BenjaminBreeg

Bryce just needs a new coat of paint, and everything will be fine. Nothing a trip to Home Depot wouldn't fix.

The term "NFL-open" is popular this season because Bryce backers (most of whom are hilariously lacking in basic football knowledge) need to be educated on the fact that the NFL is very different from college football. In the NFL, receivers don't get nearly as much separation from defenders as they do at Alabama, whose players are significantly more talented than the opposition, save two or three opponents each season. In the NFL, the talent disparity is much smaller and throwing windows are far tighter, and therefore the demand on timing, processing, and ball placement (throwing receivers open is a big thing) is also significantly higher. This is precisely why so very many good college QBs don't make it in the NFL. Bryce backers just can't seem to grasp this simple fact and instead they resort to blaming the O-line, the receivers, the coaches, and anything and everything except their golden boy.

Fitterer does look like a frog or toad with its vocal sacs inflated. It's also interesting the word "toady" means "a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important."

Maybe the forum should consider adding a plastic cup emoji for expressing disapproval. It'd be nice to have an alternative to the turd emoji that also serves as a big middle finger to Tepper whenever it's used.

Dalton is certainly experienced, but it's also true that he got very few reps as a backup, so there's certainly more room to gel with his receivers. His yards per attempt was 6.2 in that game, not great or even good, but certainly not horrifying like Bryce. His YPA would certainly have been higher if his completion percentage (58.6%) had been higher, but again, he had no time to gel with his receivers. So basically our backup, who had had few reps, played far better than Bryce even though he played with the same pieces and under the same schemes. I'm as certain as it can be that Dalton would have won quite a few more games had he been allowed to start. That to me is why I say Bryce is the problem.

I didn't say our receivers and scheme have been great or good, but with Bryce's poor play, we'll never know either way. That's the rub, but our receivers sure as hell looked better when Dalton played in that one game, even though Dalton had had very few reps to gel with the receivers.

Aye, I can drink to that, and I think you and I can both agree that despite the low-character owner, we both will continue to support the team.

The frequency of ums is a lot higher after losses than after (the two) wins. That's my point. When he's under some kind of duress, his speech deteriorates alarmingly. It's normal for a person's speech to deteriorate when under duress, by the way, but not to the extent that Bryce exhibits. Other QBs after a tough loss would look angry or subdued, but they could still string together terse but coherent sentences to express their disappointment and frustration. Not Bryce though, he was often on the verge of crying, with his voice trembling while he uttered endless streams of ums as if he's reading Shakespeare in Morse code. I don't know about you, but his fidgety behavior on camera and his panicky play on the field are to me a sign of his lack of mental toughness.

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I never said he was a low character individual. I don't understand where you got that idea from. I said he isn't a high-character guy. He can fall anywhere on the spectrum, and frankly I don't care.

Yeah, whatever. Let's just agree to disagree.

I don't think you're getting the particulars of this case correctly. The NCAA, of which the University of Michigan Athletics Department is a member and therefore has pledged to abide by its regulations and bylaws, is perfectly empowered to investigate allegations of cheating and hands down penalties as it deems appropriate in accordance with its bylaws. Of course, Michigan could challenge the NCAA in a court of law, all the way up to the Supreme Court, but the nature of the case is rather different from the monopolistic exploitation of college athletes (Sherman Act violation) of previous cases, which were brought by individual athletes. Any court of law worth its salt will not stop the NCAA from handing down penalties against a member institution that knowingly broke agreed-upon bylaws or had so little institutional control that the relevant bylaws were flaunted.

The court of law doesn't apply. The NCAA is the court.

Us fans don't like the NCAA. NFL doesn't care about our feelings. The NFL as an organization views its relations with the NCAA differently than you and I. Expect the NFL to honor whatever the punishment NCAA hands down. Now, if the NFL decides to water down the eventual penalty, then fine, but we had better get a precise measure before we decide to pull the trigger. The point is that we need a new coach now, but the NCAA investigation won't conclude before the next season starts. It's too dangerous of a gamble to be making by chasing after Harbaugh.

The suspension could be a year or more. That's what it looks like. I live in the midwest, so I've been following this saga much more closely than, say, folks in Carolina. Harbaugh is in some really serious poo. There is no doubt about that.

