Mr. Scot

No indication that Campen had anything to do with the departure. Per one of the Giants reporters, Sparano had previously worked with Brian Daboll in Miami and wanted to join his staff now that he's a head coach. And yeah, objectively speaking the current situation in New York is better than ours, so...can't really blame him.

Well, ya know... She's had the first of her surgeries, the one that I was most worried about, and outside of a few issues has been recovering well. The next two might be a little more difficult on the recovery front though.

I'm not sure he wanted Frisman Jackson or Jason Simmons to go either, but they wanted to so he let them. I don't think that's a bad thing, but the fact that guys are willing to head elsewhere without getting promotions does speak to the state of the team.

From what I've read, the idea has actually been proposed in Congress before, though I don't know how seriously it was meant to be taken. Didn't go anywhere, obviously.

Different situation. That was outside teams inquiring about Angelichio, not Angelichio wanting to look somewhere else.

He did, but he's already broken that particular practice (I don't really think anybody expected that to last at this level anyway). The departures don't strike me as guys he was planning to fire since he would have just done that when he fired the other three. Throw in that there was definitely no rationale to fire Jason Simmons.

Looking at the guys who've come aboard... James Campen is a good coach who's recently had a track record of getting hired in places where the coach got fired a year later. Truth be told, that trend could continue this year, but even if it does I hope we keep him. Steve Wilks was coaching at the college level largely off the NFL radar save for one recent interview. Coaching here brings him back home to Charlotte, is good for his career and good for us as well. Ben McAdoo wasn't exactly in high demand himself but had at least returned to the NFL in a minor role as a consultant on the cowboys staff with former Packers colleague Mike McCarthy. Not sure I get choosing him over Jay Gruden so much, but he'll get a chance to reform his image here. Chris Tabor is probably the guy who would have been in the most demand by other teams. His hiring is a good move, and other than Campen the one I like the most. On the flipside, Paul Pasqualoni is probably the one I understand the least. Brentson Buckner was available, has a solid resumé and a Panthers connection. And he'll, if you wanted somebody in this age group why not go for Rod Marinelli? So overall it's a mixed bag. Some are guys with good reputations but also guys who weren't necessarily on a lot of other teams' radars. We'll see what happens...

You're referring to the time I took off from talking football after being told my wife was going to need three surgeries?

Person's article in The Athletic did a pretty good job of framing it. Basically, an overwhelming majority of people feel like this is a lame duck year for Matt Rhule, and some would rather jump ship than be on board when it sinks.

On the work front, I'd much rather see Monday made a national holiday.

Alexander explained in another tweet that it's not Rhule pushing guys out so much as it is not stopping guys who want to leave. Basically, if they want to look elsewhere, Rhule isn't blocking them from interviewing. For lateral moves especially, he could.

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.