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He got a nice head start the first couple games. And Miami too. He was racking up. When they don’t let him throw it helps.

Doesn’t throw many passes so Ints are generally low. Never fumbles on the QB sneak. Has never thrown a Hail Mary Int. Can pass for the kids eat free discount on road trips.

Yeah I thought the idea was we could upgrade and save money too. Over the 5th year anyway. I guess next year Bryce gets 12?

I have to agree that the question is best left for a few weeks from now. If you wanted to ambush, the absolute best time would have been in the euphoria immediately following the record setting day. When you ask it after a typical Bryce day, you are busted right off. I bet someone would have said something they’d regret after the huge success of 448 yards no picks etc etc ”we’d be fools not to!”

I think he said the Bryce stuff was using his personalized data and code and all that stuff. I remember several kind of ironically hilarious posts but one was “you do it and show your intelligence.” I could see with my eyes in 30 minutes or less what his intelligent brilliant code and data points misrepresented and it took him how long to compile that poo? What would you say demonstrated more intelligence?

And I would bet all your money on Frank not wanting Bryce. He was a victim too. Highly compensated but he didn’t ask for Bryce. He knew. It is why he quit looking like he gave a poo.

Bryce the QB is being what he has always been and will always be. His parents raised a good person. He can do that fine.

Lol it’s like we got the top guy before he grew up.

They all stumped for him to be the pick and won’t let go. Only rational explanation.

No doubt. If it was WFNZ Charlotte you definitely would have been. Mocked for it too in you did it in the morning.

Not the fans. We didn’t do it. We never do poo.

He is the elephant in every room right now. Canales and Tepper run way behind although Tepper should get more heat.

I mean, Lawrence Phillips, Rae Carruth… Yeah I hear you. I was convinced he was a bust before they took him. So three years was coming down in a block when they did that, in my mind. I didn’t think I’d make it but here we are, with the threat of a 4th year hanging in the air. Demoralizing for sure.

3 years to figure it out and the answer has been the same every time. Think they will try a different solution? Bryce and Andy lol. I hope so but it is hard to have any faith in them to do that. The Cam stuff, I don’t think anyone is talking about that thinking he is a solution for 2026. Just wishing we had some of his ability at the position now.

My amateur opinion … It’s that footwork and his overall mechanics that stop him. Short sucks too but his accuracy and timing and velocity, all compromised by his technique. Not enough natural arm strength there to overcome it. I am not sure what another year would do if he isn’t fixing that stuff. Or two years. If he could have things straight and squared away he could maybe get enough out of his abilities to play consistently week to week. He will still be limited by things like field vision and what someone pointed out this week that I had never noticed or considered - trajectory on really short near field throws like goal to go situations. They said the arc he needs to clear the d line guys is such a high angle that it is hard to get the ball back down soon enough. Which boy, that is a can of touch pass worms there if you think about it. Like shooting a basket where defenders can goal tend. You have to throw it so soft that defenders can close on it. Receivers would have to use their bodies to shield. Then you are left with rolling out to see the field and get a lane, which shuts down half the the field and is easier to defend. It’s really tough. You go looking for negatives, or impediments, they are there to find.

I only wonder about the West Coast team playing on tne East Coast at 1pm factor and historically that has been worth a lot to the home teams. And maybe playing down to the competition that happens sometimes. And the crazy up down up down pattern we have been in this season. I don’t bet on these things though.

I think the racist stuff is barking up the wrong tree with Tepper. He is all woke and stuff. Not that liberal white people can’t be racists they are in their way pretty racist. Or can be, I for sure agree about the yes man aspect and particularly apply that to Wilks. I didn’t understand the Rhule hiring at all. Did not want. But down the line with Wilks, zi personally wanted him, and personally did not see the racism being a factor in the Reich hiring as much as the fixation with offensive minded play callers and copying that trendy model. I am having a hard time calling to mind any Black coaches who were out there with the big offensive rep. At one time Byron Leftwich was a hot name who I liked. Don’t remember what happened there but he faded. Bienemy but I never believed in him much, personally. I think Tepper basically excluded defensive guys and went for the top rated play caller OC types. And couldn’t get Ben Johnson and ended up settling with Reich. Who ended up NOT being a yes man at all.

Okay. Should have let that happen instead of Bridgewater. I bet Rhule didn’t want to deal with it.

It has been hard. We have a patchwork OL and a crappy QB to deal with. Wishy washy play calling. Finding a bright side or silver lining is a challenge. I try but it is weak sometimes.

We still should have kept Darnold. As far as his four teams, every place he was would have been better off keeping him. Even SF. Definitely Minnesota. Where he only got to start because their rookie got hurt. And definitely us.

Yeah playoffs would the ultimate instant gratification scenario, and doesn’t really jump out as best for our overall big picture. But in a way it could be. We know what Bryce is I think. But with him back and us playing a 1st place schedule, we might be able to position ourselves in good place to draft a QB high in 2027. Have to suffer through more misery in 2026 though.

My preference was Wilks and Darnold and whoever we could pick at 9 and 40 or wherever we would have picked. Keeping DJ Moore. Talk about different. I mean the hang there is we would have kept Fitterer. And who was Wilks pulling in for his staff. But in the trade was made scenario and the coach was Reich, absolutely CJ was the right pick. He has the NFL throwing toolkit.

And I forgot the upcoming Rhule factor, 2020. He did not want to deal with Cam I don’t think.

Everything I heard at the time or remember was yeah Frank knew he wasn’t ready and Tepper insisted. Much friction resulted and of course we know who won that one That was a phantom injury week 3 2023 that got Dalton on the field, pretty sure, and that’s what it was about - Frank trying to field an NFL offense. People were and still are very unfair to him. He may not have been the brightest offensive innovator but he spent his life playing QB in the NFL and coaching them. Even though his head coaching record or chops may not have been A-1, he didn’t just go all idiot in 2023 all of a sudden.

I think so. The rub is, you cannot remake yourself down to that molecular type level of all your techniques and ways you do things, at the top level of your profession, on the fly. If at all. I made at least a dozen posts over the years explaining my thoughts on that issue. He would have had to have that stuff in order from day one. I think it would been a different story, completely. Or could have been. You can’t fix height or arm strength or foot speed or size, to any significant degree though and he should have never been drafted so high. Even with better technique. That was a horrible call on our part.