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GOST, maybe. Greatest of short time. Talk to me when he gets to 300 kicks or so.

I'm wondering about the kicker getting to fly home wth the team.

I got your point. Mine was that more of this Bryce purgatory is not an attractive alternative to avoiding the purgatory of Fields. Because it offers no hope.

The Pats used to act like that too sometimes. And the season is so damned long now it is a marathon.

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Bryce is picked on his first throw again. He is abut due. Maybe not I just think he is going to have a little harder game than he has been having.

This game has Panthers 2015 all over it. I think it was 2015. Get a big lead, let them back in in the 2nd half, squeak it out at the end.

Without coming into a fix it mess, have a guy that can execute what he wants to do and get an offseason of work with it. See if the arrow can start pointing up. This 'make Bryce work out' thing is an albatross and would have been to anyone coming into that situation.

They're 9-1 and not in the home stretch yet, and it's all about peaking at the right time. I'd be a little more patient. We are a get well game to a good team.

You'd think if anyone were in a position to know, it's Canales. Got the inside hands on perspective on the proposition. I'd bet how he bet.

The way I remember it I had a bad feeling because there was cocky stuff said that was bulletin board stuff. Which okay it's the Super Bowl if you are already motivated (but don't give them extra all the same).

I wouldn't use the word 'great' but I think they are doing okay. I am halfway between too early and doing things right.

Injuries too. We can hope that this season's over the top injury count will be offset next year.

Seems to me there are years for that. If you get lucky in those one scores the next season brings the payback. That's just anecdotal, no evidence.

Hitting on a late rounder (or UDFA) will make up for that 2nd round or third round miss. And we may not have missed this time but in general, it will bail you out. Coker is a really nice bonus for us.

Talk about purgatory.

I wouldn't feel good about just handing the keys to Fields, personally. If the money was cheap enough to sign him to compete, I am receptive, but it won't be. So I don't know, he doesn't bowl me over as a path out of this.

This probably would have worked out if we had employed a defensive HC.

I'm not one to judge when I don't know. To me, until someone comes up with the play by play of each move Fitterer made I am going to withhold attaching his (Morgan's) judgement to Fitterer's decisions. Absent 100% confirmation that Morgan had the same evaluations, we only can even assume he agreed. Because the boss made the decision. We don't know if the agreement was enthusiastic, reluctant, whatever. I am judging him on what he has done as GM. Still has a lot left to do before I would speak a judgement type of opinion on the quality of his work. Grade = Incomplete.

Didn't Sanders leave the last game with a lower leg/ankle issue?

There is something off in their valuation when Coker grades higher than Chuba. Production needs to count somehow.

You will never get an argument from me defending using future picks and trading up. The absolute worst thing you can do in my book is trade future picks and that goes 1000 times for a 1st. I won't complain about a 6th or 7th that much but keep your fuging hands off of the major assets. We were burned so bad by this Bryce insanity that it is easy to extend the anti taking a QB high to a single pick. Even every single pick in the 2023 draft isn't as bad as what was done. I don't think the setback from a miss is really that damaging if it is a single pick lost no matter how high it might be.

Europe has the group mentality. USA has always had the individual elevated to top status. Until lately. But anyway big group chants aren’t part of the thing. Seems like we do simplistic music riffs - like that 7 nation army thing I can’t stand lol.

I mean, Flacco is more 'over' than Dalton seems to me I just wouldn't mess with him. And if Bryce is the starter in 2025, well.... let's just say that at that point I wouldn't care what they thought about QBs. edit: as far as setting things back... well that's been done already. Nothing is fixed there, and you are back to square one. If you do it right the time is minimal and well spent.

I guess bottom line is we need to give Canales a shot at His QB. However they find it. Ideally we would sign an undervalued vet that Canales knows what he is getting, and start looking hard for one we can grab at good value and groom. And for me it is okay to burn a pick on a miss just don't cripple your future. Hitting on your other picks should allow for a long shot every so often.

Yeah I said that earlier all or most of these guys are broadcasting or doing the little Huddle show and stuff like that, they are affiliated this season. I think Cam went in using the ESPN tack because it stuck it to Tepper and didn't criticize a player and that worked for him. Plus he ended up working for ESPN.....