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I hate how every rapper these days just lip syncs over a backing track. I saw Outkast and The Roots and J5 back in the day when it was an actual real concert.

This is a good game. Fun watch.

It happened while I was in college. Freshman and sophomore year my dorm TV was in ESPN pretty much 24/7. It was either live sports or a constant cycle of SportsCenter. Cool. I'm down. Then came Around the Horn and the network very quickly became just shows of random idiots yelling at each other. It was entertaining at first but the novelty of it wore off very quickly first me and it went from entertaining to annoying very quickly.

Currently.

This is the problem with Bryce at QB. Unless everything goes perfectly the result is likely to be a negative play and everything rarely goes perfectly in the NFL because those are professional football players coached by professional football coaches on the other side of the ball too.

I certainly have my complaints about Canales but I'm not ready to fire him yet for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, Tepper has made this one of the least appealing jobs in the league. Morgan and Canales are here to begin with in large part because guys higher on the wish list take other jobs. If you fire Canales you're gonna end up replacing him with another third tier candidate who wasn't being seriously considered by other teams with openings. That's just the reality of the situation right now as far as I can tell. Secondly, despite plenty of room for critique, we are 6-6 despite the worst QB play in the league. That's really damn hard to pull off in the modern NFL. Especially when your D isn't dominant. Our D is greatly improved but is still a slightly below average overall defense ranking 18th in yards per game allowed and 20th in points allowed. Going 6-6 with atrocious QB play and slightly below average defensive play is pretty damn impressive. Even more impressive when you also factor in that we're in the red on turnovers differential at -3. When you combine league worst QB play with slightly below average D and negative turnover differential honestly you'd expect to be in play for the #1 overall pick, not 6-6 and having just played a game that a win would have you leading the division. So yeah, even though I'm far from sold I advocate for patience with Canales for the time being. If you ask me if I'm bringing him back next year, I'm a yes barring a catastrophic meltdown down the stretch which admittedly is very much a possibility.

Hmmm... not a good start. Maybe I'm reading too much into this but after the guy who has been carrying your offense expresses frustration with his sudden lack of use and your HC just blows it off and confirms they haven't even talked, your PR team decides to use the guy who should be his backup as their poster boy hyping this week's game? Yikes. Hard not to interpret that as another slap in the face.

Yeah, it's just not for me. The whole screaming hot takes version of sports media is just incredibly played out. It's lazy and boring and I don't know why anyone is still tuning into it.

Pretty much this. Love Cam but he needs to take a look in the mirror and realize he's becoming what he despised as a player.

He owes it to his best offensive player to sit down and have the conversation. Listen man, I got caught up in the game and I thought I saw opportunities there and I fuged up. I'm sorry. I should've fed you the ball.

Well, we built on that momentum alright. LOL Trying to prop up a QB with a game plan instead of trying to do your best to win a game with the tools you have at your disposal is what you do with a rookie early on in his career on a bad team. It's not what you do with a 3rd year #1 overall pick when you're shockingly sitting at 6-5 and playing for the division lead. I mean, I get the temptation. I really do. You see all these stacked boxes and you know there's opportunities in the passing game but your opponent is constantly stacking the box for a reason. They WANT to take away the run and force you to throw. Taking away the run from yourself via play calling is just giving them what they want. Yeah, the box is stacked. fug it. Force them to key on the run anyway. We have to use the run to setup the pass. You can't be a pass first offense with Bryce Young at QB.

And then we actually did the smart thing and traded for Baker and still botched it.

We're a QB away from falling in love. When you have a QB you always have hope.

If that's the case and they haven't given up on that pipe dream then just fire them.

I'd rather give Canales and company another year and let them and Morgan give it another go with another QB room next year.

Not wrong but the reality is that everyone that's tried to run an NFL offense with Bryce this has been the story. I'm not sold on Canales but I am sold on Bryce not being the answer at QB.

Bryce is statistically the worst QB in the league. The bar to clear is on the floor.

There's a lot of talk about Moore going back to school next year but with this QB class being underwhelming versus the hype he might be best off coming out this year. Like every other "next year's draft class" next year's draft class is being touted as loaded at QB so with a lot of the presumed top QB prospects not looking great this year the iron might be as hot as it's gonna get.

I just never saw it from him. I don't see what anyone was seeing when they were talking about him as an elite NFL QB prospect. I don't see any plus NFL traits, marginal size, and now this year a lot of questionable decision making on top of it.

If he's there I'm drafting him it's probably just gonna be another run of top 10 QBs. The rookie wage scale has taken the bust risk factor away so if you don't have a QB and you think there's a potential franchise QB on the board you pretty much have to draft him. Nussmeier sucks. Period. I wouldn't even look at him until we get to the "throwing darts at the board" portion if the draft.

Mendoza isn't getting put of the top 3 picks. He probably ends up going #1 overall honestly.

No thanks on Mendoza. I don't want another Bryce-like trade up deal and that's what it would take to land him.

Yep, just do the CMC thing.

We've done right by Bryce. Two offensive minded coaches. Big investments in the offensive roster at the expense of the defense. It's tike to admit the obvious and swallow the bitter pill that massive trade up to draft Bryce was a bust. It sucks but it beats continuing to pretend that Bryce is an NFL QB.

Yep. I still want to know whether we gave him the impression he'd have more say over the QB pick or if he simply thought he'd be more persuasive in his ability to sway the pick but as soon as it became obvious we were keying in on Bryce it just seemed like he checked out. I'll never be convinced that Reich was onboard with that pick and I think that's the reason why we were so quick to fire him.