JawnyBlaze

Great play and throw

Looks like his ankle or foot

That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. Cam was actually good at that, hitting guys in stride with good accuracy (his touch wasn’t a strength but the other two things were) while Bryce is mostly really bad at hitting guys in stride, mid at accuracy and good with touch. He’s often throwing to where guys are is read of where they will be, forcing them to stop or alter their momentum and catch behind them, leading to a lot of the missed throws that people are calling drops. I’m not trying to bash Bryce here, he’s made incredible progress (especially in accuracy), but accuracy still had a ways to go and hitting guys in stride is still a weaknesses.

I feel pretty confident that was the long term plan. This will be Chuba’s only medium size contract, and once he’s 30 if Brooks is worth it we’ll resign Brooks to a decent contract and draft another. Rinse and repeat.

at about the 6 minute mark is a definitive angle of the td catch that he was robbed of, the ball never moved, indisputable that he caught it. Why wasn’t this angle available to the refs?

Based on age, and the fact Bryce is trending up while Jameis is Jameis and will always be exactly what he is, it’s an easy decision: Bryce. If you had asked me three weeks ago, it would have been a different answer, but Bryce is showing capabilities he’d never shown any sign of before, so I’m opening up to the possibility of him actually being a legit franchise QB.

I’ve watched some TMac videos and for now I’m on board. Dude has ridiculous hands and body control. We don’t need another young WR but I could see TMac and XL being like Fitz and Boldin for us. Coker as a very high quality #3, we could be set at WR for a decade. Our biggest need is a pass rusher but as far as I can tell there doesn’t seem to be any worth a top five or ten pick. With TMac, within a year or two we could have the best offensive skill player group in the league: those three WRs plus Chuba, Brooks and Sanders. Plus a great OL. Deadly Offense.

He is certainly shifting the narrative, but I’m going to need more than two good games and two decent games. I will certainly admit that I didn’t think he’d ever be able to throw the sort of deep passes we’ve seen the past two weeks. He showed absolutely nothing prior to then, always floating wobbling ducks on any pass over ten yards. Guess he just had to clean up his technique a bit because he really has been throwing some pretty deep balls lately.

Appreciate the early analysis.

I can respect that take as well, at least it’s putting it into context and not “omgerd he’s dropping every other pass that’s thrown his general direction.” I can believe four or five drops. He definitely hasn’t been dropping at nearly the rate that a number of people here are claiming. He certainly has to work on it, but I fully expect the timing on jumps, catching with hands (which he showed plenty of in college), and concentration issues will be resolved when he’s more comfortable in the system and with playing at the NFL level in general. It’s obvious the game hasn’t “slowed down” for him yet, but I’m sure it will.

Many stats are subjective and all you can do is try to apply them under the same standard across the board. And under the same standard as all other WRs are held to, he has four drops. We could all argue what constitutes a drop til we’re blue in the face, but if we’re going to claim that XL has more than four drops then every other WR in the league also has more than they’re credited with too. So whether you want to claim XL has four drops or 40, he’s not bad compared to other receivers when held to equal standards of what is considered a “drop”.

I’ve never been a believer in Pineiro. The “most accurate kicker” nonsense is because he’s almost never asked to make difficult kicks. And when he does miss the easy kicks he’s asked to make, they always seem to be critical ones. Two misses yesterday that either would have won us the game in regular time, the miss vs Atlanta a couple years ago. He doesn’t miss the easy kicks often but when he does it hurts.

XL has four drops on the year. A lot of you guys are calling just about any pass that is in arms reach that isn’t caught a drop. Yesterday wasn’t a “drop”, it was a difficult pass that wasn’t reeled in. By the standard XL is being held to, a lot of veteran WRs would have astronomical drop rates. XL’s is 6.8%, not great but not horrible by any stretch. In college his drop rate was 4.8%. McConkey’s was 6.3% fwiw.

Yea, he should get a one or two year extension this off season. He’s still capable of being highly productive, especially as XL and Coker keep developing and Thielen can be the third option and clutch 3rd down guy.

Our top run defender is out. Sure they gave up rushing yards but they stopped plenty of drives, got turnovers and sacks, and literally stopped two of the most critical drives in the game, one each at the end of the 4th and OT

Last 15* years of coaching

Defense stopped TB numerous times, specifically when it counted most on the first drive of OT. Holding TB to a fg instead of a TD on their second to last possession was huge too. Defense did their jobs today.

We do look better. This is good. Bryce might actually be our long term answer, defense looked really good today even without the best player on the team, we have plenty of weapons for Bryce and they’re only going to get better (and healthy). Losing sucks, but looking like this when we lose sucks a LOT less than the Rhule years or Bryce’s first 18 games.

Even good RBs worth their contracts fumble sometimes. And that fair catch interference that got picked up was on us. Picking it up benefitted us. The other two examples were spot on though.

This loss is on Pineiro and the refs

lol this bipolar fan base. One mistake after begging for more of him all game and “he doesn’t deserve that contract” “he sucks” jfc

Well you guys were screaming for more runs

Omg Thielen talk about bailing out a terrible throw.

Man as good as Bryce has been this game, the defense at least has to share the game ball no matter the outcome.

Incredible. Just incredible. Great drive by Bryce. That TD play reminded me of Cam to Olsen to beat Seattle in ‘15