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Yeah, he did. But what absolutely killed any chance of success is that our QB panicked and sailed the ball through the endzone uncatchable. That's why the focus is on that. Why do we need to do all these mental gymnastics to keep trying to come up with excuses to cover for the worst starting QB in the NFL over the past three years? What else do we kneed to see from him to admit he ain't ir? You don't trade up to #1 overall to draft a QB that needs everything to go perfectly to succeed. You're doing that because you think you're drafting a guy who can carry an offense.

I'm not trying to blame him I'm just saying he probably regrets not being very aggressive about it

Yeah, I acknowledged as much above. I'm just saying Canales probably regrets not being very forceful with a push to upgrade the spot. He should've went to Tepper and just been like "Look, I know Bryce played better after coming back from the benching but at the same time we gotta protect ourselves here and have a better option behind him if he reverts back to his old ways. At this point in his career Dalton is simply not it. We need to look for a backup who can actually PLAY if we need it. Going into his third season Bryce doesn't need a mentor with a clipboard anymore. We need a PLAYER there."

I honestly don't know how much of it was on them and how much Tepper may have been involved. I'm sure after Bryce came back and looked decent last year Tepper was probably all in again. Not sure if he was willing to allow a legit backup that might actually push Bryce or if he was wanting to stick with a mentor holding a clipboard as backup. I really wish we'd made a move for Howell with him getting traded for peanuts. This wouldn't been a good opportunity for him to get another shot starting because I'm not sure he's long for the league as a backup. I just don't think he has a backup's mentality.

Canales must be really kicking himself right now not going to the mat to upgrade the backup starting spot. Dalton looks completely washed at this point. If we had a better backup you'd be more tempted to give Bryce the hook.

I mean, when it's Bryce throwing the ball managing 5 catches for 68 yards is pretty impressive.

That ball landed in the third row of the stands. If trying to paint that as a communication and a "missed throw" is the best defense there is no defense. XL would've literally had to have been over 10' tall with a kangaroo's vertical to attempt to make a play on that. And even then, go back and watch. The ball still wasn't at the back pylon. It went through the side of the endzone. Even the manufactured excuse doesn't line up.

This is bullshit to cover for Bryce. Miscommunication or not, anyone under 15 feet tall wasn't catching that ball at the back pylon.

He wasn't and those people were wrong. Winning and putting up numbers at lower levels does not always translate to the NFL. There's no shortage of great HS players who didn't translate to college and great college players who didn't translate to the NFL. It looked very obvious to me on the college field that Bryce didn't have NFL level physical talent and that's what's playing out at the NFL level.

I said this before the draft. His NFL resume says I was right.

It's really not. It's painful to watch. I mean, I guess it's hilarious if you're a fan of another team. I'd be laughing my ass off if he played for the Falcons.

Put a Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson on this team and we sure as hell aren't this current clown show either.

Those first three picks are looking ROUGH. Sanders and Smith-Wade have a chance to prove to be decent mid-rounders

I've said repeatedly that I hope I'm wrong but Bryce keeps proving me right. He seems like a legitimately decent guy who would be easy to root for he just sucks at playing QB in the NFL because he doesn't have the prerequisite talent level.

The sky isn't falling only because it's already shattered on the ground. It has already fallen. It has landed and broken.

Yeah, if you allowed a return there you were basically sealing your date since you only had one timeout. They'd have about 50 seconds if that ball wasn't returned. Still a major uphill battle but a chance. What the fug was that play supposed to be? LOL

If they don't run this ball they're insane. You're looking at punting with maybe 15 seconds to go. I'd punt it OB and play prevent for a couple snaps.

They thought he could kick it through the endzone. He could not.

Kicker didn't have enough leg. Might should've just kicked it OB. The extra timeout via the two minute warning that they just lost is a lot more valuable than field position right now.

That was actually a clean hit. Just a hospital ball.

Caleb just got DJ murdered with an absolute hospital ball.

Another bad miss. Caleb is ass.

Two bad misses in a row. Honestly three but Kmet bailed him out with a great catch

Bears should've scored in two plays. Caleb had DJ for 6.

Holy hell what a catch by Kmet