Khyber53

Meh. No move they've made so far this year has paid off for more than a hot minute. Good luck, kid. Colder weather, let the walrus loose!

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It won't matter one damn bit who we pick if this coaching staff is still in place and if we are still relying on Fitterer to find us offensive line talent on the FA market. Right now, we'd be better off with Dave Gettleman and 81-year old George Seifert. And I frikkin' hated 'em both here. If we draft a QB, the kid is dead meat out there. If we draft o-line, there's no one to coach and develop them. We'd probably get another DB. And trade for three more.

There is no way Hurney was the lead man in choosing Matt Rhule. Hurney picked two head coaches that took teams to the Super Bowl, both based on their extensive experience in the league. The Rhule hiring has all the hallmarks of a newbie owner wanting to shake up the league and show how it could be done differently. That was a first class nouveau riche move. Unless you think Hurney did it to spike the cannons on his way out? Funny as that sounds, there's no way he was going to do that.

I'd be like "ow my leg!" "Ow my other leg, too!" to get away from this mess. Let him rest up, rehab and be ready for the new coach and a better shot. Too many good players are wasting themselves for this bunch of coaching chumps and Temple wannabes.

And they made mistakes last time. They had their guy picked before interviewing others. And they screwed the pooch. Go back and make it right.

Honestly, at this point I want to see Barkley. Just for variety.

That's some pretty good second level connections reasoning there! We've been missing that around here!

Eric Bieniemy would be a great name on that list, too.

John Matsko was terribly underappreciated here for what he did.

Honestly, there's some talent on this team, still. A decent pro coaching staff and a wise GM could get this team back on its feet and competitive in one off season.

That was not a professional football team we fielded yesterday, on the o-line or any positions grouping. That was an entire team trying to get someone fired. Even idiots who were trying would have done better.

I stand corrected.

Keep Morgan, send Fitterer packing. Fitterer left the Seahawks in shambles, a shell of their former selves. I don't remember anyone vocalizing how they hated to see him go. He may have been part of the problem there rather than part of building their success. Morgan has an emotional stake in the Panthers and comes to this from a player's perspective. He can evaluate and help develop. We have a hatchet man and negotiator on staff to help him. And grab Eric Bieniemy right off the bat. He can build a team without a lot of horseshit like we've seen this last couple of seasons.

In Greek Mythology, heroes rarely end their days well, typically going on one last quest that ends disastrously. Still, they are remembered for their glory days, not for their downfalls. So ends the tale of brave Ulysses.

Is it time to talk about hiring fly-over banners again?

Non-professional coaching leads to unprofessional teams. Unprofessional teams decide to start their bye weeks early. They also start the off season in December. Oh look! Here comes a bye week followed by December. Cue Don Meredith singing, "Turn out the lights, the party is over."

The only thing that will save our draft next season is if we rid ourselves of Rhule and Fitterer. We have to replace them with experienced people at their posts.

He was just that. We have to remember, though, that the teams seeking coaches were all really, really bad teams. We were one of the least bad teams. That's a lot of organizations with terrible ownership groups, bad track records, decades of losing, sometimes even potential curses (looking at you Lions). If you think about it, a wise team would avoid the coaching candidate most wanted by the bunch, unless they were a proven NFL coach (and there were none in the race). This may be how eternal bottom feeding teams in a parity league stay at the bottom. We pretty much went all in on the most popular candidate among the special ed students at the NFL school. And here's where we ended up.

No. This is not a professional football team, in any phase of the game. Our offense sucks from top to bottom. Our special teams are always a timebomb, ready to go off at any moment. Our defense has some statistics, but that's because they haven't averaged out some games at the first of the year when we played against some truly bad offenses. Today, the lowly Miami Dolphins marched at will against us. Last week, the WTFs did as we tried to laugh at how bad we thought Rivera and Heinicke were. Let that sink in. The Giants did it to us, too. And a good portion of our problems were the people brought in and drafted by Fitterer. He was so proud of his trades and finds. He is a moron the Seahawks were happy see go.

The problem is not Cam. Cam could not fix our problems. And he didn't make them. And I feel bad that he couldn't save us from this mess. But, he's only human.

We need to completely clean house: Coaches, GM, scouts, trainers. And we need to do it soon so that we can have the stink of this season aired out before we get to the beginning of free agency and contract negotiation. We cannot let Rhule and Fit have any input on who we take or retain. Their incompetence can be given no more places to take root. We will be stuck with Darnold and Robby and a host of other bad pulls for the rest of next season already, let's not cripple our team for even more years down the road. Can't coach, can't evaluate. Can't stay.

Nah. They've all got to go. Even Snow.

They beat us in all three phases of the game. When they got done having their way with Cam, Rhule gave them PJ and they started all over again. We had, I think, one starting quality player out. It looked like our third stringers in a pre-season game. We were outcoached by a team that was seriously looking to fire their head coach and ditch their first round draft pick guy. We made those two look like geniuses. It was embarrassing.

God bless y'all. Good to hear from you. We'll be here when you get back.