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And this wasn’t that different than two weeks ago, offensively. Same stuff all game just with a different, unsuccessful, 4th qtr.

I definitely smell 7-10.

Switch QBs and see how those coaches do.

I tend to land there, but that was a 3-10 team today not a playoff opponent. I still have to stick with you can’t fairly evaluate any coach with Bryce running his offense.

This is what I think. Or very similar. I think an upgrade at QB to a guy that can truly make every throw and can see the field would have things humming. Since he has been in at QB we have seen a string of unheralded QBs outshine him head to head and some of the heralded ones have just made me not want to watch any more Bryce. He can have some periods of success inside of games but is just too limited/limiting for winning NFL football. Can’t put two games together back to back. I have been ready for this to be over.

52 in a dome I will take with the kicker we have. Their tying score, we should have just gone for it from our 28 on 4th down. They were back down there in no time. Defense sucked hard.

Yeah I did radio so had to rely on them to know a good throw or a missed one, but my impression is he didn’t really do much horrible it was just not winning football. The wilting in the 4th quarter was bad though. And he limits the offense just by being the QB to start with. As I said I did radio so won’t criticize individual throws or plays too much anyway until I see some video. I can’t get excited about the team with him as the QB. I cannot say I expected to win because of Bryce Young today. I thought defense was going to have to be good and they were poo. He can’t put up much more than low to mid 20s points wise so if they give up anything and don’t get takeaways it gets tough. I hope the people at Mint Street are not as unseeing as so many people here are. 3 games to go.

How about those game winning drives!

And what round was he taken in?

This game has been a long slow descent and now we are finally slipping beneath the waves.

Behind him. Put it out front.

Momentum completely changed after the Icky flag.

Game has been changed.

Hell yes.

This thing with the Panthers right now, seems to be a nature of the beast situation. We honestly cannot outscore people by more than one score. One time out of 13. We can lose by more, no problem. We can keep it close and lose. We just don’t win big. Any time we win, almost, it is by just enough. It feels different to me than teams that have a particularly great year in one score games. Played a lot of them and won more than their share of them. And the next year can’t buy a tight win. (That seems to be the typical scenario) I don’t know why it just feels different than that.

True. They also have established dominance over us going back years. They fuged up these last two weeks though. They let us enter the picture.

I feel like they can analyze to their hearts’ content, they will continue to have a blind spot when looking at the QB position. So the kid better play well because we are probably stuck either way.

Bowles took a big risk calling out the players in his postgame. Maybe took his last chance to wake them up. Will it work or will they finish the fold? They got Mike Evans back and can do damage.

Well yeah. Last time vs NO if we had had good QB play and half ass pass pro it is a different game. And that is the story more often, in point of fact, than the two or three hero games everyone wants to use to define the player. That box was so stacked against the run it was basically impossible to break through it, you had to go over and around. It is what we knew was gonna be employed by teams and we were unable to stop them from doing it. I am real interested to see the first 3rd and 8 and see how NO defenses it in the back end. Because they can look at that Rams tape and learn, but will they have enough fear/respect that it can happen to them or will we need to prove it again before they do? Most people don’t learn from others’ mistakes and need to make their own.

I could have guessed that if we could get to 8 wins the division could be in play. But I didn’t expect it, I absolutely didn’t expect a win and in scenario - in week 16 - which is very possible at this point. That’s on TB. Still think 9 wins is probably the ceiling, but we don’t have them yet so talking about 11 is pure fantasy at this point.

The only thing that would surprise me is us blowing them out.

Hey if they could beat Seattle… tiebreaker head to head over GB, LARms, Seattle… win out the record is 11-6. Now rap my knuckles for suggesting we win out, but that would be some funny poo. Talk about sneaking up on people.

Off the top of my head I have one game that we were able to win by more than one score lol. edit: yeah that would get us to 7. Lol. hey it is nice to win however you do it. It’s just funny, a little. Like, we can’t get farther ahead of anybody than one score. So our wins, by default, are just gonna be one score wins.

And there are passing charts that would absolutely prove that.

Leaving us to shotgun draft cornerbacks out of need - that he created - one year, hard to top. He had some real low points.