Khyber53

If we can't run more plays, could we at least maybe ask the NFL if we could shorten our games to like 30 minutes? Sure would be nice to rip the bandaid off quicker than to have to sit through this crap each week. Watching our games is a lot like watching someone else play a video game. The other guy is having all the fun and we're just kind of trapped there wishing we had a ride home.

CMC basically willed that last scoring drive into existence for us vs. the Cards. The game prior he broke loose for a huge run that gave us the game. If you moved him to WR, he'd be the best receiver we had on the team and would be in the Deebo mode. But sure, let's go ahead and trade him and give the next HC less to work with for a second round draft pick roll of the dice.

Before long, they'll figure out how to start batting down the running backs before they cross the line.

We're not talking a bad coach here, we're talking an epically bad coach, and a clueless ownership. We're talking depths of Detroit depravity and the low points of still wearing my first grade haircut son of Al Davis. Whew.

The term we're struggling for here is: Massacre.

And two Heisman trophy winners. And three playoff QBs. And one Super Bowl QB. And two #1 picks in the draft. I know, I know, they were all bad or broken down. But he, and management, said, "Hell, let's ride with them. We can make it work." Oh and PJ Walker.

I'm in no way convinced that there's been a whit of improvement, but that our opponents have been just as hapless for the first four games and the ones for our first three last season. It's time for this experiment in on the job training to end.

I'm afraid to look. No pink slip yet?

Our coaching staff can't work to accentuate Mayfield's strengths. How in the hell are they supposed to be able to understand how to minimize his weaknesses? We so desperately need professional coaching. It's bad all across the board. It's so bad we, as a fanbase, were happy to see the return of Wilks... who was a bad coach and a terrible HC.

It's not just that we've been so bad for so long now, but it's the knowledge that we can keep being bad if things don't change drastically. I wonder if this is how it felt for Detroit Lions fans around say 1973?

I remember one of the old salts of the NFL once opining that if you have a QB competition, you don't have a QB. Seems the old saw still cuts true.

Billionaires, what ya gonna do with them, am I right? This century's longer lasting plague...

If we would use his mobility a bit and roll him out where he can see, he might be okay. There's something wrong beyond that, though. He's worse than I had expected.

Let's keep running CMC up the middle for 10 out of 12 touches per game. Or keep Baker throwing from a pocket he can't see out of or throw over.

I made it a blanket statement because honestly, we're blanketly bad. Cover our heads with the blanket and wait for February bad. Our great defense, even, is doing this against some pretty poor teams. And that should be kept in mind while evaluating our coaching... we're only doing fair against bad or depleted teams. Much like the beginning of last season, just without the wins.

In the Cardinal center's defense, that would have worked for a punt formation...

The 49ers will kill us.

I'm just hoping Rhule isn't here through Monday, but look where that hope has gotten me... I'll just tune in again next year, grousing about how we're going to suck again and just sit there and take the beating the team will deal out to us every danged week. I'll outlast the bastards. Eventually.

If we thought it had been bad so far, we've got a murderer's row of opponents down the stretch for us. I'm just hoping they won't make us wait until that late bye before jettisoning Rhule and Co. Whew. We stink man. If it wasn't for Luvu's early pick six and the late, late game heroics of CMC on two plays, we'd have been just destroyed. And I never thought I'd actually have come to the point where I was thinking Sam Darnold would be a better play than Baker Mayfield. Heck, Taylor Heinicke or Kyle Allen did better in Rivera's last season. Woof.

How anemic our offense is. How our defense can be worn out over the course of a game. Yanno, you saw it, you know now if you didn't before.

Super Bowl teams are led more than built. Coaching, QB, MLB. We don't really have those at the moment. It also helps to have a really good medical/training staff on hand as injuries can derail even the most star studded teams. The best teams are those who somehow endure the season.

I think we get exposed badly in this one. 24-10 Cards. The Saints were worse than anyone imagined, just like Cleveland and NYG are worse than they looked against us.

Nice work! Thanks for that write-up and visual aids!

It speaks volumes. Also that sometimes we can't win with him out there, particularly when we game plan for less touches for him. In all honesty, it'd probably work better for us if we just went to pure wildcat, installed CMC as the "QB/Wildcat" and put an extra blocker on the line every down. The kid can probably pass as well as PJ Walker, since he can apparently do everything else (he does have a passing TD to his credit if I recall). Heck, he'd probably be safer that way.

If he's not there, then we can pretty much notch an L for this Sunday's game. It will also add about 200 degrees to the seat temperature for Matt Rhule if we get that L. Honestly, if I were on the team and injured, I might take my time getting back onto the field. Killing yourself for Rhule and Co. just doesn't make good career sense.