“Rooted in Oakland” 😂

It’s probably the Chargers. The Patriots had a top defense for a few years after Brady left, but it’s mediocre now. The average defensive ranking Brady had with the Patriots was 9th overall, the best out of the recent generation of HoF QBs. Mac Jones first year, Patriots were ranked 2nd in points given up. They’ve lost the most 1 possession games this year, but they have the worst QB in the league with the worst receiving corp that’s not going to save them at the end of games. Belichick was never good at drafting skill position players and no longer has Brady and the best OL coach Dante Scarnecchia to mask that flaw. He’s good at getting low round slot guys who fit the system and develop like Welker, Emendola, and Meyers, but he can’t draft receivers who don’t fit that mold worth a salt. I think he’d be fine with the Chargers since they already have a QB and some good offensive players. They really need someone to bring discipline and improve the defense, which I think he can do. I still don’t think that will make them SB contenders unless they get someone else to be the GM.

I will say that /r/Saints sub isn’t as delusional for a several reasons. There are definitely some crazies like you mentioned, but nowhere close to how bad it is here.

1. He wasn’t drafted there so there isn’t that much “home grown” love.

2. Lack of Fresno alumni fans (many of them happened to be Raiders fan due to proximity to Oakland who love him to death)

3. They don’t have a “great year” with Carr that the fanbase is fixated with

4. They actually have recent memory of what a HoF QB is supposed to play like

5. They already saw how a middling QB plays with Dalton last year and have a reference point of what average QB play is like so they don’t get easily enthralled with it unlike Raiders fans who have seen trash for nearly 20 years

The reason for those 3 and outs is because he has no clue wtf to do in those moments and throws the ball away to protect his TD:INT ratio and QB rating. I wish people would acknowledge this more.

Crazy how the Patriots get a guy like this as an undrafted FA. Fits the prototypical, low round, undrafted hidden gem slot receiver type player that the Patriots have used so well like Welker and Edelman and then Belichick signs washed up JuJu over this guy for the same price. He’s making those Al Davis near the end of his career moves nowadays.

Tired of having fake GMs that cower to a mediocre coach.

Look at the Steelers organization. Kevin Colbert was GM for 2 different coaches and was responsible for getting the coaches hired and picking players. It shouldn’t be the opposite way.

Ultimately, it was on Zieg to attach himself to McD in the first place so he deserves blame for bad moves like this even if he didn’t have the same personnel power.