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That is embarrassing to me, on Newton’s behalf. A true display of ignorance. Watch a game Newton, don’t just admire the tight uniforms.

I should say don’t take my post as defending Newton’s cluelessness. No fan of his and no fan of modern ESPN/Disney. Said it before but I think XL needs some advising on his media interaction. maybe the team ought to give him an interpreter lol. Speak through him like the Latinos do in baseball.

I don’t think enough people realize how deflating that is for the team. Seeing the same horror movie you saw two weeks ago and three weeks and 6 weeks ago. It wears you down fast. edit: to the defense’s credit, they are doing better at redoubling their resolve after the typical early poo show.

Just for another perspective….when people talk about my parents, both gone, I like talking about them. The hole never goes away but talking about them helps me. I know it isn’t the same for everyone. I liked XL saying ‘if I just play my game….” because that is exactly how he needs to approach it. Don’t try to be what he isn’t. I think he was caught up in that a little this season. PS Sunday is 4 years since my mom passed. She loved football and I will feel like she is watching with me. She told me when she was younger she danced with Johnny U one time. Lol. Wonder if my dad was there.

Wow hell of a pay day for a 50/50 jump ball specialist.

I see gametime chance around 30% increasing to 50-60% by 4th qtr. Typically these advance hourly predictions are early and the front arrives a little later. Like here on the SC coast today we had rain predicted at 1pm. By 1 it was 7pm, now at 4pm it is backed up to 10pm. That is extreme. And sometimes they arrive early but that is the exception IME.

Safe bet. It has happened before even in a win.

Don’t remember it happening. His little hands better get some stickum.

31 other teams also passed on him multiple times. Including the one that took him. Sheer luck.

Most of our success vs Dallas has come in big games. Playoffs and the destruction Luke brought down on them in that Thanksgiving game. Seems like in regular season stuff they own us. I don’t know if the past affects Sunday, just saying. And we haven’t laid an egg at home yet this year, this is an opportunity for that. I would love to see the opposite happen, and it could. It isn’t last year. I am stuck in the middle and have no clue what is going to transpire.

I picked up too turdpiles from the same poster for saying basically I liked both Jake and Cam. I tried to find where I had been negative and couldn’t see it. It was basically my most ‘fan’ posting in months, I thought. Innocuous approval of the guys behind our two best years. Could not make sense of it other to think that it was not okay with someone that I like both QBs.

They are not equal. But I didn’t believe either was worth that ridiculously desperate trade up. I agreed with you then and still believe that now. We got horrible value for those assets. Half the people here trashed the 2023 offense while overlooking that a coach they don’t think much of went 6-6 with them to finish 2022. You could have built on that. Think about the picks lost and DJ too, and the additional investment in 2024 and the 1st this year and imagine all that still being done and having Darnold running it. Then the 9th in 2023, the other 1st and two 2nds, you could have put them into the defense and still have had the massive offensive investment. Granted you would have altered the cap money you had for the guards by paying Darnold. And tell me we wouldn’t have been so far ahead of where we are now….

Caveat, in non garbage time. I am not saying he can’t do it but don’t think he will, outside of the defense not contesting 30 dumpoffs.

I looked at the passing charts and where the big cluster of throws was and it looks too easy for the defense to counter. Bait him and eat. I get that if you are forced out of the pocket because of a real threat you better respond, it just looks that that is his 1st impulse. Preseason I saw that and was just like…. oh man that looks just like 2023.

Lol I was around 8 beers in I thought it was camera angle or something. He doesn’t look much different standing next to the OL guys.

Last year it seemed like every trip into the red zone ended in a TD. I would almost look at the FG/TD rate and turnovers generated before yards. I am not looking now because I agree it is too early to trust numbers.

I get the people gun shy of a knee rehabbing RB. I was the same about Stewart and he ended having an excellent career but was always nursing his foot or ankle and it was a known thing when they took him.

lol well he fuging small enough that I bought it. What can I say.

That picture is a belly laugher. They should never have released that one. Or allowed it. Buy every copy and destroy them all.

There really can’t be any other answer. But I’m waiting for someone to come in here and think they are dunking on that. It’ll happen.

I have rarely been mad at Young for any of this. Sure I am sick of his play and get frustrated wvery so often and call him a lil or a peewee or high school or something. It is everything that came with him that is so hard to deal with. Starting with watching him try to play NFL level ball. Knowing what was coming since April 2023 and enduring it into year three. Being old with a finite number of seasons left and knowing they threw at least three of them away the minute his name was called was the worst part of it. Wondering if I would live long enough to see anything better or was he going to be it the rest of my life. They keep making the mistake of seeing something in him, clutching their delusions. Watching that happen year after year and knowing it could happen yet another year. Tepper stole my football joy. I know, poor me. But it sucks I tel you.

The Burns trade looks good because their DL is what it is now.

Bryce has had like, one really good game. A bunch of game minutes at a time success. Maybe a quarter here a half there.

And Cam did well, and only cost us the one pick. This situation here… people are going to complain.

Why yes, I believe I did. I do the same thing. Say it backwards. Sometimes.