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Also.. Let’s not mention the obvious double standard applied here. Look at our QB’s history of entitlement. His parents are well off and catered to him big time. Best schools, coaching, rosters, totally elite poo. His path was basically paved with gold. It continued in college and it continues here. He did not have a single competitive hurdle placed in between him and the starting job here. Just handed to him. The Sanders kid had to earn it for sure. Double standard. One for Bryce, one for Deion’s kid. Do I want him? Not really. A little gun shy of his dad’s meddling. Would prefer not to be opened up to that can of worms. But he is having to earn his place more than our guy has.

That sounds like your baggage. Can he play or not? That is the question.

Yeah. Well you want a clear path you don’t want to be blocked. Loser winner whatever.

Yeah. For sure we are no longer bottom tier, on the whole. We still have some days like that but overall the floor is higher to the point we are off the bottom. The rating in that graphic is really overrating us.

I am not on his jock but not sure why wanting to avoid being behind Lamar Jackson is worthy of scorn. That could be a 4 year sentence to having pine splinters in his butt. Which might be good for him for a couple of years… not 4 though.

Aren’t they getting Mike Evans back?

They should tell the NFL they won’t even consider more games until the rosters are expanded. The owners’ greed is killing this goose.

The fun is just starting for the sideline headset wearing owner women. They gave up their next two 1st round picks for a cornerback. And from what little I saw, really should not have done that.

Ultimate Bizarro World outcome.

We should be in the second tier. At best.

All the Saints had to do was lose to be in the top draft slot. I think they are 5th now. And Tennessee wins to knock themselves out.

I am glad people still want to upgrade. Seeing the name of almost any random is better to me than reading Bryce stans selling our future down the river again over maybe 15-20% worth of good performances while forgetting the bulk of his track record - and wanting more 1st round help for him to boot.

I guess. But head to head trumps that doesn’t it? What changes is Maybe we don’t need a sweep if we can overcome the head to head scoring and maintain division and conference parity.

This is good. Saints fall further from the 1st overall, we get square with TB, division loss tie breaker is neutralized, sets the Saints up to be overconfident next week. Maybe.

I mean we have no idea what will happen, with any certainty. But there is pudding that has proved he is totally capable of going right back to overwhelmed/outmatched the very next game following a record setting day. IOW he definitely looks like he has improved but has also looked like it is still 2023. Everybody wants to hand out the trophy now. Every time he plays well. Best to not do that and see what happens. Really looking forward to the Saints game.

You can’t be my DC. You were burned over the top for a TD once, and did not adjust. And got burned again. With playoff seeding at stake. It is arguably a more egregious response or lack of adjustment than Wilks failing to account for Mike Evans twice after being burned deep once, in a game that had playoffs on the line. And a possible future as the HC of the Panthers.

There was no ‘what if’ as in an alternate scenario. No Rico Dowdle strawman scenarios you are imagining. Simply a shoe on the other foot. A perspective. Allowing that to happen once, bad enough. But okay. Learn from it. Allowing it on the heels of the first one? It was was a clear dereliction by LA. We sort of got a free one the second time.

That thing about DB is overblown. They were being careful with him early due to coming off the injury. They said so. And it made sense. He told them he was good to go, so let’s go. It is more that than them just being too ignorant to use him. My only point of contention. I see the soft coverage.

No Bryce lover wanted any part of the question “what would we say if our defense allowed those two 4th down TDs?”. We would have been really pissed. Calling for heads. Rams were derelict, honestly. Even if you want to excuse the first time, what about the second one? You don’t account for a ball thrown over people’s heads? They were very well executed plays by the entire offense, Bryce certainly included. But I don’t expect that poo to continue, meaning that defenses are not just gonna continue to ignorantly allow that to happen. edit: and that is the purpose of doing those kinds of plays whether you hit them or not. Okay on 4th down you have to hit them but otherwise it isn’t mandatory. The effect hopefully is that the defense has to account for them and you get a little slack elsewhere to work with.

Might be the year to invest a 2nd or 3rd in one. But I haven’t investigated what might be there. I’d say we need to keep that OL pipeline flowing though we don’t need to keep spending this big on guards.

Where is this elite defense? It goes like it went early every year because preseason and time in pads is so inadequate for training guys in these situations, when there is a lot of turnover and you have some young guys. They have played pretty well since Buffalo overall, and they are definitely not elite. DB is elite. Horn can be. Is at times. There isn’t that much past those guys. I am not trying to wave the flag for him, but he has gotten scraps to work with. Whoever was DC I’d feel the same about as far as what he has had to work with. That DJ Johnson deal was a bad look for him.

Canales was basically forced to act. Thielen and Johnson were pitching public fits. Who knows what was happening in the locker room when that is happening in full view. It really does appear that they sheltered him from competition.

It is time to accept that we casual fans are simply inferior to the big brained Bryce believers. They have been telling us this for three years.

I don’t care who was DC they were not going to have a chance they way the defense was neglected for the better part of three years. Get him some more talent. Or whoever is DC. As far as Evero, why go sideways when you have almost gotten a thing built? Tepper can’t stop him from taking a HC gig, and if I were him - unless I really hated it here - I’d wait for the HC opportunity. Continuity is super important and we haven’t had it for years now, but are getting some. Try to keep it.

I was talking draft. Any way you want to upgrade otherwise I’d have no problem. I Draft wise I neglected to mention FS and CB, depending on what it all looks like in the moment. We are gonna have to do something at ROT and inside on the OL before resigning those expensive FAs we have right now.