Rocky Davis

I was thinking maybe Deonte was getting conditioned for some time at FS..... With him actually saying he'd like to learn to play C I know Meyer and Rhule have already mind fugged the guy into thinking he can't play his natural position and is desperate to get on the field somehow.

Here we thought we'd have a dangerous offense this year with CMC, Robby, DJ, TMJ, and Smith as a dangerous slot receiver. That never developed because we had traffic cones for an offensive line with Moton as the lone exception. We extended Robby based on his play in 2020 and he hasn't lived up to expectations at all. CMC has become glass since signing his huge extension for some reason....just seems really weird. DJ has been OK this year, but he has regressed from last season as well despite reaching 1K again, he has way more drops and has not blocked nor ran his routes with the urgency needed. I don't know if this is completely on the O-line and Sam or not, but it just seems weird that these guys haven't met expectations. Do they all know they are fighting a losing battle with our O-line and QB situation? Are they disenfranchised about it? TMJ and Smith haven't received the playing time I thought they would so it's too early to pass judgement on them, both have shown flashes of being solid players for us. Tremble and Hubbard have been pleasant surprises for the most part....Tremble especially and with some good coaching I think Hubbard can improve at the RB position. He isn't a great RB at catching the ball, but with our WRs and Tremble he probably wouldn't have to be great. I would try to trade CMC if (and it's a big if) we could get decent value for him. It frees up a lot of money and I would hope we could maybe get a 2nd and maybe a 4th for him....may be more like a 3rd and 4th due to the last two years and his contract. If CMC goes somewhere else and balls out then I absolutely know he packed it in due to our O-line situation....he is trying to extend his career and doesn't want to be ran into the ground by this coaching staff and pathetic situation. I'd like to keep DJ and the rest of our skill position players with the exception of Darnold and Thomas. Both of them are expendable, but I do realize that trading Darnold would probably cost more than what the trade is worth. With Thomas if we could find a FA TE with a little more desire to play an entire game and play until the whistle I would let him walk. He has had his moments, but he doesn't play hard and is soft IMO. Keep our 1st round pick and grab the best offensive lineman available. An elite LT would be great, but any elite offensive lineman with the exception of RT would be welcomed. I have watched a lot of Christensen at LT and believe he can do the job with more experience and better coaching. If we can grab that elite LT then shift Christensen over to LG and hopefully we have shored up the left side. I wish we had seen more of Brown at RG because preseason film on him was pretty damn good. I don't know why Brown hasn't been given an opportunity because he mauled people when he played...maybe it is conditioning but my goodness he can't be worse than Miller. If we had some idea of how he'd perform from some actual game time we might have an idea that the right side of our o-line can be better next year and in the future. Center is another issue as well. Elflein looks better at C than anywhere else, but he also has been a liability quite a bit on stunts and being bull rushed. I don't know if there is a FA Center worth going after or maybe one in the draft, but it's also a position we need help with. I'd trade Burns to attempt to recoup a late 1st rounder and hopefully a 3rd round pick. Burns is a very good pass rusher, but he overplays his rushes quite a bit and is a liability in the run game. Other teams know this so it would take a team who wants him purely as a pass rushing specialist....I don't know if there's a team out there that would do it. He may only net us a 2nd and 3rd. I'd let DJax walk. He's been a better tackler overall this year, but his ceiling is a 2 CB and that is being generous. Teams have scorched him and I am guessing he thinks he should get 1 CB money....gotta walk away from that. TL, DR: Attempt to trade CMC, Darnold, and Burns to ease future cap issues and hopefully recoup some picks in the draft. Keep our 1st rounder and pick the best Offensive lineman available. With our other picks wherever we are pick the top Offensive lineman available. This has got to be fixed to have any kind of hope for next season.

I wasn't a fan of Brady's situational play calling, but I still think he couldn't implement all of his playbook due to the offensive line (Moton excluded) not being able to hold a block long enough to allow WR routes to be ran. Also, after Sam started seeing ghosts he had to deal with that element of his QB having happy feet and forcing throws - not looking at his progressions because well the o-line. CMC going down didn't help things either. Brady was a scapegoat pure and simple.

