MasterAwesome

Can someone turn the windshield wiper on?

Yes.

“It is what it is. And for me right now, I’m going to do everything that I can to support Baker and get him ready to play…”. /thread That was either an incredibly disingenuous misinterpretation of a tweet, or you have a woeful lack of critical thinking ability.

I can only assume you don't understand what the word "projection" means cause that literally made zero sense. How many people think Rhule is dumb and a bad coach and makes horrible decisions? Probably >85% of these boards. How many people predicted Matt Rhule was going to start Sam Darnold Week 1? Just you. It's okay to admit you have silly takes sometimes lol. Even your like-minded compatriots didn't wanna touch that one.

Again, it sounds like the only person the "pointless QB battle" fooled was you. I can think Matt Rhule makes questionable decisions and still think that Matt Rhule isn't going to cut Brian Burns tomorrow. But somehow I wouldn't be surprised if you started making that claim lol.

Yeah it was so obvious and yet you still somehow got it wrong.

Poor CRA is now 0 for 48 in his offseason predictions.

Lol huh? How about you start by, as a moderator, outlining which forms of whining is acceptable. Best I can tell based on your behavior in this thread: -Whining about the team = OK. -Whining about other people whining = Not OK. -Whining about other people whining about other people = OK. Also, you can strawman all you want about "optimistic" people being intolerant of opposing viewpoints. But just use your imagination to envision a thread along the lines of "I still believe in Rhule" or "Darnold could still be a good starting QB in this league" and then imagine how many people on your side of the aisle would jump in and absolutely blast the OP. Not the substance of what the OP is saying, but the OP himself. And that's your problem as a moderator: this whole toxic culture you've sat by and allowed to fester is totally a "both sides" thing, and yet you have explicitly drawn a line in the sand to coddle one side and villainize the other.

Or maybe we just want you to "stay in your lane" and do a little moderation instead of lashing out and complaining about something you are uniquely positioned to do something about.

Kyler is the highest paid OC in league history.

Were people seriously claiming every other team is treating Week 2 like the dress rehearsal? By my estimation from checking box scores, it looks like maybe 6-8 teams actually played their starting QB lol.

Panthers.com is streaming the game FYI.

Oh yeah I totally agree, I was only providing him the reports about Neal struggling.

https://giantswire.usatoday.com/2022/08/19/new-york-giants-evan-neal-named-one-nfl-most-disappointing-rookies-so-far/ https://www.bigblueview.com/2022/8/4/23291780/looking-at-evan-neals-early-struggles-more-from-giants-offensive-line

I think the reality is that maybe there aren't as many "Rhule defenders" as you imagined. The actual breakdown on this board is something like: ~25% of Huddlers who get triggered by absolutely anything and everything Rhule does and even doesn't do (I'm probably low-balling it). When I say they get triggered by things he doesn't do, I mean the people who fabricate scenarios and then get pissed at Rhule about it. These are the people who posted for months leading up to the draft about how that stupid POS Rhule is drafting Kenny Pickett and wasting our 6th overall pick. And about how dumbass Rhule is going to play PJ Walker the entire game tonight and cut Matt Corral before the regular season. And about how that clown Rhule is going to trot out Sam Darnold Week 1 to start him for a few games to intentionally wait until the boos come so he can scapegoat Darnold and then bring out Baker to rejuvenate the crowd and cool his hot seat. ~10% of Huddlers who are fans of Rhule and defend his every decision. I honestly don't even think it's that high but I'm being charitable here. *Checks math* ~65% of Huddlers who fall in between and are reserving judgment and panic about the approach and just want to see how things play out before freaking out. This group has Rhule on a very short leash and will wholeheartedly join the pitchfork mob if we start off ~0-3. This board has become so damn radicalized by a vocal minority, that the 65% "wait and see" crowd is considered delusional and are lumped in with that tiny percentage of Rhule homers.

You know what will crush the rookie's spirit (and ribcage)? Starting him against the Patriots' 1st string d-line with our back-up o-line lol.

