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I am not expecting much from Shaq at his mileage numbers after an achilles tear. That ship has sailed or sunk, most likely. It would be better to plan to replace him and if he comes back strong, bonus. We need someone that can cover just a little too, Wallace ain't too hot on that, maybe he'll get better with experience and work. It is hard watching this stuff when we watched Luke and TD for years.

I am not actually pissed myself, though that isn't 'me' at all. But I was concerned when he first came in with that. He is kind of a strange duck in some ways I have seen where he does what he needs to do, like if someone isn't doing the job. Personally, I don't think it means he is soft. Our sack leader is on the practice squad for whatever reason. Tepper's prize baby QB is on the bench. After two games. He has standards and is clear about that. I like making fun of it though if I get a chance. I am a non positive type and will get all perfectionist, that can be just as bad. Old Bill, his poo didn't work unless he had the talent. Probably the same with the fiercely positive style. I think both can work. And a guy like that can also have a 'bad cop' that allows him to be the happy guy.

I watched the Bluntness video you are referring to. It was a good video. I don't don't agree with some of his stuff but that one had a lot of good content, covered a lot of bases. Somewhere in there was the run vs pass ratio stuff, and he showed a list that put us 8th most passing team at something like 64%. Was that it? The next thing after that was another stat ranking and I think it was running when we were behind (?) and we actually ran more than the mean or average. It was worth watching for the people talking about the run pass balance. And had that Dalton stuff which was good. He talked a lot about Dalton and getting the ball out fast and the 1st read preoccupation I guess you could call it. If you think about it, Diontae is the first read much of the time and on those times it does make good sense to throw quick because most of those corners can't get on him, he gets open fast and they can't recover that fast. ? I wonder if there is an element of 'training wheels' going on right now that could be a hangover from how the scheme was built for Young. Who absolutely needed to get the ball out that fast for a few reasons. And it is good to protect Dalton from being sacked too I guess. He is all we have. It can be a pretty interesting conversation, exploring reasons for it or consequences from it.

He is only answering the question because the media trolls asked it (that is what putting him on the field brings you). A tornado could hit practice and he'd say it gave us a great opportunity to work on keeping our kicks low into the wind.

AFA wanting him to fail, I think the only real way out of it might be if his marriage failed and the wife went after the team in the settlement, and things got so bad he just said fug it take the team leave me alone. I'll just buy another team. This is an mildly interesting story, if anyone remembers Georgia Frontiere - who inherited majority stake in the Rams. There isn't a parallel because she inherited the team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Frontiere

It's a rumor now lol. I wouldn't call it idle, either. He knew what he was doing.

Dammit. Y'all are nuts talking about being in favor of playing Young. Out.Of.Your.Minds. It is total disrespect to us. And his teammates. You can't remember defenses all crowded because he can't or won't throw deeper than ten yards:? Okay, 12. Cannot have a running game at all like that. You can't have an offense. Go back and look at his numbers or rewatch the first two games, if you have the stomach for it. Watch the looks on his teammates' faces when they interviewed them after he was benched. They can barely conceal their relief. Joy, even. I wish I were lying.

I wish they would abolish the Thursday games and the stupid ass go to Europe and play. But there were a couple of pretty good games this year on Thursday. They must get the refs to keep them looking better. Let them play, whatever, because they have really sucked in the past. Rattler, I watched last week. He had a decent first half and they started clamping down on him after the half. He is by far better than Bryce. No contest. He has a chance. We are talking about a 5th round rookie that probably never even got 1st team reps until last week. It isn't like they took him expecting to be playing him in week 6.

Are they crazy?

Actually it does. You should do better against weaker teams or a weaker schedule. Pretend it is the same team. Plays a tough schedule and wins 2 games. Plays a weak schedule and still only wins 2 games, that is worse. Make any sense?

Okay then let me just say that a NORMAL person should not be barred from having meetings with their employees. I have never been a Tepper fan.

