Khaki Lackey

It would be a great redemption story and a lot of huddlers' heads would explode. Not going to bet my next paycheck on it though.

You missed the sarcasm.

Unlike all the crybabies that want us to lose so that they can write juvenile open letters to David Tepper, I'm trying to remain hopeful here. Can our offense turn it around? Can the OL gel? Can Baker get it together? Give me a few reasons to think it's a possibility. Also, is Darnold still alive? Is he even on the sidelines? Bonus points if you can explain to me why our secondary sucks and is reverting to a Rivera soft zone.

No, you forgot. Training camp reps. Remember?

Is there any QB out there without a built in excuse?

Pssshhh. Next you'll be telling us that good teams usually have good QBs and bad teams usually don't. Hogwarsh.

I know the Saints were supposed to be ok this year, but they’re not. One decent showing from our defense against an offense that is really struggling does not mean we are ready to be a contender.

How is Brady Christiansen looking at guard? Is Ickey showing some good with the bad? Why is our secondary looking worse?

Hell yeah

Beating the Saints is always a good thing

If they lose Sunday I'll implement the DVR tape delay technique i.e. "daylight salvage time". It seems to come earlier every year.

Will Newton ask, "inperceivable says much about things, do you agree?"

"Not good say much no have good time." Jesus Christ, man. This is your career.

Not a great addiction to have when you're middle aged. If it's really about football, shame on her for not being willing to wait another year or two.

Robbiey needs to learn when not to say anything. He's not 100% wrong, but he needs to realize that sports is one thing that most grown ups allow themselves to be totally juvenile and irrational about.

Not drafting Fields is the one correct call of the Rhule era. Way to go, Matt.

No. He doesn't. That's the problem. All this time, I assumed "the process" was a thought out team building philosophy that he wouldn't dare telegraph to the league but you would see signs of it. For example, I thought his "process" must be, fix defense first, then OL, then get young QB. Makes, sense, right? A good defense is a QBs best friend, plus who would want to destroy a young QB behind a bad line? That's what the Jets do. Turns out "the process" is "try to get one percent better every day!!!" Rah rah, cheerleader bullshit. He had no plan. When he was hired, there was all this talk of analytics and sports science. I've seen no evidence of any of this.

I think after Luck ducked us to get his spine smashed in Indy, they probably wouldn’t be that foolish

Yeah, that would be an improvement, but I think keeping Rhule is our best chance at a top draft pick.

I wish no one ever tried to shoehorn the term "lame duck" into the NFL. He's not even halfway through his contract, and a good season salvages his job. Matt Rhule is many things. A lame duck is not one of them.

One thing I liked about Rhule early on was that he seemed really adaptable. Now he and Snow seem to be ignoring the failures and instead of learning from it, stubbornly digging in.

I’ve tried to be patient. I’ve seen enough of the Matt Rhule era.

We have too much invested in the secondary for them to get carved up like this.

Curable by winning, or beyond that?

Reports like this came out at the beginning of Ron’s 3rd year. There were threads on here about him constantly cursing out the players in practice and how they hated him and how he had lost the locker room. All exaggerated horseshit, of course. We might be in for a great season. I mean, I’m not going to hold my breath, but we might.