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Originally Posted by wheatrich
It's also added frustration seeing say Mahomes when his college film was better and well now it's definitely better.
Trubs is already too old for the NFL to still be a project, it's put up time. Winston/Mariota are less than a year older. I hope he does, I just don't see it is all. Whatever.
Watson was our guy as the third pick. That is who you have to compare Trubs to. And I think Watson is still ahead. Mahomes only was a great pick because he went to Andy Reid.
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Originally Posted by PJo336
Yup, I have to echo all of that. Mostly the fangio and no major injuries made this the year to get it done. Prob back to 8-8 next year with a mack/hicks/fuller/Howard/trubes injury or something. I'm still butt hurt.
Trubisky missed two games, Mack missed two games. Long actually cost them early in that game with his inability to even slow down Fletcher Cox. They were better against Donald without him.
Love Fangio, he deserves a HC gig. But this defense has a ton of talent it is not all scheme based. As long as they find a a good guy that doesn't try and shoehorn guys into bad spots they will be fine. I think I trust Nagy to pull that off.
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Originally Posted by five4suited
Thirded. That was ****in brutal. A wide open playoff race, I really thought we were gonna make it to the NFC ship at a minimum...
Trubes finally gave me hope that he might be good enough to get us there again.
otoh as Wheat noted we have a 24 year old QB who was only good enough to start 1 ****ing year in college. maybe he'll continue to improve... sigh. he still does too much stupid ****, still gets happy feet and frankly the Eagles inability to catch bailed him out because the narrative could have been very different.
I don't know how the D is situated salary cap wise but they should be just as good next year, praying that we keep Vic.
ldo but next year will tell the tale. let's see how we do against a first place schedule. I'm guessing Nagy won't ever turtle again like he did in the first half. We also need to figure out how to use Jordan Howard... or we could just nakedly copy NO. yeah, that would be sweet
Really hurts that they get the Eagles there. Happiest team after that game had to be the Rams. Their Super Bowl equity went through the roof with that Eagles win.
Nagy as a play caller spent a lot of time protecting this team from turning the ball over and tried to put other teams in a position where they had to go a long field against the Bears D and it took away some of the early season aggressiveness. That I think cost them against an Eagles team that struggled on defense if you aggressively attack them down field.
I still feel pretty confident in this team. Nagy is a good coach and that is half the battle in the NFL. They still have almost everyone you want under contract and they are a fairly young team on the average.
I'm sure Prince George will find a way to get his panties in a bunch over something and blow this up at some point.