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I mean, he practically admitted it was his dream job waxing poetically about it and everyone in the building. He did everything but flat out publicly ask for the job and admit that if he has an offer he'd gone. I completely disagree. He handled that terribly. It wouldn't have been that hard for him to simply say "Listen, that's my alma mater I have nothing but love for my memories at Penn State but I'm the head football coach at the wonderful University of Nebraska and that's where every bit my focus is - Nebraska football and the kids in that locker room and building this program back to where it expects and deserves to be and that's all I have to say about this."

It's amazing how much you complain about thread derails while constantly doing stuff like this.

Thanks for saving me the typing.

The team doesn't rely solely on the QB position, so far it's relying on either A) the opposing QB having the worst day of his life or B) a backup RB playing like prime Adrian Peterson.

Imagine being a Nebraska fan watching this I mean, good grief. Might as well have just said it's his dream job and my ass is GONE if that offer is in the table. Hell, imagine being a Nebraska PLAYER watching that.

It's great. It really pisses Billy Corgan off that's so many people's favorite pumpkins song since it's one of the few he didn't completely write. Iha wrote the guitar riffs that everyone lives in that one and Corgan basically just half ass threw some lyrics over top of it and everyone loved it. LOL

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Talent evaluation issues aren't the fault of the player. All you can ask of the player is to work hard and do everything the coaches ask of him. By all indications he has done that. Same for guys like Clausen and Armanti Edwards. It's not their fault that the organization over drafted them. They put in the work they just weren't good enough.

Brutal

The investment in the defensive front this off-season is showing up and even the terrible LBs behind them are starting to look serviceable because of it. The D honestly looks a couple of pieces away from being pretty damn good.

He doesn't have the talent to be the long-term answer as a starter but I've always legitimately liked the person and I respect the guy. He's tough and he doesn't quit on himself. He took his benching like a man and improved himself. I respect that. I just don't want to see us making the mistake of committing to him contractually as a franchise QB. That will be crippling to the organization.

Feels like the Steelers vs. the Colts last year where Tomlin was telling his defenders to take it easy on Anthony Richardson because they didn't want to hurt him because they wanted him to stay in the game. That's gotta be about the biggest slap in the face you can hear from an opposing coach. LOL

At some point it's just not working. The Bengals have made their decision to dump all of their cap into QB and WRs. It is what it is. They really should've traded Higgins. They desperately need OL and D. Burrow isn't doing them any good flat on his back and then on IR.

Yep. Nothing wrong with simply being a great coordinator.

Agreed

McDaniels looks like he'd be relieved to get fired. He's aging like a POTUS this year.

Same. I just hope they're only feeling itchy on the 5th year option. That wouldn't be disastrous. A multi-year extension at franchise QB pay would be disastrous.

30 years? THIRTY??? No way... IMO the best album of my generation in terms of a true album experience of just turning it on and letting it play beginning to end.

If this team has gotten cocky at 3-3 after being a league bottom feeder for years then... yikes. Surely there's no such thing as a trap game for a team that's been starving for wins for years.

Honestly that's an insult to The Golden Calf of Bristol. The Golden Calf of Bristol would suck for three and half quarters then suddenly turn into John Elway in closing minutes to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Fields just sucks.

Like Cam said, if you play good they pay good.

Yeah, if I knew the feeling in the building was that we're improving but we can't hitch our wagon to Bryce I could sit back and enjoy the games. But the thought of extending Bryce as a franchise QB is horrifying. If he continues to function as an effective game manager I wouldn't be opposed to picking up his 5th year option to buy us another year but hell to the no extending him as a franchise QB and it wouldn't shock me to see us do it.

I get it. All I'm saying is that we have a massive limiting factor at the most important position in the game. If we fug around and commit to that massive limiting factor we're cooked. If I had a line in with the front office and staff that I knew that they knew this and they're committed to keep their options open at QB moving forward while playing lip service to Bryce in the press, cool. I get that. But I don't have that line. Winning some games against terrible competition while our backup RB plays like prime Adrian Peterson is cool but not if it leads to a huge mistake. That's my big concern.

There are no juggernauts this year. Feels like everyone in the playoffs field is gonna have a puncher's chance. All the best teams still have very obvious flaws.

He blew it. That was gift wrapped and he may have been able to take it to the house.