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I’d just say, re Clowney, Wonnum missing games is what he did for almost all 2024. I wanted to keep Clowney. But I think they didn’t like his attitude maybe. Otherwise I didn’t understand it.

48 minutes? Please summarize.

Be careful y’all don't fall off that rickety old soap box. I wasn’t gonna point out an irritating bit from that thing but why not? Coming up. It is absolutely fluff. And it’s okay to feel good because it has the best plays. That is straight sugar, with sugar on top and a bowl on the side. Not sure any fugups were addressed, past the digging of the 1-3 hole and the 1st half of the Miami game. Then the plot and narratives shifts to redemption. It is big ascension, like the title. But just for instance, the MNF SF embarrassment… they showed all the picks our defense made to lay the game at Bryce’s feet in that first half. But none of him tripping over it and being unable to take advantage of it at all. They just went to the final score. So that’s what kind of mindset you have. The heavy hitters? Paid no doubt. I know Riddick has been on Bryce’s jock since Alabama. It is what it is. Of course all highlights with quality, slick production values are going to make you feel good. And it is natural to feel good. But don’t twist it, I mean I felt good and still understood what it was. People getting upset over people not interested in it, you’ll get over it.

You aren’t wrong about that. It is what he said. Andy would have to compete.

Well okay. But I look at his numbers and they are paltry. And three teams in functionally three seasons. Sat out his first year.

Yeah. College. Big fuging whoop. The guy hasn’t cut it. I sure hope we will do better than that. Because we can.

The way I picture it they sit down and say okay what are we gonna do about backup QB? We’d have a room of QB coaches who endorsed Pickett. Which would be more troubling to me, probably.

Yes?

Isn’t he still facing charges for that racing thing where there was a death?

Surprised to hear the name Pickett. Not pleasantly. What’s Metchie done in the pros? Anyhow, the next couple of days, things should really start to move.

They had Dom in a clip speaking to the team. I hadn’t guessed he would have been that involved.

This will be interesting as it plays out. We have the hard core cynics saying it’s done. Eat the money this year get a new LOT. (My initial reaction, not knocking it.). Then you have a couple of us open to paying a small amount in NFL terms to keep the option open and at the same time move some $ around. Then you get to Marty Hurney. Which to me would be signing up to a new 3 year extension that pays him market price despite not having proof of what he will be. So we can save 8 million on the cap.

Take another one down.

And very few QBs are.

Well as one of his biggest and longest non believers (pun intended), he has risen to a level that is acceptable if he can roll that out every week. But it only happened infrequently. And I am still not in love with it, he is limited physically and will always be limited. Acceptable though. A duffer can go out and golf on Saturday is likely to have a few really good shots. So why can’t all his shots be good? It is hard. It isn’t that hard to have some success in spurts. The trick is keeping it going. How many good games would he have to turn in to earn an extension? I would have a hard time coming up with 6 that meet a high standard from 2025. So, 8? I am no. Don’t have three more years for him to figure out how to get to 12 or 13. Double them? I might bite. Depending on the insanity of the annual pay. And then I thought about it. 12 games is only 2/3rds. I believe I would want more for an extension that paid him market value.

Not sure but I read that people are lining up to chase him and his salary was estimated to get to 24million. It was 20 last week I think.

Well, if you are a fan it was okay. Good. If you are an analyst type and maybe not a believer, it isn’t the same ride. Lots of talking heads from the NFL media sphere opine on Bryce and Canales, while ignoring the down parts, with some well deserved love for DB.

We need to hope they don’t wait. Lot of guys hitting the draft for 2027. You give them a year behind Bryce who can either become the bridge or he can hold out, whatever. A lot depends on Bryce and what he can do with year 4. If he doesn’t provide definitive beyond a doubt notice that he is the guy, you can’t just keep on with giving him the next year.

I wouldn’t trade XL for the guy and it doesn’t have a lot to do with XL. There is something wrong with this picture, buyer beware. Let me tell you guys, lots of people have talent. Talent is cheap. That is like, the easiest thing to have. It is what you can do with it that makes the difference. Like Robbie Anderson, like that idiot WR we traded for from Pittsburgh two years ago, Johnson. They both had plenty of talent.

I smell something fishy. Why would they do that? He had a less than good 2nd season but he had a really 1st season.

If that’s how it has to go, okay. I am good with a new LOT anyway. But his 5th, all 5th year, the money is guaranteed. I def don’t know how you can settle for less when talking guaranteed.

I know people say it can’t be done this way but I’d see how he plays this year. If it wasn’t good enough I’d tell him look, you are gonna have to play out that 5th year, collect your 26.5 million, and prove you deserve that extension. Which might happen after I draft his potential replacement next year.

I am talking about a token payment of as little as possible base for 2027 just to keep him tethered. They waste the kind of money I’m talking several times every year, it is inconsequential. 2-3 million. The real money would come in incentives only after he met them. In which case, he will have earned it. Or we just pay him 17.4 million for nothing and we are in the same no man’s land at the end of the year. Believe me it would be team friendly until he hit the escalators. The timing of this sucked and calls for being creative or sucking it up and plan on him moving on. I am not looking at him being a guard as any kind of given. They need feet too. They need push too.

I think I’d prefer Hill Jr myself too but overall I would like that draft. I am there after the 3rd too. I don’t pretend to know 200 players and how they would or wouldn’t fit. Same for me every year pretty much, I learn them after we take them. 2023 was the only exception in years.

Well, thanks for about two good games Andy. They were a welcome respite.