Khyber53

That's him and like six other defensive starters right now. Our defensive "greatness" has been predicated by four overachievers: Luvu, Burns, Chinn and Horn. Shaq would be doing better but he seems to forever trying to cover gaps in run defense or pass coverage. Everyone else has had a moment or two, but really, there's some guys making their money by jumping on piles.

In 2015, we celebrated too soon. Karma came looking for us and she just rubbed our noses in it.

Byron Leftwich.

Well, we've been down this road before. Of course, right now, we've got a student driver behind the wheel so there's that.

Dude just came in and did whatever was asked of him. Great hands. Well, at least he's on a competitive team right now. Hopefully he'll get to see the field. Honestly, if he catches on there he's more likely to get a ring before the guys that stick around here if Rhule manages to somehow hang on. Imagine, Detroit is an upgrade... smh

Well, on the good side, Chinn doesn't legally have to watch the games for the next few weeks. Can probably skip a bunch of pointless meetings, too.

Ian Thomas is our TE1. So, yeah, there's that. This has been a problem for the Tepper tenure pretty much. Olsen went and well, that place has been just a shell of itself. But this ain't the reason we suck, it's just a symptom.

He made billions in "falling on his sword" when he wanted out. Let's not cry too many tears for him. Honestly, one billionaire is interchangeable with the next when viewed from down here in the cheap seats.

If we can't run more plays, could we at least maybe ask the NFL if we could shorten our games to like 30 minutes? Sure would be nice to rip the bandaid off quicker than to have to sit through this crap each week. Watching our games is a lot like watching someone else play a video game. The other guy is having all the fun and we're just kind of trapped there wishing we had a ride home.

CMC basically willed that last scoring drive into existence for us vs. the Cards. The game prior he broke loose for a huge run that gave us the game. If you moved him to WR, he'd be the best receiver we had on the team and would be in the Deebo mode. But sure, let's go ahead and trade him and give the next HC less to work with for a second round draft pick roll of the dice.

Before long, they'll figure out how to start batting down the running backs before they cross the line.

We're not talking a bad coach here, we're talking an epically bad coach, and a clueless ownership. We're talking depths of Detroit depravity and the low points of still wearing my first grade haircut son of Al Davis. Whew.

The term we're struggling for here is: Massacre.

And two Heisman trophy winners. And three playoff QBs. And one Super Bowl QB. And two #1 picks in the draft. I know, I know, they were all bad or broken down. But he, and management, said, "Hell, let's ride with them. We can make it work." Oh and PJ Walker.

I'm in no way convinced that there's been a whit of improvement, but that our opponents have been just as hapless for the first four games and the ones for our first three last season. It's time for this experiment in on the job training to end.

I'm afraid to look. No pink slip yet?

Our coaching staff can't work to accentuate Mayfield's strengths. How in the hell are they supposed to be able to understand how to minimize his weaknesses? We so desperately need professional coaching. It's bad all across the board. It's so bad we, as a fanbase, were happy to see the return of Wilks... who was a bad coach and a terrible HC.

It's not just that we've been so bad for so long now, but it's the knowledge that we can keep being bad if things don't change drastically. I wonder if this is how it felt for Detroit Lions fans around say 1973?

I remember one of the old salts of the NFL once opining that if you have a QB competition, you don't have a QB. Seems the old saw still cuts true.

Billionaires, what ya gonna do with them, am I right? This century's longer lasting plague...

If we would use his mobility a bit and roll him out where he can see, he might be okay. There's something wrong beyond that, though. He's worse than I had expected.

Let's keep running CMC up the middle for 10 out of 12 touches per game. Or keep Baker throwing from a pocket he can't see out of or throw over.

I made it a blanket statement because honestly, we're blanketly bad. Cover our heads with the blanket and wait for February bad. Our great defense, even, is doing this against some pretty poor teams. And that should be kept in mind while evaluating our coaching... we're only doing fair against bad or depleted teams. Much like the beginning of last season, just without the wins.

In the Cardinal center's defense, that would have worked for a punt formation...

The 49ers will kill us.