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They did you a solid tonight. LOL

This game is dog poo y'all. If you're not watching I'd recommend not starting. LOL 0-0 with about six minutes to go til half.

Thinking long-term Cam would be crazy to ditch all the stuff he has going on media-wise to give football another go at this point.

Crazy that a rookie sees it. I was afraid of this with the whole "victory Monday" thing but wasn't gonna make a big deal about it before we saw the results. Well, we saw the results. Absolutely wild this poverty franchise really started feeling themselves and thought they'd arrived after somehow squeaking out a 5-4 start.

I get it. I just think at this point Dalton is probably even worse than Bryce. A little better arm but absolutely zero mobility. But hell, I'm up for seeing it again. It's tough to be much worse than Bryce was yesterday.

Having seen what's left of Dalton I just don't think there's any point.

He's basically screaming that the QB room is an anchor around the offense's neck. Everyone who has any working understanding of the game of football and is being remotely objective can see it. I just hope Tepper can accept it. I'm convinced Canales and Morgan are ready to move on. Probably begging to move on.

I don't want to go in with any plan to trade down. If the right guy is there and the trade offers aren't great take him. I'm always for keeping options open. I never liked Gettleman's shtick of running the pick to the podium immediately either. If the phone is ringing and there's time on the clock listening to the offer is free and you're only limiting your options by not hearing it.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm not necessarily defending Canales here. I didn't want him hired but at the same time I also realized that our wish list of candidates probably started where everyone else's ended and we'd be shopping off that same list again if we fired Canales and went coach shooting this coming off-season. I honestly think Baker's resurgence in Tampa after he bombed here got him hired and now Baker is even better without him.

It sure was when we had to pay the price to move from #9 to #1.

I mean, hell... it's been obvious for 30+ Bryce starts at this point that if you can choke our running game down and force Bryce to beat you with his arm you win.

All according to Mel Kiper. LOL Still waiting for him to retire which he claimed he would have Clausen wasn't a successful NFL QB...

Yep, compare it to last year's unit and the turnaround is pretty dramatic.

The D isn't bad. A lot better than I expected.

It blows my mind that it took nine games for an opponent to figure this out.

I was shocked we beat the Packers. I thought we might lose out from 4-4. Probably gonna go per usual. We're gonna lose a poo ton of games and be looking at a pretty sweet draft spot in December if we can just close the deal but then we'll win a game or two to even fug that up.

Factor in the trade and he's #1. We traded... 2023: #9 and #61 picks 2024: #1 overall 2025: #39 Plus DJ Moore All for a guy who is borderline NFL roster worthy. Were there even worse individual picks? Yeah, I'd say that Jamarcus Russell was worse. Ryan Leaf was worse. But factor in all the assets invested into that pick and it's not even close. The only reason Bryce has piled up all those starts is because of how bitter of a pill it is to swallow that trade being a bust. If Bryce had simply been the #1 overall pick without that massive trade I honestly think we would've moved on this past off-season. Two years had shown you everything you needed to see.

But, but, but guys... look at these super cherry picked super situational stats! Bryce is the 9th best QB in the league on 2nd and 13 with a 6 point lead so take that!

Welp.

I have no strong opinion either way. I mean, for those who are out, do you really expect Tepper to hire anyone better? So far, Canales has probably been his best coaching hire. Granted, that's an extremely low bar to clear but I'm just saying it's not like there's a line of great candidates beating down the door begging to work for Tepper. Going 5-5 with the worst QB play in the league isn't terrible. Now with that said, I expect to start getting the hell beaten out of us now that the Saints have shown what I thought was obvious all along - sell out against the run and stack the box and absolutely force us to have to throw the ball and it basically makes the game unwinnable for a Bryce Young QB'd team.

Clausen was basically a slower Bryce Young with decent size. His NFL tool set was trash too.

I don't really buy the whole distraction/we overlooked them, any of that crap. We finally just faced a team that came into the game hellbent on forcing Bryce to beat us. We're gonna stack the box like cordwood no matter what. We're gonna take away the run and we know that might open up opportunities in the passing game but we're just gonna play tight, physical coverage and rely on them not being able to connect on deep passes. I'm just shocked it took until game nine for somebody to do it.

Sounds entertaining. That beats watching lil Brycey poo.

Pretty much. Somehow we're both considerably better as a team than I expected and Bryce is considerably worse individually than I expected. I would've never dreamed we could be 5-5 with Bryce being this bad and I would've said Bryce had to be a averaging 200+ yards per game and limiting the turnovers if we were 5-5.