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We have Sam Darnold. We don't need to add another Sam Darnold. Let's roll with Sam Darnold until we have a realistic shot at someone other than Sam Darnold or another Sam Darnold.

Damn, I'm watching that video and I'm thinking I really wouldn't mind us spending a day 2 pick on Cole Turner. Apparently not a great route runner, but I wouldn't mind having a target that big in the end zone. Between the size mismatch and his ability to go up and make catches with his hands, not many defender could stop him. Could definitely help our red zone woes.

Seems like a very average veteran deal. Locked up a key piece and didn't break the bank. I like it!

Beyonce was up there. I'm not even a huge fan, but damn, that is what a performer is paid the big bucks to do. She put on a show.

Larry David was the winner. I honestly don't remember what the ad was for and I saw it 15 minutes ago.

I believe Murray will be playing baseball in a few years. He's dynamic, but the league has already figured him out. He's too small and I imagine the prospect of playing into his early 40s, raking in millions of dollars and saving his body in the Show will be a siren song he can't resist forever.

If I were an athlete, I'd certainly skip it, or very performatively half-ass it. If I'm making millions of dollars off my athletic ability, the last thing I'd want to do is provide quantitative data that my measurables are slipping. "Yeah, my agent's going to love the fact that the world saw me run a 4.8 40 at the Pro Bowl when he's trying to negotiate up a new multi-million dollar deal for me."

In other words, "If there's a QB you want in the top 10, you better call 1-800-PANTHERS because we might just take him if you don't trade up."

Everyone talking about Burrow going to the Super Bowl being proof that a QB1 is the magic bullet for NFL success, and therefore we should draft a top 3 QB. I point to Matt Stafford being in the Super Bowl as the reason we shouldn't. Matt Stafford is a championship caliber QB 1. Provably. He's playing for the championship in 2 weeks. He languished his entire career on a bad team and did nothing of note. The magical, championship quality QB couldn't drag a bad team to relevance. And then the first year he plays for a competent squad, he goes to the Super Bowl. I said it before and I'll say it again. A championship quality QB1 is the very top of Maslow's hierarchy of football needs. It's the thing that makes you a contender if you already have the lower steps on the pyramid in place. Now be real honest with yourself, and answer this question: "Right now, are the Carolina Panthers more like the LA Rams, or the Detroit Lions?" Don't fug around. Draft a lineman.

That was my first thought. He's gonna have a "Welcome to the NFL" moment real quick if he thinks we can run until he gets dragged down. Also agree with everything you just said, because I said it almost verbatim in the next post, lol!

I like his tape. But not enough to draft him at 6. If we can trade back and get him at 10-14, and get another pick to shore up the line, I love it.

Yes. And it's not unprecedented to give rights to non-human things with human functions. If you break someone's prosthetic arm, are you damaging their property, or are you committing assault? It's a machine, but it's also someone's body. Same principle applies to a non-human person. And if you think that's silly, remember that if you shoot a K-9 unit, you killed a police officer, not just a dog.

"I can't see the field! It must be all the blood in my eyes. Did you see the blood and how hurt I was?"

Yeah they keep using that footage like he's playing with an eye hanging out of his socket or something. Wuss. And he threw a pick, lol!

For all the talk about, "you can't win in this league without a franchise QB," today proved that a QB will get you to the playoffs, but a defense gets you a championship. Looking at Kyler's implosion last week, and today all QBs accounted 1 Passing Touchdown, 5 Interceptions, and 19 sacks. The defenses dictated the outcomes of the games today.

No. Let's roll with the scrub we have rather than starting over with another scrub. FIX THE LINE Then you have permission to spend money on anything else.

Fine. Honestly it's fine. Of all the candidates available, Ben McAdoo was definitely one of them. The real test will be obtaining the quality pieces on the offensive side of the ball, particularly on the line. What we have right now, no one can step into the OC role and succeed. If we get them, I have no reason to think McAdoo can't be successful.

Okay, I'm mainly just stubbornly playing devil's advocate at this point: but there's a non-zero probability that one of those players speaking out was OBJ.

This is genuinely fascinating. The guy is not a fan of the guy the fanbase is not a fan of. And correctly judges offensive talent. But the fanbase still finds a way to make a negative out of it.

Yeah, pretty much this. Any other OC would probably need to come with a complete regime change. But IF we're saddled with Rhule, and IF we've got no other choice but hope for the current regime to turn things around, I don't hate McAdoo for the job.

Yes, but there's precedent for flameout head coaches still being very successful as coordinators. Steve Spagnuolo comes to mind. And good or bad, I thing any NFL HC experience would be valuable on the Rhule coaching roster. Not saying McAdoo is at the top of my list, but I don't see anything here to merit the kneejerk dismissiveness the board is treating this news with.

Yeah, I'd be concerned if we were interviewing him for our HC. We're looking for an offensive play caller. Not a rah rah guy.

Not to get political, but my goodness. I want this thread to be exhibit A the next time I ever hear someone say that women are to emotional and irrational to be president. Here's a candidate that checks all the boxes. We said Rhule needs a coordinator with NFL HC experience. He's got that. We want someone who's been successful as an OC. He's got that. And still we get 10 pages of how he's the wrong kind of right for this position! Everyone is just looking for another reason to be upset.

You have to do something pretty spectacular to coach your way to unemployment in the playoffs. I think he might have just achieved it.