Mr. Scot

Nearly half the snaps dedicated to a guy who's not gonna make the roster...

His schtick is to take up positions that nobody agrees with and write nonsensical six paragraph posts defending them.

So in other words, he's a freshman. This is a prime example of college coach thinking.

But not a real head coach...

I think Carboni gets it...

Meanwhile...

I know there are some guys who just delusionally think you can't say anything negative about the team, regardless of how bad they look. Silly, but that's their thing. You've got other guys who I'm pretty sure are just being internet a--holes. That's kinda pathetic though not surprising... But yes, there are also some "true believers". Those guys scare me

Granted, but when I look back at some of the other statements Rhule was made (including this latest one) I start to better understand why we are where we are.

Hell, we haven't even talked about Ekwonu... (or Bozeman, for that matter)

It's also apparently of prime importance to the Panthers organization that a player who's not going to be part of it any longer find a good landing spot somewhere else

From what I hear it was, but it really shouldn't be. Matt Rhule is 100% responsible for helping Matt Corral get up to speed as a pro. He has zero responsibility to help PJ Walker find another job. If he's devoting practice time to a goal that's not part of his job while another goal that is his job suffers, he should be fired today.

Bud Abbott just tweeted from the grave, "Wait, what?!"

Just remember that the process is 1,000% working. You just can't see it.

Yeah I know, only took him overnight to become a seven year sensation...or something

You can get away with saying dumb things if you're a winning coach. Heck, if you're just getting started, you might even get away with losing some games if you actually say the right things. But if you're losing and on top of that you say really stupid things? Oy

And remember, the harder you get coached, the harder we have to then, you know...coach

So even while acknowledging that more reps leads to better play, Rhule still defends not giving Corral enough reps and blames Corral for not looking like a superstar with three to four reps per practice. Yeah, this guy is a clown

Who else do you know that has three guys ahead of their rookie?

They already know that Darnold isn't getting anything in the trade. If they don't, they're not very bright. Likewise, there's enough film on Walker to know that he's not a good enough backup. Well, at least enough for everybody outside of Matt Rhule to know. Don't want to play Matt Corral and the regular season? Fine. But in the name of all that's holy, training camp and preseason are there for the express purpose of helping train him for the future. How the hell do you justify not doing that? And as mentioned, when it comes to Walker, the head coach of the Carolina Panthers has a lot of responsibilities. Getting Matt Corral ready to play in the future is one of them. Helping PJ Walker find a job is not. And shirking a responsibility for Corral while working on a responsibility for Walker that you don't have is just plain coaching malpractice. Dude, I get that you want to be positive about this bunch, and I get why. But from my position, I can be objective. Matt Rhule just isn't an NFL coach.

Apparently I can if I'm a fan of someone other than the Panthers. One thing I do know though, I can't expect it if he doesn't even get the coaching. And seriously, we weren't talking about getting him ready to start Week 1. We were talking about getting him ready to play in the second half of a preseason game. And we couldn't even do that.

He lookef like a third round rookie with insufficient coaching. If they continue not to give him reps, I wouldn't bet on it.

The "earn it" thing is kinda silly at the pro level, especially for quality free agents and highly drafted rookies. He still thinks like a college coach. I seriously doubt he's ever going to be a successful pro coach.

Said it elsewhere a couple of times, but it applies here too... In the case of Matt Corral, and to some degree in the case of Ikem Ekwonu, Rhule is treating them more like college freshman than NFL rookies. In most cases, you're not looking to get a freshman ready for this season, or often even next season. You're going to spend the bulk of this year's practice time getting the seniors and juniors ready while the younger players wait their turn. And for college football, that's a fine approach. ... This isn't college football.

Had the third round rookie been handled properly and still not turned out, I could have lived with that. He's not been handled properly. And as far as blaming the coaching staff, there's actually very good reason to do so. It's not just some knee-jerk reaction. Matt Rhule has made it quite clear that he's not qualified to run an NFL team. Now you can say otherwise if you want, but in that case I'd ask you to present some kind of evidence to support the idea. What actual positive things have you seen that can be attributed directly to wise courses of action taken by Matt Rhule? And do me a favor: please don't start with the whole "#2 defense" thing because the reality is that our defense last year wasn't that good and the ranking garbage is a complete fallacy. I genuinely don't feel like having that discussion yet again.

It's not about the methodology... Over the years, I've seen guys who were told to sit and develop blossom into superstars. I've also seen guys who were thrown into the pressure immediately respond by becoming diamonds. Likewise I've seen guys whose coaches brought them along slowly ultimately never measure up. And I've seen guys who were asked to start from the get go wilt and be destroyed by the beatings they took. The only consistently common thread I could name is this... The guys who succeeded were led by men who knew what they were doing. It's not the approach. It's the coach. And regardless of what our plans are for Matt Corral, if somebody smarter than Matt Rhule isn't in charge of them, I don't see a whole lot of chance of them working out.