Khyber53

That was awesome. I hope the season lives up to the video!

Oh well, it is what it is. We move on, the perv is in Cleveland and not here.

It does suck at times, but it beats the alternative.

You might be right.

I think we do carry 3 going into the season, but we may trade one out before the deadline to someone with a QB injury. Trading before there's an emergency need out there just isn't going to happen, there's no real market for either Darnold or Mayfield at this point. PJ on special teams is possible, I guess, but I just don't see it. Those special teams spots are too important and we were too weak on ST last year to use even one spot for stashing an old friend. PJ may well find him a spot on a USFL team or XFL team if that gets back off the ground this year.

Three other QBs out there that can now feel him catching up to them. Hope he knows to say "excuse me, coming through," as he climbs the depth chart here. PJ is already toast. Mayfield and Darnold don't have contracts for next year. If Corral can outplay them in training camp and those guys choke in the early season even the slightest, he's going to get his shot. Rhule doesn't have the luxury to red shirt the guy. Mayfield and Darnold need to use that for motivation, otherwise they will be getting some valuable experience in the clipboard holding field for their next jobs.

Then our coaching hasn't changed.

If Darnold isn't going to be the QB1 but Baker has to take reps with the 2s for the sake of appearances, then you put the new C1 with the twos also. Now both Baker and Bozeman can be said to have "won" their spots as starters during practice AND got meaningful reps together to get their exchange down.

Duke, fuse the horse!

You guys have such cool stories. I tore my meniscus trying to carry too many groceries up the steps and into the house.

Baker needs a fresh start. He's got a 1,000 yard per year receiver who plays the game without ego, just incredible skill. This could work out very, very well for both of them. Now, if they can just have a 1,000/1,000 yard RB/Receiver out there for the full season also, then we might just have a lot to celebrate this year. The potential is there, the potential is there.

Maybe not, but give me a guy who runs up the hill at the end of training camp practices and encourages his team mates to do the same. We need that guy again.

Thanks for the post on this. More than anything, I'm really beginning to like the 33rd Team -- good takes without the call-in-talkshow kind of reporting. And yeah, I think they went a little light on Rhule. They did remind us of the reputation that brought him here, but were also smart enough to remind us that this isn't Kansas (or Waco, TX) anymore, Toto. I hope he can pull off the miracle season and that the last two were just the adjustment period. If he is going to be the magician, though, he's got to know he's no longer playing Indian Reservation casino lounges and he's now center stage on Penn & Teller's Fool Us.

I sure hope everything works great this season and we have one for the record books. Please excuse me while I don't hold my breath for it, though. I've been disappointed so badly over the last couple of years that I'm going to have to see massive improvement before believing they've arrived. Show me and I'll cheer like never before.

Lot of gigantic QB contracts given out over the last couple of years, with buttloads of guaranteed money. You know some of them will not pan out just from the law of averages. This is how great teams go back into the bottom echelons and bad teams get even worse. I think the Murray one here is one of those that will crash and burn. Talk about jumping off of bridges because everyone else is doing it...

Haven't we seen recently that the ability to make money and the ability to lead don't always go hand in hand? Ego trumps understanding and that can be a very bad thing.

You're trying to imply something here.

We must have watched entirely different Panthers games last season. The dude had hands of stone, ran meh routes and was more than happy to throw others under the bus rather than take responsibility.

I just want to see which coach has their team better prepared.

I just might need to clarify. I want to see Brady at LG and Icky at LT. From the start and through the end of the season. Icky was picked to be LT, let him be it.

It doesn't take much to replace butterfingers Robby. He's a WR2 here, he's camp fodder elsewhere.

Just jettison Robby.

Let's take Brady and work him at LG. Let Icky learn the pro job at the position he was picked for. Apparently, Brady was picked for guard as much as anything. If those two can solidify that left side and be competitive there, then we've got our line set for the coming years. And more than anything, I hope we've found out center finally and that he earns a good four to five year contract with us that we'll all be happy about. If you have a line good enough to give one of our QBs some room to work and some muscle for CMC and Chuba to run behind, then we're ready to roll. All our defense needs to do at that point is slow down the opponents. It worked for the Colts throughout Peyton Manning's time there, same for most of the Patriots teams. If we have to win our games 41-38 week after week, it sure would be a lot of fun.

Now if they can all look that good come December and January, we'll be in business.

Rich people... sheesh. Am I right?