Khyber53

Also, sure let's get that Robbie Anderson contract worked out.

Notice I said I didn't think trading up in the draft was part of the plan. I'm against us trading up to draft a QB.

Let's see how it plays out. I'm betting that the experienced QB/HC guy and the GM of the team decide differently than the trade up for a risky college QB method of drafting.

I think the fans could take up a collection if it would just make him go away and wash the memories away. The man is like gum on the bottom of your shoe.

And there were two QBs in this year's NCAA championship game that are available in this year's draft. Both could be available late second day or even the third day. Take a flier on one of them and let everyone else go crazy over a, well, lackluster and overhyped QB class. Grab DE, TE, WR, DB, LB first. Build the team, then find the guy. And I'm not so sure that the best QB available to us this coming season is someone who needs to be drafted.

He just added $4 million to what someone will pay him to play for them this year.

The value of neither will be near the price we would have to pay. Let's move on.

I'm not so sure that him losing that team wasn't an inside job. Old Saturday had been hanging around that team for a while and then things really started going south... I've got no proof, but man I've seen things like this elsewhere and they turned out about the same.

We'll resign Darnold for back up money, look at Corral as the immediate future and I'm thinking we will take a wing at Georgia QB Stetson Bennett late in the draft as his drunk and disorderly arrest is really going to drive his draft stock down -- like fourth or fifth rounders. We'll snag the best DE, TE or DB available on the board at nine or might trade back to someone willing to take a big risk on one of the remaining fourth or fifth top ranked QB available at that time.

Ah, Denver and Sean Payton. The karmic flush cycle is going to be epic there.

Honestly, he did well enough to make you go, "Wow, look at him. Is that really Sam? a time or two. Look, I know he's not a world-beater at QB. He's really not even starting material, but something happened this season that upped his game. He played with some confidence and some guts that he'd teased a time or two in the past. He might be worth a short term back-up QB contract with some incentives to hold him here and work with us through a transition. There's also the possibility that Reich could help him progress. It's not like he's had decent coaching since he got into the league, except for maybe Wilks saying "Well, kid, you've got nothing to lose, sling it."

Crazily enough, I might put Sam Darnold down as offensive player of the year, if we aren't going with a lineman. Darnold was head and shoulders above Mayfield and Walker with pretty much the same personnel minus (and this is a biiiiig minus) CMC. I can hear the jaws dropping and hitting the floor. Was he great? Nah. The competition for the spot was just that bad.

That QB could be in the draft, could be in free agency, or may be on our team already. I do hope that Reich gets to really evaluate all of the options. His particular playing and coaching history should give him an exact idea of what the qualities and attributes of a great QB are. He's played with some of the best ever, has been involved in last ditch game winning situations, and has seen both young candidates who can't make it and older players who have hit the wall, as well as born winners. If we can't find one within a couple of seasons, or hopefully a couple of months, then we're sunk.

Crazy as it sounds, I think Marty Hurney might be proven to be a better GM than Fitterer. Fit's got some serious issues to clear up. Marty did pay big money to running backs, but Fit paid big money to Robbie Anderson and Ian Thomas... I'm hoping Fit without Rhule makes a better showing.

He could convert one crucial third down in any game. That is a truly undervalued trait.

Burns doesn't need to be traded. He does, however, need an additional stud DE to pair with. He's great, but he isn't the bust through double teams kind of guy.

By Jimmy Johnson if I recall...

He mostly left behind old dorm room furniture and a couple of Jay-Z posters. Who'd have cared if he'd have pissed on that?

It's faint praise for him and I can't even hand him that. He was a mistake on our part and his fault was that he obviously tried to take on something he was in no way prepared for. In his defense, he's not the first, or the last, HC to move from strictly college experience to the NFL and flounder. He has a long list of compatriots. Best of luck to him at Nebraska, hopefully he and we have found better situations.

It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. I don't really have any dogs in the fight when it comes to OC or DC at the moment and I'm a big proponent of letting the HC get the staff together he feels he needs to get the team in shape. That being said, under Rhule it became obvious pretty quickly where he'd screwed up on his hires. I don't think we'll see this here, though, as Reich is very versed in the pro game and the pro coaches around the league.

Lemme guess, you had some money riding on the game, right?

And you thought we'd relied on him too much at times... wow, that game in Philly, poor kid. He can do anything, but he can't do everything, everywhere, all at once.

That shows that we're students, precocious ones, but still just students to the masters. They've wasted almost as much money on the team as has been spent on cocaine in the city.

When it comes to spending a buttload of money for little in return, Miami has old school skills we have yet to even learn here in Carolina. Let's move on.

Stink lasts, takes a long time to wear off.