Khyber53

Chili dogs and tater tots.

Happy birthday!!!

Couple of stories going on here. 1) Who will be our QB? 2)Will CMC be able to play? 3)Can Rhule and Co. outdo Belichick? 4) Can our O-line stand up to the Patriots front seven? On the first, Darnold gives us a shot (not a great one), PJ gives us probably something embarrassing. On the second, this is probably our biggest factor in having a shot at being competitive. Thirdly, if they can't does the slide continue from here? And lastly, that O-line issue has been the killer for us this season. Watch for the Patriot with the red sleeves, Matt Judon. If we can't slow him down, the day is done, whether it is pass heavy or run heavy for us. All these questions are unanswered for us right now, but none of them look good. I hate to predict it, but I'm thinking it will be: Patriots: 21 Carolina: 10 I hope I am so very wrong here.

You know, you're right. We've got some serious talent back there and it just slipped my mind that all of our homegrown ones are pretty much still on rookie deals and the others came here on the cheap. My mistake, sorry.

That makes two teams where OBJ stayed for as long as they could stand him. Broken teams and broken locker rooms behind him. He can make some spectacular plays and put himself on all sorts of posters. That's what he's about. It's not for the team, the fans, history or anything else; he just wants to bask in his own light. And when that dims, it's always everyone else's fault. Which team is desperate enough to knowingly take on a cancer?

For all the DBs we have, the good, the greats, the big names we've traded for, Shaq has the most interceptions so far and he was out three games. And he's a linebacker. There's some high dollar guys back there that need to start getting some more INTs. Rookie QB this weekend, should be prime picking season.

I still remember him sitting on the bench beside Jake on the guy's worst day ever in football (on his birthday to boot) and just trash talking him like a borrowed mule. I'm sure he was "just joshing" and "just busting his chops" but it was still one of the most asshole things I've seen someone do in life. And if you don't have Delhomme, then nobody was going to believe in a short, junkyard dog of a wide receiver enough to just feed him until he became an all star. Smitty will always be a dog that will bite the hand that feeds him.

I love Smitty, but he never saw a back that didn't deserve a dagger in it.

Good point. Shhh/ got it.

If we win this one, Rhule's going to get me back into the believers camp. I hope he can get it done.

Geez, man, who can afford meat anymore????? Looks great!

I railed for us to take Jones before the draft. Everyone laughed, said he was the worst of the first round options out there. We should have done that, then taken an OT in the second round (one of the good ones not Brady "Benchbait" Christensen), and then doubled down to take a guard in the third who wasn't toying with a heat induced heart attack all summer. But heck, who listens to me?

Al Davis used to say, "Just win, baby!" Do that and the critics quieten down quite a bit and casual fans cheer instead of boo.

Dude is a lockerroom cancer. Teams literally pay him to go elsewhere. NYG did it. Cleveland now doing it. Let's let him just pass by in the night.

Look, I've been the optimist around here for years and years. Just, right now, I'm not feeling it. I just can't believe in the guy, the process and what he's building. There are tons of excuses for why it's not working out, but we're pretty much down to a bare cupboard here. We are honestly looking at sending in a former Temple/semi-pro QB to stand up to a Bill Belichick team. Our starter would make a passable emergency second string QB and Walker couldn't walk on and win a jersey at many Division III college teams. We have no offensive line, just four turnstiles and a hard corner to turn on the right side. We picked up two veteran starters and drafted two folks they called "great prospects" and have actually managed to post a different lineup every damned week for the o-line. None of the eight iterations have worked. At all. Our lead TE this year was the third string TE here for the rest of his tenure in a Panther uniform -- he got the starting gig not because he earned it but because he was the last one of the experienced guys left. We've got a rookie with some promise at TE2 but they don't seem to use him as much as you'd think. Our WRs have the dropsies. Not just one of them, but all of them. Every single one of them. Our star RB/WR pulled a hammy and he's been harder for the coach to get a date with than Katy Perry. We do have a pretty good rookie RB2, but our OC only calls running plays in protest or when the HC threatens to take away his WiFi privileges. Our defense is mighty stout, as long as we have Shaq Thompson out there. If he's not there, then opponents RBs literally run over us again and again. We have 74 DBs on the team. We're on our third kicker since the start of training camp and our third punter. We have one guy on Special Teams that seems to understand the game of football and it's not the ST coach. On the management front, our GM is "in on every deal" but somehow can't manage to actually secure one for positions of need. He will trade away a TE for a DB who may or may not like football anymore, and draft picks for guys who are immediately on the IR. He saw a decent guard from KC head to the Jets and didn't even raise a finger to get him. QB concussed and unable to play with no one to step in? No trades, no pickups of vets sitting at home on their couch... not even a Vinnie Testaverde call. Yeah, it was just a press conference. It reminded me of one held by Dan Quayle. Just a guy who seems to be in over his head and repeating the mantra of how cool it is to be here and how he gets to see some of the great coaches he admires each week. I just can't believe in him anymore.

I have no confidence in Walker, I've seen no reason to. He played the Lions last year and that was the equivalent of playing the pre-Bobby Bouchet Muddogs. In relief of Darnold this year, he looked like we'd sent our punter out there as an emergency QB. Geez, this is the most hopeless, snakebit .500 team in the history of the league. Makes you wonder who it was that pissed off an old gypsy lady to get us cursed like this.

Ever just feel that Rhule's up there knowing that he is out of his league, doesn't know how to solve his problem, and the boat he's on just keeps heading toward the waterfall? I hope I'm wrong, but none of the signs are pointing to this guy turning the franchise around. Only one of our next five opponents has a winning record (New England is at .500 like us). I'm not sure if we lose three of those games that Rhule won't be shown the door, no matter his contract. Maybe if we just lose two of them. It's going to be near impossible for a rookie coach with a broken team to beat Belichick. We won't beat Arizona unless their team bus gets lost on the way to the stadium. Washington, Miami and Atlanta? Wouldn't want to lose to any of them, but any of them could be the Giants in disguise.

He looked pretty good to me and he can obviously hold for Gonzalez well. Honestly, though, I can no longer understand all the IR rules, much less understand how teams are manipulating them.

Such a senseless tragedy. And on the NFL part of this -- who cares, the loss of an innocent life is worth more than this game.

You can tell when a play breaks down, right?

It's hard to tell from looking at Sam, though. He has that look of desperation and Oh poo! in his eyes each time. Of course, that's going to be the look of any QB behind our line and with the plays we call.

I wanted to argue, but you're probably right. OT is still a big need for us.

He could be starting sooner than that if traded. Setting the NFC on fire, probably not. Might make the Redskins competitive (sorry still calling them that until they finally get a real name).

Sadly, that did sink in and as I was looking over trade rumors there was one floated out there that the Broncos might be willing to trade Teddy. A cold chill went up my spine as I considered that we could snag him. Brrrrr

You have absolutely no proof of that.