rayzor

Title should have been 'From the Dumpster Fire to the Trailer Fridge'

got to be right sometime.

in our situation, it's not just idzik, but canales who is developing the scheme. between the two of them they should be able to get something pretty respectable out there. of course what is considered respectable is pretty subjective.

yet it's what needs to be done to one degree or another any time you have a QB lacking in professional experience. OC has to build an offense around what the QB can and can't do well and it will probably look pretty vanilla until they get it figured out (providing they can, which could either be a player issue or coaching issue that is the deciding factor).

And oh yeah.....jets beat the packers in the Superbowl.

Jets winning the Superbowl.

Kept this iteration of you around long enough. Bye. See you in the next account....which, just a heads up, I'll go ahead and ban it too.

7 or 8 wins. Most come the first half of the season.

i'd just like to say that winning a superbowl is an anomaly for any QB not named Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes. there is no QB prototype that consistently wins championships. QB doesn't win championships. Winner goes to teams that can do their damn job and that's usually teams that are coached better.

true. there was nothing special really in any regard with eli, but they won with him.

but he should just be able to do it just managing the offense. i know the concept of a game managing QB isn't what we want these days, but that's really all you need if you can get all the other pieces in place and coach and game call effectively. we want a superman. if things are done right, we don't need one. i would like for us to be able to win without one.

true. you have to have someone set the tone and i think that's what jake and cam both did. the teams matched their personalities because that was the culture that they brought in. i don't know that bryce has that kind of spirit...i mean he might, but for me that's probably been the biggest issue, he just doesn't have this dominant personality. it would be great if he did, but he might not need to. what we saw in jake and cam, we might have in canales, and i think that's where things like what okung is saying is good news. looks like canales is a cultural tone setter like cam and jake were. i think we like to see the QB be that guy, but he shouldn't have to be. that actually should be the coach.

i've got a burgundy 2007 town and country that my kids call the kidney bean. i had to staple the celling back up. it's just a reliable and comfortable ride for me. i keep thinking that i need to upgrade to a newer minivan, but i've just always been a 'drive it till it dies' guy. even when i get a newer minivan, i doubt i get one that is newer than 10 years old. minivans for life.

i don't mean lower expectations of bryce, i mean lower expectation of what the QB SHOULD have to be doing. Are there QBs who carry the team? yes. How many of the starting QBs in the league can do that? Is that the standard? If it is, is that a realistic one?

misconception of what the QB should be. no QB, especially a young/rookie QB, should be tasked with having to carry the team. you build the team so that the QB can just be a manager. that's the ideal and should be the standard. you build a team right and the QB should only ever be just one of 11. cam fuggin spoiled us. he was a unicorn. we're not going to be getting a QB like that again. we need to all lower our expectations.

it's those little moments that matter.

too easy to jump on the whole "panthers just fug everything up" because it doesn't require any thinking. never take time to take a step back and think critically. just jump on the "panthers suck" wagon and enjoy the ride.

why the hell would we do that around here? much easier to just jump on the "we just do dumb poo and everything we do and every decision we make is born out of suck." limited brain power involved, which kind of suits a lot of people in here.

minivan 100%. much more usable space and a much more practical utilitarian vehicle. you get stow and go seats and you're set. great for hauling things that aren't nasty, dirty, and smelly (but you lay down a tarp and you can do that if you have to). SUV is rarely used as a SUV, it's just a status thing and you pay dearly for it. minivan is cheaper price, but much more bang for your buck. plus, easier to get in and out of for everyone. height is typically just right for drive thru windows and ATMs (which is good if you're using a surgically repaired shoulder and will never again get the same range of motion you once had). for myself, i won't ever not have one as my main driving vehicle.

I hope your SiL has made a good recovery and sorry for the loss in life there. Pretty traumatic experience. The punishment was appropriate. She should never have been allowed to get that many DUIs.

seriously, i can't wait until training camp so we've got some actual news for people to freak out over.

Why are you apologizing for it? You doing it? Won't end it, but it will slow it down dramatically and it will bring a bit of much needed justice. Can't bring them back, but you can sure as hell make the drunk drivers pay for it. And I know it's not realistic, because too much of culture is wrapped up in getting drunk and wants to make sure they don't get in too much trouble if they wind up being the cause of serious injury or death. If you choose to do something that you know will limit your ability to control what you do, you should be held as guilty for everything you do in that situation you willfully put yourself in.

You choose to drink and get in a car. You can't know that this is a bad idea that could end up tragic. You willfully put yourself in a situation that could result in someone getting killed. You drink and drive, you should be thrown in jail....first time. You injure someone in a crash while you chose to drive drunk....attempted murder. Go straight to jail. You kill someone while driving drunk...that's murder. Go to jail. No second chances because the people you hurt/killed got no second chance. I know laws like that will never pass because too many people in power do the same thing or have family members who do it and don't want it to come back and bite them in the ass. But that's the only way it's going to stop...you throw drunk drivers in jail and treat them like the legit threats to public safety they are.

Y'all sure are prone to overreacting. I guess that's a coping mechanism.

Let your imagination run wild, folks.