Khyber53

All of a sudden, my optimism has returned... Solid moves, dodged a bullet. Maybe.... hmmmmm.

I don't hate Tepper, not at all. I do, however, think that he came in and promised a better version of the product we all love. And... well... it has been a worse version of it since. I don't blame him so much as I blame how business works in this country right now. People who founded and created great products eventually get moved off the stage. They take with them the passion and know how that made their product(s) special. The provider then gets taken over by people who move money around, who only look at the bottom line and the dividend checks. They really don't know anything about the product, the company or the customer base. Tepper is one of those guys, or more succinctly is one of the guys who makes his living off of those guys. He's, in effect, triply removed from the original product. I can't hate someone because they don't understand what they have in their hands. I can be mighty upset when their lack of understanding harms what they hold, though.

Look, I've been banging the drum for our draft pick to be Linderbaum, even at #6 because we desperately need a top flight Center. If we were to pick up Bozeman, I'd be so happy with that. Of course, I want them to check him out using a different doctor than the one that gave passing grades to both Paradis and Elflein. Yeah, this line can be built to compete, but without a best in the game center, you'll never solidify the line. This could be the best money we could ever spend.

We'll be better off in the end. Of those top 3 QBs, one is probably near the end of his career (and he wants a poo ton of control over the team/coaches/management), one is riding out the last couple of years of his career after being stuck in purgatory for more than a decade, and the other one may not ever play a meaningful down again if evidence suddenly turns up or he starts asking for happy endings again. This season is going to be rough for us. The following year we will start really rebuilding. Just breathe and hold on.

Eh, he was here for a couple of cups of coffee. Liked watching him when he was on the field, but honestly he wasn't there enough to get upset if he goes elsewhere. Won't mind seeing him back here on the cheap, but I don't think that's going to happen. Best of luck to ya, man.

I've been on the fire Rhule bus since the moment it pulled into the parking lot, but at this point, ride out the season with him. It's our best shot at a top 5 draft pick next season. We have neither enough draft picks or pull for free agents to patch this sucker back together, so just keep on this course and let's just make a big production of how bad it can get.

God bless and I hope everything goes well for y'all.

This 100%.

Really? You watched the games, right? We are way more than an LT away from being steady. We are a shambles of what we were when Rivera left. And he left a team that would compete, but just couldn't compete. Now, we're just the East Louisian State Tech Mud Dogs.

Build a solid team, then the right QB will come.

All I know is that we aren't getting good players with those picks. I have so little faith in this coaching/managing staff that I don't trust any of their picks.

Daaaaang. The guy has more issues than Time Magazine. Still, the Seahawks are incredibly good at keeping things quiet. No one saw the Wilson to Denver trade.

I wonder if the Seahawks will enter the fray.

And willing to actually attempt to grasp the football when it hits him in the hands.

Very true. There's every chance that we don't even have to show up for the first day of the draft. And that sucks.

He's a better teammate at the least.

I guess we'll see how it goes. They'll probably take a back-up, back-up long snapper.

He's better than Sideshow Bobby Anderson.

The last culture I saw like this one was growing in some leftovers at the back of a dorm room fridge.

Doing great! Best thing on TV. Soccer... meh.

Your math makes a good point. But there are more failed OTs than failed C. A bad pick of either one is still a bad pick. And I worry about picking up a starting center that another team just cuts. We did that with Paradis and Elflein pretty much. The guys we have aren't smart buyers on the used car lot of the NFL.

Tom Brady sixth round pick, yadda yadda yadda. Won't live up to pick 6. Who does? Ever? Could he live up to being a first round draft pick? He certainly could and no matter where the pick is made, that's the real measuring stick.

Tepper is the Shahid Khan of the Carolina Panthers, except he financed a frikkin' soccer team insead of a wrestling operation. Neither knows a thing about what they are doing and it pretty much shows. We can get into things other than football, but really what matters in the end is do they know enough about football to create a solid organization and pick good coaches. Tepper, like Khan, has shown he's a rube at the table.

Just because you can buy a Ferrari with a few financial adjustments doesn't mean it's a smart purchase. Considering our coaching staff, we could be looking at the #1 pick next season, and potentially the following one with which to snag the best, most certain QB available on the ROOKIE pay scale with a fifth year option at a reasonable rate. Or we could shoot the moon with Watson, give up all those draft picks and have a QB who hasn't played a meaningful down in over a year, who could still be up for suspension by the NFL, and have no money to pay for decent players around him, so even getting him becomes a wash in the old W-L column. Really, think it through. The salesman doesn't care if your car gets repo'ed down the line. He'll just laugh.

After Elflein and Paradis do you really think that Center is a meaningless position? There are no franchise QBs in this year's draft (okay, there's always one but it may be someone wayyyy down in the pecking order). The top LTs will be gone most likely. And even if we were to get a decent DE, this coaching staff would pretty much ruin them. Center, however, runs the line, calls the protections and is generally responsible for making the hits on the second level of the defense on running plays. Whether you want to believe it or not, it's a valuable position on the team. We've got little draft capital going into this mess thanks to Rhule, Fit and Tepper, so take the value pick that will also be least likely to be crippled by the bad coaching that will be inflicted upon it.