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Solid player so far, if inconsistent, but he is a rookie. I would still consider an elite pass rusher in the draft with the first pick.

Yeah, but Ace-hole is trying to call people out for "hating," and actually rooting for Bryce to fail. Huddlers, unless they're just stupid, aren't actually rooting for Bryce, XL, Evero or anyone to actually fail, they're actually rooting for the opposite. That's what Joe is saying. You can criticize players, even to the point of wanting them "upgraded," without wishing that they fail. Love and hate, criticism and praise, are not necessarily a static propositions either. At the end of the day, Bryce has been clutch this season at times. He's played like sh¡t at times as well. I try to live in reality. I don't think Bryce is going anywhere based upon perceived improvement. If you gave me a button to eject him, I'd probably push it with little hesitation, as I don't believe that our offense should be limited by his physical inadequacies, but I'm not the one in charge. Knowing human nature and the FO, I can easily see them giving Bryce (Evero and even Legette) another season. With that being highly probable, I think we should target a young free agent with some upside that has shown incremental improvement (e.g., Trey Lance or Malik Willis), and I'd also target Drew Allar as a day three priority. This way, we can still push Bryce and have some back-up plans.

We didn't today. It's called "situational play calling." Canales seems a bit challenged at that.

To try and pretend that aggressively going FTW as opposed to running into the pile a couple of times and going for a long FG is a Madden type decision (pun intended) is ludicrous. Any coach worth his salt tries to extend the drive.

Is that supposed to be a newsflash, considering his snap count. He's already proven his metal here, so to act like he hasn't is simply silly. Simply just silly.

It's all good. Unless Rico is reasonable, he's going to be somewhere else after we win the Super Bowl anyway.

He almost lost us the damned game. At the very least, he put the game in a perilous situation when it didn't have to be. Instead of taking the game by the throat, he puts it back in the hands of Baker and the Bucs.

He took the pedal off the gas at exactly the wrong time during the drive. Why in the holy fvck would you call to weak-ass runs and not give an earnest attempt to move chains for first downs? I mean, you saw it didn't work one time, and then you call another one. That's just weak. The season is on the line, well-above the two minute warning, and he's calling plays like we're playing for a game-winning field goal. Weakness eptiomized! It's not fitting of a first-class head coach in the NFL.

I tried to tell all of you guys. Now do you believe me?

Two stupid run calls by Canales!

Two fuging useless runs

What the fug are all these short kicks about? It seems like we would've learned by now...

Another bullshit call

Somebody tell me: Why is that big of piece of the field open in the red zone?

I'm not trying to be overly critical, but he locked on 4, and didn't go through his progressions. That pass to the sidelines was going nowhere.

Good grief, people, what are y'all going on about? I don't care about how you can it up---inconsistent flashes of oases of survivability and hopefulness within a desert of death by a thousand cuts and constant agitated emotions, Bryce just isn't what we want in the final estimation. And, If anyone does want him, hats off to you (because it fell off from a confluence of me shaking my head and laughing hysterically).

It was halfway believable until that last sentence.

Such a terrible INT

"Eventually?" Man, we ain't getting any younger, and life shouldn't be taken for granted. All of these no-count seasons will not get us our wish before we expire. Bryce just seems like the biggest problem, and his exit is the biggest fix in the shortest amount of time (and, yes there are puns in there somewhere).

He hasn't been good. I honestly don't know if he's fit for being a head coach. In my opinion, he's too damned conservative when he should be aggressive, and at many times he is too aggressive when he should be taking points. Now I know Bryce is easy to blame for that, but I suspect that Dave is just not that creative. I'll withhold final judgment until after 2026 (assuming he is here).

Thanks. Don't know how I missed that.

Might want to try Thornton in the slot

That's what he gets trying to play GM, and that's what Duke Tobin and Mike Brown get for essentially letting their QB make personnel decisions. Cry me a River, Joe.

But that's just an opinion essentially based upon three games---basically nothing. As for "great" career, that's in the eye of the beholder. I'd say that if he becomes a starter or even a high end backup, that may not be great, but it would be good. If he ends up a long term starter, then that is pretty great. But I could argue that less than a dozen QBs have had "great" careers for the last 50 years. It's just a matter of definition. There are certainly a number of QBs drafted higher than Sanders and with much higher expectations that have ended up as backups or out of the league altogether. If he has any kind of staying power, he's already overachieved according to many.

It's a matter of perspective. Hell, TB12 was skipped over 198 times for example. I mean, Montana, Wilson, Dak and a few others were skipped many times before they were drafted. Warner and Romo went undrafted for Pete's sake. Don't get me started on misses (and not just QBs). His attitude didn't help, but it was reported just as much that scouts/execs didn't necessarily believe he was a day one or two guy. Like I suggested, we'll never know the whole story. Moreover, you can't get around the fact that he's handled his situation in Cleveland with flying colors. That's been widely reported as well.