Pete Carroll was the reason the NFL allegedly decided to crack down on college coaches jumping ship to escape NCAA penalties. Remember, the Tressel thing happened after Carroll.

Nobody cares, sure, but if for whatever reason the NFL decides to partner up with NCAA to punish Harbaugh, as they did with Jim Tressel, then we've got a real problem. Do you want to bet the reset on that uncertainty? Didn't we just essentially make the same mistake by drafting Bryce?

Harbaugh can't just jump ship to the NFL that easily. When the NCAA hands down sanctions against Harbaugh, it will likely be honored by the NFL as well. We certainly don't want someone with these dark clouds hanging over his head whose availability is up in the air. https://www.maizenbrew.com/2023/10/29/23937023/report-jim-harbaugh-nfl-michigan-wolverines-football-2023-ncaa-sign-stealing-investigation-stalions

Stop blaming the receivers. They've been NFL-open plenty of times. They're not responsible for Bryce's poor throwing mechanics, poor timing (stemming from his atrocious footwork), poor processing, poor arm strength, poor accuracy, and his inability to throw receivers open. Bryce's poor play is directly responsible for the perceived underperformance by our receivers, O-line, and in other aspects of the game. Bryce is the problem.

Sacks are more of a QB stat than an O-line stat, which is why they are listed under a QB's stat sheet. As a backup, Dalton had very few reps in, so it's understandable he was sacked three times in that one game. Moreover, Dalton attempted 58 passes in that game, which means he had more opportunities to be sacked (1 sack per 19 pass attempts). Now compare that with Jalen Hurt's sack numbers behind the top-rated O-line (522 pass attemps, 34 sacks, 1 sack per 15.3 pass attempts), I say Dalton actually did very well considering how few reps he got prior to the game. Had we benched Bryce at that point and started Dalton for the rest of the season, I fully expect him to be sacked less and less as the season progressed. The same thing can't be said about Bryce.

Have you seen any of his press conferences? He can't string a sentence together without a bunch of um, um, ums.

His footwork has always been terrible since at least his days at Alabama. You rarely ever see him do a standard 3-, 5-, or 7-step drop. Instead, he just saunters backward like a tranquilized raccoon and then does his signature midget-hop like he's twitching on some designer drug. How TF is he gonna get the timing down with that bullsh!t footwork, not to mention generate enough zip for passes into tight NFL windows? And how TF are the linemen (especially the interior) supposed to block for him when he never gives them enough depth to work with? Your golden boy also holds onto the ball forever, because his little mouse brain overheats as soon as the reads get just a little tough, so much so that he has no spare mental capacity for basic pocket awareness and navigation, such as climbing the pocket or stepping away from the pressure. He just pogo hops or stands on the same spot like a carboard standie and eats sacks. Even when he tries to get away from pressure, which he almost always does when it's already too freaking late, he doesn't have the speed to outrun defenders, and because he's so tiny, one hand on his shoulder pad is enough to make him eat turf. The fact is that our O-line gives Bryce plenty of time to make throws. Plenty of time. It's his fault that his fundamentals are so atrocious and his processing so slow that he can't hit open receivers on time or make bare minimum NFL-level throws accurately and consistently or avoid sacks to extend plays. And here's another thing: sacks are more of a QB statistic, which is why they are listed on a QB's stat sheet. The majority of sacks are due to Bryce's fault. Why? Because he almost always had enough time in the pocket to either throw to a receiver or simply scramble and throw the ball away. QBs are drilled over and over and over again on the importance of avoiding sacks, because sacks are the worst outcome save for interceptions or pick sixes. This is QB 101 stuff but apparently too difficult to grasp for our super S2-processor. Don't just stand there like a deer in headlights or a special needs boi who just got off the short bus on the wrong stop. Throw the damn ball away, FFS! Face it, we bet the farm on a QB who can't even perform simple 3-, 5-, and 7-step drops (or 3- and 5-step drops from the shotgun), which is something a decent Pop Warner QB can perform with consistency.

Bryce does dropbacks? That's news to me. In what universe is his leisurely backward stroll called a drop? You should instead be thanking our O-line that Bryce wasn't sacked more.

This Reddit user claims to have seen a heated Bozeman yelling at Bryce on the sideline. Can anyone else independently verify this?

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