Khyber53

If Fitterer is on the phone for Watson right now, then it's like the Captain of the Titanic gunning the engines and trying to hit yet another iceberg. It's time to put the cork on his fork.

The defense isn't that good. Hasn't been since week four. They just gave up 23 points (two were the offense's fault directly) to the hapless Giants. They moved on our defense pretty much at will (well, for the Giants that was at will). HC, OC, DC, STC are all basically mid-tier college football guys and that's where they should have stayed. New GM was a mid-level scouting dude for a team that drafted well a couple of times nearly a decade ago and have been falling apart since. He's out of his element and cannot evaluate talent, especially under Rhule's guidance. The tools for fixing this team aren't in the coaches offices or front office, either. And the owner is just a self-possessed, bloviated tyro who wants to grab his trophy wife's ass at press conferences.

I was like, yanno I've never seen that happen before with this team. Talk about sinking to a new low.

Now it's just how soon the firings begin that's the only reason to pay attention. Team might be midflight over Maryland when it happens.

"We're going to get at least 33 rushes this coming week." 16. Rhule and Brady need to be pushed off of a pier and left to swim home. Might as well push Snow in after them because once someone went back and looked at 1953's Best Defensive Plays Quarterly, we haven't been able to stop anyone.

Sideshow Bob, just another bad deal from Temple. Clean house. Top to bottom.

First thing, Teppper will need to eat the rest of Rhule and Co.'s coaching contract. Second, get rid of Fitterer. Third, hire an outside consultant to help with hires for the ENTIRE staff including the scouting department. Fourth, then we can think about new QB. And finally, get rid of 90% of the frikkin' Temple players.

Possibly the worst performance by the Carolina Panthers I have ever seen. They should tell the players and coaches to find their own way home after the game. fug 'em.

He didn't. That may have been the worst I've ever seen the Carolina Panthers play. Ever.

You're seeing the same thing I am, then. It's really easy to confuse massively busy with competence. Right now, he's hit on Hassan Reddick and that's it for the droves of new add-ons here, from free agent signings to trades. And that draft class is looking, well... I'd have to give it an incomplete. Jaycee Horn looked good until the injury, but we honestly would have done better with an LT or QB in the first. Terrace Marshall Jr. has been, well, okay I guess for a WR3, but he hasn't made any real noise. Cristensen has been on the bench (first/second round gradeables my ass), Tommy Tremble has been okay but really just a serviceable TE. The rest either haven't seen the field or have spent most of their time sick in bed with a nurse, yanno? Fitt just might not fit. And it might explain why he wasn't moving up over with the Seahawks. A team that lucked out on a QB, could never build an O-line and stockpiled DBs... hmmm, sounds familiar doesn't it?

Really a question for the next General Manager here. Not sure if the guy we have now makes it past this season. Maybe past October.

So, in the preseason, I said if Rhule found himself with another five win season he'd be on the hot seat and probably be released at the end of the season, contract or no contract? People laughed and laughed. So here we are, week 7 and as a fanbase we're ready to call for his head already. My premise doesn't sound so stupid anymore does it? Rhule, Brady and even Snow are coaching for their jobs right now. Sitting across from them is Joe Judge the guy the Giants were left to hire after Tepper put the big money contract in front of Rhule and would not let him go to NY before signing it. If these guys lose to NYG today, then the band starts playing the death march. It doesn't matter if it is an ineffective offense or a defense that gives up 500+ yards. It won't matter if it is a single botched special teams play. If we lose this one, then it's dead men walking. And considering how Fitterer has busily stocked the shelves with some real dented/labelless merchandise, he may well be gone, too. Me, I want Rhule to succeed. I want him to be able to deliver what he said he would. This team, though, is even weaker on the field than it is on paper. And I think we're seeing a lot of business decisions being made by players with injuries and "injuries." Today, Rhule needs to prove the narrative is wrong. He needs to show he is further along in this rebuild than the Giants are, that he is the better coach and worth the belief we put into him. Nice guy and all, but if you ain't winning, you're making losers of all of us.

We're quickly becoming the convalescent home of the NFL. Feeling a little achy, need to take some time off but still get paychecks? Have you got a nagging injury that's hard to pin down? Need to spend a bit more time at home with the kids? Then come on down to the Carolina Panthers! Our newly expanded IR list is ready to put your needs first. Heck, Coach will even tell folks you just might play each week, just to keep your agent and PR firm happy. Just give Scott Fitterer a call as soon as you can, he's in on every deal!!!! We're dealing while you're healing!

Grilling out burgers since we've got this nice weather!

The latest Snow defensive scheme is ready to be put into action: the 1-1-9 defense!

I'll watch us play, I'll still care, but I'll be counting the days until there's another regime change around here.

PJ isn't the answer, never was. Warm body, that's all. Darnold, unless something just monumental and unexpected happens, isn't the answer either. He could maybe be a serviceable back-up next year since we're on the hook for him. At the end of that the math might work right and we get a comp pick for him if someone else snags him. We're going to either have to draft a QB and hope for the best, or, better, draft o-line early and often and try to find a steady journeyman QB to see us through. Really, the o-line is key here. Guys like Trent Dilfer have a Super Bowl ring because they have a good defense and an o-line that gave them a chance to perform.

Gotta quit eating 'shrooms you find in your yard man.

Whew. I just never know what to believe when Rhule talks. He's just about lost me. If we drop this one, I don't think I can believe in his abilities anymore.

And I think the new boss there may be the same as the old boss there. I've said it before, Fitterer looks busy but his hit rate is pretty low at this point and really bad when it comes to offensive linemen.

I think it is a systemic problem and probably starts in our scouting/evaluation department. Wonder how much turnover we've had there or if it has remained stagnant for the last decade. We do seem to make the same O-line mistakes again and again.

Actually, I might have endorsed him a bit more. I thought he was the best choice of all the guys available after Trevor Lawrence. That being said, behind our offensive line he'd be dead by now. Bad organizations often kill top level QB draftees because they have not been able to build a decent offensive line. Brady, both Mannings, Roethlisberger, Rodgers have all been able to develop behind a decent to good offensive line. Had any of them been behind the kinds of lines built by teams like the Jags, Lions or Browns (until recent years for the Browns) they'd have all been written off as busts. Sadly, I'm coming to the realization that we're that kind of team. And it's not just bad coaching, but also bad management. Not only can we not pick good linemen, but we can't even seem to evaluate them, either as they come out of college (scouts) or from a medical standpoint (trainers, team docs). Darnold is getting killed out there and he's acting like it. Lawrence, Jones, any of them would be doing the same. Not sure even Brady or Rodgers could perform under these circumstances. Jones, in the end, had the best chance to succeed imho before the draft because of his experience, leadership and ability to deliver the ball around the field. He also had that calm, cool it factor. He will succeed the best and first of this year's first rounder QBs because, more than anything else, he has a decent line in front of him. He'll have enough time to not just make some plays but to survive long enough to learn. Here, we won't have a QB look like they're worth a damn until we put together a line that could at least play in Div. III football.

Oh geez, not this poo again.

Rhule says all kinds of stuff to make sure the other team doesn't know what we're doing. Sadly, we also don't seem to know what we're doing. So that's a wash I guess, right?

Panthers 24 Giants 17 It won't be pretty, but the Giants are already giving up on the season and perhaps their coach. Still hoping to see Darnold play like the guy he was at the end of the fourth quarter last week. It's a fleeting hope, but it's all I've got right now.