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If it is lifesize, couple of days. That passing chart has at least ten throws deeper than his famous LA Charger edition. That isn't a bad thing.

With his feet nailed to the floor. Just about everything he misses is when he leaves his feet unnecessarily. IIRC there was one in the back of the EZ early in the year that he did the same thing. I think his hands are good, he just has that proclivity to jump and make it a harder catch.

I really doubt he needs to be shut down. Just make sure he is being honest about how it feels.

The mechanics make a real difference with him. If he stays with the good mechanics you can see it in his throws. And you see it in his throws when he doesn't focus on them too. He doesn't have enough to ignore them. I mean, an off balance throw 12 yards away is one thing but in other cases he needs to have that poo right for it to be good enough.

We were short on TEs before with people hurt and Sanders had to block, which he isn't ready for blocking NFL people. Or wasn't, for sure. We had Franks and Tremble yesterday after Sanders went down. Oh boy.

Yeah I felt the same way about watching the game. Most fun game since Vegas. I was saying all summer that we shouldn't judge things the first half of the year due to everything on offense being new, a new HC, green as they come. Like, the OL would take time and the offense would take time and the coach would take time and the QB would take time. He was the monkey wrench in my predictions by playing so horrible early but the rest of the stuff is tracking. I thought we'd have seen Brooks by game 5 or so... wrong too on that one and we still don't know anything. But right now they have everything they need in place to evaluate things.

The playing well part, depends on what happens going forward. It could have been a tease that will dig our hole deeper. In the small picture of one game, probably his best game. Green Bay wasn't as great as people think it was. More like one good quarter. Followed by two games of exactly nothing.

It was the way he did things. Last minute.

The fact that Gettleman went in with such a scenario as needing to draft that many CBs driving his strategy, indicts him for me. He made a total mess of things after he started off strong.

That is true it was good. There were really no blatant missed interception opportunities, other than the PI on Thielen in the EZ that the guy just didn't turn around. Compared to every other game though, he basically eliminated that.

Horn will probably learn more and improve more this year than the rest of his years combined because it is really the most playing he has done. You don't learn from being on IR.

I don't think that's true about every throw Dalton can. That ignores having Dalton come in to throw the Hail Mary, just for one. But he played well.

The two pointer yeah, but the Thielen in the EZ that moved it to 1st and goal, if that defender had looked for the ball he was in position to get it. He didn't turn around. Which a lot of times they don't.

Okay, the defense played great relative to 5 or 6 weeks ago, and finally did force a punt or two lol. But they got sacks which they usually don't. Wallace... he really needs to get some good work and training and self scouting done this offseason. Disappointed in him, quickness wise. Strength wise. I expected him to be thinking too much not that worried about that. But his actual physicality and suddenness are really questionable. We need better there whether it comes from him or wherever, especially considering Jewel is middling. Good at times but that's it - good is his ceiling.

Mingo is coming for his revenge, don't get your hopes up.

Well I closed the game already without checking his footwork on that one but in general he has improved his mechanics. Not much regression yesterday, though it looked like he was flirting with it at times. I thought they would pressure him more and was hoping to get a better test of how far along that was, in terms of has it 'taken'. Because it is the same scenario with the Buffalo preseason series where he had adopted the 'proper' form and got improved ball flight and zip and accuracy, the whole deal and then when NO started hitting him and pressuring him it did not take much time for it to all go out the window. That's still the big test to me, of if we can expect to see him operate at the level required.

If I remember the earlier one, he left his feet on that one too.

I was watching the game again when I saw this reply so it only took a second to find it. I marked it as from our 44 to their 17 maybe 18 when the ball hit Legette's hands. So yeah very close to 40. I hope that's not all he has. But with it being pretty accurate I am thinking he stayed within himself and didn't sell it all out to get the ball down there. Which selling all out effort wise negatively affects accuracy. So that's good.

He was plain fuging scared, I am sure of it. Then Andy showed him as clear as day that the job includes standing in, stepping into your throw and taking that hit if that's what you need to do. Being on the pine and seeing your career circling the drain ... finally Bryce understood that that was the job and if he wanted the job he had to face that poo and lose his fear. He did. I got respect for him now that I did not have prior to that. Doesn't mean he is going to get a ton better though, but going by yesterday he is making good throws and not getting picked, and really only put it up for grabs a couple of times otherwise he protected the ball keeping it away from the DBs. He is scary though about coughing up the ball on a tackle or sack. Happens too much.

This here, I appreciate from him. I saw it as making him earn it, which no one had done. And they had needed to from day one. It was a definite risk on the job security front. The whole benching and whatever took balls or balls and mindset.

I saw that again, and neither time I looked did it look like it was an impact with any sort of velocity with his head contacting the ground. IOW I have doubts about him having a concussion from it. Now, a neck sprain and some pinched nerves? Yeah that's where I'd go just from layman observation. I did used to play and got my neck jammed up the wrong way in a practice scrimmage and couldn't speak or take a breath or move for a second or two. I was lucky it came right back but that was a nerve(s) being compressed and I felt it for a while afterwards like you would from car collision I guess. You are bruised internally. I think without a concussion probably two weeks out but I guess we'll see.

that's true but the 25 yarder is in general an easier completion if the defense is afraid of the deeper over their head threat. I'd file that in the 'harder than it has to be category' that you will have to work around when you deal with limitations. He played really well though, not saying he did not. Legette left his feet again on that drop 30 yards down the sideline.

KC was ranked something like 17th in pass defense, which is lower than I thought. I thought Young did a good job not throwing it to them though.

He made a couple of nice catches too. One on the 1st 3rd quarter possession that was near the ground, he scooped it. Another deeper one I think right before the half.

He made some excellent throws but he always has made some excellent throws here and there. I don't know what to think, which is what I was apprehensive about. Is he going to have a decent downfield game? Because okay Legette dropped one, but someone was giving stats prior to the bye or during it where he had two downfield completions and one of them was the jump ball that is just launched and fingers are crossed that our guy comes down with it, and yesterday we saw that again. The Russell Wilson school of downfield passing. I don't feel like that is sustainable, but at the same time you have to do Something to make the defense understand they have to defend that downfield throws. Like i said, confused. I guess I'm going to review the game for myself and look closely at his mechanics and stuff because if he actually fixed that stuff it explains the better throws. And that has been my biggest objection, or what I see as the thing that makes or breaks his chances, that unorthodox dropback and tippy toe action and not having his feet set which limits velocity etc etc.