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Same. we think we know, but until the games are being played, we don't know.

lol i see it.

I do know it's after we started cloning players.

Even then it will remain the most ridiculous division with the wonkiest results. It's a WTF? waiting to happen.

Yes.

i don't see how we could even be as bad or even close to as bad as last year. barring some complete coaching clusterfug like last year, i just don't see it happening.

Yes and definitely better than last year. 5-6 wins is hardly being a homer. Pretty fuggin realistic, tbh.

Lol it's fuggin may.

Lazy takes.

Same. Bryce just needs to get better and he needs to manage this offense effectively do that it can be top half of the league. I don't care about what his stats look like, tbh. More TDs than INTs (I'd honestly be thrilled with a 2:1 ratio), less sacks, low fumbles.

contrary to what was expected of him from pre-draft hype or where he was drafted or what it cost to move up there....he was just a rookie in the worst imaginable situation. that's what we saw...a rookie in the worst situation a rookie could be in. there's no way i can pass judgment on what he did last year because of that. again, it's probably true that most people in here are a lot smarter than me and it doesn't take more than one season of a rookie in the worst possible situation to know that he's never going to amount to poo, or to at the least know that he's never going to be one to count on, but that's not where i am. i don't judge people in their worst moments when the deck is stacked against them. if i'm going to judge at all, i do it when i see how they respond in the next moment.

i'm 100% sure that he had didn't have the talent to give him a shot last year or an honest and legit assessment of what he can bring to the table. he might be (probably is) limited on what he can do...but that picture is incomplete. the only thing we could tell from last year was what he looks like when he has to carry the team by himself because he's got no real support from the cast of players or coaches around him. and i don't care who you are, if you have no help from the team around you...you are going to look bad, especially if you are a rookie. last year we saw him in the worst case scenario. we saw his floor. if the situation gets better we will see him get better and get off the floor. it's just a matter of how far off the floor he can get, but i imagine it will be a good bit higher off the floor than many think.

one of the best stiff arms ever. made tiki bounce off the ground. man it felt good to be a fan back then. was frustrating, but i would take that over what we've had the past few years.

More likely Rome ends up being a waste of talent there. Won't be his fault.

There was a 5 or 6 year period of my life that I was doing a lot of struggling and floating around the south I guess trying to figure out the point of my existence and I wasn't having much luck doing that. A dark moment that had a few not so dark moments in it, one of them being a summer I drove around listening to and singing on occasion (when I got a shot) songs by Jackson Brown, Dan Fogleberg, and the Eagles. Just something about them gave me a little peace. I don't listen to them much anymore, but when I do it takes me back to that little reprieve from my dark era.

I just think we're all going to be surprised this year in a good way for once. I don't care about anyone eating crow or anything. I don't blame anyone for doubting this team's potential. I just want us all to enjoy being a fan again and I really think we're getting ready to experience that.

Yeah go ahead and ride that "we got worse" pony. It's the easiest ride so why not? I just don't see it. On the whole I see an upgraded team. Proof will be in the play, but no one is going to be able to come close to convincing me that we are "worse" anymore than those who just hate everything we do will be convinced that we got better.

one of Cam's first passes did some damage to smitty's hand...separated his middle and ring finger on one hand. that's about all i remember from him.

receiving room is worse? TE is worse? RB is worse? Interior DL is worse? Clowney is a downgrade from Burns?

i think tremble is decent, but not a stud like i hope JT can be.

drafted in '21 from notre dame where he played fullback.... iirc. he's been good for 3 TDs 150-175 yards a year. could be more if involved more. he's got potential and on those rare occasions he gets targeted and catches the ball (about 50% success there) he does something big with it. First downs, TDs, big impressive catches. Solid blocker as well. Guy can hit. he was targeted more than Thomas the last 3 years and has 3 more career TDs.

hmmm...interesting. probably should have read it. figured the 'continuer de' would be something like 'continue on' = keep on. it didn't make sense that he would be talking about a frapucinno (though i could understand it on a hot day and that's is where my mind went first for some reason). frap sounded like it would be someone knocking on a door. lucked out on that. .....or i googled it. i did essentially get kicked out of 2nd semester of french on the first day in 7th grade. teachers didn't like me much back then. kind of a trend that carried on from 4th through high school in two different states.

just seeing bryce in the middle of the pack would be a huge win as well. yeah...not what we'd want for a top pick overall, but it's kind of reasonable for any rookie in his second year. but for him coming off of that year last year and considering we're going to be leaning so heavily on the run i think that's probably a fair expectation for him.

yes. i don't think anyone is going overboard on any projections saying that we're going to run straight into the playoffs and dominate everywhere...just that we will get back to almost average like we have been for a while and from there we can get back to being inconsistently being good. i'm not ruling out playoffs, but only because i know we are in a stupid division and it's usually a matter of one random turd floats to the top.