SmokinwithWilly

I wonder how much Rhule had to do with that. He could have wanted to play for a contender or he could have been tired of the BS Rhule was constantly spewing.

I'd still rather have the picks and salary. Hassan Reddick cast 15m per year and does what Burns does. That's not saying Burns is bad or not talented or anything of the sort. For a team in a rebuild, with a new coaching staff, that 25-30m estimated, plus 3 2nds this year, 2 1sts the following 2 years is a lot to work with. You may get a player of Burns talent in the draft, you may not. It also needs to be considered that it may take 2-3 years to be competitive since we don't have a franchise QB yet unless you believe Sam is the answer. So maybe half his contract is during a competitive time for the franchise. It's all dependent on how you see the team and it's future. I'd like to be able to keep Burns, but not for the price I think he's going to command. I think the team could benefit more from using the picks and salary wisely than what Burns alone brings. Of course that all depends on if we get it right starting with the HC.

His job is to protect the brand. We all know that. But waiting 30 minutes after Hamlin is taken away in an ambulance after CPR doesn't do that at all. Look at the emotions it pulled out of people, not just the players. Telling these men to warm up and get ready to go doesn't protect anything. It makes you look like a compassionless asshole. If you're the CEO of a multi billion dollar organization and your job is to protect the brand, you need to be able to read the room. Suspending the game to allow players time to recover from what they saw wouldn't be difficult. No different really than if a game had to be called due to lightning. Reschedule, play the game, and at least pretend like you care. It's not a good look for the NFL right now.

And they wanted him to keep playing. Crazy.

We can only hope.

I hope they could look at these men and read the room so to speak. They were shaken. They were genuinely scared. To hell with SOP. Pick up the phone and say I can't put these guys back on the field in the state they are. You have to make sure these men, all these men including Damar are OK before you ask them to take another snap.

If owners want to save face at all or show any support for the players and coaches, they fire him immediately.

If true, Goodell needs to go ahead and resign.

If you have any decency at all, seeing the emotion on these men's faces during all of this before he's put in the ambulance, you know this game is done. As soon as that ambulance was out of the stadium they should have called it.

Pretty much. A guy is on the field fighting for his life. No one really gives a poo about doritos or mountain dew.

Big time. When was the last time you have ever seen these men scared like that? I would have expected them all to tell the NFL to go fug itself.

Goodell makes the call. You could see the players faces. This wasn't just concern. These guys were visibly shaken, some probably traumatized. It's too much to ask of any of them to go back out and play a game. Making them warm up. C'mon. A teammate, a colleague, a friend could have just died on the field for all they know and they can't decide if they need to continue in under 60 seconds? Gotta be better than that.

You're not.

I'm trying to remember a worse evaluator and developer of talent and I'm struggling. If he's not bottom 3, he's definitely bottom 10. I can't recall 1 player that I can say really improved under Rhule's tutelage and that's saying something given some of the players we have.

The NFL told the league years ago when they changed the rules for WRs to make it much harder on DBs this league was moving towards an offense oriented league. We need someone who's rolling with the league instead of trying to stop it. They're not making playing defense any easier. Just embrace it already.

After watching the end of season press conference last year, I seriously believe he thought Rhule would be fired. You could see it in his body language and hear it in his voice he had no confidence in Rhule at all. He may have very well thought Rhule would be gone at the end of the year, he would have the offseason to find a new HC, and start putting his fingerprints on this organization. There's only 32 of these jobs available and whether or not you think it's a good situation, you never know when or if you will ever get another shot to run an NFL franchise. If he succeeds, he's going to have a job for decades. If not, well, it's back to obscurity in an NFL FO somewhere. One thing to remember is Tepper is heavily involved in what's happening, so much so that we restructured multiple contracts to make room for a player that didn't want to be here. How much Tepper was involved in the Burns no trade, we don't know either. The one thing I can say for certain is Tepper needs to let the NFL people do their job and stay out of it.

Also, the Saints are wanting a 1st, probably more seeing as he has a ring, for the rights to Payton so that would need to be factored in as well if we were on his list, which we apparently aren't.

Rhule was given roster control and was making decisions that no head coach should be making. Henderson trade was a miss, but it made sense given he was on the outs with the only coach in the NFL worse than Rhule. Risk vs reward. The Darnold trade was a response to getting rid of T2G publicly and having no other option. You can't negotiate a trade well when you have no leverage. We didn't really have a choice to pay what the Jets wanted because they could simply tell us to F off and we were screwed. It was handled terribly by Rhule and the FO. Mayfield for a 5th. Meh. Most 5ths don't contribute anyway so it wasn't much of a gamble at all even though it didn't work. Why anyone thought Baker/McAdoo would be a good pairing is the bigger question regarding that trade. Perryman was hurt in preseason and didn't want to be here, not shocking with Ray-Z at the helm. The others have Rhule's inability to evaluate or grade talent all over them. Typically a GM assembles a team for a coach and tries to find players to fit the coach's philosophy. That's doesn't appear to be the case, especially considering Tepper's willingness to get over evaluate situations, ie Watson. Seeing Fitts perfrom this offseason will be a much more accurate evaluation of his abilities. If he has that opportunity, fine. If not, that's ok too. It just wouldn't surprise me to see Tepper and Rhule's fingerprints all over the GM job the past 3 years.

Mine has never changed. I want an offensive minded head coach that is in tune with the way the NFL is headed. Nothing Wilks has done has changed that.

I don't think he showed much flexibility early on. He kept beating the RPO drum with Baker when Baker was never a run threat. Thats a huge part of why the offense looked so terrible under Baker. Baker/McAdoo combo never made much sense from the beginning. Sam always fit his playbook more than Baker did. His offense has been very basic much of the time, and he doesn't scheme receivers open very well. Our offense has been less than impressive all year.

We've had defensive coaches and one extreme bullshitter for the entire existence of the franchise and have yet to put together back to back winning seasons. He's done well as interim, but I think it's time to look at an offensive minded HC. We need someone who's career is embracing the way the NFL is trending, vs someone who's spent their career trying to stop it.

Right where I'm at. Can't say I'm optimistic then we hire Adam Gase.

Did you ever think you would say Sam would be the best QB for DJ of all our options this year?

I think it really depends on the team on whether you cut the value or not. The Rams aren't looking good. Stafford's elbow looks done. They've already given up this year's first. The question is do you believe the Rams are headed to the playoffs the next 2 years. I'm skeptical based simply on the rumors of Donald possibly retiring, McVay being up in the air, QB questions, and so on. Even if you think the 24 and 25 picks are in the teens, added to 35-37 this year, is a good haul. Even if they make the playoffs, late 1st picks could be very useful for a team in a rebuild, plus as trade capitol. I doubt we ever know either. I genuinely think the Rams were trying to win it all this year because the wheels are coming off next year and they knew it. After watching what Reddick did this year for about 60% of what we're going to pay Burns, It makes it even harder to think we turned it down. Of course NFL execs have their own way of thinking, but it doesn't mean my Monday morning GM skills don't think Fitts was wrong to turn it down.

So what if I'm getting alimony from Giselle? Giselle's new boyfriend is THIS big!