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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    There used to be a running joke in sports newsrooms about how short a player would have to be before the media guides didn't list him at 6-0. The cutoff seemed to be around 5-8 or 5-9
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    I'm probably just overreacting, similar to how mahomes felt cutler-y to me in the draft, but I pull up Caleb Williams scouting profile and I see tons of praise for athletics, scrambling and throw quality but needs to work on holding the ball too long and reading defenses. Meh
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    So they said maybe move wright to LT and I assume borom slots in at RT? Maybe it will be worse but I'm not 100% sure it's worse
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    This game will feature the greatest disparity in career win percentage for starting QBs (.793 vs. .185) in modern NFL history, min. 25 starts.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah I'm all aboard the hate train for both poles and fields. There's a hundred different paths poles could have taken since the day he took over. I'm just not sorry we didn't take young.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Just got around to watching the "every play" video from Bryce Young. I really don't feel like we missed out. He looks really good in the pocket. Great natural instinct to shift around and find the right lanes, not just going crazy and taking off. But he has to be because there's no way he can see over the line. His accuracy is extremely meh. It's not bad enough to keep him from being an NFL starter, but he's not the pocket passer of my dreams, capable of making NFL defenses in a playoff game wonder what they're supposed to do because he keeps putting balls into the perfect spot against good coverage. Stroud looked way better but he had a lot of very clean pockets and prevent-y defense to throw at in a big loss. I'm not sorry to have Darnell Wright, DJ Moore, a 2024 first that looks to be very high, a 2024 fourth and a 2025 2nd instead of either of them.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I know it's funny given the complaints about Fields, but with Bagent I see the exact opposite. If he tries to throw into the same windows against NFL starters that he was against late preseason cut bait, he's gonna throw 3 picks per quarter. But I still wouldn't hate seeing him get a start by the end of the season. Crazier things thave heppened, maybe he can be our Kurt Warner. (spoiler, he probably can't)
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Given the volatility of QB prospects, unless one is literally Peyton Manning, I don't mind trading down from No. 1 overall, and I don't think Bryce Young is Peyton Manning. Trading out of No. 1 overall and getting hopefully a long-term solution at tackle and an excellent WR for 2024 (plus another first and 2nd) is the thing Poles has done I object to the least. Since Peyton it's been: Couch, Vick, Carr, Palmer, Eli, Smith, Russell, Stafford, Bradford, Newton, Luck, Winston, Goff, Mayfield, Murray, Burrow, Lawrence, Young. That's a pretty good group, but I think I'd rather have 3 firsts and take my chances
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm perfectly happy to suspect that Eberflus is just defensive Trestman, and I was a Poles hater long before it was cool, but I keep coming back to two thinsg 1) Coaching staffs and QBs are like MLB managers and bullpens. It's uncanny how smart you look when you have a good one and how dumb you look when you have a bad one. 2) The team being in the shape it's in is the logical result of almost a decade full of first-round picks not being used to find long-term mainstays at key positions. From 2015-2022, our eight first-round picks netted us 2 QB busts, 2 LBs we didn't sign to second contracts, a WR bust, and 4 years of paying the highest defensive cap hit in the league for a slightly post-prime Mack. For that same time period, I count 7 Packers first-round picks still starting for the team and one injured who might otherwise be starting (I think, I won't claim to intimately know the Packers depth chart).
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    One thing I noticed in the video that I didn't notice live: the rg, which I think was Carter, had possibly the worst day I've seen from an offensive lineman in the last two years. And given the line play we've seen the last few years, that's saying something. And he's a 7th round pick who was like our fourth choice to start there, so it happens. But woof. Ive never liked Jones. Whitehair is washed. Patrick can't snap. But there's a whole level of bad below them and he reached it.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't want him to run more and I definitely don't want us to call more runs.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I understand the "well this isn't working so you have to try something different" but running a few more QB designed runs per game isn't going to solve anything. He got 10 runs per game last year and 7 per game this year. If I'm an NFL team and you try to run Justin fields at me, I laugh and say go for it. He might break one that goes on the highlight reels forever, but he is just as likely to put the ball on the ground and he can't sustain it.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    An entire generation of sports fans have had their brains poisoned by rebuilding obsession.. I think it comes from our cultural legacy of Puritan morality and our brains' desire for narrative. It only makes sense that you have to suffer and go through the full 12-step hero's journey before you can succeed.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, but I don't see how it could have been avoided. You can't just not try to teach him how to be an NFL QB. He's like a golfer with too many swing thoughts
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I said it before we drafted fields: I want a situation so absurdly good for a QB that haters debate whether our QB is even good or not.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I ended up fast forwarding through a lot of this one. He has a tendency to repeat himself over and over. It could have easily fit the same analysis into 30 minutes
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like to think I'm a generational hater, but I've never in my life hated someone the way this guy hates Claypool. "We're just inventing new ways to eff up out there."
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm into it now and it's already firing. Cole Kmet had a play where he was either asked to sabotage Wright or did it on his own, but it's hilarious. He stands to the RT's right just long enough to make sure the RT can't get width, then goes inside to block no one.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    well, here we go lol, first play on the long completion to Moore he's already ripping the accuracy and technique.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Prominent rushing QBs and their career fumbles per game: Cam Newton 0.42 Russell Wilson 0.54 Lamar Jackson 0.61 Michael Vick 0.69 (nice) Justin Fields 1.07
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    You, a doom boner casual: The Bears are going to finish last and then Caleb Williams will go back to USC Me, a doom boner maestro: The Bears are going to win in the last week to drop from first to third, then package that pick with the Carolina pick and two future 2nds to move up to No. 1. *Then* Williams will refuse to play for them and they instead take Drake Maye, who becomes Trubisky 2.0
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I thought he might do a shorter video this week given that it's all the same stuff. Even I'm like dang, maybe I've had enough.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    The only limiting factor is that they'll start feeding the rbs and milking clock by early in the second half. If they kept the pedal down for four quarters, mahomes could threaten 700 yards against this secondary.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    https://x.com/PaulHembo/status/1703777394740589051?s=20 9 of fields' 10 sacks have occurred after 4 seconds
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