Mr. Scot

My "what if" with Newton will always be what if his early development would have been trusted to someone like Norv Turner rather than Mike Shula.

Preseason three (at that time, the 'dress rehearsal' game) he looked horrible. Played great when it mattered though. These days,the college game just doesn't teach pro level skills like it once did. Makes it much harder to identify QB talent.

Undisciplined on both sides of the ball... Daboll doesn't really seem like head coach material.

Have thought the same

So far, they've been as much a problem to themselves as the Cowboys. Nearly shook my head so hard I got a headache.

I don't dislike him. Nor do I think he's bad. I do have to say he was heavily overhyped. He'd have to have been a virtual god to live up to the pre-draft fawning.

This Giants - Cowboys game has been a special brand of dog sh-t Can't recall ever seeing four penalties on a single play and then having them wind up offsetting. Greg Olsen marveled "This is something!"

Related Note: The Giants backup left tackle, James Hudson, is an absolute moron.

Don't know if anyone else say the head slap from the Giants left tackle, but I thought that should have been an ejection.

Cowboys game at 1:00, Panthers at 4:00... Busy day ahead

Discussed elsewhere... Just taking his hands off doesn't mean a miraculous recovery is on the horizon. Still have to do the work, and in this case the work is an extremely hard thing to do in even the best of circumstances.

Story was that Morgan was the only one in the prior setup who was willing to tell Tepper he was wrong rather than just rolling over.

That's pretty much always been my preference. His dad was a perennial backup, as I recall. Liked what I saw of him in week one after a rough start.

...has the base qualifications to get him in the door. But once you start looking at the other factors... concerns arise

Show me the ability to read defenses and make good decisions... Show me accurate passing... Those two things are the price of admission. You don't even get in the discussion without them. Take the pool of guys who qualify under those criteria as your base set and start evaluating everything else from there. But if you don't have those two things right up front, it's a non-starter.

Some folks would tell you it's okay to have someone psycho on your team as long as they're good at what they do. My response is typically to apply that concept to a marriage and see if you still think it's a good idea

We only know that they talked. The character and tone of the conversation is unknown. My own take is that I believe him when he says he isn't meddling anymore. Unfortunately, the idea that this alone actually solves anything is fallacious.

I once worked for a company that believed anyone who was competent in one area would automatically be competent in another (i.e. the Jerry Richardson philosophy). Management had absolutely zero understanding of what a skill set was. As a result, what you got was people telling you that your performance wasn't good enough. But when you asked them how to make it better, they had no clue. "Be better!" "How?" "I don't know! Just do it or else you're fired!" Even though Richardson is long gone, I suspect there's still a lot of that kind of thing in the Panthers team culture.

The official story is that Tepper is no longer so hands-on as he used to be. If this is true, it's a start. It's not a guarantee of improvement though. There are still a lot of things that would have to change.

Same

Color me skeptical on that point...

There are very few quarterbacks I would be comfortable ascribing that ability to. The vast majority require a strong team and organization around them to succeed. Bryce clearly isn't one of those guys, and he's never going to be one of those guys, but you don't absolutely have to have one of those guys if you have the right team building. I don't really think I have to say whether or not we have that here

Like Samir Suleiman did?

It's year 8 of Tepper. Outside of him, coaches, GMs and various others have changed multiple times and some haven't been here long enough to make any truly significant impact (Tilis being a prime example but you could argue for others)

Front office chooses the scouting department. For my part, I wasn't a fan of Cole Spencer. We only parted ways with him this year and I'm hoping that proves to be a positive in the future.