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I am not making it Bryce specific. Haven’t been for a while now, once I understood the nuance of it. In fact the only time I have mentioned it in relation to Bryce this time around that I recall, is to show that another QB could get the same credit for that handoff scenario as Bryce did for his actual last possession on Sunday. Which is unfair. My point is it is a shitty indicator in general.

I used to think that stat meant something special. Turns out, a fraction of the time… a GWD is really some special thing It is about like when people say a fraction of this or that, but they actually mean a small fraction. 1/1 is technically a fraction. Handing off one time at 14.58 in the 4th quarter, then calling the kicker in… is technically a GWD. Woot. Call the HOF committee.

Passing chart had 3 over 20 I think. The Legette TD and another completion and an incompletion. All over 20 yards. An incompletion at 19 or maybe 20 yards. So you could technically probably say 4 throws 20 or more. That seems high to me compared to the norm. 45 throws and 10 YPA are both way high.

That, and no 1st in ‘26 should get them in a nice spot to get a QB in 2027.

I wouldn’t stop that if we were 0-11 I mean stop telling me about all that great food when I am a bachelor cooking hot dogs

It is a road game. We are on a road win streak. I agree we should have a shot because they have weaknesses but am also well aware of the week to week Jekyll Hyde factor slash yo yo effect, up down up down. If it were a 1pm game in Charlotte I’d feel better about it. This place has their team rankings. Stat wise. https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/team/san-francisco-49ers/stats

Stop it. Please.

I chuckled at it but it has a shelf life.

I understand the concept of the matching the game day food to the city. I think of Fisherman’s Wharf or beans, since the real 49ers ate a lot of them around the camps.

Boy we agree on the dink and dunk. I don’t want to watch that kind of football. I mean okay if you win with it, it could be tolerable but it feels claustrophobic, constrained, limited, boring. But for some reason I love a smash mouth heavy run game that wins the LOS and gets the backs to the second level.

We will disagree on the hiding part. Protecting from turnovers is how I saw it but not worth a million words. I thought the receivers were given better balls than normal, as a result of the QB being sharper with his throws. At the same time when you have games with 11 completions they aren’t getting a lot of chances compared to 31 or whatever it was.

He was sharper. It wasn’t all him with the YAC but he wasn’t impeding that like he usually does. If the ball to Legette wasn’t in the end zone, there was a lot of YAC there. Right in stride. At this point my thing is, can he do it when it isn’t Atlanta? He has a horseshoe up his butt with them lately.

Lol I think I said that in the game thread.

I thought he hit his ceiling in the Dallas game. Because it was a 4 quarter effort not the more typical suck and then redeem yourself just enough with a decent half or quarter. I think Sunday looked more like his ceiling but the idea is execute what you asked to do without fuging it up. If they need you to make a play, you make the play. Do it for 60 minutes. There have been games Canales needed to hide him as well, and hope we could get through them playing that way.

Brooks would be unquestionably done now if this were 30 years ago. He could possibly still have a career in today’s world. There were So many guys who tore their knees up and that was just… it.

I don’t know man. His stock is down with me from his bad takes on the podcast trail and his home life. What he did to that. His kids. He is in a sense no better than the men his mom shacked up with. She was probably no prize herself. SOB is probably still my favorite Panther player when suited up.

Yeah we are scalded dogs. Or cats. We don’t go optimistic all that easy, for good reason.

That is a good point there. We are getting what a lot of us felt was the minimum reasonable expectation. That we play competitively and we get some meaningful games in December. We may not be quite into being relevant in December but have a chance to be. And I say reasonable expectations as the bar for the franchise on a yearly basis. Not specifically this year, but all years.

Gawd you are an idiot.

Dream on about that.

I could never found out who did the first surgery. That failed. Nor who did the recent one. Yiu can’t count on anything involving him. If it happens it’s a windfall at this point.

He went 17-2 or something and lost the last game. You having trouble seeing the difference?

Hallmark of the stan agenda. They choose not to focus on what happened to make the cuffs go on in the first place. That is irrelevant.

I made a golf analogy a while back. You could use lots of sports or games but a lot of people play golf so …. Let’s say your normal game runs from maybe high 70s to maybe 82, 83. You can do worse. And you can do better. Harder to do better. Anyhow one day you tee off right down the middle and it is tee to green in regulation all day. And you make some putts. You total maybe one or two over par. So great you did it. You know you can do it. Try to go out there and do it again. That’s Bryce so far. Does it once or twice a year. The rest is just nothing special. I feel like he needs to put it in gear and make the very good games his floor. Not next year. Not in two more years. Now.

Reasonable people understand he should get that. I don’t like Any of them getting credit for handing the ball off. Bryce or another guy. My issue is that the criteria for determining it is too broad and waters down whatever you might be able to get from it to the point I feel it is useless.