I 1000% believe we can achieve this new record. It's the vision and development we can't see.

If you watch all these clips you see some good play by Moton and Christensen.

Christensen played pretty well yesterday. I think he held his own and I saw him work his man around and behind Sam multiple times giving Sam time. It's the interior O-line that is killing us. Christensen and Moton handled the edges well, but Sam still couldn't step up in the pocket a lot and held the ball too long.

It's like these offensive lineman haven't been coached on how to handle stunts or CB/S blitzes. Of course when you are shuffling your "versatile" linemen in and out of games you can never have a line that will communicate well and gel over the course of the season. Another example of why this coaching staff needs their walking papers.

I think Deonte Brown can be a solid guard *if* he really wants to be. Coming into the draft the big knock on him was controlling his weight and putting in the work....if that dude would do that I think he would be a steal. Same thought I had during the draft. I want to see him play and go from there. It could be really eye opening that this coaching staff didn't allow this guy to get any game time in and develop if he does do a better job than what we have out there. He can't be worse than Miller until proven otherwise. Miller is nothing more than a traffic cone allowing our QBs to get killed.

All different types of personalities on this board, the reactionary ones tend to do that.

This has been Shaq's best season. He will never be Luke or TD, but he has grown and shows leadership. The couple of games he was out we definitely missed him quite a bit. I like what he said about if you don't want to play then you aren't needed.....speaks volumes about the locker room right now. Some players have packed it in.

I will actually be upset if he is successful in his 3rd year....it means this clown show will get another year or two to completely destroy the team because they will.

This play not only shows how uncomfortable and scared Darnold is with this offensive line, it also shows our coaching staff's continued ineptitude to call a good play OUT OF A TIMEOUT on a 3rd down play. Bunch all your wide receivers, who by the way haven't really shown any ability or desire to block well, on the left side of the formation and call what looks like to be a quick screen. Two players on the right hand side of the formation to possibly go to and both covered well....Sam never looks that way. This is not an NFL offense, I can draw up better plays in the damn dirt on the playground than this OC and head coach can preparing all week. How in the hell did they think this was going to work? Sam looks like he is dancing back there and then does his receiver a solid by throwing the ball at the ground so the receiver doesn't get put in the ICU in a New Orleans hospital. PATHETIC.

Jeff Nixon makes me long for the Joe Brady days. He's that bad. We ran the same quick pitch run play to the right side 3 or 4 times yesterday, it worked well once. Didn't even try to run it to the left side or through a different formation. His playbook is 3 pages max. DJ Moore has checked out and I'm pretty sure Robbie is out there going through the motions. This is an epic clusterfug that Tepper seems to be just fine with.

That Bear is still pretty entertaining......

Which in turn makes our offense very predictable, there's only so many ways to run an offense when the defense knows you can't take the safeties and LBers out of the box because we have to get the ball out in 3-5 seconds....if that.

Tepper keeping Rhule after all this embarrassment.....no testicles. We clearly do not have the coaching in place for an NFL team, and I question the ability for us to evaluate talent. If Rhule has control I'll give Fitterer a pass...if not we are and have been royally fugged.

It's NOT MILLER TIME!!

OMG Ian Thomas is as soft as Charmin tissue.

Can't install a completely new one, but you can change routes and runs out of formations, and you can add some plays to the playbook. These are professionals....at least that's what they are called.

Man this game brings back so many good memories. It's a shame we've lost Mills and Greene too early....both Panther greats.

I think Snow still thinks he has Gilmore and Horn out there to single cover guys when blitzing. I also don't think they have coached these guys on how to play zone when it is 3rd and long....the # of times we've given up 3rd and longs is ATROCIOUS. WTF?

Really great win, I have no doubt RBA ripped into the team during the first intermission and then told the boys this game was theirs to win during the second. Play was abysmal in the first and woke up in the 2nd from it's slumber. The 3rd period was just straight fire!! Damn I love this team.

If we always play with this kind of mentality when we are down we will go far this season, never say die and grind it out attitude. Nice!!

Joni Pitkanen doing some great scouting work for the Canes over in Finland.