Essa é realmente uma bela história. Uma ótima maneira de começar o dia! Obrigado por compartilhar!

Nah, he’s getting a reputation as an owner that demands results. I don’t see any problem with that. If you can’t handle the heat, go to Minnesota.

We can only hope

I’d argue it wouldn’t even be a fraudulent 9-2. If Payton could get Winston and Taysom and literally everyone except Ian Book to have a winning record, he could kill it with Carr.

As frustrated as I am with Carr, he’s not untalented. He’s scared and makes atrocious decisions, yea. But if he had a coach that designed schemes away from his weaknesses, he’d be well above average.

Unfortunately, Pete’s “scheme” is “go be Drew Brees”. He does nothing to help Carr. That being said, I still think Carr is a limited player and a shitty teammate. But Payton would find a way to maximize his strengths instead of putting his weaknesses on full blast every week.

This is a really insightful comment. Like, on one hand, it’s hard to expect Carr to come in and be the leader of the team in 8 months. On the other hand, from a distance, it seems like he’s done the opposite of that and is alienating teammates. I will say that before Olave died yesterday, I thought Carr was genuinely showing a rapport with him like they went through some shit and have come out the other side stronger… but who knows.

If I were to make a Dennis Allen coach in Football Manager, he would have 0 charisma and 0 leadership. The scale goes up to 20. He has no business being a head coach. Clearly, he has some technical aptitude. Great! Stick to that! Don’t sour the whole team with your 1993 Ramada Inn motivational speeches.

As far as the offense identity… I couldn’t agree more. Like, what the fuck are we even trying to be? We can’t run the ball without Taysom or gadgetry, we can’t throw the ball deep if Shaheed is off the field, we never attack the middle of the field, Juwan is a fraud, we don’t utilize our receivers’ strengths (no slants with slant boy, no option routes with Kamara, etc.)… what are we even trying to cultivate? Yes, our line is shit. We know this. Our response? Bang runs up the middle and run 4 verts which takes forever to develop… like… the worst possible choices. How fucking stupid can you be??

I generally respect your comments Sphero, but why is this a bad take?

Team was middle shit, team made shit impulse decision, team is still middle shit, team will be middle shit for a long time.

I said this 8 months ago and was ridiculed into oblivion. I’m glad to see others are finally coming around.

If they want to pay me 150 million to “not throw interceptions”, I’m all in. I can check down to Kamara and Williams easily.

Exactly! Carr says “I thought he would walk in”… regardless of Bates, bro was covered so hard, he may as well have been wearing a Falcons uniform… maybe that’s part of the red zone problems we’re having…

(Although the pass that Shaheed dropped because it bounced off his knee was admittedly not Carr’s fault)

Bro legit said the safety did something unexpected like he’s not supposed to be looking for that. So basically, if the defense does anything different than what they show pre-snap, we’re fucked. Wonderful.

Watching C.J. Stroud after our game was painful. To see a rookie with that level of pocket awareness just made me sad about our situation with Derek “I’m a fucking Michelangelo statue” Carr.

Fired? He should never have been hired. I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish and more guts in 11 year old kids.

The Bucs game was “worse”. This one is more painful though.

I think he was just joking about silverware and hungry.

Reminder: don’t go over to their sub and be a dick. I’m pretty sure you will get banned from both subs if you do (mod confirmation needed). Playful banter is one thing, but don’t be a cunt.

This one got me. Well done

Some people can do but not teach. If something just comes naturally to you, but you don’t know how to explain it to someone else, you’ll probably be a pretty bad coach.

Others can teach but not do. It’s easy for them to understand what is happening and what should happen and convey that to someone else, but they might not have the physical ability to go execute that themselves. You’ll probably see at least a few career backup QB’s each week now as offensive coordinators or offensive assistants for this very reason.

Did you make this with a walkie talkie?

Bruh, all these responses and no mention of playing with the most accurate QB of all time…

He was an athletic monster, for sure, but Payton also had Brees to help make things work. Jimmy wouldn’t have been anything without Drew.

It not so much that it has taken time to “mesh” (if that is what we are assuming/hoping is happening now)… it’s how absolutely braindead they’ve looked outside of the last game (against a poor defense, at that). From the coaching mentality, to the playcalling, to the personnel usage, to the Carring, to the Olaveing… they’ve looked less organized, disciplined, and coherent than a high school JV offense.

I certainly hope this is the turning point and the start of much better things… but it’s hard to be truly optimistic given the first 7 games we all had the displeasure of watching.