LinvilleGorge

I hope y'all are watching Fields make plays with his OL parting like the Red Sea on every snap.

You don't get it. You're using the benefit of hindsight. Going into the 2011 season we had no idea if Smitty would or could bounce back. Very few players in that situation do. Having a legit franchise QB feeding them the ball certainly helps.

Honestly, not really. That's the main concern. What I'm saying is that he has legit high level NFL talent.

Fields has already made numerous plays that Bryce Young is simply incapable of making.

I'm not saying Smitty isn't better than Theilen. If course he was. But we had no idea Smitty would get back to being Smitty. He was a 30+ year old receiver with back to back seriously declining seasons. How many of those guys bounce back to prime production? Yes, Shockey + Olsen is better than Hurst + Tremble but we ran a lot of two TE sets under Chud. We run very few currently. And yeah, Hurst and Shockey were coming off of similar seasons at a similar age. Olsen was brought in to be Shockey's understudy and hopefully takeover long-term. It worked perfectly. Moron would've started on that 2011 team and Icky would've been starting at OG. A legit franchise QB and a good offensive system make a huge difference. We have neither currently and that's a big reason why it all looks like trash.

The closest we got to the truth is Reich breaking down how owner involvement varies and that Tepper chooses to be very involved and that the meetings are not fun. That's as close as we're going to probably get to someone just flat out saying that Tepper is a micromanaging asshole.

This is why it's best not to treat the stans seriously. When you actually breakdown reality for them they... well, they breakdown.

Let's examine that a little further... Smitty was coming off 982 yard and 554 yard seasons and looked like he might be past his prime at 32. Sounds a lot like Thielen, no? Olsen was coming off a 400 yard season and was a disappointment of a 1st round pick in Chicago. Shockey was past his prime and Cam's rookie season would end up being his last; he was coming off of a 400 yard season. At the time this was basically considered a Hayden Hurst level acquisition, albeit younger. Lafell was a second year player coming off of a sub-500 yard season. Basically the equivalent of TMJ. Stewart and Will were coming off of 800ish yard seasons. Sanders had 1200+ last year. Kalil and Gross were great OL, no doubt. Wharton was a good versatile OL, same with Hangartner. But Moron is a good OT, last year we were all very excited about Icky's play, Bozeman looked very good, and signing Corbett we all expected this to be our best OL in years and potentially one of our best ever. The talent on paper difference isn't all that extreme going into the seasons. Then the seasons happened.

Good grief, Greg. Please be trolling. You have a nice cushy media gig and you're actually really good at it. Stay there.

I'm sure he'll manage.

Bryce has $25M guaranteed. I feel sorry for PSL holders. If I was a PSL holder I'd be legit ready to literally whoop Tepper's ass.

He does seem like a really nice guy.

Oh man... that's instant cut level stuff right there. I'm sure those receivers are getting very frustrated with Kenny Pickett but still.

I wonder how Tepper would have taken it if his hedge fund clients wanted to have weekly meetings to critique his every portfolio move and have him defend it?

I wonder if he had to sign an NDA to get his payout? With him basically outright saying he's likely retiring I wish he'd just go scorched earth and air it all out. The fans deserve to know.

That'd be another wildly entertaining collision of massive egos.

I gotta admit, it's morbidly entertaining watching the Bryce stans having emotional breakdowns and claiming everyone is blaming Bryce for everything (absolutely untrue) while they themselves are actively blaming anything and everything they can latch onto to make excuses for Bryce being perfect and blameless.

The egos of Tepper and Belichick colliding would probably be a fun poo show. I can't see Belichick being interested. He basically made the Bryce mistake with Mac Jones thinking a great college QB could overcome his obvious physical limitations with mental brilliance. I can't see him having any interest in coaching Bryce Young.

It's really baffling to me how much people are willing to just completely ignore how atrocious his footwork is and how often he stands square to the field unprepared to throw. You can do this poo at Alabama where you have a significant team talent advantage. You can't get away with it in the NFL.

Yeah, I was told he was a super processor but I've honestly been very underwhelmed with his pre-snap recognition, even for a rookie. Seems like every time he checks out of a play it's gonna go for a loss or no gain.

It's just a flat out myth that everyone is blaming Bryce for everything. The entire offense is broken, but the entire offense includes Bryce. He's a big part of what's wrong. I swear some of y'all wake up every morning and give yourselves a pep talk in the mirror on this stuff

"well liked and works well with others" reads like "fully willing to be a rubber stamp for David Tepper" to me.

Let's be honest and pat all of ourselves on the back for a minute. If you have enough care left in you to come here to discuss this team in anyway as a fan, you're as fuging diehard as fans come. All the fairweather fans jumped off of this ship years ago.

You've told no lies but prepare to be coped.

When people asked me about the terrible team and embarrassing losses