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seeing how he played after the pregnant bartender - you might be on to something here

because the 37 year rebuild is make believe if you have rookie contract qb that’s playing even fringe top 10 and you’ve pushed chips in around him you are basically there instantly.

we will never hear an answer but I’d be wildly curious about how it fell out of the playbook and was reintroduced. I can’t imagine that leaves/returns without McD at least involved in one of not both conversations

yea I haven’t watched a ton but it feels like we have several of him already? Not sure if he really adds to the perimeter at all but it’s another wr32-WR48 type of guy

just for reference, he’s still like a basic good starting nfl quarterback under center. A 90 qb rating isn’t terrible also, some of the gap could just be situational trends - TD passes coming out of shotgun because we skew that way from the 5 to 15 yard line? Who knows. Vis versa it could be much worse of a skew situationally

I think it’s an important game but also does not define the season I think we are better i think playing sharp will be important

still just wild for a back to pop 273 and team only score 14

I think there is a lot of confusion between a few respectable runs vs showing the traits that make solid running sustainable. it’s the classic quoting stats of training camp or preseason heroes instead of talking about skill set.

I have a hard time calling chuba or dowdle one of the best. You get to tenth and you are talking slightly above average and i think we get pretty close to that before any debate.

playing Andy dalton didn’t hurt either. Yes we infused some talent but it’s also one of the less threatening qb/rb pairs we have faced and no dominant wr.

Below average qb makes the rest just not go - we saw it for 20 years. Even when the other 52 are great it all sputters… and their 52 aren’t particularly great. This should’ve been a soft ball and it was. We needed that. 100% you play the team across from you and they are an nfl team all wins count the same and drawing a line in the sand today was important. im glad we had Carolina on the schedule today and not a tough matchup though.

the article barely references anything of note you then extrapolated it into total make believe but sure, it’s possible in the sense that a lot of things could be possible

I try to say this in the nicest way possible but we beat a not great team. Jordan poyer played in Cleveland the last time you could argue that dalton was not bad. and he wasn’t great then. Heck at that time we had Kyle Orton at qb, and opponents could say EJ Manuel wouldn’t have done much better. We beat one of “those” teams. Sure, an nfl club but the type you should carry 9 out of 10 days if not more

it was a bad hire because we invested in building the strength of the team on the defensive side and not only was his plan to dismantle that positive, he also had no plan to do the work to rebuild it once torn down. alas, not the thread for that

I’m not sure my opinion on cook has changed much but that where that lands in relation to the board has varied wildly I remember being frustrated as hell we were keeping such an electric player in the sideline. I was confident he was among the best in the league I still think he is at 12m im pretty ok with the deal and he has shown an extra gear this year that’s exciting to watch but it couldn’t be more frustrating that he seems to not be allowed on the field in any passing situation or two minute drill or a lot of short yardage plays…. and I still think it’s weird to pay a guy 12m who you take off the field for the biggest plays