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I am fighting liking him because I do. I think if he had the tools and was a bit bigger so he didn’t have so much to work around that he could be perfect because I love his attitude. I said this last week. I don’t want to like him personally because I think I will have to fire him and I won’t want to. Have to stay detached.

Allow me to clarify as I am sure you don’t catalog everything I post but there is some qualifying that statement that was done. I think the Dallas game was his ceiling. He played well for the whole game and didn’t phuck it up and contributed some nice throws. What he hasn’t done is follow that level of performance with a duplicate. And that one with another. No consistency. He is up and back down to date and that is clear as it can be, there should be no arguing that from anyone. He is a roller coaster. 2023 Green Bay, very promising. Followed by two shutouts. The end of 2024, followed by the beginning of 2025. The best stretch he has is 6 quarters, 2nd half Miami and the Dallas game. MAybe there is another 6 quarters somewhere but that is it. So I am looking for him to hit his ceiling and keep that floor a lot higher in this stretch of games.

I didn’t see the game maybe he got hurt but Slough was in the game in the second half when I checked the score.

That looks like a slip. I think he was thinking Darnold and typed Dalton.

I tend to disagree with you a good bit but not here. I think Bryce was fortunate to miss this game because it could have been really bad for him. That is a very good team we played that didn’t even play their best and dictated to us. Canales wasn’t helping poo with his running back foolishness. One thing I’ll say is maybe he would have been more conservative with Bryce and run the ball more but with Chuba getting 2.8 I don’t think it worked like it did with Dallas. I said in the predictions thread that I didn’t think it mattered who played QB we would likely lose the game and I still think that.

Dalton started it and sealed it, but you can’t let the defense off the hook when they allow those kinds of rushing yards.

Nah, I am not even talking about this year. This is the home stretch for him to show what he has and I totally accept that.

They were able to against a bad team in a Miami. We were outclassed today across the board. All,phases, including the coaching. Sometimes you just aren’t good enough. and honestly, where we are now I don’t think we should expect them to be good enough to do that against a playoff caliber team. edit: we were due for a back down to reality game. We just imploded or some people did. We have some good players but overall too many weaknesses.

I accept that that is what he is, I don’t accept settling. I say keep looking. Keep taking shots. Absent any clear improvement from his current inconsistent performance. He has had a couple of good ones but they are not followed with more good ones.

I’ll get killed for this but he always sounded gay to me. Not necessarily not gay, but feminine. I tried to say it in a more subtle way and still got killed for it last year. fug it I don’t care it’s an honest opinion. I didn’t let that disqualify him and have been very patient and non critical. I just wondered how the big tough guys in the locker room would respond to that. But whatever, I think he thinks too much from the emotional side. The rah rah positive deal, what must it sound like if he gets mad? Where is the tough hard ass side? The no empathy, get the job done or get gone. I wonder about that. It mean I doubt there is a lot of fear of failure going on. So anyway to other comments about he sucks and all that, I said I needed a better reason to change my stance on him, which has been give him time. Continuity is super important. This thing with the running backs is eroding the goodwill.

As is the case with nearly all remakes. But there was so much room for improvement I had hopes.

You just validated my claim that there are reasonable fair minded people. You and I have disagreed on many things but it was always civil and respectful. Sadly there will be plenty of people who will validate the rest of what I said. It’s big boy pants time in year three, I think he needs to show he can overcome the obstacles and elevate the players around him to deserve to be the future.

That wouldn’t be the best look for him but I wouldn’t blame him

Melted down with all the heat coming up in here.

I knew I was going to see some Roadhouse something when I clicked on this but I did it anyway. What B movie, I hope the remake or series whatever it is is better. I hope that unless Bryce turns it up, he is gone with him. We’ll see.

Like last year. Just enough of a tease that they buy it. That’s why I say he needs to tear it up and definitively demonstrate his value.

I think it has more to do with him being a Captain and Dave not wanting to embarrass him. But whatever it is somebody has to have that come to Jesus moment.

We have to do something. I wanted Daniel Jones last year when he could have been had cheap.

I understand the sentiment. But I doubt it will happen.

That is where I saw us being this season, finally. But that may have just gone by the boards with this OL attrition. And there are fair minded people who believe he has a bigger upside that has yet to play out, but man there are some people that won’t hear anything that doesn’t align with their fanning and the excuses will fly if he doesn’t perform. We have lived that already.

Something needs to be done. This is unfair to him and the team and the fans. One thing, if he plays a reduce role and stays healthy it may help him in the market because people are not going to forget those two games and him out playing Chuba once Chuba came back. One thing that could be is Chuba isn’t 100% but didn’t want to stay out because he was afraid of losing his job. That is serious speculation though with no facts behind it.

Okay, lack of belief in Young isn’t hatred please dial it back. Anyhiw I think wherever will find ourselves now is in a bad spot to fairly judge him due to the OL being in tatters. Maybe they aren’t but I don’t know what we’ll be looking at next week. If he doesn’t light it up, which I felt he needs to do to justify faith in him, there are gonna be convenient excuses. Bksck cat.

I think you owe it to him and the franchise too to trade him somewhere that will use him. Or use him and trade Chuba for much less return. I kind of wish Morgan would pull a Billy Bean and trade Chuba so Canales has to play Rico. I know that won’t happen just saying something needs to.

You think that is a realistic possibility? Do we even have an OL any more?

I said that Canales would have to give me a reason to quit on him and I didn’t have one yet. This hard headedness around the running back pecking order is very irritating. He needs to check himself.