Mr. Scot

I'm guessing he meant Bravvion Roy. Is he "clearly" worse than Chandler or Franklin? I wouldn't be so sure of that. Remember one of the criticisms that came from outside the organization was that our roster was less merit-based than others. The Temple and Baylor guys were a big part of that perception. It may not even have been that they were useless themselves, but they may have been kept or chosen over at least potentially better options.

One of those "potential core pieces" on the offensive side is a pretty good illustration of why Rhule isn't here anymore. Rhule drafts Brady Christensen in the third round, then stubbornly refuses to play him at a position of need because "his arms are too short". A year later, we draft a guy with longer arms to specifically take that left tackle position, but he's forced to earn his spot because suddenly Christensen's arms aren't that big a deal after all. The dude was just a clown.

Hell, the team hasn't even put out a media guide this year.

Do you think any other team would have kept PJ Walker around this long? For that matter, a lot of teams probably would have been done with Robby Anderson after this season he had last year. Chandler and Franklin aren't exactly great either. More than one person questions whether either of them was better than, say, Kenny Robinson.

Damn, Robbie

Rhule wasn't completely useless. Hell, even Marty Hurney wasn't completely useless. Once the roster was built though, somebody had to coach it, somebody had to develop the players, and somebody had to put them in a position to succeed. Rhule didn't really seem to be able to do any of those things. When you're a head coach and you can't effectively do any of the things that are expected of your job, it's inevitable you're going to lose it.

If you're part of a cooperative group though, do you wanna work with that guy? For the NFL to function, they kind of need the teams to be at least reasonably civil to each other.

Which do you think would be easier though? To find an amazing physical specimen like a Cam Newton or a Josh Allen or find a guy with enough smarts that he could develop into another Tom Brady?

It's definitely not better at quarterback. A lot of other places though? Yeah. Gantt made the suggestion that it might just be a pretty decent overall roster to drop a good quarterback into and see what happens.

To be fair, I've heard the same about Tom Brady. He's arguably one of the least athletic quarterback prospects in the league. He's also one questionably the most successful. (and I don't buy that it's only because he's some kind of unicorn)

Don't know about Robbie specifically, but I do get kind of a sense that our overall ratio of Temple / Baylor players is probably gonna go down some.

Bledsoe might be a fair comparison, but less talented.

Help get me divorced? (or killed?)

From what I'd read a little while back (may even have been from the OTC guy, don't remember) what the Saints had done for years has now become more widespread. Teams are maximizing their cap on an annual basis and then adjusting on the fly year to year. I'm not a fan, but supporters of the approach of pointed out that some of the teams regularly carrying over large amounts of cap space are also putting crappy rosters on the field. So...

My wife's jokes aside I've had to kind of remind myself over the last couple of days that football season is still going on. Head coaches getting fired make you think of the offseason, and even a lot of our discussion has centered around what would typically be offseason topics. And then I'm reminded "Oh yeah, we're playing this Sunday." I'm probably not alone in that.

At the very least, I think between them Holcomb and Wilks are probably better able to analyze how to attack an NFL offense than Phil Snow was.

Does he? Snyder still gives me the vibe of a shrimpy guy telling his friends to hold him back from attacking the heavyweight cage fighter in front of him. I'm not really sure how seriously to take him when he says he has dirt on guys. From what the story says though, there sure seem to be a whole lot of people in the NFL who are afraid that he does. (granted that could also just be paranoia from people with skeletons in their closet)

I'll tell her you said that.

Define "physically". He's certainly got great size for a quarterback, but I don't remember him necessarily being anything special in the athleticism department.

He'd also have had familiarity with QB coach Sean Ryan. Would that have made a difference though? Not necessarily a huge difference.

I love my wife. I really do... So much in fact that I got her a personalized authentic Cowboys jersey. Told her I'd considered waiting to give it to her as a Christmas or birthday gift but I wanted her to have it now before her season was over. She responded "Oh, my season isn't over until the Super Bowl. Your season is over" I love my wife. I really do

Garoppolo is a funny name to mention in this circumstance

Been on that bandwagon for years...

He looked pretty damn good against us last year. But I'm never sure how seriously to take that

"Well hey, at least McCaffrey isn't hurt yet." - Lady Cowboy Fan