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But it’s all good - it’s been months since we’ve seen a starter held on a psych evaluation (as Ritchie’s August incident was off the team) i think its ok to acknowledge that the last 6 months have been a particularly impressive train wreck

I mean we only gave up like 80 points in the first 90 minutes of the season and only one starter retired mid game. We’ve also only benched 1 qb, and half of our coordinators still have playcalling duties. Clearly everything’s normal at the moment. conpared to the offseason, this is downright tame stuff.

4 year starter with 4 different DCs, 3 head coaches, 2 GMs, 2 owners.... immediately took over as play caller on the field... son of a coach and generally seems a good guy. and because he he thinks somethings not right in our locker room we hate him. Obviously.

We’ve had a handful of comments alluding to behind the scenes not being as “bought in” as fans seem to want to think... i sometimes wonder how we’d view this regime if we had a playoff appearance in that malarkey season and say one of the marrone ones. If not for the extreme nature of the streak, would more fans be wondering about the red flags?

To be fair their costs were also noticeably higher. We are taking 4-5x the cap hit for Coleman and Bryant went for a day 2 pick

At week 2 in the regular season? There’s not much of a way to address not having a number 1 wr. That’s kind of why this was an appealing incredibly low risk and high reward move for another franchise that tends to do well.

So why not let him go catch a few bombs from allen and maybe keep a safety out of the box to help with the o line a bit for 2 months?

So far we have that he was late to a meeting. I’m not saying make him a cornerstone player weo. If he’s still violating substance rules, different story but again even then the cost is like 60 day three draft slots and half of what we paid kerley for week 1

I remember 2 years ago being 7-8 and this board being Overwhelmingly in unison that the team was underachieving because of bad coaching and could probably use an upgrade at qb. suddenly the narrative is the whole roster was overpaid and terrible and McDermott had one of the tallest tasks imaginable

Even if he flops, there’s literally no downside for them is the thing that bugs me most. What’s the gap in talent from pick 172 to 217 (or whatever they end up)? That and a league minimum contract are the cost. At that price and return, we’d have won the trade handily.

4 years ago he put up 1600+ yards in 14 games. heck, last year he put up 336 yards in 5 games at 18.6 yards per catch. Zay is currently our only wr pacing ahead of that for a 16 game season. Is benjamin our only WR that’s done anything in the last 5 years? You wouldn’t swap a 5 for a 7 to get this guy for $690k

Everyone spends to the cap. It’s not just for making a push. There’s a requirement of spending a rolling average of 90-ish percent. We chose to cut bait with 90% of the young core including young guys on rookie deals and second contract guys with big dead money. Now we are old and broke. It was a choice. You might agree or disagree with the strategy but it was not forced on anyone but the fans.

Heck I even expect some up and downs, not just weekly improvement but hopefully a general trend up

Last year I said the rams were who we hoped to be in 2 years. One might say handing those picks/$$ to a young innovative and offensive minded head coach that can use both allen and Edmonds/Tre would be a real possibility for how to take the next steps without abandoning course

Lord help us if this is starting fast and gets worse ? way to go out on a limb that it’ll be better at some point

Right. Sooooooo in discussions of Brandon beanes pro personnel acquisitions how would you rate those moves? id rate them not actually his.

Then he does have a fair list of questions to follow I suspect

I’m not sure how much of the last 12-18 months qualifies as standard issue in the nfl. Any individual decision is generally fine but when you lay down the totality there’s certainly some rarity to the full picture

I guess? And the benjamin trade and any later offseason acquisitions last year

Was Whaley’s team

They certainly will recoup some

Something about glass houses

Other than “terry couldn’t hire the right people” is there a reason? He could’ve sat behind Tyrod a full year, been paired with a coach like McVay. I know there’s some MMQB in there but why couldn’t buffalo be a spot where a young qb gets what he needs?

Why is it a given that we had to cut dareus and sign star, for instance? Or had to trade Glenn? Coleman was self inflicted, and had we done the vet qb and rookie thing last year we wouldn’t have been in the spot of signing McCarron. Again, just because this regime made incredibly bold moves to shed players doesn’t mean the moves were required or even right. How they then allocated resources was questionable too.

What if we hired some of those offensive guru types, paired him with a GM with a competent set up right from the start and spent money and picks on offense instead of eating the dareus hit and then signing star and using all those picks to trade up (not to mention trading for Benjamin). Part of firing Rex was that we had a good young core that was underachieving. It’s not like McDermott inherited a dumpster fire.