Mr. Scot

For every Haason Reddick, there's a Tahir Whitehead Not that it matters either way. Your job as a head coach isn't to develop players. It's to win games. At the pro level, Matt Rhule doesn't do that. Rhule could definitely be a successful coach...if he returned to the college level. At the pro level, I'm pretty sure of 500 season is his ceiling, and I'm not especially confident he can even reach that.

That's a picture of how I'll probably die, through likely with a different candy. Maybe some Reese's...

Mayfield and Smith actually have a lot of similarity in their personalities. It's also true that guys like them tend to dislike other guys like them.

Like PJ Walker? Rhule made a name for himself by improving teams, but never to the point where they were championship level (or even capable of beating teams that were actually good for that matter). Looking at that resumé and thinking he deserved full control of an NFL team was flat out stupid. You may as well just handed the team over to the coach who guided App State to that one upset win over Michigan. Cool moment sure, but not substantial enough to deserve this sort of thing.

Moton is great. Moore is great but probably better suited to be a number two than a number one. Burns is great against the pass. The run, not so much. Chinn is great when used in the proper role. We found out last year that safety probably isn't that role.

Who were their opponents? If you look back at Matt Rhule's college record, you'll find that in the vast majority of cases where they faced an actual decent college team, they lost. It's one of the reasons why his hype was so overblown.

Yeah that's...funny, but pretty obviously fake.

Yeah, not a Phil Snow fan at all. I think most of the praise he gets comes from those early games last year, but it didn't take long for opponents to figure him out and he never came up with any sort of answer. That "number two defense" thing is a total crock.

A habit I stole from Stephen King Can't provide tone of voice in a written format so if you want to emphasize something, you have to use visual cues. In the case of extended quotes like this one though, it's because the board's quote function on mobile became kind of wonky during a previous software upgrade.

That particular observation is likely pertinent to several of our coaches, including that guy at the top of the food chain. In college, you can just do what's working throughout an entire game and win because the other team probably doesn't have the players to stop it. In the NFL, you'd better be able to adjust. If you can't, then that whole checkers vs chess saying applies.

I'm not prepared to predict that the Panthers are going to "shock the world". Hell, at this point I'll be happy if they just shock me.

I think Brady suffered somewhat from the league's current and fervent desire to find the next Sean McVay. Had he gone the normal route of working his way up from position coach and things like that, maybe it would have been different.

Not the last one... And there are definitely a few in there where he has to scramble.

Heard that a lot. There's also the clip of Robbie Anderson blowing up after a pick because, despite the defense knowing and sitting on the routes, we weren't changing them up

My first thought? Indecisiveness. He's looking at something but then holds back on pulling the trigger for whatever reason. Mind you, as long as the ultimately makes the right decision I wouldn't worry too much. But the similarity between that and what Sam Darnold sometimes does is...concerning

The positive ones were pretty positive though. As far as the others, I'll grant that it doesn't do a whole lot of good from the team's perspective to talk about guys that aren't Panthers (heck, the rules might not even permit it beyond a certain level). It's just interesting to us guys that want to know all the details

Honest NFL is a former NFL scout who posts a lot of play analysis. Pretty good follow if you're into the nuts and bolts of football. His opinion here is that Brady was "scapegoated" and ultimately let go more because he didn't mesh with Matt Rhule than anything else.

Heh Someone else pointed out that the Browns will be paying both Baker Mayfield and Deshaun Watson for 2022 but may not have either of them. Andrew Berry it's a lot of praise as a GM but that situation is a mess.

There's a long running narrative on here that Robbie Anderson hates Sam Darnold or blames him for his career issues. Turns out that's not the case at all... Where things get interesting though is that now Anderson is going to have to build a relationship with Baker Mayfield, this coming after he expressed disapproval of the Panthers trading for him. All that of course assuming that Anderson himself doesn't get dealt, which while seemingly unlikely is still within the realm of possibilities.

Wouldn't go that far... There's more in the article, but the basic gist of it is that he wanted to get Mayfield for as little as possible. (so did Fitterer). What strikes me the most about how the story went down is that, as has happened a few times before, we were basically only bidding against ourselves. But this time, instead of raising the price, we actually managed to lower it.

From the flipside, and analysis of how the relationship between the Browns and Mayfield broke down... This writer clearly isn't a Mayfield fan, but he also shines a light on some petty and unprofessional behavior from Stefanski and the Browns.

I don't know if my expectations are higher, but it's probably fair to say things are more interesting now.

There's been word that the Seahawks were interested, but it is true nobody's signed him at this point. Can't definitively say nobody else will, but as has been mentioned elsewhere it seems clear the Mayfield trade slams the door on any possibility of Newton returning to the Panthers.

The comments made in Panthers Confidential all came before Corral was a Panther, though.