and get someone who makes sense for a team in our current position.

So defense is now gassed, but still trying.

And what phantom injury will it be this time? Im calling hammy, and… I guess Plummer gets the nod. Just to test a theory.

If Bryce takes the field in the third quarter then it will be glaringly obvious that Canales has 0 control on the qb situation. There is no coach, alive or dead, that would let Bryce take the field in the second half. Draft status be damned.

Horn has NEVER been afraid of contact. He plays like a safety in that regard

You just know these commentators work on their zingers all week when they see that they’ll be doing our game.

Was never much to break. Uncooked angel hair spaghetti fragile

“He’s got to kind of get rid of that. Doesn’t he Jay?” LMFAO!!!!!

NFL football is 3 hours of grown men beating the snot out of each other. Talent is still a major determinant of success, that’s undeniable… but here’s the real factor: can your team break their will before they break yours? If you’re soft, all the talent in the world won’t help. You’ll have timid, undisciplined give up ball at the first sign of adversity. Superior talent helps to break an opponent’s will faster and easier, but it’s not everything. Superior talent that never gives up, ever (cough 28 to 3) wins championships. The flip side is the team of 25% jag-, 50% jag, 25% jag+ with maybe a couple pro bowl level guys mixed in. Right now, I see that as our realistic 2-3 year goal. Hard nosed, strong willed decently talented guys who just don’t quit. This is the dawg that Dan speaks of. Good drafting puts these teams over the hump. Our biggest issue(s) is that the defacto field general on offense doesn’t belong in the NFL, nobody believes in him or his ability, and nobody knows who it is for the defense. Brown leads by example, but unfortunately that’s not good enough most of the time. Does the head coach have any real autonomy on personnel issues? Does T want to be the only general? Did Wilks represent a coup? Soft teams don’t win championships. Going talent before culture puts the cart before the horse. Tanking to get a top pick lets the players know that management is cool with losing, because you all aren’t good enough and we need better players to take your place. Losing on purpose creates a team full of dejected losers and there is no amount of talent that overcomes a broken will. This is why the goal is to win. Always. This is why you start culture first, then talent. A man among men is the only thing that alters the course garbage barge. 2022 really opened my eyes. How was that team in 2 weeks, 2 weeks!!! COMPLETELY different?

He deserves a fair chance 100%. And he may very well have the dawg, no excuses mentality when the camera isn’t rolling, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen him visibly angry. We’ve had rah rah Rhule, checked out frank, man among men Wilks, and now rah rah Canales. In February of 22, Wilks was hired as the secondary coach and the pass game coordinator, whatever the hell that is. On October 10, 2022, Rhule is fired. Steve takes over. 13 days later we beat the piss out of the Bucs 21-3. We then go in to ATL and hang 34 points on them, losing in ot by 3 points. Next week we got worked by the bengals but still posted 3 TDs. Next week we beat the birds at home. He went .500 in 12 games. But he had no answer for the Brady to Evans connection so he definitely had to go. What a loser. A position coach who started with the team only 8 months prior (granted he is a well known commodity), had a group of lost castoff losers with a notorious choker at QB and a ‘bad offensive line… who only looked bad when Bryce took over’ scoring actual touchdowns and just bullying people. Winning. He was there 8 months. Gets the gig, and then beats the bucs 21-3, then goes on the road to the place we never win anyway and rolls up 34 points. 34! We had a team of… wait for it… DAWGS. Even in losing there was no quit. 3 commonalities among the head coaches Tepp hired… can anyone guess what they are??? Marshmallows. This is an x and o game, but it’s not at the same time. This is all just sorry, and sadly, did not have to happen. Its attitude, the undying drive to win and believing that the rest of your teammates feel the same way. This soft approach has poisoned the well and is the LAST thing this group needed. I would have loved to have seen the practices building up to that Bucs win in 22. I bet they looked a hell of a lot different than what we have now. I sure miss 3 TD games. Until Proven otherwise, T wants nothing to do with the dawg mentality. We had a dawg for a coach, briefly, until he drove him down to SF and dropped him off.

