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It has been going on for years. Many years. Long time coming to reach the depths of bad form these players put on display weekly in the NFL. It started, as I recall, with the shoulder hit, trying to be a missile and just knock the guy down. Once the Peanut Punch became popular it just got worse. Between all the failed punches and the shoulder hits it is just bad. The league isn’t helping with you can’t hit high, you can’t hit low rules they like to impose. And they don’t come to the league anymore with their fundamentals established, I don’t think. NFL really really needs a minor league for player development.

That is his M.O. for the first two years. Has players identified and makes his pitch when things kick off. Wish we could have scored Williams last year but understand why we didn’t. He sets his sights high though.

Replace an earnest but fairly empty head with a head case may not be the best solution. I am gunshy of guys with attitudes that allow them to miss meetings and stuff like that. You just don’t want them around. Or, I don’t anyway. If we want value out of Legette we gotta rehab him this offseason, get him looking better before that trade deadline. If that’s possible. As he is, what the hell could you really get for him? Our top two offensive coaches have WR coaching in their background, they should be able to improve him.

If he had been on the market at the start of this he may have been the highest rated candidate out there. 12 years younger than Harbaugh. Turned Buffalo around very quickly. I think he is a great fit for Pittsburgh. People say he is too old but I think they don’t realize he is 51 not pushing 60. He has been in the game a long time, got an early start though. He could give them well over ten years of service. Easily. The firing may light a fire under his ass too. He’ll likely self scout and find stuff to improve and will be motivated.

I don’t remember Ealy’s age but Scourton is very young. Which is really encouraging. So much headroom left before he really matures and tops out. Potentially.

Except, there is no starter tier money that goes that low, that it qualifies as a good price on a backup. The guys with the big deals probably make 8-12 times or maybe even more than what their backups make. 33 mil or whatever per year, that is still multiples of what the highest paid backups make. 4-8 million is common with a couple of higher exceptions out there. Okay I looked. The highest guys I see that are backups are topping out at around 7 mil. Lots are down in the 4 range. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/player/_/year/2026/position/qb/sort/contract_average People don’t think Bryce would accept 30-33 million per year extension. So I guess even the 5th year option price of 26.5 is way too low. That’s like 6 times what Dalton s getting. 4mil. Several guys are right there with him. Gotta think his WAR would be higher in a more productive passing offense.

I saw on a video where Allen is the only player to account for 50 TDs in a season, including playoffs, to Not go to a SB. (that year) And he has done that twice.

I don’t see McDermott having to settle for the Titans. Maybe I am wrong about them and it isn’t the ‘settle’ I think it is. The owner hasn’t shown me much. But they are supposedly building a new stadium and the money will flow to get that filled up, they are going to try and win. So there is that. They have some talent and a high draft slot and the number 1 pick from 2025. I want to see what they do with Levis. If he just cuts down the wtf bonehead decisions by half, he is a maybe. All the physical tools. Should be cheap.

Bad timing on this for him and the Panthers. But you could do a whole lot worse than McDermott that’s for sure.

No doubt. The position coaches influence stuff big time. OC and DC can pass down instructions but those guys implement. They are the every day ‘hands on’ guys. Some positions definitely get a gold star, but we need to fix this poor tackling problem. If I am Evero I am putting pressure on my staff to correct that poo.

And the last time I saw Pinero mentioned it was SF Pinero FG 56 yds. Make the damned 47 yd XP. I don’t miss him.

The Panthers doubled and tripled down on putting guys on the field that would benefit Bryce If you did that for Stroud? Of course I can’t know but feel like it would have made a difference. I get the recency bias with Young’s playoff game vs Stroud’s but zoom way out and look at arc of both players’ teams, seems almost the opposite in Houston, to Carolina. Like, how can we help you in Carolina, vs you’re on you own in Houston.

You know they’re crying the blues. They are likely hoping he folds like he did on his first try with them, to aid the cope.

Eager did PFF for 7 years in different roles. But had moved on and we hired him away from sumersports there are two links the top one has all his resume from USA Today. The bottom one is kind of cool it is sumersports https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/panthers/2024/05/08/panthers-hire-eric-eager-pff-reactions-twitter/79552382007/I https://sumersports.com/

This shows how fuged we are by Icky’s injury, in the short term. Replace OT with edge, stick a speed WR in there late, looks tasty. As it is, there is no edge and we need to figure that out. I don’t know how you get a day one LOT outside of the 1st, same for edge. If you expect impact.

I laughed at that because I get it. I didn’t want Bryce. At all. But when he stepped on the field vs Atlanta game one 2023, he was even worse than I thought he would be. I was kind of in shock. It hit me pretty hard, what our situation was, that day. And looking at what we did to get him vs Clausen, I was just sick. We gave up so much. Set the team back years.

I guess we’ll see. I liked what I read about him. It is a tough situation down there right now so I guess I don’t expect a ton.

You watched that abomination that was Bryce Young in 2023? I gave him 10%. Make it 20% if it makes you feel better. Horrible is horrible. If either one was a piece of food you would spit them both out.

I guess. Can’t dispute the roster that’s for sure. I would say that Bryce pretty much = Clausen plus 10% as far as that goes. With Cam being exponentially better than Both.

I think they have totally tied themselves to BY9. Good luck with that. If Dan can get that defense really stout he may be able to survive an offensive overhaul.

I think a couple of these will turn out better than a quick first impression might indicate. Specifically the GB guy. I mean, that team and organization is depleted of talent and kind of headed towards the bottom. But I think the dud has some skills. Head coach in college, with NFL cred too. Tough situation he is taking on. And I hate to say, Atlanta. Stefanski might be unleashed lol. Still has a QB deficit though. He’ll get a ton of owner support I think. Blank badly wants Matt Ryan to succeed. I was cold on Tennessee but they are requiring Saleh to hire an experienced OC and they have some pieces on defense. It might be a little better than I expected at first. Won’t be great anytime soon though. Harbaugh is proven and a lot of the NFC East is pretty shaky. I think Baltimore could have fuged up. They apparently are allowing their QB to rule the roost and that ia really a suspect strategy. OTOH that QB is very potent on the field and could make a mediocre coach look decent. I am close to there on Buffalo, as far as did they fug up. I am not real optimistic for them, but could be totally wrong. Pittsburg is the most interesting because of their incredible hiring success. One of these times it ain’t gonna work out so smooth for them. I mean they are kind of due. Will it be this time? Arizona? Graveyard. Las Vegas? Probably the same thing. But they might resurrect NE mojo in the desert. I guess it could happen.

That’s pretty.

There is an attempt to paint Bryce as having a much tougher path vs Cam. 2011 vs 2023 teams. Makes Young look better. I thought it was pretty clear, especially when you look at where it is coming from. I reject it, as usual.

It is the age of that poo. How many titles, captions, or headlines say ‘so and ended so and so’s career’? And it is nothing. Sometimes it is a little small thing buried at the end of a bunch of bloviating.

I just can’t see Morgan as being under the threat of unemployment at any time this upcoming season. As little as ‘winning’ the division and making the playoffs impressed me, I think to Tepper it was like nectar of the Gods. A milestone for him. And the team did play well in the Wild Card. That has to buy him 2027. I would think. Unless we start 0-8 or something. Which I don’t believe will happen.