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You think that changes if the only difference is he leaves? I think the die is cast already. Some of what Morgan has said leads me to think that Morgan is not 100% down with the constant prevent and wants more pressure.

Good one.

He promised not to be “reckless” in FA. But is going to make some moves.

I guess the 4th year gives him a raise but not huge. If the 5th year money is not guaranteed, neither is the job. He can be traded. If it is guaranteed, trade is not good but 13.25 mil in 2027 and again in 2028 is the price. Someone said 5th year is not guaranteed like the first 4, I haven’t looked into it. This isn’t really out of hand yet to the point it hampers us in a disastrous way. When they give him a new contract? That is when poo gets too real.

Good one. But it did improve, however slightly. Jeez, think if it regressed. I guess some people would say it did, I kind of feel like that was a result of it being clamped down in some games, for ball security’s sake.

What he is told. Whatever that is…

I don’t remember a lot talk about this year. But we may be in the market in 2027 and I am for the deepest class we can get.

Well the more the merrier for the 2027 draft pool. just adding that I am not sure a year in one system and a year in another is a net positive. Confuses most guys and stunts their short term performance. It does in the pros. The only advantage I believe a player gets from that constant learning different systems is once they have been through a few years of it and it has chance to sink in, they can identify the commonalities between the different terminologies and will adapt quicker. So you can get a guy like that to come in and get on the same page pretty quickly.

We really could have an issue with Horn’s concussions. I wouldn’t want to mortgage anything past what we have right now, at the moment.

I really liked a lot of what I saw in his presser. Someone said he was really dumb, I don’t think so. Maybe, like a lot of people, he is dumb about some stuff but I believe he knows football and defense especially. What I didn’t particularly want to hear was the all in on Bryce but if he is right, I can go along. We’ll see if he is right.

I’d point to the Rams win and those two 4th TDs but I am sure there is plenty of poo you can point to as well. Whatever game it was with the clusterfug last second FG miss would suffice. Where it was so rushed and the kicker slipped. Mixed bag. Edit. Saints game maybe, for that rushed FG blunder. Was that 1st half? My memory sucks… Some other end of 1st half stuff fits. Yeah the same thing that happened Saturday happened another time. Want to say maybe it was the Saints too.

I don’t mind Dom as much, don’t see what he could be hurting. And on the flip side I don’t know what Caldwell could be helping. I always associated him with the pro Bryce cabal though, rightly or wrongly. Long as they aren’t hurting things I guess it doesn’t matter.

Well Tepper probably liked Frank more because he liked the 3-4. Because we had been running it. So I don’t know what that tells me about who hired Evero. You might be right and Frank wanted him. Or he could have been just another Tepper/Fitterer idea. There were a few of them in 2023. I thought. Then, Evero was put on Canales or retained independently, however you want to see it. Did not leave with Frank, when most of Frank’s people were out of here. I certainly don’t know it’s just what I thought was going on.

Because he is a massive challenge and he improved. Such as it was. If you can help him, it stands to reason you could take on lesser challenges.

I guess my memory is worse than I thought. Besides being old with a declining short term memory, I have been focusing on offense when I hunt down the videos and review. Seeing that as the critical unit right now. I am a bigger fan of defense, but haven’t really been in critique mode for them in the Bryce era. And the missed tackles, I wasn’t referring to them. Just blown coverages, which I thought happened more in the early part of the year. With a poo memory maybe I missed that.

Three years straight of crap to start the year. For sure everyone, even his stans, will be sweating that again in 2026. I wasn’t that worried about our record even this year, but they have given me reason to put more importance on it next year. I have a long standing policy to discount opening week performance as a barometer for the year, but when it is so bad I forget about that and go straight to &($#% mode.

Jackson sure did have a nice year. What a deal we made bringing that guy in. Their communication seems to have taken a little while to gel. when you have new guys, that is probably a price you pay until it isn’t. Doesn’t seem like we had as many out and out coverage snafus this year as in 2024. Maybe I have forgotten some from earlier in the year…

UFL. Well, tear it up fellas. Be rooting for you. NFL needs a minor league like NFL Europe. Guys that would never have had a shot were enabled by the opportunity to play and develop. Warner and Jake were on the same team. Young guys that are backups get no game reps in the NFL unless someone gets hurt. Good for the coaching pool too.

Up in the air. It is a 6-12 month recovery. We will likely have a contract on him for a bit over 13 months so a little bit of a window could exist. As we sit now, I would be very hesitant to use a tag on him. Probably against it. I guess we also have a chance to try a new LOT, so maybe we are desperate by then, maybe not.

Rooney rule team, honoring the Rooney rule most likely. As they say, it is a good experience for guys to go through that process regardless. Not sure if he has done it yet. Maybe he has. That poo would get old being the token Rooney guy. Or one of them but you gotta take what comes. Look how long it to Rivera to get hired as a HC. Not that he was Rooney, but he was a minority also. And not saying that had anything to do with it. He was an excellent DC.

You may be right on there. I always said people don’t trade the pick if the fruit is sweet. Well not exactly that I just came with the fruit analogy.

Yeah I think we need to be preparing to react to that becoming a big issue.

I am not really willing to cut XL slack on the trajectory of the pass. In fact for a likely 50/50 result Bryce’s rainbows seem like they would be easier to come down with. I am picturing Russell Wilson’s punts that he was so lucky with so often. That is what I pictured it looking like with him and Bryce. You don’t have to be that close to the OB for that to work though. Which Bryce seems to not execute, he is often right on that line or over it. Seems like it couldn’t be that damned hard to make your angle a little less severe when throwing a deeper ball to the outside. But it has been. As to XL, I never had it out for him but I have eyes. He deserves to be demoted.

My first reaction is the mental image of a Cam fastball which surely would make it more difficult. Vs a Bryce cream puff toss. I do think in that situation Bryce’s ball is easier to handle if it is not perfect. I don’t see the need to die on the it bad pass good pass hill, but do not think Bryce threw him a gimme, at the least.

That is probably a good point that I did not consider. It doesn’t force their hand financially, to declare early.