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Payton retiring? Or just leaving the Saints to go to a team better situated to win?

bottled water!!!!

any vet that is good would only be coming here to be overpaid IMO. Why else would you come here. Or have some local tie where you are basically signing up to make life better for your family. You basically are signing up for the end of a lameduck and then a new HC's rebuild.

Specially Akers who just came back. If it wasn’t for his multiple fumbles. The game isn’t even close.

No worries. We got Sam Darnold. Basically a rookie. Now that he isn’t on the Jets he will surely flourish. It’s the JayZ model. Gotta remember the JayZ model. Just more time is needed.

If the draft charts mean anything….a future 2nd and 3rd isn’t enough to move up for the 26th. So it would cost more. That makes me a hard no on continuing to trade draft capital

Ok. But I am not arguing that he isn't referencing Martz in that comment. He easily could be. I also think there are two separate things at play. 1. Prioritizing scheme over personnel (which Martz is a textbook example of with Olsen). 2. HCs that allow great players to go off script and adapt as they see it in game. I think Greg is clearly referencing #2 and the pros it. I know Martz is guilty of #1. Maybe he is guilty of #2 and not allowing that too.

wonder how many years he got

Martz prioritized scheme over personnel. No doubt about that. The Bears publicly acknowledged that mistake once Olsen did historical things here. They should of altered their scheme once the best receiver became the TE. Instead they stuck with the scheme and traded the TE.

I mean, he is talking about a lot more than one coach. He is talking about head coaching in general. What he views as positive. Maybe he is talking about Martz with that one line. He isn't just talking about Martz though in his point. Just like he isn't talking about just Andy Reid. Or just talking about his staff in Carolina. What side of the equation do you think Matt Rhule falls on? The guy who has been criticized for wanting to be too hands on with every aspect. That blasted him former MVP publicly for taking a built in audible. A coach who had opposing defenses running the WR routes for the WRs all year long? I'd say Matt Rhule doesn't trend toward the side of head coaching that Olsen is praising.

seems reasonable.

I do not think this is the Matt Rhule way.

Greg is talking about a coaching type though. Ones that presently exist in today's NFL. He might not be directly talking about Matt Rhule. Matt Rhule certainly seems to be the type coach Greg would be referencing in general though.

I'd say Greg is probably pretty in tune with what Matt Rhule is doing here given his Carolina connections. Plus, he knows what Cam really thinks about this joke shop. and I think it was reported early that one of Rhule flaws was wanting to be too in control of every aspect of things. So even if Greg isn't specifically talking about Rhule with the line of not telling....it sounds like Rhule is that type HC he is referring too. For example, Rhule threw Cam hard under the bus for merely taking the built in audible on that 4th and 1 play. Per Rhule, that should of never happened. A vet and former MVP that knows short yardage as good as anyone....should of never audibled in that scenario per Rhule. And it was built into the freaking play. That just screams what Greg is talking about IMO.

Keeping Rhule leads to a pointless season. So if we keep Rhule, he should just have to roll with Sam. GM should focus on adding foundational talent in the trenches that can be here for the next HC. No reason a rebuilding team that already knows the Rhule era is a dud.....should keep burning draft picks up on pointless QBs.

Cousins is pointless in the big picture. Wasted cap space, cap space we could use elsewhere trying to develop players that would have a longer lifespan here.

basically this. GM should draft OL talent. Make Rhule ride or die with Sam. And Sam can ride or die with Rhule's overpaid Robby Anderson.

most new HCs.....want to handpick who there career and shot is tied to. That is a thing. You draft Pickett or Howell and then hire a QB who wants something entirely different from a QB? I mean, it's not a thing when you are hired and you inherit Aaron Rodgers or a lesser but well established QB. But yeah, a new hire isn't going to want to "rebuild" with Matt Rhule's new young building blocks.

Sam Darnold has zero trade value

Rodgers, Watson, Wilson aren't not going to want to come to Carolina and play for a lameduck HC, behind a bad OL with Ben McAdoo running the O. So we can just cross all that off. Do we draft someone? I would say yes if we had fired Matt Rhule. But we didn't. Which means the new HC (off history), will want his own QB. Which makes the draft pick wasted. And we only have 1 in the top 100. We don't have draft captial to trade for anyone. So I say we add a FA vet QB to just get us by in a completely pointless season. Which is 2022

The problem was they gave Tyreek Hill way too much space. That was a great playcall by Reid. Very few can keep up with him when he has that much space to operate with. Bills defenders were kinda doomed on that first play.

Baylor made it into the top 5 pre and post Rhule. Rhule didn't build anything.

Sept of 2019 Rhule signed a massive extension through 2028 with Baylor. A little over 3 months later, he signed a deal with the Panthers. Matt Rhule isn't committed to anything. I don't think him leaving looks any worse than that.

There is no perfect OT But I like the college OT better than the pro OT.

Lot of bad defensive playcalls at the end of some of those games. That Tampa call was horrific. But overall, that was the best playoff weekend of games I can recall ever seeing.