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A lot to read. As far as Fitterer, we can all have different reasons. Plenty to go around. I don’t doubt his job was tough between the manic Tepper, obsessed with settling his QB situation with one move (And then another, and another). One slice of that, add a piece of Rhule bread on the other side, and Fitterer there in the middle-a real poo sandwich Cut Fitterer loose? Sure, it is a disaster. Next. It’s gonna be that loop, whoever replaces him, ad infinitum, unless you actually think we can attract a winning coach with Bryce Young conditionally attached. The article I preferred to Person’s, was https://theathletic.com/5149666/2023/12/20/nfl-gms-front-offices-best-worst-rosters/?source=user_shared_article 5 Best 5 Worst type of piece, Fitterer apparently isn’t fooling anybody. As far as JR: JR meddled his ass off rest assured. Personally, I felt like that whole Peppers thing; tagged twice and lost anyway, was linked with Jake’s big extension which was the ripest contract to go into looking for Peppers tag relief. And that really hurt things for a while. However that was, whatever it was, here is the Major thing with Tepper vs JR, and meddling, and a lot of the rest of it: JR played in the league. I am gonna say that ten times… He understood football. JR was qualified to meddle when it comes right down to it. Tepper is not in that class. Not that meddling is great but it can be if it is the right meddling. You know, it might be good if someone with some football smarts meddled with Fitterer.

People are mad at those who don’t believe for disagreeing with them, and that is why this really factioned off. The way people talked even before the draft if you didn’t want Young? It could be called abuse. Certainly insulting. And all year most have denied any of it was his fault. Coaches, WRs, OL, if only they were better. Reich’s and Brown’s offense looked horrible because why? They wouldn’t throw deep. Why in the hell wouldn’t they throw deep? Honestly, can’t defend it, but I think I know why.

Lol I was looking to see if there was a down stairway he was on the first step of. The revisionist history saying no one said anything? No it was said, no one wanted to hear it. They just kept saying SEC and processor and NFL ready.

I think the whole team deserves credit. They played the long game on Atlanta. All year, no deep threat. And what they call deep is 15 yards… It was all to set up Atlanta for that 20 yard bomb. No one expected that.

Let him enjoy it, I don’t think he has a lot of those days ahead of him. Going out there every week after I sucked and lost, hell yes I’d be happy as hell to avoid that.

His downfall has been his processor isn’t what they claimed, his arm is weak and he is not real fast although his elusiveness has improved lately. Add the height and tippy toe stuff? That is probably the worst thing about him. Let’s see somebody fix that. Seriously. I don’t think it can be changed. He fortunately recovered his no ball security again fumble. And was squashed. So, durable!

You must mean “I” because “you” isn’t me. One or two nice things with a pass but they stand out due to their rarity. His running is much improved the last couple, but not special. I was happy to see it though. I don’t think people can see him right away when he gets straight upfield out of the pocket. Use it. I know the wind was a factor but his balls were wobbly as hell and slow as hell against that wind and made it to the target and past the defense by the narrowest of margins. There is a law of averages and it will get him on those types of throws, even though they worked for him today. I think. Unless he can get more velocity on the ball, today was the top of the mountain for him. I don’t have emotion over it as far as he is concerned, that is saved for the people that put him here. It’s just what it looks like to me.

I was being considerate in honor of a win by not commenting on why there wasn’t a sneak in the plan. They got the job done.

Wet conditions, one win all year, knock a division team down that had something to play for? I didn’t watch yet but I’d maybe QB sneak if that failed twice kick it on 3rd down, for my extra careful just in case black cat side.

He’ll take Chicago and Tepper’s picks and build a powerhouse, Tepper is completely humiliated. Tepper deserves it.

Evans was unchallenged. Basically. Sad. I meant that don’t know the plan they had for dealing with him. Blown assignments maybe? Someone didn’t hear the call, or just didn’t know the assignment? To me, thinking that Wilks would ignore the 1st time, and the 2nd, is like thinking Reich doesn’t know what a deeper than ten yard route is. Doesn’t really compute.

