9 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

The day before Monday Sept 2

A weekend day...first one in September.  Which makes Friday of the game... the 2nd weekend. 

Ted Rath was fired. In charge of sports science and conditioning. Looks like he’s taking the fall for the players looking gassed at the end of the year. 

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

I just explained it’s because of a loophole in the law around Labor Day being at the very beginning of the month. They bypass it on Black Friday by having the majority of the game being over by 6 PM.

Brazil is not subject to US acts of Congress

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, the NFL isn't allowed to televise any gameson Friday or Saturday from the second weekend in September through the second weekend in Decembe

Televise lol.They get around this by using Peacock. Not difficult to understand. There was no PPV or streaming in 1961

8 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Ted Rath was fired. In charge of sports science and conditioning. Looks like he’s taking the fall for the players looking gassed at the end of the year. 

Scapegoat. If the players are not in shape that should be on Siri. What conditioning changed after the bye? IDK. Most of the "gassed players were on D because the O could not keep the ball long enough to rest them. Although I love alot of scoring,if you score too fast,your D gets worn out,or you make bonehead mistakes and go 3 and out.

2 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Scapegoat. If the players are not in shape that should be on Siri. What conditioning changed after the bye? IDK. Most of the "gassed players were on D because the O could not keep the ball long enough to rest them. Although I love alot of scoring,if you score too fast,your D gets worn out,or you make bonehead mistakes and go 3 and out.

Barkley should be worth his weight in gold this year as far as ball control where we wear out THEIR D

10 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Scapegoat. If the players are not in shape that should be on Siri. What conditioning changed after the bye? IDK. Most of the "gassed players were on D because the O could not keep the ball long enough to rest them. Although I love alot of scoring,if you score too fast,your D gets worn out,or you make bonehead mistakes and go 3 and out.

Or you could look at conditioning being very much on the individual players themselves…cough cough…Jordan Davis. You could also say the D doesn’t get off the field and get the stops they needed as to why they were getting gassed. Kept the ball from returning to the O to stay in any kind of rhythm also…but that’s a whole different story….

5 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Or you could look at conditioning being very much on the individual players themselves…cough cough…Jordan Davis. You could also say the D doesn’t get off the field and get the stops they needed as to why they were getting gassed. Kept the ball from returning to the O to stay in any kind of rhythm also…but that’s a whole different story….

That's true,but the coach needs to threaten them with pine time. He sees what's going on every day. He gets reports every day. Despite his "emotional outbursts" Siri doesn't seem like the "tough love" type

8 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

That's true,but the coach needs to threaten them with pine time. He sees what's going on every day. He gets reports every day. Despite his "emotional outbursts" Siri doesn't seem like the "tough love" type

"Pine time” would give them the needed breather that wasn’t afforded. 

9 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

That's true,but the coach needs to threaten them with pine time. He sees what's going on every day. He gets reports every day. Despite his "emotional outbursts" Siri doesn't seem like the "tough love" type

Sounds like all he’s getting is reports this season. Hurts didn’t even have an answer for Siri’s involvement in the O this season when questioned.

Gotta consider our team played all the way through the SB to end 2022 season. Then played every game down to the wire all season without being able to pull or rest players…couldn’t even take it easy at the end of any games….including two OT games vs Washington and Buffalo. Giants and Cards games the D just look zapped. Looked whatever is past zapped the games after that.

Media really reaching at straws to drum up strive between Siri and Hurts lol honestly comical at this point listening to the media 

2 hours ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

Media really reaching at straws to drum up strive between Siri and Hurts lol honestly comical at this point listening to the media 

Not sure they need to dig much. What’s Siri’s job anymore? It’s completely Fangio’s D…including personnel. Completely Moore’s O. Rosie is in charge of decision making for each coordinator. Had a media opportunity with Rosie and Siri this offseason with the press not asking a single question to Siri. He’s not even that great at the press conference part of things which is all that’s really left for him to do. Basically just a middle man to take the fall if things don’t go according to plan at this point.