Well, now Brady is involved and could be the biggest QB acquisition influencer so how that would go - considering he was a very late pick himself and killed the NFL - it is hard to say how desperate he would be feeling.

TMJ didn't make the team but last year, yeah that was total Bryce impairment. You are right that I overlooked the PJ Walker/Darnold/Mayfield involvement so I stand corrected.

It could be any team too for that matter. The idea was originally do not play Young any more. It came off of the rumor about he will start 7 games or whatever that was. I was pissed hearing it and tired of arguing over it and was trying to get some humorous dialog going instead of the contentious stuff. My original idea was simply one of those red circles with the line struck through it like they use for no smoking no this no that, And I was going to put the #9 part of Young's jersey inside that circle. I have crap image shopping skills or I'd have made that. I was soliciting other ideas. Pretending it could get on a billboard. Really not being serious about it but would have enjoyed the other ideas, such as the Step Back Tep thing up there. It evolved with Snow I think saying first that yard signs were a good idea, in relation to issues that could be created by doing a billboard, with the company or the team etc. And requires no real investment which I thought was a good idea too. Then it sort morphed into a contest concept. That's where we are. Looking to not really use Tepper as the butt of the joke but the recipient of the message. I'm open to whatever there are no real rules or even official anything as of right now. Just have some fun with trying to be creative and stay out of trouble. I had the idea that the old bottle cap puzzles which are like... image riddles I guess, could be a good way to not directly say something but maybe get people curious enough to solve it and maybe tell their friends about it. If it was done well maybe it gets popular and the message spreads and it just blows up on him.

This is fun: https://www.chicagobears.com/news/huge-trade-a-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-for-bears-panthers-2023-dj-moore-draft And we'd sure be happier today if we had used the pick at least correctly.

Maybe it will help him. Although I really don't know why but if Wilson is benched it might, to go play knowing the job is yours.

So didn't we pay his signing bonus in full or at least it stays on our cap? I am really, always confused with these cap things. He has roster bonuses if I am correct that will pass. His year three salary isn't that much by any QB standards, around 1m and the roster bonus is 3m or so. Low enough to round down. The whole two years maxes at around 11 million. If I am right about us paying the signing bonus and only the future roster bonus and salary goes with him (The roster bonus for 2024 is paid and the remaining salary is 'only' 915,000. Which if he went today would have maybe 600k left for this year on his new team).

Never happen. Did you see him commenting on Bryce's benching? I used to have big respect for that guy, football wise. No more.

They'll just repeat the "Panthers ruined him" over and over that ESPN tells them. It is a no win for the original skeptics without going through that whole what about the Green Bay game thing.

Double pie for old school NFL inside stuff. I appreciate that poo. My mom danced with Johnny Unitas back in the day and my dad wasn't even jealous.

Oops. Some of it was probably there as well. The run ups to get distance. The all out effort to get zip, that sort of thing. But he had what I called a skip step and others called it a hitch, and it was plain as day. My concern was the extra time that added to releasing the ball, mostly (and the space it took for the extra step) but it also went to his lower velocity and all I could envision was say, throw a sideline pass that covers a lot of ground and how much extra time the fast ass NFL DBs would be given to close on it it. That type of thing. It was big question that could really only be answered in live NFL action. It goes to the margins thing. They are slimmer, it isn't the SEC. Let me tell you, you were happier not seeing it and trying to bring it up around here at the time.

Well, to what you said about Stroud, no way he would have looked as bad as Young did on last year's team. Which was the typical line from the stans, that would have been no better. BS. I am not saying he would have lifted the Panthers to Houston's record, it would have likely been a more typical rookie struggle. But the 'hey Peyton Manning sucked his first year' platitude poo, would have had a ring of authenticity.

So they really benched him. Wilson must better than I figured, I wanted nothing to do with him. I do have to say, Young said something similar. Like, the ball touches my hands every play... and that he didn't play well enough or something close to it.

He wasn't the first to obviously game the combine. Obvious as hell.

CFL.