I’m genuinely curious: is it acceptable for me or anyone else to simply post something like “Joe Brady was really bad”? Or does it always have to be caveated with “…oh but also Matt Rhule sucks and btw he is the one who hired Joe Brady and that was really dumb!!”. I’m still unclear on why your insistence to lump Matt Rhule in with every Joe Brady criticism is unique to Joe Brady when Rhule is responsible for the entire coaching staff and roster. Why do you include Rhule in every conversation about Brady but not in every conversation about Darnold, Teddy, our “bottom third coaching staff”, our poor o-line, Robby Anderson’s contract, how bad Elflein is, Chuba’s stone hands, etc. Rhule is ultimately responsible for all of those things, but somehow you are able to entertain (and even contribute) isolated criticisms of each one of these without lumping in Rhule every time. No, you reserve that uniquely for Brady. So playing dumb about not having a Brady Boner is pretty silly. Or is it that you only have room to nestle one person in your bosom?

I have explicitly said Rhule sucks and Joe Brady sucks and your Brady-colored glasses translated that into me loving Rhule and being unfair to Brady. But nice try. I like how all of a sudden you don’t have a problem with the “Brady and Rhule both suck” stance because Linville said it. Talk about spineless…go ahead and call him a Rhule lover for acknowledging that they both suck lol I know that triggered you.

CRA after probably 300-400 posts this off-season alone fighting tooth and nail to explicitly defend Brady from any criticism: “Quit acting like I love Brady” CRA to anyone who makes a pointed criticism towards Brady without even mentioning Rhule in any way: “RHULE LOVER!!!” Lol, this is like an SNL skit.

But you do like genuinely love Brady lol it’s weird as hell. If what you posted above is truly your position rather than you being the spokesman for Boners For Brady, then you would also be redirecting any Darnold criticisms towards Rhule like you do with Brady. Cause your exact same reasoning applies to Darnold. Any time someone posts “Wow Darnold sucks”, you should be storming in like “Woah woah Rhule is the one who traded for Darnold, HE’S the one responsible for our POS offense”. But that’s not what you do, is it? You pile on Darnold like the rest of us, but you shield Brady of every single criticism directed towards him. Brady is uniquely coddled by you every time anyone dares say anything negative about him.

How did I know CRA was gonna come sprinting into this thread to deflect all Joe Brady criticisms I will let McAdoo borrow my crystal ball.

Just curious, do you praise Rhule for coming out and naming Icky as the starting LT yesterday, like you're praising these coaches for saying today that they're gonna start giving their promising rookie QBs meaningful snaps with the 1st string (at least Tomlin and Rivera)? Call me crazy, but I imagine if Rhule came out in a presser today saying "we're going to start giving Corral meaningful reps" (like these other coaches did), you'd be like "LOLOLOL it's about time this idiot figured it out". "Matt Rhule - We have a plan for our rookie LT to get up to speed and start taking meaningful reps in the preseason" So do you agree with the above statement (using your framing)? Cause I struggle to see the difference in Rhule's approach with our promising rookie LT vs. these other teams' approach with their promising rookie QBs. I get the whole Corral thing is frustrating and I'm willing to grant you that. But the Icky thing, from my perspective, is an example of you praising other coaches for something that you blasted Rhule for.

TBD...if Mahomes ends up arrested for his involvement in a human trafficking scheme and we ended up wasting that conditional 2029 7th round pick, then it was definitely Rhule!!

Yeah that's fine and that's the type of stuff you would incorporate into Rhule's overall evaluation as to whether you think he's a good coach or not. But you should still be able to separate your overall opinions of Rhule from your opinions on any individual action he takes. I'm not arguing that we should blindly trust Rhule, I'm saying we should be objective and levelheaded enough to not let our opinion of Rhule poison our ability to evaluate an individual move beyond simply the person making it. If Rhule traded a conditional 2029 7th round pick for Pat Mahomes, could we agree that's an awesome move? Or would we pause and say "wait a second....this is Rhule we're talking about...nothing he does makes sense! He must have gotten screwed somehow. TERRIBLE MOVE!".