Mr. Scot

From the story... “I’m in a lunge position. Left leg forward, right leg back,” Lambo said. “... Urban Meyer, while I’m in that stretch position, comes up to me and says, ‘Hey Dips--t, make your f--king kicks!’ And kicks me in the leg.”

That's like wanting to learn about acting and directing from Tommy Wisseau.

Also from today...

So...anybody left who still buys the story that Rhule "couldn't wait" to coach Newton when he got here?

Is Rhule?

Just for a moment here, I'd like to ask everyone to put aside their opinions about Cam Newton's abilities, his personality, his social media, what should have been done with him, what shouldn't have been done with him, etc. (yeah, I get what I'm asking, but hear me out...) I want to ask for opinions on one very specific topic. How do you view Matt Rhule's relationship with Cam Newton? What is it that informs you of your ideas one way or the other?

Not really. And it's not like you can force somebody to do their best. That'd be putting us in a position where he could cause a lot of damage on the way out.

There was a time when it would have been possible to have someone with experience help him transition into an NFL head coaching role. That time would have been when he was hired, and the appropriate person would have been a former NFL head coach added to his staff. That didn't happen, and two years in we're waaaay past the time when that would be practical.

And Matt Rhule agrees to coach a "write off year" setting things up for his successor...why, exactly?

You hire a head coach to guide an organization toward being a championship contender. If you have to mold that coach into a guy that can do that (basically coach the coach) then you're essentially admitting he can't do that in his own ability. And if you've got to teach him what to do, how long does that take? And geez, why the hell would any team want to go that route?

You're actually David Newton, aren't you?

To be clear, what you're seeing in this article doesn't likely reflect anyone's opinion but Callihan's. He's arguing for Rhule to get at least one more year based on the "his college teams turned it around in year three" argument. Others have used that as well, but the problem is it's a false equivalent. This isn't college, and what works in college all too frequently doesn't work in the pros. For evidence of that, just take a look at the effectiveness of Matt Rhule's game plans. All indications are that the vast majority of fans all over (not just in this forum) are pretty well ready to move on from Rhule. As far as the people in whose power it is to actually make that determination, we have no idea what their feelings are right now or what they will be. All we can do is let them loudly and clearly know ours.

Their origin isn't what shows them to be unqualified. Their performance does. The question of who better to execute your vision is a two part answer. At the pro level, it's people who are capable of coaching professional players to professional level results. If you're Matt Rhule however, and all you have is a college level vision, then your buddies from Temple and Baylor will do just fine. And again, to be clear I don't begrudge Matt Rhule the ability to hire whomever he thinks is qualified. Where the problem comes in is that Rhule himself isn't qualified for a pro level job, so why would he know how to hire pro level assistants? The bottom line here is that we hired a college coach who brought with him a college staff to try and do a professional job... ...and they failed. So here's to not making that mistake again.

Last I saw, I think it was nine.

Well, we changed patterns with Nixon. Based on last game, our new MO seems to be to have one good drive early in each half and then be inconsistent till that half ends.

If Rhule's still here, I wouldn't be surprised to see them draft Pickett given his prior connection.

You mean other than "losing your sh-t"?

Might be time to clean the petri dish.

Fair, though "Bad Jameis" definitely came out to play that day.

You okay, John?

Teammates and former teammates troll each other all the time.

I've seen Tom Brady pull sh-t like that and have it turn into a miracle. I've also seen him try the same stunt again a few games later and have it be a disaster. As I said before, I do like when players have that kind of competitive fire to try something, even something crazy, in order to win. Sometimes it doesn't work out, and you probably shouldn't make too much of a habit of it, but football is an unpredictable game and wild stuff happens. I suppose the best advice on stuff like this would come from an exchange between the legendary Lou Brown and the great Willie Mays Hayes... "Nice catch, Hayes. Don't ever f---ing do it again."

Thompson maybe. Jackson you might have been able to argue up till Rivera dismantled him.

You seriously think someone else on the team just decided we should have a bunch of Temple and Baylor players on roster, or that Robby Anderson needed to get a big extension? Yeah, sure See, this is key: Those examples you cited, Matt Rhule is in charge of every one of those things. He hires the coordinators and assistant coaches. The strength and conditioning people are his people from Baylor. He has final say over roster decisions, depth chart rankings, free agent signings and draft picks. I mean hell, he even helped choose the GM. In the area of football operations, there's nobody that the team has hired, signed, drafted, traded for or in any way acquired that Matt Rhule didn't sign off on. That's the kind of power David Tepper have him, and it's not like he argued against it. This is the sort of arrangement he wanted. Knowing this, any suggestion that he should be absolved of blame for the current state of the organization is pretty weak.

I'm fine with that sort of arrangement, but ours is not that simple. Rhule has final say over everything in the program. It's the same model Seattle has with Pete Carroll, but Pete Carroll was a guy with real NFL experience and a far higher level of success at the college level than Matt Rhule. Giving Rhule that kind of power was like taking the assistant manager at the local McDonald's and making him CEO of the corporation.