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He is the second rounder that got away. He gets some benefit of the doubt, you can afford to be wrong. Those other guys are high picks. Like that, (snaps fingers), we are free of the millstone. No 5th year 30 million necessary. No extension. No more Bryce hell.

Interesting idea I don’t know the answer to. I think he is with Pittsburgh unless they release him. I wouldn’t want them to take him back, personally.

I never understood the Pete hiring.

I am with you on the bad trade wagon. I have a red line and it starts with future 1sts. You don’t do it for any reason. In my book. But once it was done, it had to be Stroud. They are nuts.

Interesting. I never watch college ball. I might catch the title game but might not, it isn’t appointment TV for me. I watch a couple of SCar games a year plus normally the USC/Clemson. That is it. I don’t scout prospects for the draft anymore, for at least ten years now. When we pick someone, then I look them up. When we made the choice of Bryce or CJ a reality I knew I had to pretend I was a scout again… No joke, 10 minutes or less of watching Bryce video, I was 100% out. I could not understand what people were looking at with Young. I decided a lot of why people liked him so much was they had watched him a lot in college. And developed a pro Bryce bias off of that. And since I hadn’t seen him at all, I had no biases. So kind of the opposite rationale.

There was a popular narrative here especially last year about Bryce being good when it didn’t count; a lot of people pushed back, of course.

I’d take Shough’s first 8 or whatever it is over the entire first two years of Bryce. And most of this year. Want an over reaction? Not sure it is, but: Swap teams for Shough and Bryce for our two games we would be 2-0 not 0-2. The guy Shough replaced might beat Bryce out.

Both Atl and NO have responded to QB changes. I am looking at that and what it means for their future. NO in particular is worrisome. If people thinking that happen to be at odds with Bryce love, or perceived fairness to him, oh well. Call it whatever makes you feel better.

To your point of the unknowable future.. being lapped by NO on the QB hunt is really disturbing to me. Swept too. Absolutely we could be on the outside looking in, in the future. So I say Win and get the playoff game. I am expecting it given the pattern this year. But if I had assurances that Bryce would be gone if we lost Sunday, where do I sign up? I mean, talk about addition by subtraction… boom.

Burns did kind of quit on us. I forgot about that.

That is the worst part of it all, he would not be a tough player to upgrade. But we’ll sit in this mess another year. At least.

Good one. Can you imagine if we lose Saturday and the league has to wait on Atlanta to play their game a day later?

I mean would you find it useful to subdivide the over 19 yards stuff into some categories? Lot of ways that could be divided and give you some more accurate pictures than lumping everything that basically isn’t a short pass into one bin. Defining short medium intermediate long deep from 0 to 40 or 45 seems to offer far more detail out of your numbers than what they do now. That is one thing I learned thanks to Bryce - the 20 yard deep ball rule. I never ever considered 20 yards a deep shot, in my life. And everyone is talking about his deep ball… and it’s a 20 yard pass. I definitely rebelled.

I have played that game and it was looking good until I looked up and Fitterer was still in the picture, and I didn’t know how to get him out without the big Bryce fug up

Some of us consider Bryce fatal. As in, you catch a case of him and it doesn’t matter what you do you can’t live with it. Feeling like that compels us to show mercy to the victims and hold back on the judgement. I got that. I got Canales was nowhere near ready and his entire first year was a free ride. I got 8 maybe 9 wins - with Bryce Young as my QB. Couple more things. I got things on the bad side too, like his culture, not sure about it. Soft. The insistence in play calling when you have so much on your plate already… is that wise? Probably not. PS I think that was some concession that resulted from separating the defensive responsibilities and leaving that with Evero because how does such a longshot hire get that kind of clout to have a token OC and really be HC, OC and play caller? I would prefer to see him with an acceptable QB at his disposal before running him off. But if he has to go to get Bryce out of here, I won’t argue.

It looks to me like he is still working on getting those numbers down. He may end up the sole caretaker of that record.

I remember hearing that Blank was blindsided and the Raheem Morris and Fontenot the GM were meeting with him to explain and plead their case. I don’t know if that is true - it sounds crazy - but I would have fired them on the spot if they did that without telling me. Meddling owner criticism be damned.

That was the stupidest draft decision next to our Bryce selection in quite some time. You have just signed a vet to a huge deal to be your starter and you go top ten with another QB?

I have one in particular in mind that has escaped mention here but it’s too easy. I’ll see if anyone includes ‘him’. Hint: another turd pile distributer.

Ha thanks. I was going for biblical-like.

So… if the Falcons win out, we can’t lose no matter what we do Saturday? I hate to count on that but I also hate to count on the Panthers to not be the Panthers. I have no problem rooting for Atlanta under these circumstances. Rise up!

Don’t fool yourself. This is normal. One or two of the braver ones will be active with the excuses, and telling us what bad people we are to not give him a chance or tell us to go root for another team…. When he has his next non damaging/okay/decent/very good outing there will be a virtual message board parade. Turdpiles will fall on the words of the doubters like raindrops in a hurricane.

Give me Lawrence all day, every day, if it is equal money.

I saw someone say Horn has had a rough time since his concussion, and think there may be something to that. Just a little out of sync, a little gun shy on the head on tackling, I can see it. He is a three and four down player I don’t see Burns as that. I just take the Rams’ offer for Burns and keep Horn and Sam and DJ and all those picks that we sent off for a big nothing.

Obvious now and obvious then. It was 100% a salvage Bryce assignment. If you took it. Tepper, and Bryce. Yeah, if I have other options I don’t pick up the phone.