Mr. Scot

Oh, hell no

Technically, Matt Rhule has an OL coaching background

Rhule does the coaching staff hiring, so...

And another lateral move...

You were expecting him to say "I hated the idea but Matt wanted it"?

You think Fitterer just chose on his own to extend one of Rhule's Temple guys over DJ Moore? Yeah, sure

Trade back is Fitterer. The decision to go after Darnold started with Rhule and Phil Snow. And Robby Anderson is pretty obviously all Rhule.

Unexpected, but reasonable.

Okay, next explain the numerology of how picking him at six will affect the moon phase and alter the team's future.

I get that, but I'd point out two things. One, rules and laws are limited by nature. They only serve to punish those who break them. In and of themselves, they don't change anyone's inner thoughts and ideas. And two, laws and rules don't spontaneously generate from some ethereal place of moral ideas. They begin in the hearts and minds of people who see something that's wrong and want to do something to change it. Basically, if you don't have people with right hearts first, you're not going to get the right laws.

True, but Hamilton had other offers. I like Wilks, but it's not like a bunch of other NFL teams were looking to hire him. (he did interview with the Giants recently, if I recall correctly)

I don't know whether Pickett is going to be a great pro quarterback or not. I definitely have some concerns, and at least for now wouldn't feel real comfortable about taking him #6 overall. But after spending the better part of a season mercilessly mocking Matt Rhule for being worried about the arm length of Brady Christensen and Rashawn Slater, I'm not about to turn around and say "Oh, but you definitely should be worried about the hand size of Kenny Pickett"

If he followed his prior pattern of behavior, Smith would work to make the other coaches around him worse.

Born and raised in Charlotte.

There's a name I didn't expect to hear again. Wilks was very good in that role. Wouldn't mind this at all

The Giants, and specifically Brian Daboll, have indicated they're committed to going forward with Daniel Jones. Texans? Possible, but nobody seems to be predicting it.

As saying he's average.

I think the one good thing that will come from Rhule is that under his watch, we dumped Marty Hurney for Scott Fitterer and Dan Morgan. That's a net positive. Now, if Fitterer where to turn around and do the same thing to Matt Rhulerhule, the circle would be complete.

He said that online too, but did clarify that it wasn't meant as an insult.

I can't say I buy into the idea too much. Tepper obviously trusted Marty enough to let him run the head coaching search. (the one which hilariously picked a candidate who later shoved Marty out the door)

Trying to be optimistic?

I have hope that Campen will at least be a better coach on that front. Talent wise? Weeelll...

Meanwhile... Marrone reportedly could be in line for the OC job or to coach OL. Oddly enough, we tried to hire current Saints OL Coach / then Assistant OL Coach Brendan Nugent when Rhule got here (he and Joe Brady went way back) but the Saints denied the request. Wonder how it would have changed things if they hadn't.

No offense, but I'd take smart coaches training the team in a rundown schoolyard over dumb coaches training in the best facilities available ten times out of ten.