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My ears are up. Listening. Bryce is pretty much the anti proto, and I like the prototypes. if you are gonna fail at least look good doing it.

If you don’t mind them hanging in strip clubs and throwing a dancer girlfriend on a pile of unloaded weapons you can get them in the 6th or 7th round. And I am one of those guys that that can deal with that.

Do it. Do it until you get it right.

You are likely correct. Maybe it will be the replacement that is the gem. Just saying we have found some assets through that resource. And I likely won’t know the replacements any better than this bunch.

so true.

I was a Darnold and a Stroud guy. So my mind would be at peace. edit: the is the really fuged up part of it. Had we shown Darnold the patience and made the investment in Darnold vis a vis the players around him that Bryce was given, we might be where the Seattle team is.

Lol. 41 of 41. Sorry Bozo. I would really want to be hooked up with his agent if I were an NFL JAG.

Yeah I was gonna say, I am so surface level anymore I don’t know hardly any of these players. What I will say is Morgan or the scouts seem to have a knack for finding some gems every so often. Maybe one or two of these guys is a gem.

Tepper. He strikes me as when he is in your corner, because he thinks you can help him, he is a staunch supporter. A rock. But if he stops believing, your ass is gone.

Have to agree. Wait for a couple more QBs to rise and the two or three annual combine risers, then look at it. But I want a MLB or ILB too. I value them higher than the current cognoscenti seem to.

I do too. The CEO leader, the idea guy that knows where to go how to get there, how to motivate people, all that stuff. We have seen great coordinators be crappy head coaches. One of the earlier examples was Buddy Ryan. But there are dozens of examples of it over the years. Generally it is a different skill set, and the NFL seems to like that Peter Principle thing of promote people who are great at one job into a bigger job that they haven’t demonstrated any aptitude for. Only a few wunderkinds out there and people try to replicate that, chasing the trend, but they don’t have a wunderkind that can handle all of it and be good enough at all of it. We might be dealing with that here right now, minus the greatness. Just good at coaching QBs. Not great And not great at coordinating like these other people that have demonstrated it over years. At the same time is showing potential for HC.

Well, cornerback could be another on that we have to act on. 2 concussions in the same year for Horn, worrisome. We could have lost 2 1st round entrenched starters forever in that one damn game. That is possible.

To look at it without any empathy for Icky, pure business, this may have saved us money but cost us a first round pick. We should not be putting any 100 million offers on the table, so there is 100 million that can go elsewhere.

That last half minute was pretty lame. Perfunctory performance, more like going through the motions and just get me out of here. This happened in the regular season too, in a loss, did it not? This happened so fast you hardly had time to take it in. Pretty disappointing. You can at least do your lil dump off and get a few yards, call a timeout. Try again. Zero freaking yards, bada bing bada boom, over, with a whimper.

I felt like the QB play in the NFL declined as far as the bottom third guys go. Seems like the floor to be number 30 was just lower. No numbers to back it up just my impression. Came to post this, hit the 4 minute mark and Simms says something I found interesting that sounds like he has a source, I hadn’t heard anyone say this before.. but it is just a line or two in the conversation of how they reevaluated the team following the season and playoff loss. I didn’t get to see the game so I am hitting the Monday morning analysis and recaps from lots of places and came across it.

Three things I certainly agree with there.

I agree on the unreliability of using this year’s performance to predict next year’s in the NFL. Even in the same season teams can be schizo, depending on injuries especially. The powerhouse of the first five weeks (Colts for instance) are pushovers in December and vice versa. And if you pencilled in the Ravens as a loss in August this year, hold on a minute by October. It isn’t what you expected. Hell we were pushovers every other week. But still it should be a pretty tough schedule.

You saw Stafford’s finger get mangled right? There are stats showing what he did prior and post that finger injury. Looks like maybe they got some relief for it at halftime maybe because he got back on track. I am not saying bad about Bryce here, just that comparison. It ain’t level. And he ain’t near Stanford as a QB.

I don’t much care if Rico leaves, I only ever saw it as a one year stay. I feel like we can go into camp with what we have minus Rico plus Brooks. If Brooks doesn’t look good enough early to compliment Chuba, there will be guys out there to fill in. And we don’t know what Etienne will look like, maybe he can step up and we won’t need as much to take up Brooks’ slack. I suppose the long shot outcome is Brooks looks great and then you are down to whether you want to trust the repair job holding up. the main thing to me is to take care of the OL because they are your run game.

I think people rightly expected to see flashes his first year and were rightly disappointed in what they saw on the field. There were some last year and he came in this year and stunk it up again to start the season. Has shown some flashes turned in some good play. Even managed to not be the biggest reason we lost in some losses. Three straight horrible stretches to open the season, will it be four? I see the good stuff but I don’t know how much I trust it.

In the Sunday locker room interview Hunt mentioned he was getting another MRI but didn’t seem worried about it.

We have the opportunity to draft Moton’s replacement and depending on who it is, possibly can sub him for Icky and slide him over the next year to replace Moton.

Where he was taken and how much that cost definitely is a big sticking point. But I think we are past that. Obviously he wasn’t football ready and developed and ready to elevate average receivers, other than Thielen lol. We are and have been playing the future game of is he even gonna be a average starter. Seems to me.

I never bought into just forgetting about a whole season. His contract doesn’t forget about it. The record doesn’t. The Bears won’t forget it either, lol. This was Bryce’s 3rd season. Now we get to find out if he makes it four years in a row of bad play to start the year.

Looked like panic. I listened on the radio, sounded like panic. What else? Bang bang bang bang empty your gun and never hit a thing.