here begins another Red Bull induced rant from NW Georgia. First preseason game. The laughing and carrying on. No focus. Dropped perfect passes. Having a good old time. I knew at that moment what was coming. We all saw it, and it thankfully didn’t get the pass it got last year. I went on a rant in that game thread about a loser’s mentality vs a winner’s mentality. Every play matters, even more so when you’re trying to establish a culture change. Ask ANY of the players on the 2015/3003 team if there are plays that don’t matter. Dawgs? Yeah right. We just got pantsed in front of the entire NFL. It was like watching someone who dances so badly that you yourself feel uncomfortable even watching. Nails on a chalkboard. Dawgs? Sadly, our head coach damn sure ain’t one dawg either, just what Dave wanted. I touched on this (yes, more self praise, but at least I’m honest about it) in the coaching search threads, in my thread where I talked about alpha vs beta leaders (which got pooed to all hell… poo this one too, I don’t care, but I am right) and then again after we hired Canales, saying that I was unsure but that I’d wait and see… knowing all along that T needs subservients. It’s the only way egotists know how to be. Leaders among men… their man card is NEVER for sale. That doesn’t play here, Steve… like anyone was going to stop Brady to Mike Evans with playoffs on the line. get real. What a crock. I’m still salty. Canales is a rah rah Mr positive energy dude. I like him, but we were/are in desperate need of a culture change. He’s a principal and parents after school meeting about the bully kind of guy. You know, a feel good move where nothing ever truly changes. We need the kid with a rock in his sock, it’s like that now, begging dude to swing at him again while blood pours out of both shins…. Because right now, we are that kid, and we need the mustard stained Hanes undershirt dad just out on probation last week, asking if we took care of that thing yet, all while he barely even looks up from eating hormel corned beef out of the tin with a plastic spork. Dan, you’re the closest thing to a dawg at the moment, and I hope it hasn’t been sold off. Meet individually with everyone. Coaches and players. Break out your spork and can of Hormel corned beef (figuratively) and ask them what their plan is to make sure that doesn’t happen again. No further questions or discussion. Thank them for their time. I’m not saying we’re anything resembling a good team, because we’re not, at all. It starts at the top, and maybe Dan needs to be that guy, at least for now. Opposing players need to leave our place with something wrong with them (no cheap shots). They’ll in all likelihood win, but I don’t want them to like any of it. That’s DAWG. That’s handling that thing.

Almost no GM will come out and say this is a rebuild, although inwardly they know within that it is. Does Dan think this is a rebuild? I really don’t think so. GMs have to think every draft pick or free agent will hit or they wouldn’t pick them. When you still have your fingerprints up and down this sucky roster as Dan does (I still think Young is holding the entire team back) a rebuild is an admission that you suck at your job in player selection.

The improved Bryce mechanics are fools gold. It’s like Tyson said “everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Or something along those lines. Practice is practice. It’s not a live fire scenario where the cost of failure is pain. In a real game, his instinct is to first and foremost, not die. He knows that there are grown ass men who want nothing more than to hit him so f-ing hard that his soul falls out of his anus. He knows he has no place being on an NFL field. He did NOTHING in the offseason to bulk up. Is he the smallest guy to ever play for this team? So yes, NFL teams now have 1 weeks worth of film on Bryce. Good times.

If management would sack up and cut bait with Bryce, like straight release him, the celebration in the locker room would be on par with the Wilks days. He has 0.000 value to anybody at any position. No one is taking a flyer on a slow, skinny, unmotivated kid who has digressed from one of the worst seasons ever for a rookie QB. He literally has no business being in the NFL. He holds no value to any team. He is single handily holding back the entire team, and everyone knows it. Dan and Tep, it’s a sunk cost, it’s hopeless and y’all know it. You got scammed. You outdumbed yourself. Damn the salary cap hit. Stop dragging the rest of the teams’ morale down. His mannerisms scream ‘I’m ready to bounce.’ Please just cut bait.

Ked is like watching The Big Lebowski on a bad acid trip.

This team just needs to freaking win a game. Locker room morale. The offensive additions will grow stale unless someone can throw an NFL ball. It ain’t Bryce. He is holding the entire team, except kicker and punter, back. Plummer, dalton doesn’t matter. Things have to change. Netflix/video game/doesn’t bench press JV player clearly doesn’t want to play at the nfl level.

Thing is, inwardly, everybody in the media knew what he was, not it, and never would be. Short. No arm. Not athletic. Looks like he doesn’t even know where the weight room is. Only thing potentially correctable was technique and decision making. Nothing about him even wispered nfl ready. Nothing. … but In this era, it’s consensus or termination if you’re one of the peons. Only a chosen few are ok to be dissenters. Once the chosen few turn, it signals to the rest that it’s ok to pile on with the obvious. It happened leading up to the draft. Hype machine cranked up by the chosen few and the peons had to fall in line or else.

I’m thinking that as the next few games transpire with Bryce as we all know they will, media conversation will HAVE to be, ‘when does Andy go in?’ It is coming. Guaranteed. What the company line/narrative will be is sure to be entertaining. I don’t think they will ever pull him at halftime without injury because that pretty much sticks a fork in the Bryce era. Not many QBs start again after being yanked midway through a game, unless they’re a proven vet.

Thing is, Dalton is a guarantee to bring at least some life in. Most of would kill for a 2 TD, 2 Int 275 type day. Losing 17 to 24. Hell, I’d beg for that right now. Problem is it makes T look like the football doof that he really is. He never brought in legit competition for Bryce to not show Bryce up. Why do y’all think Dalton never played a snap in preseason? Problem is, WHEN Bryce goes down, does he really put Plummer in over Andy to protect his ego, knowing Plummer will shart the bed? If he goes in over Andy it’ll be very telling. It sounds completely nuts, but with this regime, nothing surprises me.

He met frequently with his financial advisor(s).

Harbaugh + CJ + 2 first rounders for unloading Burns (that could have been used as trade bait to move up for Stroud and being able to keep DJ Moore)…. Yeah. Can Doc Brown fly in and take us back to good old 2015?