Mr. Scot

Condoleezza Rice has been rumored to be in consideration for that job for years.

To be fair, and with the disclaimer that I'm definitely not a Rhule apologist, it looked that way to a lot of us. Remember the absolute euphoria when we traded for Stephon Gilmore?

List definitely makes sense...

Defense has a couple of challenges built in, the first of course being that we're switching to a new system under a new DC and some of our players (like Gross-Matos )may not fit very well. But on top of that, there's the analysis that some of what Evero has done in the past doesn't necessarily fit with traditional position concepts. (Jourdan Rodrigue talked a lot about that in her analysis of him) So you have to ask where you put the guys that may or not not fit the new scheme In a depth chart that doesn't necessarily correspond to traditional roles and rules? Good luck with that

Not too familiar with LSU guys but yeah, that's possible.

I'd agree

Most of the big stories out today are about fifth year options, cuts, etc. Here's one that's not though, and one that might be kind of important.

Also within the NFC South...

In reality we've gotten quite a bit of behind the scenes information from those years since Rhule was fired. Hell, there was a fair amount of it out there even before that happened, and what's come out since has pretty well jibed with what was known before. Bottom Line: When you have total control (which Rhule had from the beginning) you're not a "convenient scapegoat".

Speaking of Jaguars and fifth year options...

Bills just got a decent runningback... Post draft is when stuff starts happening because teams know who they've got now. (or perhaps more importantly who they didn't get)

I wish

I'd imagine there qre probably a fair number of Rhule era "WTF" stories we still haven't heard yet.

Technically they didn't specify what team it would be for

Side Note...

From Mike Kaye... Although Henderson has made the occasional highlight play for the Panthers, he has yet to carve out a permanent starting role in the secondary. He will look to earn that job under his third NFL coaching staff this season. While Henderson’s option was declined, he could still earn a second deal with the Panthers with a strong 2023 campaign. The Panthers passed up the opportunity to select a cornerback in this past weekend’s draft. The squad also failed to bring in a veteran cornerback during free agency. Both decisions put Henderson in prime position to earn an important role in Evero’s system. Reasonable to guess that Evero had input on those decisions as well.

My elementary school showed us that movie when I was in third or fourth grade. Found aspects of it a little dark at the time

It makes more sense though to place blame for things that actually happened.

Could turn out that way. The quotes I've seen only said that we weren't necessarily going to fill all 90 spots. If there was a rationale given, I didn't see it quoted.

I'd expect they'll at least get to more than 85.

Yep. Insiders said he had really been hoping to draft Henderson the year before but it didn't fall that way.

Official announcement...

Yeeeeaaahhh...no. More than one insider has pointed out that Matt Rhule was the one who most heavily coveted CJ Henderson. Likewise the pickups of Bridgewater, Darnold and Mayfield were all his idea. Fitterer takes the blame for Darnold's fifth year option, but not the other stuff. I'd add that Dan Arnold in Jacksonville hasn't exactly been anything special.

Fitterer has indicated they're not necessarily going to fill all 90 spots. (have to assume Reich agrees with this)