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Well lets put some statistics to Year 3 Week 1. Rating 49 (30th of 30) Yards 154 (25th of 30) Completion 51.4% (28th of 30) Turnovers 3 (30th of 30 and really was 4) Average per attempt 2.4 (29th of 30) QB SUPPORT METRICS Sacked 1 (Tied for 2nd least) Pressured 1 (Tied for 2nd least) Rushing 113 (12th of 30) (With no passing support) Rushing avg 4.5 (11th of 30) Penalties 4 for 35 (Tied for 2nd fewest)

Yeah no doubt, the eery part is it could almost be the same game. Starts off talking about three turnovers and it tracks pretty close as it goes on.

I've never liked this carousel. GM/Coach/QB carousel that is. When you cycle through them there's always a scapegoat. We've had 3 GMs, 7 Head coaches (including interims), and 9 different quarterbacks (starting) since Tepper bought the team. By and large this has been rotational with coaches inheriting quarterbacks, or GMs inheriting coaches or even worse GMs not picking their coaches. It's just terrible organizational hierarchy all the time, very dysfunctional. Hire your GM, let him hire his coach and get the players that coach says he need for his vision. Create top down accountability. Cannales was hired to make Bryce look like a good draft pick, if he can't do that then he's failed at the thing he had to have sold himself on. Morgan was a head scratcher from day one. A hold over from the Fitterer mistakes, certainly no history of success as an executive. Has always felt like a yes man for Tepper or a blindfolded visions of going young everywhere and letting them learn on the job. Just terrible, terrible organizational vision in a league being dominated by real professionals.

We weren't prepared to play. I think we have a false sense of confidence based on practicing against our own defense (and vice versa). Putting in no preseason work and shitting the bed out of the gate again, Cannales acting bewildered about how different the team looked against his expectations. The real serious issue may be that we have coaches with no perception until they get their teeth kicked in by a 4 win team with a new coaching staff.

Watch a few minutes of this again and imagine he's talking about today's game. It's eery.

I took a lot of poo for this post.

We have to become who we're going to become.

What are they worried about? We already scored our 3 points, lightning doesn't strike the same place twice.

Who approved that photo of BY9, he looks like he doesn't want to be on the poster.

Thank you for the summary!

It’s about the same as Bryce. Jury is out but he deserves another year. The team improved steadily.

Choose Love on the goal post, hahaha good placement. Bryce really shut out the noise and played much better after returning to the lineup. His clutch factor at the end of games was fantastic. We'd be at least two games better in the win department if the D could ever hold.

For the first time in a long time I am excited and optimistic for our future. What a turn around for Bryce.

There is cause for optimism.

Love the way the offense is playing today. This team has improved all year despite injuries.

Looking back at this thread, there was a lot of kool aid being chugged. I never liked this draft.

I was thrilled for the team Sunday. They deserved that W.

I try hard to judge the moment without bias. If it’s bad, it’s bad and if it’s good it’s good. Anyone that had an issue with Bryce today is hedging their bets on history. Last week was awful, this week was pretty damn solid. His numbers should have been a bit better if Thielen pulls in that first deep shot. I wouldn’t dare pronounce Bryce’s ceiling at this point because if he has showed anything this year, he has showed he won’t quit, he will improve and he’s tough as nails. I’ve hated on Bryce plenty, but damn he has some heart.

Does anyone ever miss a long kick against us?

Burn the tape, entire team shat the bed. Trying to take any meaningful information from today is futile. I’m not sold on Bryce, have been very critical of him, and encouraged by his recent play. Bryce hasn’t played well when pressured, that’s really all there is to take from today.

I’m 100% encouraged by how competitive the team has been recently. We still don’t know how to win but the fight is there and the team and staff are improving without doubt. It has been a long time since we saw improvement. It feels like we’re on the right track and that now includes Bryce. I’m actually eager to watch the team play. I’ve been very critical of Bryce and it was deserved at the time. He’s playing much better of late and he deserves credit for that now.

Bryce played a solid game and gave the team a chance today. It’s hard to know if this is an outlier, a stepping stone or the ceiling. He earned the next start.

It’s tied late!

It’s tied early!

The lack of production is especially surprising given how much effort the team put into coaxing the best from him. In just six short years he’s had the opportunity to work with 3 different GMs, 7 different head coaches and 10 different starting quarterbacks. There’s literally no excuse to be made that one of those combos didn’t work. It might be time to look withIAN.