Khyber53

Oh, we know who we are. We just don't like admitting it in public.

Good coaches make for good QBs. Bad coaches kill QBs.

Yanno, for a hot minute in the opening game, Robbie was killing it out there. Since then, well, not so much. Good ol' Robbie, he's reliably consistent.

Yanno, considering the coaching, I'd probably be crying over the helpless feeling the situation gave him. Honestly, the dude was brave walking back in for OTAs this year knowing there was a chance that he was going to get thrown to the wolves again. Skills or not, Sam found himself under the tutelage of an even worse coach than he had before. One who likely was going to get him killed out there.

Metrics were invented so consultants and middle managers have something to talk about. They have yet to really prove their worth in football beyond what had been done before.

Since Rhule came here, he's had four first round draft pick QBs (two of them #1 draft picks, and another in the top 5) and two Heisman trophy winners at the position. All of them had multiple years of experience, three of them with playoff experience and one was a Super Bowl starting QB. None of them could be effectively utilitzed, or even retrained/rehabbed as needed. Individually, outsiders have been pointing fingers at them and their performances. Internally, we know, without a doubt, that the blame is on the coaching staff, both for readiness and in game work. You can go beyond the QB position and see the same song played on different instruments time and again across the entirety of all positional groups. This tree is rotten at the roots. We need to salvage what fruit is still good on it and plow the rest of it under.

We took a stand-up pass rushing LB in the first round of the draft, moved him to stand-up DE and then we play him as a coverage DE. Yeah, we know what we're doing. Burns was picked to fit Rivera's effort to move the team to a 3-4 defense. Rivera never got the chance to fully implement that and so we end up using Burns in a position that doesn't play to his strengths and magnifies his weaknesses. We've been doing that a lot with good to great players here -- turning them into lackluster versions of themselves.

I believe there could be some kind of, I don't know, common thread tying them together. Can't quite put my finger on it...

At this point I only care if he has an exit plan.

I'm not sure there are two teams we can beat in the NFL right now. Even the Texans and the Colts would probably beat us and Atlanta at least looks like they care about winning. Us? Meh effort, even worse results.

That Chris Weinke was the worst... but we did win a game that year by this point. So, there's that.

The bye isn't until the first week in December. Surely we won't have to wait that long.

If there's any footage from the owner's box... that could be enlightening.

It's not that I have any real dislike for Jay-Z, but if that's going to be this coach's mantra and inspiration, it's going to impact my view of the performer. Maybe we should look for a new coach whose role model is, I don't know, a great football coach in their own right? Just saying. Heck, if Rhule had said Martha Stewart was his inspiration and used her for life lessons to the team, I'd be hating on her by now, too.

He may be highly touted by those who don't hire him for a very good reason.

Fug Jay-Z and his acolyte coach.

The staff was not improved. The new hires were actually guys who could not find other coaching jobs and really didn't have many suitors. Right now, the biggest nightmare would be to find out that McAdoo and Wilks were brought in to be the replacements. And they could certainly be even worse head coaches. Their own histories point to that.

It was just a jump to the left...

That is the walk of people going in to a dead end job the day before payday. None of them really want to be there, but if they don't show, they don't get paid. They had all of the team spirit of a bunch of folks stuck in the doc-in-a-box waiting room at 7 pm on a Sunday night. We might not win any games for a loooong time.

Willie the Janitor could see us through the season and maybe rescue some dignity.

Good coaches elevate teams. Good coaches win with the little things. Good coaches make sure the fundamentals are covered and valued. Good coaches turn players into stars. Good coaches understand situational play calling. Good coaches have their teams prepared to compete every week, every quarter. We don't have good coaches.

Who can tell?

Well, we can't get Tepper fired, so...