https://youtu.be/adtruA-WU10?si=wjsjatjtFoZry6eY
If you go to the 10:05 mark of this QB school video for Bryce young this week, jto says something about how there's never been a worse time to be a center in this league, and in context he's referring to how good DTs have gotten.
Well, disregarding my feelings on the trade (I said I didn't want it before it happened and I don't like it any more now), we have a franchise tag available so he can't go anywhere if we don't let him
Why would acquiring an end change how we play the dts?
Trubisky was a better prospect than fields
Agreed.
I don't care about the playcalling complaints. That's a meaningless fan bitching that every team gets when they lose.
But the sloppy execution errors and constant penalties are a coaching issue.
Not guaranteed doesn't mean you aren't giving yourself worse odds
In the modern NFL, 1 is the biggest problem and most difficult to fix long-term
You're wrong. The first QB taken in each NFL draft has a pretty good track record. Not perfect, but they turn out good more often than they turn out bad.
The defense is capable of looking ok against mediocre QBs but is always going to get picked apart by good ones. I honestly dont care that much, in the modern NFL you need an offense that can outscore in games like this. Once we have that I might start caring about the defense.
I would love nothing more than to see Bagent seize the QB1 position and guarantee that we don't make the huge mistake of giving fields a fourth year (after we made the huge mistake of giving him a third year).
But I didn't spend the last two years calling bad qb play bad in the face of downvotes and cope just to give in to trutherism now. That was bad qb play.
(Disclaimer: playing bad in his second start as an udfa does not mean he's bad for a UDFA, or that he's not a fun story, or that he has no chance to do better, or whatever other reddit illiteracy people are about to accuse me of).
Bagent made too many bad reads, was scared to work the middle of the field when it was there, held the ball too long at times, and looked shaky on long throws (the Mooney bomb to open the game was a touch underthrown and Mooney made a great adjustment, the VJJ drop was quite off-target but the coverage was so busted it should have been caught anyway).
He had good zip on some of his shorter throws but it was inconsistent and there were a few completions where the ball took forever to get there and he only got away with it because the coverage was playing soft in a blowout.
He had a couple of great third down throws (there was one to mooney that he put right over the defender's shoulder, love the fearlessness) but with his inconsistent arm those kinds of throws are going to lead to more picks. He was lucky it was only two tonight and he'll have more 2+ nights than he does 0 this season if he keeps playing.
It's crazy how good NFL kickers have gotten over the last 20 years.
We're missing the safeties more than I thought we would.
oooooh you'll delete your completely free reddit account that you can recreate at any time.
Wtf cares? I'll delete mine right now