LinvilleGorge

I trust Bryce to put in the work. Unfortunately, I just don't think he has the prerequisite talent.

I'd take a 1st for Burns on a heartbeat. I don't want to pay him huge money but letting him walk for a 3rdbround comp pick would suck too and we'd have to handicap ourselves in pursuing other free agents to protect that pick. Double whammy of suck. With that said, I'd rather let him walk than cripple ourselves with handing him a massive deal. So I'm basically down to tag and trade him for anything more than a late round comp pick.

He's like 6'8" and pushing 400 pounds. How is Bryce gonna see over that mountain of a man?

I'm honestly just not sure that it even matters. He can't do anything about his height and arm talent is largely natural. You can't coach height, you can't coach speed, you can't coach arm talent. It just is what it is. His best bet is to do what he can to improve his arm strength and work like hell to fix the dumpster fire that is his footwork.

Either way they're sitting great, largely thanks to us. Fields would likely get them some pretty decent trade value if they want to move on. Sucks to be Caleb. Getting drafted by the Bears at QB is brutal.

And 15 more TDs. That's really significant considering we only scored 23 TDs all year. Add 15 and we're only one short of the 49 we allowed.

If you could combine my arm with his maybe we'd have a reasonable expectation of being able to complete a 20 yards pass with at least semi-regularity.

Oh, there will be one. Bad QB play abounds.

He still threw for 3000 yards and 26 TDs. Someone is gonna pay him way more than they should.

A lot of it comes down to who gets hot at the right time. A team that might not be playing great right now might win it all and a team that looks like a sure-fire contender probably will get bounced in the 2nd round. Just the way the tourney goes. Not even the biggest of homers would've predicted UNC's last championship game run. Now THAT team was inconsistent.

Yeah, what a great idea. After cratering our draft capital on a trade up to botch drafting a QB, let's crater our cap space on an idiotic signing of a past his prime vet living off of name recognition and past performance. Wait... this seems pretty damn on brand for Tepper's football organization. Now I'm kinda worried.

Ideally a tag and trade scenario but realistically those situations are a relative rarity.

Yeah, I just don't really feel like dealing with all the talk about what Chicago is going to do with our pick. Draft Caleb Williams? Draft Drake Maye? Stick with Fields and take another king's ransom for #1 and move down a few spots to draft another stud WR to pair with DJ Moore? Ugh. No thanks. Not a lot of enthusiasm to talk about what we might do with the leftovers at #33 after all that dick punching.

Its just like getting punched in the dick and then asking for a harder one. The reward for sucking ass is a top pick. We EARNED the #1 pick one year after trading up to #1 and then shitting the bed with it. I usually love draft season. It's the playoffs for fans of bad teams. But not this year. It's just extra salt in the wound.

To be honest, I just haven't paid a damn bit of attention to mock drafts, the Senior Bowl, probably not the Combine either. It's just hard to get into it when we've sucked for so long and don't have a 1st round pick.

Maybe it's just a false memory triggered by this post, but I do feel like I remember one of those weird troll or truly bat poo crazy posters years ago who was bizarrely obsessed with the kicker position.

Agreed. The one and done rule sucks. It would be better off for college basketball if they were allowed to go straight to the NBA. I really think it was that Kwame Brown/Eddy Curry/Tyson Chandler draft that made the NBA realize they needed to save themselves from themselves. It was only a couple of years after that when they instituted one and done.

Yeah, the difference in overall interest in college basketball now vs. in the '80s and '90s. is very palpable and it's honestly been trending this direction for 20 years.

When you look at our drafts over the past decade or so, it's no wonder why we're so bad.

We can use an infusion of talent everywhere. BPA every pick. If we have numerous players graded similarly and the phone is ringing, listen to the offers. We need talent everywhere, period.

March Madness is just so unpredictable. Anyone can go home any given night in a single elimination basketball tournament. All it takes is having an off night against a hot shooting team and that's all she wrote.

More attempts downfield. More completions downfield. When we have multiple games where our starter attempted zero (0) the overall number of attempts in that game is a lot less relevant. Bryce just didn't really go down the field much for whatever reason.

It's the only other measuring stick we have available. I'm not saying it was a great game. I've never said it was a great game. I've always simply said that it was the only game all year when we had a viable vertical threat in our offense.

I'm not talking about the game as a whole. I'm specifically talking about the downfield element. Given the way our offense played the rest of the year, that game was The Greatest Show on Turf in comparison. Sad as that may be. There were multiple games where Bryce didn't even attempt a pass over 20 yards and a LOT of games where he didn't complete one.

4/7 for a TD and 0 INTs when throwing for 20+ yards. Yeah, I imagine having a QB more capable of throwing the ball down the field would impact play calling. And yeah, Seattle had a weak secondary and that's why I personally wanted to see more from Dalton. Was our more effective downfield passing that day a fluke or was there something more to it? We never got the answer. According to the Next Gen Stats passing chart there were 4 attempts over 25 yards in that game. Dalton went 2/4 for a TD in those 4 attempts.