Mr. Scot

Thanks as always, Cap...

Hell, even that could have been forgiven. But when you follow that up by giving both a huge contract and full control to a college coach with one year of pro experience as an assistant to an assistant, you pretty much confirm to everyone watching that you have no frigging clue what you're doing.

Yeah, none of that has jack sh-t to do with football. Which shows, yet again, that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Yeah... bullsh-t! Rhule fired one coach from his first year staff, DL Coach Mike Phair. All the other staff changes came from guys who took other jobs. If there were other guys he was dissatisfied with, there was nothing to stop him from replacing them.

The ultimate secret to winning as an owner is putting the right people in charge. That's something Tepper hasn't done. Nor has he shown he's able to do so. Until he does, we're gonna continue to be bad.

Sorry to hear...

Little late to answer this, but the best place to catch it is on the Panthers YouTube channel. If you catch it in time, you can rewind it. If you don't, it'll be put back up later on.

Just having some fun with it

Matt Rhule in his pre-camp presser... "Last year we were second, but we were not good enough in red zone and scoring defense, which obviously is what matters." My work is done. If you guys want to argue from here on out, take it up with Matt Rhule

On a related note, the Cincinnati Bengals have apparently decided to change their mascot name to the Zebras I'm not sure what "deal" they're referring to, but I'm gonna say it was a bad one

There are guys on here who know way more about contract and cap stuff than I do. That's not my thing. About all I could say about it is that when you get to the NFL level, even the simple stuff is complicated.

Thanks for adding that. The previous tweet didn't give a specific time.

I'm having a great time FYI though: Rhule did decide he's willing to stoop down and talk to the media today

Case in point... This has to be one of the funniest things posted on here in a long time

This feels to me like the last domino to fall before the real football news starts. Yes, there's still going to be speculation, analysis, overanalysis and whatever else, but at least it'll be based on things that are happening this year rather than last.

That sounds like a reasonable possibility. Relatively speaking, we're probably not talking major numbers.

Keep trying, dude. It's amusing at least

Haven't really seen anything on it. Holdouts are pretty much nonexistent these days.

You're not exactly good at reading, are you?

I don't really think anybody was expecting it not to happen, but there it is.

Our buddy Ellis for one. Heck, even Gantt addressed the question (I think in one of his Ask the Old Guy columns) confirming at the time that Rhule does still have final say but has been asked/suggested to listen more to those around him.

No. Actual analysts have suggested that.

Not originally... Early word was that he was as disinterested in us as some of our guys were in him. That's why the "talking to him" thing was important. He had to be sold on the idea.

We tried to trade for Mayfield during the draft. As far as Rhule not wanting him, the only source I've ever seen say that was the guy on the huddle who had nothing to back it up.

It's not hard to believe Fitterer was lukewarm on it given the multiple times he said the best option was to draft a quarterback and build around him. He even stated after the draft that this was the plan with Corral. Rhule? Don't know. History would tell us he prefers a veteran. Mayfield specifically? Unknown. Among his assistants, we know that McAdoo was high on Corral and not so high on Mayfield the year he was drafted.