Khyber53

I think you've hit the nail on the head here with that observation. That rookie wall is going to be real and probably higher than ever before. But what's a coach to do? It's not like every team isn't facing the same situation. And for vets, I wonder how teams that went deep into the playoffs last season will fair as this longer season wears on. Will we see more injuries or weariness from the Bucs and Chiefs?

There's no way this puts a jinx on players, right?

Character counts.

Pro Wrestling is America's Kabuki theater and I've loved it since my childhood. I remember Roddy Piper's first appearance on NWA wrestling, I remember Gene Anderson getting horribly injured and retiring from the Minnesota Wrecking Crew. It's so great to see the kids and grandkids of those guys wrestling today and putting on even better shows. Sadly, WWE has had bad work from their creative teams for the last two years that the shows are barely watchable. AEW, however, seems to be really getting it right. AEWs wrestlers just really try harder to put on a good show and their creatives aren't booking the same matches over and over again. The women wrestlers, however, are much much much better on WWE than AEW -- they're much more skillful, quicker in and out of their breaks and actually have some decent storylines.

Sadly, he is. Not saying ours is great, or even good, maybe mediocre, but the Jets were a mess and that o-line was even more problematic than ours.

6-9, 88 yards, 1 TD. 8 yards rushing.

$30 million should certainly be able to soften the blow.

Poor guy, hope he can recover from this fully.

Really, draft Jim Breuer? Halftimes would be better I guess.

I think they're just playing him up a bit, maybe trade him for another very late round pick before he's cut. Honestly, he just hasn't moved up enough to be more than a TE3, even on this team. Could pick up a camp cut quicker and cheaper.

If they go with the Washington Football Team, then the rest of us should just call them The 'Balls. Their stadium would then have to be known as The Scrotum.

Good luck to Manhertz. Good that he was a Panther, good that he's getting more opportunities to continue his career. We needed change, hope it works well for him, too.

Maybe a little bit of column A, a bit of column B. If Dan is our GM next year, then there'll have been a collapse of epic proportions. A clean the entire house effort like Chip Kelly being shown the door in Philly thing. Let's hope instead we get the season we're all needing. 13-4 with a run at the championship.

There's a metric f-ton of truth to this. An injury to Darnold in pre-season (happened with Cam, remember) would leave the Darnold question unanswered for who knows how long. And even if he did come back mid-season there'd be a built in excuse if he didn't live up to expectations. Right now, there's no reason really to not trot Walker and Grier out behind our evolving/revolving O-line until things are solidified (for better or worse). Let Sam get the practices in, but let someone else wear the target as we build that line. I'm worried very little that Darnold will flop because he got no snaps in the pre-season. I am worried that an injury could leave the future of this team hanging for yet another year. Give the guy a chance to fly or flop on opening day, not in a sloppy, pointless preseason game.

There won't be another Luke Kuechly for a generation. Butkus, Singletary, Kuechly. Legends all.

I agree with everything else in your post except this. All coaches play favorites to some degree. Rhule has flexed his Temple and Baylor preferences already and rightly so (dance with the ones that brung ya so to say). And he doesn't have enough time in coaching for us to really see any tendencies, except that even after lackluster results last season he stuck by his OC, DC and SC. And there were troubling games where he kept sending in Teddy Bridgewater even after it was obvious Teddy wasn't getting it done. This year will tell us a lot, hopefully it will be good news. Right?

Because if it does, then we'd have had a catastrophic season.

Yep. Right now, we're judging these moves by Fitterer on paper and Rhule was given a pass for such a crazy situation to fall into as a first year head coach. We've got nothing but hopes at the moment.

Hate to hear it for the young man. Hopefully he can rehabilitate it after surgery and use the time to do the film work and study that could seriously improve his game. Sometimes it takes a couple of years for a corner to really make the change to the pros. Maybe there's a silver lining to this for him. Either way, I hope he heals well and can keep his spirits up.

The answer might be on the roster. Might be. But yeah, Perryman might need to sit this one out.

Oh gosh, yes. Soooo many. Pickles. Everyone that got passed over that year so that Vinnie Testaverde could come off of the couch to play. Randy Fasani. Dameyune Craig. There have been some real stinkers out there.

Or an injury settlement. Haven't heard if there has been an update to the severity of the injury, but would we really put him on IR this early? Do we have nearly unlimited spots/times like last year?

And dangit, but every now and then those folks are right.

Honestly, if Darnold falls flat out there, I don't think it's going to matter who they put in next at QB. We're going to be looking at a long season, an early early draft pick and probably the loss of a coach or two or three. I know, I know, I know... long contract yada yada yada, Tepper believes, yada, yada, yada. Rhule, Brady and Snow are geniuses, yada yada yada. It just takes time to build, yada yada yada. None of that matters. Last year we sucked. The year before we sucked. A third year in a row of suckage and the crowd will start calling for blood. I want Rhule to succeed. I want it to happen this year. I want us to not just be competitive but to contend. We've got some great talents on this team, some guys who could be legendary. But we need the Rhule Revolution to kick it into gear or we'll start seeing the Chip Kelly comparisons come along.

His insight and honesty was great. His delivery needs some work, he's speaking and responding at about 3/4 of the speed he needs to be at. There were long, drawn out pauses and while his chill is okay in a slow moving pre-season game, he'd be hard pressed to keep tempo. Getting the names wrong, not a problem in the preseason, it's just going to happen.