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we will see, I mean McAdoo hasn't been exactly what I thought he would be. It has been worse. We are going to have to see something different from him. Maybe Wilks can get it. I do believe Rhule's thumbprint/micromanagement brought out the worst in folks. I suspect we will find out pretty quick if that is realistic or not. But if we don't see change from the O.....it's hard to see wins.

I'm sure there are variations of it as much as a BS around here. Largely I think I laid out thoughts they could get somewhere between 4 to 7 wins before the season started. I largely had after the Tampa Bay game as where and when I think Rhule would get the axe. I had a bold prediction that Wilks or Tabor might pull of more wins than Rhule lol. Which has a chance.

Wilks is a solid leader for a NFL squad. He has the defensive talent to do well. He has a coach that can call it. The biggest problem right now is McAdoo can't use CMC properly. If he could do that, the offense could move and he could help these different variations of meh QBs we have to see some success on offense. I mean, you don't have to be a great OC to move the ball with CMC healthy. It will be interesting to see if Wilks can get some shift in what we are doing on O to occur.

The actual mistake was hiring Matt Rhule. Matt Rhule again remains the actual topic. Would it be smarter to give Nixon 2 weeks to prep for a bad Atl team or just give him 1? That's the discussion. My guessing of the actions of a bad football coach in Matt Rhule isn't great. Only thing worse is your prediction of how this season, Matt Rhule, Ben McAdoo, etc. would play out.

lol. Talk about clockwork. Go read the article again. It’s a legit point someone else shared of what a joke HC Matt Rhule was. I mean, just take the L on how wrong you have been about all this stuff and move on.

he practiced Thurs for the media portion.

I mean regardless of what you think of Joe Brady. It’s a bad look in-house. Rhule was called on it at the time. And his justification was such painful bullshit. Basically an extra week of prep time doesn’t help anyone lol.

All professional starts it where 7-0 comes from too

I mean, he is a 3rd string/break the glass type QB. Go back and watch that Lions game. Asking PJ to run some of the redzone plays is simply dumb. Especially one of the INTs. A playcaller asking a backup QB to do that? It was a trash call for a bad QB. That’s on the OC. Redzone is tough for all QBs. If you put weak QBs in bad spots? dumb predictably happens We have a good defense and a healthy CMC. If you can’t compete against meh teams with that combo? Your play caller is simply trash. Which McAdoo is. Which is now the biggest issue overall right now. We got an OC that can’t even figure out how to use CMC. So until can figure out the simplest of simple. He ain’t making anyone else look good either.

So hard to watch coaches misuse players. I mean, I don’t know what Fields can be. But you aren’t going to find out anything by inserting a young Fields into a pro style offense. I mean, why hire a coach that is going to insist of doing that given you just spent a first rounder on Fields. Ron and all the OCs got bashed in regards to Cam. But they designed offenses that let Cam thrive. It likely shortened his career but they should get credit for that because so many coaches fail with the simple things. Cam could of gone to some coach that wouldn’t blend college and pro and frankly never of panned out freaking commentators can figure this basic poo out

Cam won more games in 2020 than Sam and Baker most likely will win combined in Carolina. and the next HC is only inheriting Matt Corral. No one else is under contract here.

Biggest problem there is no one knew how to go about rebuilding or building something properly in the NFL. No rebuild involves dumping poo tons of money and draft capital into busted vet QBs, making your RB the highest paid RB in the NFL, trading away draft picks for whatever, renting win now players for a year, etc. That’s what happened under Matt Rhule.

You have to count Cam IMO against Rhule. He wasn't a free agent. He had a year left on his deal. He opted to cut him, Cam went on to win more games than his QB with what was the worst roster in the NFL that season in NE, and then Rhule brought Cam back to save his job.

well, who is the next HC inheriting. If you take the free agents off the table his entire QB room is Matt Corral. An injured rookie who has never played a snap . Rhule inherited a better QB situation than that. He inherited a great leader. Who while not in his prime, went on to win more games than Rhule after Rhule cut him. I mean, so if QB is the most important spot that exists. Rhule inherited a MUCH better situation than the next guy.

gets weird, Rhule didn't inherit the 2020 roster. He helped mold that roster that existed in 2020.

Yeah, I don’t think it will be “drastically different”. I do expect them to up their blitz % and mix up there zone calls. And when you do that, you have a Wilks D vs a Snow D.

I’m a little confused by this post. anyway, I don’t feel it’s new thread worthy so I’ll just share it here. Take a look at my new PJ tattoo.

Last time we went to the west coast and were 10 point dogs? was also PJ’s last start. And I don’t have to tell you what happens when PJ starts a game.

CMC was healthy for the AZ game. He wasn’t for the Lions game. and yeah, CMC did all the heavy lifting vs AZ. He had a field day vs AZ. And when he got to the endzone Cam got the glory. Which is fine. But reality is Cam wasn’t the dude who won the game. CMC did. And AZ wasn’t stopping CMC from the 2 yard line either. CMC is healthy right now. If McAdoo could actually call a good game we could be competitive. Biggest issue right now is an OC that figure out to use the best weapon in the NFL IMO when healthy. I mean it’s painful watching McAdoo misuse CMC. Not the fact we have to play PJ one week. a healthy CMC, a good defense….and a decent OC should have us in games with meh teams. PJ , Darnold or Baker. If we aren’t competitive Sunday it’s because Rhule brought in joke McAdoo more than anything.

The league is full of QBs that aren’t starting caliber. PJ Walker is the only QB of late that we have rostered that has actually and sufficiently done his job. we have called upon PJ twice to step in and start and the team has managed to find a way to win in those moments and done so comfortably both times. PJ gets excess hate due to the fact everyone above him on the depth chart has been so utterly horrific at their job. PJ isn’t paid and rostered to lead comeback attempts after a game has been blown. That’s not his job and esssntially the only play some people want to acknowledge. He has looked the role of backup in all his prepared starts. Now given the top of our depth chart has been so bad we likely need a backup with a higher ceiling and one that could develop into something. But PJ gets way too much hate.

Stafford likely injured. Kupp banged up. Team playing poorly. It has the ground work for a potential Carolina upset.

7 scoring drives. Most points on the season. Cam coming in at 2 yard line to vulture TDs for us fans twice doesn’t change the fact the O moved the ball all game long. CMC was the actual MVP in that upset. Cam just gave us the feel good moment and stole the spotlight. In his 2 starts, the O has moved the ball. They moved it very well the other start vs the Lions. He just had 2 really dumb throws that game. But when prepped for a start the O has moved with PJ. He will make 2-3 dumb throws. It is what it is. and all my PJ Walker gimmick/fun aside…..I do believe he is relatively on par with Sam Darnold tier of QB. That’s not a compliment of PJ though. Anything we can pull off with Sam we can pull off with PJ.

Yep. If you look at Wilks last 3 NFL seasons in Clev, AZ and Car….his blitz % runs much higher than Snow in the NFL. Heavy blitz and heavy zone.

The plays largely all already exist. it’s just different philosophy. The calls change.