Khyber53

He's going to be great. They put him out there to learn to function against full competition. He's learning.

That was great @t96! Thanks for the excellent write up!

So, honestly, there are a couple of things here. First, after seeing the scraps in practice this week between the two squads (and remembering that Cam's real career ending injury came from a jailbreak blitz by the Patriots in preseason), maybe it's good that NONE of the potential starters or second stringers see the field tonight. No reason to risk anything of value on a complete waste of time preseason game. Secondly, it might not be Darnold they are trying to trade, but Walker. He's on a cheap, cheap, cheap one year deal and if he can look good enough, some team desperate for a back up might be willing to kick us a seventh round pick for him. Either way, I'm not getting mad about who isn't seeing the field tonight or seeing it first. The best thing that can come out of this is if there are no injuries.

They did. Memory is getting fuzzy for this old one.

Right you are! It's been a loooong time and my memory is blurring things together. Thanks for the correction!

Good. There are enough parasites on the economy to not need to add gambling to it.

Me, too. Me, too. If this one doesn't work out, though, we need to draft center first next season. We'll never be able to coach up a franchise QB if he doesn't have a center that he can depend on.

Center has been a problem since Kalil left and I've been saying we needed to drop a high draft pick on one since then. It has been glaringly obvious that the line isn't just bad but is in dire need of a smart leader who can make protection calls and bring the unit together. This concept is completely foreign to the Rhule Regime. Somehow. Hopefully Bozeman can get back on the field and maybe he can do the job. I do have my worries that Baltimore did to us with Bozeman what Denver did to us with Paradis, all the while laughing that we bought yet another lemon from the used car lot. I'm still holding out some hope for Bozeman, but if he isn't the guy, then bring Mays over and put him to work with on the job training.

2003 week 2 versus Tampa Bay. Completely whooped early on in the game, Coach John Fox benches Rodney Peete and sends in unknown Jake Delhomme to salvage at least the team's dignity. Delhomme goes from zero to hero and brings the win back, assisted greatly by fantastic defensive efforts and special teams play. The Cardiac Cats were born and the season that had more edge of the seat moments than any other one culminates in a last minute Superb Owl loss to the New England Patriots, who had cheated time and again.

Even with $19 million in sunk costs, it's hard to argue with this. Sometimes you've just got to walk away from a deal that didn't pan out and consider it an educational expense.

Jones is much better than he's been given credit for. He'll be the top QB from his draft class. Already is.

Let's see how it goes. I'm betting I'm right.

Yeah, you can say it's against lesser competition, but when the numbers are that great then there's more fire than smoke.

Zappe finished the 2021 campaign by completing 475-of 686 passes (69.2%) for 5,987 yards, with 62 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

That's better than we've fielded in quite a while.

Zappe is going to be a good NFL QB. BB will be trading him off in two seasons to someone for major picks.

I always thought another GM tried talking Gettleman into taking Butler as a joke. "Yeah, he's going to be a mega star, trust me, he's going to be the best thing ever." And dumpster diving Gettleman just knew he'd found that diamond in the rough.

BC, Icky, Mays, Corbett, Moton. I'd rather see Icky at LT but I think if you work with Mays at Center, then you put the biggest, strongest guy right beside him and let the two work out the teamwork.

Arms too short to reach the ball.

I've been pounding on that drum for a couple of years now. No one listens.

If they don't get Center fixed, then they'll never fix the line or the QB situation.

Can't argue with it much.

They don't give you do over years in the pros.

It's not just Corral and it has been like this since the beginning. I don't think Rhule is as good at developing players as an NFL coach has to be. How many players have actually gotten better here since they were brought on board? I don't believe Corral will get better under his tutelage or regime. Mayfield, Darnold and Bridgewater were brought here because they were "developed" players and not projects. Walker was brought in as a former star pupil. This isn't a recipe for success. And it's mirrored across the team, from offensive line to defensive line, DBs and WRs. If you didn't show up with a ton of talent, you aren't getting better here. If you did, then that's what you operate on instead of getting better. There's better roster development and long range planning on most Yahoo fantasy football teams than a Rhule-coached Panthers team.