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Reich was an offensive coordinator and not an HC, so anything he did there is largely irrelevant to his HC performance, even moreso since he has been an HC for 5 years now and has proven bad at it. There are many people that are good coordinators/assistants and bad HCs. It is what it is. And here you are again talking about Harbaugh when I've never said anything anywhere about him, especially not in this thread. I have expressed no opinion about Panthers coaches other than that Reich was a poor hire, and that view is sure proving correct. Take your Harbaugh bullcrap up with someone who cares.

What a stupid response. As I said, it was such an obviously terrible and desperate choice that Reich gets no benefit of the doubt. I was critical of his hiring from the start and think Reich sucks as a head coach, just like he sucked in Indy, but it has nothing to do with 'hating'. I also said nothing about Harbaugh so you can take that BS elsewhere. As to 'he cheat the game', I have no idea what that is even supposed to mean.

Why the hell did it require hindsight? I get the logic behind it but it was an incredibly stupid, desperate, short-sighted decision from the start that was the culmination of a bunch of ineptitude. It was the on-field admission that they know the offense is pathetic and are powerless to do anything about it, totally lost. I don't give a crap if he 'admitted it' later. There are some decisions that are just so egregiously bad that there is no explanation other than utter stupidity, the kind that you don't ever want to see from a supposedly-professional coach.

Eh, i'm not on the Bryce train at all but that's pretty tpyical learning curve for a rookie. May not fit the 'super processor' narrative but Bryce himself probably doesn't have anything to do with that. From an objective perspective though, and being the lover of defense that I am, that play was fantastic. The Bears did exactly what you describe and it damn near worked to perfection to ice the game. As a general football fan you love to see it.

It really is like 2010 all over again but worse given Bryce's limitations, the damage this year may be doing to his development, no offensive studs like Smitty, Gross, and Kalil to buoy things, and no top 1st rounder at the end of the tunnel.

While Bryce's arm strength concerns are still valid IMO, what is really alarming is the absolutely atrocious gameplanning this far into the season. A few of us called out the Reich hire as highly questionable and uninspired and that's exactly what this scheme is, highly questionable and uninspired. The lack of evolution and improvement - not even saying wins, just *improvement* - as the season has gone on is highly alarming.

That ball also only went 30 yards through the air. Most high school QBs can do that on their sleep. Not dogging on Bryce by saying that, but rather that it is not representative of the arm concern.

Yup. Burns is a notch or two better in pure pass rush ability but is less consistent and CJ was a strong run stopper. He perhaps got a bit more on that contract due to the situation but I never had a major problem with it, though he was never quite the same after that leg whip in 2013. POS Patriots.

I think their plan was that Bryce would somehow elevate everyone with his 'point guard's abilities, as stated by Tepper, and that they're still hoping that magically happens. Beyond that, they have no tangible plan. We'll see how things look as FA approaches.

OOU.

Or maybe he just sucks at receiver, like how he couldn't crack that loaded KC receiver corps either. Not saying that's the case, but seems within the realm of possibility.

Except we have several years of 'film' on Recih in Indy to know what he is, a coach whose ceiling is Rivera-esque at best. It was an uninspired hire and continunes to be so. The positive vibe here is hoping Tepper learns from yet another mistake of coaching hire and the next one is a selection with actual potential and ceiling. That would be a great positive.

In what is really a different era of football, with an all-time defense. Anything can happen but that is absolutely a big outlier.

He really thought he was outsmarting the entire NFL with the Rhule hire, like all the buzzword talk of 'sport science' as if the rest of the league wasn't already doing it.

That was my exact thought, fhe way Tepper was publicly running his mouth about the QB position before the 2020 season was even over.

The assumption here is that Tepper learns his lesson, as I noted in my post. If it's more of the same then sure, the best may hesitate, but things can change quickly (e.g. Jacksonville) if people making decisions take accountability.

That's utter BS. There are only 32 NFL HC jobs in the world and there are always plenty of people who want one. Tepper just sucks at choosing them and hopefully he can now prove he recognizes a mistake and then prove that he's learned to bring in a consultant and get the hell out of the way of football people.

That's what happens when someone does something as monumentally stupid as attempt to rebrand Twitter.

No need for the melodrama - most people still would have retained TD given that he signed a low-risk contract wiht only $8MM guaranteed for the $36MM, 5 year deal. There is always a financial point where risk and reward balance out, and that's why folks are saying that Horn's next contract should be incentive-laden. Question is, will a player like Horn accept that kind of deal if he continues to not be healthy? If not then yeah, the risk/reqard profile may not be right for Carolina and/or other teams. That's the reality of how it works.

Burns and Brown were both on the table but Fitterer said no to them. Screwed the pooch twice with potential Burns trades, as having DJ would be fantastic for Bryce.

Dude hasn't played a game since week 3 of the 2020 season and has basically been non-stop rehabbing this whole time from unfortunate injuries. Let's pump the brakes here and just see if he can even stay healthy through a game.

The Chiefs are markedly better at identifying talent and their receivers suck; they still let him go over roster-bottom guys like Richie James and Justyn Ross. I don't disagree that our staff is questionable but Marsette is not a hidden gem.