they lost on Sunday night and look Logan they got they got
they got screwed on two different occasions at the goal
line. And who knows if they would have gotten the two-point
conversion? Who knows what would have
happened after that but the terror McLaren penalty
was weird. The
pass interference that wasn't called was ridiculous
but they still lost. Bottom line is they lost the game and
now we have this question of Taylor heinicke who
has been very good and we just assume he's the guy for
the rest of the year. R-ranma Rivera is asked about whether
or not. He's thinking about changing back to
Carson Wentz. Here's what coach Rivera had to say yesterday on
that issue.
No, no David. I think that the biggest theme or anything else
is, you know, sticking with, with Taylor and what we're
trying to establish, you know? And it is something though that
obviously is talked about obviously out there and it is
something that, you know, to be quite Frank as I do have to
think about at some point. But if we
can continue to if we get back on track and play, The way
we've played and do things that we've done, you know, then
we'll stick with where we are
until then, you know, I will, I will do that.
Look, I appreciate the Candor, I just don't know. The Candor
is the best play there. Unless there's some message. He's
trying to send a Taylor heinicke. Why do you? Yeah, he
filled this fire right? Thought. Yeah, out of your
mouth. Yeah.
What do you gain from that?
Unless it was strategic,
it was either a mistake or he has some reason for it. Chris,
I can't figure out. Out at this point, which one? I'm I'm with
you. Mike. I did think like, is he doing it to? Like maybe he
feels like Taylor heinicke. Plays better like this
when he thinks, oh no,
I might lose my job, I don't know.
Or was he just frustrated in the fact that,
you know, he tied and lost to a team that he probably views and
goes way, we were more talented than they are. How have we lost
to them? And tied to them? And that it's just, I think also
the age-old question about Taylor heinicke,
you know, again, I think he's a little fortunate.
Year where
the team got an order kind of just as he got to play in
Carson. Wentz got hurt. That's where I feel bad for Carson
Wentz, they couldn't protect, they couldn't run the ball when
Carson Wentz was there
and they just put it all on him and then they kind of got that
in order because they had to would Taylor heinicke, which
I want to go. Come on coaches, that's on you two but
hiney Keys, one of those Mike, we discussed this. I feel like
even last year and the year before. Yeah, he's a scrapper,
he's good in clutch. Ants. But when you go back after the year
and watch games, you go
well, yeah, he was good in the clutch moment, but we,
we should have won that game by
20 points. Oh yeah. Oh man, we won that one. We eat it out.
But damn, we should have won by 13 points. He left a bunch of
plays and throws on the field.
And I think there's some of that in every game would Taylor
heinicke. You know, there was that way in the first matchup
against the Giants, and the tie game the week before that
against the Falcons where they squeaked by,
it was the same type of thing where there were some plays
there. were there to be had and then I think Ron Rivera was
just frustrated with the you know the turnovers that led to
a touchdown and took a
you know, possible touchdown off the board from the
the sacks that's maybe led to that conversation or Ron Rivera
saying that after the game
You know, he said some things earlier this year that he had
to go back and clean up, like, the whole Carson Wentz. What's
the difference between you and the other teams in the NFC East
quarterback, right? Right. Then he stuck up for him crazy. Then
he took a shot at him
when he said, what's the difference of Taylor heinicke?
Eagle winning? And I want to be like you were just sticking up
for Carson Wentz and you're winning because
the team didn't help Carson Wentz early in the year, which
is on you, I thought those were low blows. I can't lie. I'm
glad you brought him up. Mike,
but, but look, I still, I still think there's A method to all
of it. He's a two-time coach of the year.
I
was thinking before, Sunday's game, he's positioning himself
to get votes this year. They still have in front of them,
what they're trying to. Yeah, they do is the six seed. After
all the crap, they've been through all the
distractions created by ownership and just one thing
after another, to the point where players were openly
talking about the fact that it is an issue that that it is
affecting them and Ron Rivera is leading them through that. I
I think he's done. Great job this year,
you know, the bottom line is
whether it's Carson, Wentz, or Taylor heinicke. It's not like
he has a high-end quarterback. No, he's a playoff position
issue without even a above average Quarterback. I'm sorry.
Taylor heinicke. He's winning games and he's getting it done.
But when you start listing your quarterbacks, if you were going
to do an in-season, yeah, he's on the top quarterback ranking,
right? He's not gonna be in the top half, right?
Agreed. Agreed with that. Mike, you're right. And I think
that's what leads to Ranma. Vera may be saying that and
I think they know that he's not the future of the organization.
So that's also
can make a little bit more
easy to say that as well,
but we'll see. I mean to me it was
it was
like to your point like I thought when he first said it,
maybe it was just Next Level. I'm gonna put some pressure on
this guy because I'd like him to play better, because it
doesn't seem like it matches up.
I mean, what do they've done? They've won,
they won what 5 out of 6, right? Had a tie game and now
they lost And we're going to talk about benching. The
quarterback. It did seem a little premature to bring up
that conversation.
They got a heck of a test coming up to? Yeah. They do not
write. 49ers followed by the Barons.
Track to maybe have to go back to San Francisco, if they get
in, as the sixth seed, depending upon how two, and
three ShakeOut, yeah, they could go to Minnesota. They
could go to San Francisco before Sunday's game. There was
kind of a sense that, hey, they could be dangerous in the Wild
Card round. Now, after the loss, to the Johnsons,
a different vibe, but still were three games away
from playoff time. We may feel very differently about
the Commander's by then in part because they may have
a different quarterback by then. Who knows? What. Stay tuned for
that.
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