Jake is a Tepper employee. Blowing sunshine. I managed to let it play for a while but it was too much false positive. And the nicest guy, he wouldn’t say the truth if it wasn’t pretty.

I think if he comes it might be as head football guy, not head coach. Not sure how I feel about it except anyone that could interfere with Tepper’s meddling would be better than what we have. And he is a killer cheater, hates to lose. With our luck he would get nailed and there would not be any destruction of the evidence. Who knows. I doin’t know the point of making him coach at his age.

The dumbassery of not hiring Wilks, looming large considering the player support he had. I get that he had shortcomings and that the Tampa game defense he put out there was a huge dent in his cred. I don’t know what went wrong, I do know there were guys playing coverage that were pretty big handicaps. And you want to say that he would learn, but he did not learn in that game. Still, I think he isn’t a guy to not learn, and the difference in the players was really noticeable. He was damned sight better gamble than that quarterback.

There is no way Stroud doesn’t make WRs better than Young does.

I don’t understand thinking you will always be limited by this player, but want to give him a shot. They are major deficiencies. Height. He can’t see where he is throwing, and the arm is just not enough to make up for anything at all. I don’t get it.

Poor Atlanta fans, won’t be comfortable at all. Good.

I think you have get a guarantee in writing that Tepper keeps his separation and hands off and you can’t be fired for two years at least. GM, HC, whatever the interview. Or wait for another job.

In the NYC media, today, you would just as likely get the victim angle on why he sucks. They’d hit the coach really hard and the owner really hard but he would have to do something to piss them off before they would turn it on him. I would imaging two inch headlines if he got a new position coach and it wasn’t working out. Who is it now? Caldwell? They’d have the Caldwell watch and every failure of any kind it would be someone not named Bryce at fault. The Bryce is Wrong! No… It would be like: Caldwell Fails Test Veteran Coach Re-Assigned Who’s Next? Tepper Gathering Intel on Doug Flutie And so on with the sidebar links….

We'd have been better off trying to use all that coaching power on someone with tools and size rather than pouring it into a 5’10” hole.

That's just total horseshit. Nice fantasy you have going there with those college clips in your posts. Live there, it is a much friendlier place than NFL for junior.

He absolutely gamed the combine/pro day thing and everyone knew he was doing it. So that makes it right? I get that he isn’t alone and was likely coached through that, but…. That’s a flag for me. I’d prefer a straight shooter. I am not saying it is a deal breaker but you can’t not notice that he is playing you, and expects you to let him get away with it. And they did. That is where I place my wrath, the gullible leaders of the franchise and the people who feed the beast David Tepper. And look at what Randy Mueller had to say about it all.

If you think that poo is worth your time, I guess. I don’t see it. Also, might be nice if we had talent evaluators that weren’t dumb enough to overlook it like they were some stan that posts here. That stuff isn’t worth fixing on him, it is just too hard to fix. And at best, if you manage to fix it yu still only have a historically small and athletically below NFL average player at your most critical position. It just should never have been done. If the kid had just made the league and not been put in this position of playing right away he might have found his way on to a field when he was maybe a few years into a backup career, and more ready to do something with the chance..

I have yet to see one person that is on his jock even acknowledging he has this tippy toe crap and a skip step extra move before throwing anything he needs to have some heat on it like on a deep ball or an out with fast NFL defenders racing his ball to the target. Until it is some vague “footwork” issue. Too much arc = too much defender gap-closing time. Some of these plays are made on a paper thin margin time wise and that extra .3 seconds is a stride. Maybe less, it happens so fast. There are probably three steps they can make up in his throws over 20 yards or so.

If most of the NFL was in on him being NFL Number 1 dude, then most of the NFL are idiots. I honestly don’t get allowing a guy with his size issues being the top of the heap especially not having more impressive physical traits to offset the disadvantage. His lack of arm strength limits things situationally especially off schedule. WTF was there to like that wins games in the NFL? People are nuts.