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Nothing could be much worse than yesterday. Canales hid him as long as he could. As soon as he asked him to do something the floodgates opened. I was thinking just hold auditions every week.

Yeah this was predictable too. It likely won’t change much until we get a different QB.

The situation with the quarterback muddies the waters. I am sort of where I was on Bryce which is remove the excuses and let him show what he is. I hate to say I think we know but thinking and knowing can be a little different.

I don’t think I’d want him if he were cheap but with that contract? Hell no.

I have said the same thing for years now. It was beyond belief for me. It took me one viewing of his pro day to know. There was zero doubt. And I am just a guy that has watched football a long time, not an evaluator. I didn’t play QB ever. I don’t think the scouts had any real input. And I could never buy that Reich didn’t know better. Or anyone that played in the NFL for that matter. Especially defensive guys. Look at the physical aspects, not a single plus. And then I saw the footwork which is completely unique to him, that was a major red flag. You can’t easily change things like that.

Yeah lol. I know. I was begging anyone who would listen please don’t draft him. There just isn’t a single NFL level ‘plus’ physical trait to offset his negatives. 3rd day gamble was where I had him.

Same as here. He was never going to make it in the NFL with his limitations. Maybe he latches on as a backup somewhere. If he got really serious about his footwork and mechanics there is a slim chance he could do better. But he hasn’t been able to so far and changing that stuff and getting to where it comes without thinking, is just very difficult to do and takes years.

Morgan and Canales are in year two. I was referring to an arrangement made with them.

I look at like there could have been an agreement to give Bryce two years while they build the team out some more. Could have been three. He has 7 more games to change peoples’ minds and I know full well that a nice job and a win next week gets a lot of people back on his ‘side’. Some still are. They are just laying low around here today.

Yep to the condensed playing field we are working with. Defense has all kinds of advantages. Hia balls up the middle seem to have velocity if he is mechanically sound. But in general and especially the boundary stuff, he doesn’t have a lot zip. So one more advantage to coverage guys.

Hey I know I am mean lol. Just tired of this grind of going along with this years long thing that has never really been good. He is a good kid trying to make his dream. I would say he has had it. Hiesnam Trophy , number one overall in the NFL Draft, 2 plus years starting at QB in the NFL… he seriously overachieved for his size.

If I thought the league was crooked, and I might think that, yeah it had that feel to it. They tried their best. Anything more would be too overt, you can’t win them all.

The Panthers cutting Bryce would be a blip he isn’t winning for us. He just is there and makes some smallish contributions - when he isn’t hurting us.

He has such fuged up footwork and throwing mechanics, which he needs the footwork for drops and all but I am speaking of how it integrates into his throwing. One of the last straws with Reich was Tepper’s demanding g Reich fix his footwork that week. Lol. Reich was like it takes an off-season. So Canales worked on it pretty hard to start 2024 . I’ll just retell what I saw early 2024. You could see in the first real lion we hit which was the Buffalo preseason drive that he had, where his footwork was there. 123 plant drive off it to throw. You could see it. the season opener you could see it until the beginning of the 2nd qtr I think. Somewhere in there. Then he dropped it. Went back to the way he was in school and had always done it. That led to his benching. You can see it when he gets off the bench in the garbage time drives. He doesn’t make it a priority though. I got so tired of it that I went to radio this year. And watch the video a couple days later. I am burned out of monitoring his progress lately. so can’t help with this year but am betting it is about the same. Going by his results.

It was his mental mistakes though that made it so bad Which he should get poo for. Hel I was a big supporter but after that decided I don’t need to see him again. A game like today will soften that attitude some.

Can’t argue that. I generally cut him slack but that has been an area I have criticized since year one. Or had questions about. Early on when he was speaking.

I used to catch so much poo for predicting those throws would be vulnerable to guys closing on an open target. Just because the lower velocity. I never studied physics but that is common sense. Oh no, he throws with such anticipation they said. He has plenty of arm they said. blah blah blah

It may.be young guys he is referring to. Immature poo. We don’t know who though. Glad he said something publicly. A lot of the locking them in is on the position coaches afaic.

I never bought that Bryce was done when he was benched. It was too clean. As soon a they him in for garbage time it was apparent that he had a chance to work his way back in. I think it would have happened eventually, because I saw him demonstrate things he had not been doing - like the footwork was in his mind (a focus) and the stepping into his throws was prioritized. I was always watching for that stuff from him and his downfalls are accompanied by slackness in those areas. Every time. Hell I got so frustrated I quit coming here and quit watching with maybe three games left in the season. Stayed gone all summer and camp and all that. Something sucked me back in.. I hope he is gone when this year is over. So there can maybe be hope again. I hoped he could pick it up the last 9 games but he is just so bad when it is on him to carry the team and be that guy.

This all comes back to the player. Our QB is not good with play action. At all. I said before the game I wish we could run play action. It is the obvious counter to what they were doing to us. As far as the keep pounding for a yard strategy… The way it looked to me, we were 3 points down most of the game. We saw that as soon as we tried to open it up bad things happened. It seems to me that we should have gotten outside more, but I was doing radio and didn’t see the game to see how NO was playing things other than the absolutely predictable stacked LOS. I do t know what the answer was, but I know what it wasn’t and that was put it in Bryce’s hands unless we were desperate. This is what we are dealing with and maybe the silver lining is people that refused to see couldn’t help but see today. Maybe we can escape two more years of Bryce, or worse. Three.

Play calling being limited or dictated by personnel is really a thing, believe it or not. I imagine that bleeds into design as well.

We have made some progress in other areas. Kicking game is tightened up. Defense is tightened up. Despite the ups and downs there is promise there. T Mac is a major add. Or will prove to be, I expect. We are developing OL depth with a lot of reps and at this point give Nijman some more. Wallace seems to have gotten better over the season and may not be the bust I thought he looked like last year. The draft class as a whole looks very promising. That’s about all the optimism I can muster tonight.

As soon as play calling comes into it, Bryce comes into it. Just the way it is.

That part right there, I question. I think it was one game where Bryce totally clipboarded, and then he got 4th qtr garbage reps. To me that indicated they had not given up on him and were trying to rehab him enough to get him back in the saddle. (which totally depressed me because I wanted him out for good). It’s all speculation just stating mine.