If a player doesn’t agree or get along with Siri is he getting benched? Traded? Cut? If Siri wants to do something Fangio doesn’t…what happens? Siri I guess is in charge of timeouts and challenges now. That’s about it. Going to team banquets for photo ops. Kick the field goal or go for it on fourth down situations along with whether to go for the two point conversion…maybe. I prefer in several of those circumstances making the choice with belief you have a playcall you feel strongly will work though. Which wouldn’t be the case in this situation with him being detached.

I thought Siri lost the team last season. Was surely going to be axed. 

Go back to the Chiefs game and Siri is raising his hand up antagonizing Mahomes…Hurts has to regulate his HC and pull his arm down. Then Siri has that outburst yelling at the Chiefs fans after the game walking into the tunnel. Our Qb is much more mature than our HC. How would you feel in that scenario? Add to that Hurts long time family friend was the fall guy for the O becoming so stale and not having any adjustments or answers to adapt. Definitely would have to believe it would have been easier on Hurts to have lost Siri than Johnson.

Found it interesting how Hurts calls our OC, Kellen and our QB Coach, Coach Doug.

"So that’s exactly what makes it different. The X’s and O’s, the lines on the paper, they may very well be what they’re supposed to be but how I coach and how I detail these routes, how I coach the quarterback, what I want his timing to be, where I want him looking, where I want his eyes. Are receivers reading routes? Are they not reading routes? Are there alerts on this? Are there checks and adjustments built in on this? Or is there something that someone has to do, that the quarterback has to do? That’s what makes a system a system.” 
 Quote from Hurts figured I’d share

Really already can notice the difference for Hurts having a quality QB coach. By promoting Johnson from QB coach to OC we lost that last season. I definitely noticed Hurts and Coach Doug engaged in conversation and teaching in the bits of OTA tape I watched. Now the word hasn’t been that Hurts has looked sharp in these OTAs. But I’m optimistic that will develop and happen.

9 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

"Pine time” would give them the needed breather that wasn’t afforded. 

Not what I meant LOL

9 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Sounds like all he’s getting is reports this season. Hurts didn’t even have an answer for Siri’s involvement in the O this season when questioned.

I don't think you give that info out

4 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Found it interesting how Hurts calls our OC, Kellen and our QB Coach, Coach Doug.

Why is it interesting?

4 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

"So that’s exactly what makes it different. The X’s and O’s, the lines on the paper, they may very well be what they’re supposed to be but how I coach and how I detail these routes, how I coach the quarterback, what I want his timing to be, where I want him looking, where I want his eyes. Are receivers reading routes? Are they not reading routes? Are there alerts on this? Are there checks and adjustments built in on this? Or is there something that someone has to do, that the quarterback has to do? That’s what makes a system a system.” 
 Quote from Hurts figured I’d share

Can't be a quote from Hurts. In other words he is teaching Hurts how to play the QB position which is what we have all been saying. One of Hurts main faults is making 1 read only. An NFL QB has to do better than that,then decisive delivery on the best route open. We all know Hurts can run,but he needs to play the position now. if those 2 things combine,then you can have the MVP discussion

8 hours ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

Media really reaching at straws to drum up strive between Siri and Hurts lol honestly comical at this point listening to the media 

Possibly yeah but Hurts answer about Sirianni and how he’s adjusting wasn’t exactly a sound endorsement. We don’t know what’s going on but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Hurts doesn’t rate Sirianni.

3 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Can't be a quote from Hurts. In other words he is teaching Hurts how to play the QB position which is what we have all been saying. One of Hurts main faults is making 1 read only. An NFL QB has to do better than that,then decisive delivery on the best route open. We all know Hurts can run,but he needs to play the position now. if those 2 things combine,then you can have the MVP discussion

 

If the O playcaller calls a good or great play which guy should the QB be throwing to? First read.

If the QB reads the D correctly presnap which guy should he throw the ball to? First read. 

So the goal is to throw the ball to the first read….by the playcaller and the QB doing theirs jobs well.