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He's a big, powerful guy who seems durable and those are hard to find. Everyone who says running backs are a dime a dozen wouldn't say that if we had Derrick Henry. Big, powerful, durable backs are not easy to find and it appears we have one. I'm not giving him CMC money but 3 years, 30 million or maybe a little less wouldn't upset me, especially if we draft some explosive receivers or a decent tight end who can take pressure off of the run and pass game.

The year after 2014 was 2015, where we were __ that close to going undefeated. Our guys need to learn how to win and we are realistically only a few pieces away from being a 12-5 type team. Specifically speaking of safety, tight ends, and receiver.

I like DJ as a person, but he's either criminally underused or defenses are just teeing off on him. We really need a top tier tight end to take pressure off of our receivers and help open up the passing game. Imagine a Hunter Henry type instead of Ian freakin' Thomas. He would demand safeties, corners, and linebackers to pay attention.

McDermott is doing just fine. Will throw it 50 times a game if necessary and they have just as good of an offense as the Chiefs when healthy, and, they beat them. The Bucs won the Super Bowl against the top offense in the league, giving up 9 points. The Patriots beat the Rams, one of the top offenses in the league giving up 3 points. Hell, even the Rams and Bengels game last year was one the revolved primarily around whose defense was better. You can have a defensive minded head coach and hire a young and upcoming coordinator. I highly doubt Wilks will be upset at giving up 20 points per game if we have an offense that can score 35. We run the offense we do right now because it makes best use of the personnel that we have. You're not throwing the ball 35 times a game with this offensive line and tight ends group unless you want to lose. Hell, even our receivers can't break free which is a product of both scheme and skill. I'd be entirely confident in Wilks ability to modernize the offense while keeping a brick wall of a defense. He isn't Ron Rivera nor is he John Fox. He's Steve Wilks, period. He is his own man, own coach, and was his own player. He also does something that I've only really seen Ron Rivera do here and that is get guys to play for HIM and for each other. There is accountability here and I'm not saying that's not possible with another coach, but in an administrative or CEO type role he would likely have, that's exactly what you want. We could go get a Mike McDaniels or LeFleur but you see what happens to them? The league catches up. Without either/or a premier quarterback and wide receiver corp, they can't do poo. The Dolphins (mcdaniel) just signed one of their worst defensive linemen to $100 million+ for several years. How long do you think they will be humming? Truth be told, they stopped. Unless you get a generational guy like Shanahan who went into the 49er's and actually built the defense up as opposed to the offense, the results are going to come toward the median. Lastly, who is the best coach in NFL history? Bill Bellichek. Who are the top coaches right now? Dan Campbell (talk about lemons and lemonade), Bill, Sean McDermott, and Reid. All of those except for Reid are more of the CEO types and two of them were two of the best defensive coordinators during their time in that role. Wilks was one of the NFL's best before our roster building tanked. Ultimately, defense wins championships. It's why Reid has one Super Bowl despite the numerous Championship appearances while Bill has 7. It's why the Bucs beat the Chiefs in 2020. It's why the Patriots beat the Falcons after being down 28-3. I have faith the Wilks wouldn't be singularly focused on a power run game and defense only if we had the roster to handle a different style of play (we don't).

He's already being given 2nd round grades, sometimes 1st with what he's done at Coastal. People underestimate how good the Sun Belt is, for obvious reasons and history but it's slowly found its way up and is now the best G5 conference in the country according to several of the most valued computer models. The AAC's best team in Tulane even lost to Southern Miss, a Sun Belt program, and the game wasn't even that close. The last place team in the East division beat Virginia Tech and should've beat Virginia. Georgia Southern beats Nebraska. App State beats Texas A&M who beat No. 6 LSU and was 2 yards from beating Alabama at Alabama. Marshall obviously beat Notre Dame and that game wasn't all that close. Scouts know quality when they see it. Perception hasn't caught up yet but McCall would've been fine staying put in the G5. If he goes to Liberty and plays in C-USA I can't help but feel like his stock may fall a bit because that place is going to be a dump.

Why would he go to Wake Forest over App? Outside of Clemson, if you believe in computer models, the Sun Belt East was on par with the ACC and was the top G5 division in the country and the entirety of the conference was ahead of the AAC. If you can play, you can play. Josh Allen went to Wyoming, Carson Wentz went to NDSU, a chargers back-up went to NDSU, Trey Lance went to NDSU, Mahomes was at Texas Tech (who isn't any better than Coastal was before Chadwell started flirting with Liberty). If you can play, you'll get your shot. Doesn't matter if you're Division 2, FCS, G5 or P5. At this point, he needs to go somewhere he can ensure success, otherwise he's costing himself money.

Not sure why 4 Corners shat on you but Leach was an innovator. Kliff Kingsbury owes his career to Mike Leach. He made guys like Lincoln Riley, Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray possible. He was a real innovator in the game and made the Air Raid system palpable, if not preferred by many around the country seeking to level the playing field against more talented opponents. Tactician, intellectual, and by most accounts a decent human being if not demanding. I'll miss his Press conferences and general wisdom imparted and I'm sure everyone who knew him feels the same. Sad day for football. A Sunflower in a field of daisy's has fallen.

