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I have no issues with Gonzalez. He's been kicking well.

QB sneaks would be out. Can't call a charge up the middle with a Pickett.

I want him to not throw a hospital ball with little to no chance of getting to the sticks to our #1 WR. Attempting to insult others with wanna be tough guy bullshit doesn't help your case.

Oh, he knew the safety was lurking and he was gonna get LIT UP well short of the marker on 3rd down. That's just a ball that cannot be thrown.

I think he'll be here playing wet nurse to a 1st round rookie QB. I don't see Tepper letting them go for another second tier veteran QB and I don't see any potentially available first tier veteran QB opting to come here.

LOL! Yep, some scrub is about to look like prime Jonathan Ogden before turning into the worst version of Byron Bell for the rest of his appearances.

His play really makes me question the trades we've made for CBs. Yeah, they're relatively low risk/high reward, but they do take away from our team building capital to invest in much bigger needs like OL, etc.

Yep. There were a couple of hospital balls but there were no shortage of just outright drops too.

Cam

Even more damning? He has the worst QB rating of any non-rookie in the league. I don't think this is what we were hoping for with the "Darnold is basically a rookie" talk. I mean, it turned out that talk was spot on but not in a good way. Not a "moldable piece of clay" kind of way. More of a "this dude looks like he's never played QB in the NFL" kind of way.

I made a while thread about it. Most people got it. Even Darnold supporters.

Darnold has the 8th highest average time to throw in the league. Teddy's was among the lowest last year. Yeah, the OL sucks. But Darnold isn't getting the ball out fast enough oftentimes too.

CMC missed a lot of time last year too. The OL pretty much sucked last year too. Granted, I think it's worse this year but it wasn't a strength last year. That leaves...

It wasn't the case last year.

I think it's a bit of everything. Darnold isn't good. The OL isn't good. Brady is struggling to adapt to having a poor QB and a poor OC. The receivers are probably getting frustrated with the situation and that's leading to them playing poorly. The entire offense is a poo show right now. Hopefully the late game success on Sunday can give them a spark but I doubt it. I think we're back QB shopping again this off-season. This is how it goes for most franchises after an elite franchise QB. The Montana/Young, Favre/Rodgers situations are a rarity. Most teams flail for years trying to find the next one.

The offense wasn't so predictable last year with a different QB. I honestly do think it's largely a QB issue.

Sam Howell is gonna be well versed in running for his life after playing behind UNC's OL this year.

Translation: Matt Rhule says, "Alright Damn it. We accept it. We fuged up at QB. Again."

Quite possibly both. We've already picked up his 5th year option. We could draft a rookie and still have Darnold here so that we weren't forced to play the rookie until he's ready.

We're gonna have a lot of cap space. I just hope we shop smarter on the OL next year compared to this year. Hopefully Christensen and Brown can develop too. I REALLY wish we'd bite the bullet and give Moton a legit fulltime look at LT.

I'm just throwing out possible potential names. I haven't really thought through the viability of any of them.

I think Tepper will force Rhule and Fitts to go all in on a big splash QB this off-season but largely leave the details up to them whether it's a trade (Watson, Wilson, Rodgers, etc), a high level FA (Derek Carr type), or a 1st round draft pick. But he knows the value of the QB position and I think he's going to get tired of watching us try to bargain shop there. Those items are in the bargain bin for a reason.

Darnold is ass too. I honestly don't feel bad for him. How many people can say they've gotten wealthy from a job they're terrible at?

I'm sure he did, but what were his other choices? It just doesn't feel like we were ready or willing to make a big investment at QB. We bowed out of the Stafford talks. We bowed out of the Watson talks even before the allegations. We had obviously rules out Fields and Mac Jones. I just think this staff felt like they could find a serviceable answer at QB without making a big investment and now they're seeing what you're likely to get with second tier vets.

They made a HUGE trade up signed off on by Nagy to get Trubisky an Trubisky looked like a completely different QB in preseason with the Bills under a different staff. Fields is another top 10 pick identified by Nagy. Don't forget about SB winning QB Nick Foles who also looked like trash under Nagy. Very few coaches have ever gotten as many high level swings at QBs as Nagy has. Your attempt at playing gotcha was weak as fug.