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True. I couldn't recall when we finalized the trade. I honestly think he just knew it was in his best interest not to. He showed up at the combine for one reason - to step on a scale over 200 pounds. Yeah, he hit the buffets hard to do it and hid in that hoodie all weekend to not show off the flab but he accomplished what he came to do. Throwing beside guys like Stroud, Richardson, Levis, etc. wasn't gonna be a good comparative look for him. But I just don't blame any of this on the prospect. Your job as a draft prospect is to maximize your draft status, period. It's up to NFL front offices to wade through the available information and formulate their draft boards.

It definitely looks like a great WR class. Honestly, last year's was a strong class too. People who thought it was a weak class were too fixated on the top of the draft. If you were holding a top 15 picks wanting a WR you didn't like last year's class. The strength of the class was the mid-round talent. We were smart to go WR where we did, we just chose poorly. Same thing with the Bryce pick. Trading up to #1 wasn't an idiotic plan. Bold, yes. But not idiotic given the QB talent on the board. We identified correctly that the cream of the crop would be off the board by #9 and we shot our shot. Then we chose poorly. This year's WR class has both the mid-round talent and those elite top of the draft prospects. WR should definitely be in the mix at #33.

Oh, we'd absolutely be mocking our rivals. I don't blame Bryce for not throwing though. He didn't need to. He knew he had the Panthers sold.

As for Bryce next year, I do think you have to try to surround him with weapons who are YAC threats. I'd consider going after ex-Panther Curtis Samuel as part of that effort. We need to improve the interior OL. Maybe that means sliding Icky inside and playing Christensen at LT to take advantage of Christensen's athleticism and Icky:s physicality. Bryce HAS to cleanup his footwork. He's not ready to throw in a split second and has to readjust to deliver the ball and that's also likely hurting his ability to drive the ball. He stands square to the LOS and then tries to reset and throw once he sees what he wants. That can work at Alabama. It's a lot tougher in the NFL. Bryce has a lot he has to overcome in order to be successful. Give him every chance next year but he ready to move on if he doesn't deliver. It's on him now.

Yep, Bryce is gonna be the starter next year like it or not. I do hope they allow a vet to push him in camp though. Whether that's Dalton or a guy like Minshew or Brissett. It's gonna be hard to install a new tougher mentality if you're treating one of your players with kid gloves.

I'd love to have him onboard in some type of role. The whole new staff is talking about instilling a tougher mentality. Who better to help with that than TD? The man literally has the scars to prove it. The ACLs, playing in the SB with his whole forearm stapled up from literally breaking his arm two weeks prior. Tougher than nails.

Yeah. We've banned plenty of folks who showed up just to rub Stroud in people's faces. Plenty of folks over the years who just showed up to talk about Cam. If you show up with a trolling, baiting username and av and come to hammer one talking point over and over again you won't last long. That's always been the case. The only difference this time is that we let it go on a lot longer than we generally do and honestly it was just out of laziness. It's like... oh wait, this is that guy with the trolling username and av. Why is he still here? Okay, bye.

More often than not it comes down to $$$. If the contracts on the table are similar them other factors like quality of the team, location, relationships with coaches, etc. comes into play. But usually players go to the team that's offering the most money just like most people searching for a job tend to take the best offer they can get.

I'm specifically talking about his username and av. We generally ban those obviously baiting types right off the bat before they get cooking. We obviously allow a variety of opinions on Bryce and our other players.

And that's fine. They can have their opinions. When we suck people bitch and moan. We've sucked for a long time now so there's a lot of bitching and moaning. We haven't really changed how we moderate this place the fanbase is just fuging pissed off and I get it.

BTW, this is exactly why we usually smoke the obviously baiting new users right out of the gate and it's why I'm pretty much the only mod that will even have these discussions. I think people deserve explanations whether they're gonna like them or not.

So why bother? This isn't reddit. We're not trying to be reddit. If reddit suits them better, great. Glad they found a place they like.

Trust me when I tell you that I don't care.

You can talk about practically anything you want in the TB. That's the whole purpose of it.

Yep. Debone it and quarter it in the field. It's four trips.

https://www.vox.com/2019/11/19/20963757/what-is-ok-boomer-meme-about-meaning-gen-z-millennials Stuff like this is fine on the Huddle. In the TB. If you want to actually discuss it do it there.

Guys like Brady and Brees are perfect examples of great QBs with actual NFL average arms. You don't necessarily have to have a cannon but those guy's arms are significantly better than Bryce's.

Not where I go. My attitude is if I see another person I failed.

Most of the "we just want positivity" folks quickly became the most toxic posters on the board after Bryce had a decent game and we beat Stroud and Houston. Just like I said they would.

There's nothing to be proud about with "picking a side". Everyone is wrong on occasion. These folks who still think Bryce's arm isn't a limitation and point to college highlights and draft evaluations to "prove" their point have picked a side. Are you proud of them? I'm proud of the folks who see new information and are willing to change their minds to fit the new information. Hell, if Bryce shows up next year slinging darts I'll be happy as hell. It wouldn't mean his arm wasn't trash his rookie season but it'll mean he put in strong work and improved it.

I honestly think he thought he'd arrived. He let the positive press go to his head. I was concerned in the preseason when he was laughing and yucking it up in sideline interviews after being treated like a speed bump on the field. The whole organization had that vibe. Oh, this doesn't matter it's just preseason. You just wait until the games actually count them we'll show 'em something. Well, we're still waiting to see it. I really hope the new crew gets on their ass and lights a fire under them. Y'all got EVERYTHING to prove. You were the worst team in the league last year. You have the worst overall combined record in the league over the last several years. The rest of the league sees you as a doormat and it's up to you to change that.

Should've just banned him immediately like we usually do. It's my bad. When folks like that show up we just smoke them right out of the gate. I honestly don't know why we didn't this time. As soon as I saw the username and av I chuckled and said "yeah, that guy's getting banned". I guess I just assumed one of the other mods would do it. That's lazy and my fault.

We've always banned folks who show up with politically overt usernames, avatars, and/or obviously driving a single posting agenda from the get go. He checked every box. The error we made was not banning him straight out of the gate. I'll take the blame for that.

All I'm saying here is that all the "Bryce can make all the NFL throws" folks have to resort to college highlights, draft analysis, and sheer denial of his rookie season while the folks who say that Bryce's arm is a significant limitation in the NFL simply point to his actual NFL play like

Imagine talking about someone else being deeply invested in being the smartest person in the room in the process of typing out that mess of try hard word salad. lol