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I heard an analyst say his camp may not want long term but more a 2 year deal because the money for this next deal won’t match the market in 2 years. Might not even match the market this year but they don’t have leverage. I haven’t refreshed myself but pretty sure they can buy his RFA season out with a 2 year deal. Then you wouldn’t have to match offers.

This is cold but… I would not be handing Icky that extension now. There is some money to reallocate.

This drop thing… really debatable. Depends on your perspective. That last ball was a tough catch that didn’t get caught. I don’t know that I would call it all on Horn as if it hit him perfectly and he blew it.

I just realized something and couldn’t edit above… post it here. If you use the 2025 playoff teams to project 2026, you have to use 2024 teams to evaluate this year on those same terms. 2024 playoff teams we faced this year were TB (2) Green Bay Rams Bills I think that’s it. We went 3-3 including Saturday. 5 games but only 4 teams. We can call it 5. So, more next year.

Went 2-5. Not including actual playoffs. So 2-6. Rams and Green Bay were the wins. We were tough for teams, most of our games anyway. And we’re such a borderline playoff team. There will be a couple of teams out there that weren’t playoff teams that will hurt us probably. Too early to really say but I don’t like the way we stack up right now in our own division. They are all drafting well ahead of us (those that have picks). Atlanta might be in a little trouble.

I believe you are accurate there. Without knowing for a fact, I think we basically understand what happened.

Right. And a muddy situation where some lawyer is technically in charge. I would think there would be instructions from Blank in a will or something.

Well I was thinking of you, only packer fan on my radar. tough luck.

yeah we will be sitting at the adult table for sure. Just might have lost two of our recent 1st round picks, long term, Saturday. Horn and the concussions, 2 in 6 weeks or something? Icky will be hard to replace and still be able to carry out whatever plans they had made for FA and the draft.

The one thing about that is Blank may not be with us all that long. He is pretty old now. 83. I guess with the best medical care he could have a while, but senility is a threat. Then what happens to the team?

The reason I caught it was I was looking at next year and the annual Bryce suck fest to mark the beginning of the schedule, and thinking 2-6? Then we will be 2-8 in our last 10? Ugh.

6 of our last 8? Meaning we finished 2-6? Not sure that’s accurate. Check the math.

I think I agree. If they can give Bryce that long why not the coach that has to deal with him as well? I am not convinced the playbook is totally open. We get a play caller in that has to deal with that what it look like? Will he limit his menu to Bryce friendly plays or just call his usual game? Will he be able to be fluid and call a game the way he likes, while being limited? That can’t be easy to adapt to.

He already is the OC. Canales let him call some plays during the preseason. He is greener than Canales in that role. We could get lucky and he could be really good, naturally, but that is a long shot.

Pick 32 not 20.

Sorry, get outta here with those future first round picks. Untouchable. Have we not yet learned?

Good for us very bad for Icky, the big extension has not been done. We can spend most of that on whatever. Another LOT, a C, a ILB, Edge, something. He is a good teammate, a good guy, good to have on the team. Pretty good LOT. Hate it for him

Got stats for that? Surely you do.

The thing that stands out to me is the guys who have been drafted since, some of them pretty low, are out progressing and flat outplaying Young. It isn’t one guy either. It is several. So much of it comes down to skill set. Physical tools. They have more of them. Height is a component in this. A large portion of the stuff with Bryce comes from his poor field vision, which is 100% height related.

You guys understand that if we argue that the stat is wonky, worthless, non reality reflecting, anything like that, we are doing it because we hate Bryce. Because we are haters, liars, biased, casuals, all kinds of stuff you don’t want to be called. I have never understood some of these stats. They don’t consistently reflect what I have watched. That graph with the 3rd down efficiency, absolutely lines up with what I saw this season, for example. This QB rating, the PFF stuff, not so much. And certainly those non scientific grades from ESPN personalities.

I don’t hundred percent agree with the last paragraph, considering what was invested. But when Reich told them the truth about the footwork issues, and seeing Young was not prepared for the under center game, and obviously Reich did not think he should be starting… a good franchise would have respected his opinion and let him handle the QB the way he thought best.

That seems more likely to be true than not true.

The Bryce curve in action. They root for the lil fella so hard. It isn’t that he didn’t play well, that just really seems inflated compared to some of these others.

And nobody would be taller than him. Win win.

A nice example of statistics confirming what we watched go down. It didn’t seem to matter if we had them in 3rd and 15. They are getting it. Every fuging week.