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I remember plenty of standing there watching a pass rusher go by, and the blocker didn't ever notice until they are by them. Stunts were guaranteed to get you free. But that was not every play and there were plenty of better executed snaps that people wouldn't allow to be factored in.

Tepper isn't going anywhere either. A life with no NFL beckons, I hear it calling louder and clearer every season with him running poo.

I thought Thielen was back? Trading him too?

Talent attracts talent. Where is our talent? OL and maybe two guys on defense and one is gone for the year? Add in that nobody wants to play for Tepper or with Bryce and that's two big things.

32 arms for sure.

Trade back. Morgan did well negotiating trades last spring, he will get a good return. I would hope good enough to have a 8-12 range pick and get back in the bottom quarter of the 1st round. I haven't looked at the players but it is defensive BPA to me three times at least. We need everything.

As far as I can imagine it, this was the reality: Tepper added a condition to accompany the hirings, and that is Bryce is your starter, make it work. I don't care how but you must make every legit effort to make this work with him. The drafting and the signings and all of it were dedicated to making the offense 'foolproof' - for lack of thinking of the right word. Just so strong that you could game manage it to success. They pretty much did that. Added to the situation is, these guys knew that Bryce couldn't beat anyone good out and if they got someone like that the players would see. Then you have that problem - the one they forestalled until week three when they just couldn't get away with another week. In my eyes and probably most people's, this whole thing was to take longer than two weeks. It was the theme of the season and the only real goal, Bryce proving last year was not his fault. Or not proving it. Even his biggest critics thought he would make a better showing. He rubbed the noses of his fans in it too, not his doubters.

He won't have a helmet thrown at him, at least from DJ.

DJ be like, "Bryce again?" Get me the eff out of here. I'll go anywhere.

Maybe. The Denver front is stout, the O has been out of synch with these two new players injected, and then add they will dare him to throw the ball. Of course. Hard to say anything good and mean it.

It really goes away when you are behind the sticks. It doesn't even take a score deficit, just a yardage hurdle you won't clear with a run. Which we have seen a lot on account of pre snap stuff plus blown assignments. And people don't really account for it in the tally of the run/pass balance. 1st and 15, 2nd and 13, it matters.

Skip Bayless lol. He is smarm in a sports coat. Just can't take him. The adversarial concept of 'you argue this and I'll argue against you and we'll say outrageous poo to get attention', I cannot be complimentary to that toxic poo - I better not start. Oops. Skip was okay was writing for the Dallas paper, and I only say that because I never used to read the Dallas papers.

There was something stat wise that showed it wasn't really that bad, but another stat had them running more than expected, when playing from behind. So who knows. The OL seems to be out of whack with Christensen and the new ROT in there. Who really kind of sucks so far. And Thomas is doing a poor job at blocking that I have seen.

Nothing but net.

BTW I just watched the latest Idzik press Q&A. Brooks ....

Well yeah. The hope was he would be worked in and be able to play if needed, etc. I know it is ahead of schedule for the green dot hat. One reason our d is so bad though is the middle guys weren't really a strength to start with and they both went at the same time.

We need a 2022 Foreman next year. Or someone that will short yardage pound the LOS. A load. A Tolbert would be great.

Sanders being here is really Fitterer doing the paper and phone work. He is here because the new staff wanted him. Reich and Staley. Pretty sure. Staff turnover type of a thing where he doesn't know Foreman or Chuba from the last guy's team.

But he is doing it. They said he was anyway. I have been waiting for Jewell to come back thinking he will take that over. oh, not protections but the calls and alignment stuff.

That running game, when you can’t make a yard if you really need it you aren’t good enough. All I know. I expected more.

The defense will force us to throw. You have to back them off. It comes down to that, like everybody says with the deep stuff. Just, downfield. Legit downfield completions that force the defense to adjust. I go to his rebuilt mechanics, the Buffalo preseason the first about ten plays of the Saints game, and then he quit and went to his tippy toe and that kind of drop back. He has to play an entire game without retreating into his old ways. I think that is my bar along with the downfield completions.

It will be better for him behind our OL to start with. Saints line was as bad an OL as some of the Panthers 2023 exploits. They were really bad. We are talking a top overall pick in his second season vs a 5th round rookie literally thrown in and it is his second game. You certainly expect the One to do better. But, still he may not. Those last numbers from vs LA were brutal.

Well I wouldn’t pay anything for him. Maybe I guess Andy’s thumb is really bad and that’s all there is to it.

I've said all that to myself and others already. I rewatched the Washington game though and focused on him. That is what I saw. He was often away from the play and seemed slow to pursue. Some of it would be responsibility based, his key took him out... but he just doesn't look that good overall. Maybe it was just me being too critical.

You are projecting command level poo onto a lower level co conspirator.