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I tend to look at windows--our window is going to be open between 2025 and 2029, based on the ages and contracts of the core players, imo. I would trade if it makes us better in the long run, but you have to remember that a second round pick is only 70% likely to be successful in the NFL (PFF). If you spend $25m per year on Johnson, that could be used to pay several players on a first contract. If Johnson was 25 or 26 and he had no history of being a problem child, I would consider it. However, Legette is looking like he could be a #1. If we could get a #2 from KC and find a WR #2 in the draft, then Mingo, Coker, and another year with Thielen (contract) might be enough. Johnson is good, but he did drop 2 balls Sunday. In all, I think I counted 5 drops by Panther WRs---that is the difference of the game, imo.

I met Shaq at the OTAs during his rookie year. Washington was on the quarter system, so he was late. I am 6'1" and I was taller than him--I am guessing he was 5"11" and he had a pretty thin frame--probably weighed about 220 then. As a 4-3 OLB, maybe, but an inside LB? His body has to be telling him to stop it.

The players slip on the surface--I noticed that we could have prevented that Cincy TD at the end of the first half had we not slipped. Not injury related, but damn.

Maybe Dalton can be the guy for another year after this one--if so, we can use the draft to go after Edge.

When half the season Bryce was QB and we were going three and out, the Defense breaks down.

I admit that I have not yet studied the QBs, but I was into Beck and Dart (stats mainly) and when I watched? Not so much. The dual threat Milroe makes me think about a RPO, pistol offense. Ward has looked good when I have peeked. Sanders? I am not sold.

A dawg wants the ball when the game is on the line--it is the Alpha mindset. A dawg rallies lesser players to step up. You can have the ability and fold under pressure or you can step up when the pressure is unbearable. I can't believe that doesn't matter to you.

we were 0-0 at one point this season.

I guess what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. 40% of the salary cap is mentioned there--and not including Thielen and Young.

I wear my authentic Sir Purr costume to Walmart, Auto Zone, and Church. At first, it bothered me, but then I had a catharsis. Wear ear plugs Seriously--aside from the hilarity--I don't care. I am a fan, not a fair weather fan.

we are on one-game win streak....The Red Rocket is averaging over 30 points a game going back to last year...

Theory: They have seen Baker and Darnold move on to find success. Maybe they do not think they can find a better backup, and maybe they think he needs a wake up call and a year to watch and learn. This does not mean that Bryce is the man at the end of the season or in 2025. It means that we will have a QB competition in 2025. We gotta pay him anyway....

he played for lewis last week.

Zavala is my guess/

I would take the fourth right now and sign Zappe or Mike White as the backup. Call me crazy----or I would bring up Plummer. Look at the history of teams that traded starting qbs-they are cheap--low risk, high reward. Bryce just ain't a dog. Never had it. Front runner, and he can play in ideal conditions. The NFL doesn't have ideal conditions.

I knew you were joking--so was I. Keeping it light. I get the feeling that Mingo is at the crossroads. I think he is starting to gain confidence. Everyone was worried about Bryce's confidence, but XL was depressed about not getting targets, Mingo was getting checkdown passes at best--the OL loses confidence when Bryce can't make up his mind and gets sacked--these people understand that stats are what their agents use in negotiations--and Bryce was making his teammate unemployable.

OK, then what carnival will I be attending in the near future? Normally, I stay out of spats, but I like to say things that are so stupid, people pause to make sure they heard it correctly, show empathy towards whatever happened to me, and to decide whether or not my statement deserves a response. In that pause, I claim victory.

did BC play? How did Hunt not make the best list? When I watched him, he dominated. Moton did well when I watched....

i am just happy to be competitive.

He did what a lot of people are doing in politics lately--he made a statement that is misleading or inaccurate and then builds a self-serving premise on that misconception. Head coaches are not hired to "develop quarterbacks." He gives Canales an "F" based on that simplistic, narrow assumption presented as fact. However, even if you assume that Canales' job is not to turn around the franchise by winning games but do make Bryce a pro bowler, he does not place any responsibility on Bryce--the guy making $8m to play QB--not learn how to play QB. I mean, Rex had Cardale Jones, Tyrod Taylor, and EJ Emanuel on his staff year one in Buffalo. When he went to the Jets, he had Geno Smith. Did they get developed?

I think everyone in the NFL is aware that every week is a business decision. Comments like these are not generally motivational. The buck stops at the podium he was standing behind. he is communicating with the team through the media. In my view, LV looked unprepared and not that good. Crosby was dinged and we saw how good they are without his pressure. I get it--and he is right--but he is not building by attacking--as good as it makes you feel at the time.

I have considered this point about the OL-they did play fairly well for Wilks--and I think a "false sense of security" may have pointed him in other directions. I have said this before---his biggest problem was the offensive line coach Campen demonstrated a lack of ability to connect to gen Z players. Ickey did not develop--he is now. Zavala was lost--he is playing better now. Center is more complicated because the kind of center you need is based on the things the offense asks him to do and the ability of that center to change blocking schemes at the LOS--and Bozeman became obsolete with his lack of mobility in the evolving offense. Canales says "We are a developmental Coaching staff" because he saw the lack of development here. TMJ, Mingo, Ickey, Zavala, BC, Thomas, QBs, were not being developed--they were being thrown into situations and they were waiting to see who would sink and who would swim. Obviously, just my opinion, but I was bashing Campen even when the OL was considered "decent." All based on a novice approach to the OL (as a former HS OL coach) and an expertise in professional development (grad professor). I saw Ickey bending at the waist, not moving his feet. And I did not see growth. Zavala? Confused as hell. Bozeman? when asked to move in space, never got there. I complained that there was no development going on--that you build a team from the inside out, front to back. They immediately addressed the middle three OL. Ickey is being developed. Zavala might be the best example of being developed. XL is inexperienced and raw--but he is going in complex motions and showing positive signs. Tremble suddenly looks like a player and he is blocking his arse off. Moton is even looking better. Corbett might be a better C than G--and Lewis and Hunt? that is what guards look like. So on paper, we might have been good in 2022, but you have to improve the more film they get on you, the more you expose your weaknesses. We had an OL coach kissing footballs and resting on a reputation.

We had the perfect storm last year to screw up Bryce for good. When Christensen and then Corbett went down, teams started stunting and blitzing through A gap. Bryce could not read it and check down, etc. He was bait.

He may have lost the locker room week 3.

Depth on the OL is critically important