He could go to App State and be on a fairly explosive offense with a coordinator proven to run some Pro Style passing concepts. He actually wanted to go to App State but Eli Drinkwitz decided not to offer (2018-19). Who knows? There are going to be a lot of openings and some will be with places who have explosive, pro style offenses. By all accounts McCall is a hard worker so I'm sure he will be fine wherever he goes.

Why is that funny? Every team who has been to the playoffs with a losing record has won a game.

We are a half game back of the Bucs and they are a very, very bad team who cannot run the ball. If they didn't have Brady they may be a two or three win team right now. We have four weeks to finish here and I honestly think that there is a good chance we get it done. We have an identity on offense and sound play from Sam (if mcadoo doesn't kill him with naked boot legs first) and a tenacious defense who is pretty good at every level. I'm not saying we win a playoff game, but you never know. When you're hot your hot and we just saw the Panthers physically destroy a team trying to make a playoff push.

Chadwell went to Liberty. I'm semi-hopeful he ends up at App State but I'd be shocked if he doesn't go to Liberty or a contending P5. Liberty because Chadwell is there and they actually beat Arkansas and came within a 2 point conversion of beating Wake Forest. Good program, even if I have a disdain for the Liberty business model.

Baker showed that QB isn't our issue. He went in with 20 snaps in practice and had his best game of the year for the Rams. That's a system and talent issue. We don't have tight ends which shuts everything else in the passing game down. Furthermore, defense still wins championships. Look at the past few Super Bowl winners.

The thing is that they don't understand football. They think we are running smashmouth football because that's all Wilks wants. We are doing that because we have the personnel to do it with and our tight ends are the worst receiving group in the league. Tight ends open up the entire passing game in today's schemes and we have none that would qualify as a concern for opposing coaches. I'd say we hire Wilks, let him go find an offensive coordinator who is inventive, and build out the offensive side of the ball. Look at Tua before Mike McDaniels got there. People wanted him straight up cut. Look at Hurts before they figured out the system to run. I'd take Sam Darnold and a competent offensive coordinator along with a first round wide receiver all day, every day going into 2023. I'd also like for us to attempt to find a receiving threat at tight end because that would open up DJ Moore more than anything else that you can do. For those comparing Wilks to Fox or Ron, you don't know what you're talking about. Wilks is his own man. And even if he were Fox, last I checked Fox went out and got Manning who threw 50+ touchdown passes in a season and got the Broncos to a Super Bowl. So sign me up for that.

Three quarterbacks, seven or so position coaches, and new defensive coordinator, all in one season. I'd like to see another coach do what he's done with what has gone on herez especially considering the dumpster fire that Rhule left.

Which is why we can still fire Mcadoo and draft some playmakers at receiver. We are running out of necessity. We don't have the athletes to throw the ball all over the field. Our tight ends are garbage and that's really the difference in today's passing game versus 2004. That said, we are a half game out of first place in our division.

We gave up 24 and won...on the road...in Seattle..

Can people give Wilks some credit now? All I've seen here is a laundry list of things he hasn't managed to do. Let's look at what has happened. 4-3 record after stepping in during a 1-4 start, playing three different QB's letting go of what seemed like half your position coaches and replacing a coordinator, all while having, perceptively, the worst tight end group and lower tier pass blocking offensive line in the league. The Seahawks were playing well and relatively heavy favorites at 4 points (pretty decent spread in the NFL) in this game yet the Panthers man handled them. Give credit where credit is due. This man may not be here next season but he has done better than anyone expected him to be able to do.

Horn with two of the best INT's I've seen from the Panthers in a long time. Nevermind...

In short, it doesn't matter who is QB, the result would be the same right now.

Hubbard literally has like 7 or 8 YPC right now.

And that's why you run the ball 40 times, when it's working. Seahawks defense is burnt toast. It's not fun to watch when it's not working but man is it beautiful in the 4th quarter when two, 200 lb running backs just blast through the holes. Can we give Wilks some credit now? The Seahawks have played most of this season like a playoff team and assuming we win this, Wilkes will have a winning record playing three different QB's and a change in position coaches and defensive coordinator.

It's not Brady's fault. Their offensive line is terrible and Todd Bowles is who everyone knew he was. I'm surprised they haven't fired him yet.

We can't spend more draft picks on QB's where we are picking when QB isn't our issue. We need play makers and an offensive coordinator. Sam with the Rams would potentially look like a Pro Bowler. It's not him. We figured he had a competent coaching staff when he got here but guess what? He didn't. So he's played under Adam Gase and Matt Rhule.

Wilks isn't calling the plays bro. Not sure if you are aware.

Anyone who thinks that this is a QB issue isn't paying attention. This isn't on Sam. If they would watch All-22 they'd see that our receivers aren't getting open and by the time they are, Sam's window for making a decision is closed.