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Tepper values using his stadium for multiple purposes over football. He pretty much has said so.

Tampa also had 3 TD drives in the 4th quarter. Which were made aided by the fact Sam and the O had 3 consecutive pathetic series back to back to back in the 4th.

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Wilks just doesn't fit in the present-day era IMO. He is a Fox/Ron repeat. His philosophy will get you to around .500. Respectable. And maybe you will randomly catch lighting in a bottle in a random year. I still favor attempting something new and just pretending Matt Rhule never happened. I don't think the Rhule error should have us going right back to what we have always been. I still think Wilks is getting a bump coming off how horrific Rhule was. His audition was also filled with some pretty painfully conservative and bad management of games at times. I'd love Wilks as a DC. Not at HC. Still think the present day NFL is about offense. And will continue to trend that way as it has.

Jake Delhomme didn't really play in the present-day era. Completion % averages and expectations for the QB have gone up because of the way the game is called now.

Bennett is 25 years old and has been playing college football for 6 years. My analysis is simply it doesn't feel the same anymore. I mean it isn't the same. When is the last time a championship was won by a 25 year old, in his 6th year of college football, playing with a bunch of guys openly paid. That's not college football as we have known it. I don't put it on par with a freshman 19 year old Trevor Lawarence running the table. Or a Tua coming off the bench for another example. Those titles just feel different. Because we were watching perceived kids playing college football. They don't feel the same. It just feels like minor league pro ball. And I would argue that is all it is now. I felt there were 2 first round caliber talents Wilson's year. And he wasn't one of them. I wouldn't want Wilson or Bennett for 2 totally different reasons.

5 wins (fired HC) 5 wins 5 wins 7 wins (fired HC and traded away franchise QB) I'm sure our failures have something to do with the decisions made by the Teppers. And Tepper made his wife Chief Admin of Tepper of Sports. Which is over the Panthers. And Tepper Sports has been dysfunctional from outside appearances for some time. When you can't win more than 7 games......Tepper and company are exactly who we should bitch about. Them pimping his wife as a decision maker deserves criticism given our lack of success and her lack of qualifications. This seems like the stuff we should bitch about.

Is there another team president in the NFL….whose only background info is married a billionaire in 2019?

Yeah, Bennett is 25 years old. Which is older than I think 4 of the NFL playoff QBs this year. Something about his age playing amongst college kids taints it me a little bit and takes some of the shine off it….at least for me. college football just in a weird space all around IMO so who cares. Might as well deem it pro ball/ minor leagues.

This isn't true. We averaged like 80 something rushing yards under Matt Rhule. We averaged 150+ with Wilks. It wasn't the same coaching. It wasn't the same gameplans. And the one CMC game Wilks had with CMC technically brought his overall rushing numbers down slightly. We won because we ran. We lost because we didn't. And when Rhule did run, it was a poo RPO heavy scheme. Which is why Wilks has significantly more production with inferior RBs.

I mean, techincally the punter gets credit. JJ gets credit. Shi Smith. Anyone that played rep technically gets credit. Sam gets what they get. If you actually had to rank in importance of how Wilks got his wins and salvaged a disaster. He minimized the QB play. He ran the ball. He played conservative. QB play isn't why we won. We had bad/weak QB play and Wilks managed games around that fact.

I guess you are choosing to wait on that instead of addressing how he isn't average. Which was your declaration. Despite it being statistically untrue . Nothing average about 50 something completion rate in today's NFL. Corral hasn't played a NFL snap. You know, hurt developmental rookie and all. Which somehow you are trying to pretend is comparable to verified busted Sam Darnold.

Darnold had the 2nd worst completion % of his career this year. And it's a bad career. He didn't break 175 yards in half his starts. We had some of the best rushing numbers in franchise history once Matt Rhule got fired. That's why we won some games. Nothing to do with who played QB. Wilks won in spite of QB play. Which he should get some respect for. This Sam Darnold talk is about is crazy as those folks who were pimping Matt Rhule as good entering this year. Just fantasy talk. Or just bored trolling. Which I get given there isn't much else to do I guess.

But he isn't. That's the point. Nothing average about being a below 60% completion QB in the modern-day NFL....while not being a game changing running QB. and Sam isn't a 60% compeltion QB. Not this year. Not last year. Not the year before. Not over his career. Average in today's NFL is like 65%.

Corral - raw potential Sam Darnold - worst starting QB in the NFL over the last half decade. These 2 thing aren't the same.

it's flawed to take his small sample size run that over the course of a season and act like it means something. As we saw in NY and last year in Carolina. The more time he is on the field the worse it gets for him. Sam has never been an average NFL starter in the NFL. And he has enough proof of that where you can't sell cherry picked games like it could somehow happen. He is a vet. You would be signing a bad QB to backup money.

Wrong question. Matt Corral has potential to develop into something. Therefore, he has purpose on the roster. What is the purpose of signing Sam Darnold. He is what he is. A bad QB. And yeah, PJ Walker can follow Sam out the door too. We don't need to waste reps on those types.

Sam Darnold didn't even throw for 165 yards in 50% of his games. When he did, we went 1-2. The one win being over the worst pass D in the NFL. The key to winning with Sam Darnold. Is doing your best to make him invisible. Minimize his impact. Because he doesn't play QB well.

There is no argument on that. Sam Darnold is a massive bust. It's just a fact that happens to come up when someone wants to talk about him playing here in 2023. There is no reason for him.

First - Sam has been given more opportunity than other comparable busts. Saying other bad QBs exist doesn't counter that statement. Second - I credit the best rushing attack in the NFL post Rhule's firing for salvaging the season to a respectable end. Not the QB play. Third - What are you talking about? What playoff QB would we be getting? Present playoff QBs have nothing to do with what we would be looking for in a vet/mentor/coach QB add for young QBs on our roster. That's not who would fill that role. You aren't adding that guy to play. Unless your season is a disaster, and everything implodes. See a Joe Flacco in NY this season. He was hired for that role. His role is emergency QB at best in terms of playing. But he knows how to play. He knows the game. He has seen success. He is a paid coach. We need add actual talent that can turn into something. No more Teddy, Sam, Baker, recycling. They all were what they were when we added them. You aren't' fixing established guys. And they all were when we added them. Established as not good enough. Fourth - again, Sam Darnold doesn't have the resume. He needs a mentor still on how to play because he isn't good. All Sam can mentor someone on is dealing with the bad. Which is something. But he doesn't know the good. Again, the reason speaks for itself.

he finished with a solid 43 yards. only the DeAngleo Wildcat game did our starting QB produce less yards. Even Jimmy Jam mustered more at his worst.

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Can't predict it this early. I mean they could drop. Got to remember prior years where basically unquestioned best players at this time in a given season......later dropped. I mean, at this time in Fields draft year basically no one questioned him as anything but the 1b to Trevor. A close 1b. Because he just beat him and outplayed him. Bama QBs often go through the ringer. So do Ohio St QBs. So I could see them falling in perception after everyone makes money off nitpicking them for months and months.

Sam Darnold is a massive bust. That has gotten opportunity after opportunity. Beyond what other busts get. What am I supposed to give him credit for? The current season is still underway. Who will be a realistic option isn't known yet. But again, Sam's resume doesn't fit the vet/mentor/coach QB role you would want to aid your young QBs. He needs that type guy to still help him.

he doesn't have the resume for the job. nothing disingenuous about that. his resume is factual. when a team is looking for a vet mentor/coach/QB.....you don't go looking at the biggest busts of the last decade.