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Please direct me to the comments you're referencing with the Jags like Robinson, Jones, and Lawrence, as all I'm aware of are professional/non-confrontational comments even given the nonsense Meyer was pulling. Lambo was no longer a Jaguar when he made his so he has no real stake at that point and even then it seemed more factual than anything. All of what you linked here still has to be taken with a grain of salt, and Boston's comments in particular were from June 2020 before Rhule had even coached a training camp practice. That has zero bearing at this point, as again, what else was he going to say?

I'd own my misjudgment and give Rhule any credit he would deserve, but unfortunately I'm not concerned about this scenario becoming a reality.

Similar to the Cam article you've pointed to a few times now, what else would Shaq really say in this situation? Did any Jaguars players make public pre-firing comments (or any at all) about Meyer even with the extreme situation going on there? Point being that even when it would be pretty fair to make public comments negative in nature the vast majority of players won't do it. FWIW, David Newton's quote also makes it look like Shaq said 'we', with no specific mention of Rhule. I haven't heard it so have no direct knowledge but the word choice could be interesting if the question was about Rhule specifically and Shaq didn't refer to him. Or maybe it's nothing.

Payton wouldn't make his pet project Taysom lose. That's more important.

Can't be sure what happened until one reviews the film.

Yetur with the nice run stop there.

How in the world does anyone look at this 2nd half ineptitude repeating week in and week and think, 'yeah, one more year will do it'?

Tackle box is where the tackle starts, not where they currently are. Would need to watch it again but I bet Moton came in during the play.

Horse collar/back of the pads has always been legal on a QB in the pocket. Once they're outside of it the rule kicks in. Rationale behind it is that the real danger of a horse collar comes when applied to a running ballcarrier whose legs get caught.

So who screwed up there, Thomas or Christensen?

Can't play the Saints JV squad every week, unfortunately. Not relevant. Can't be sustained because of that arm length. ...

Had to double-check that he was indeed who I saw there.

Anyone else think those white socks look kind of weird with this uniform? Blue is better IMO.

Ameer Abdullah has looked legit this year.

Unless it absolutely overt, in which case one should wonder why he's even on the roster, why not put him in and see if he's perhaps more of a gamer than practice player? Even if he sucks just swap Miller back in. Makes little to no sense.

He should have been embarrassed as soon as he even thought about giving that kind of contract to a complete unknown like Rhule with no track record of sustained and/or top-tier success, and that's not even hindsight.

If this is true and there isn't any other context, such as the response being to a question from a player about why Rhule isn't taking a college job, just give Rhule his walking papers. In that scenario the idea maybe right but Rhule clearly just has no idea how to articulate.

Is @Zodthe source for the quote in the first bullet?

The contract is a sunk cost, a la Teddy last year. Smart businessmen know when to cut their losses and move on, particularly when there are much bigger dollars and overall fan sentiment and engagement at stake. This is looking like such a time.

I overall agree with this take and don't feel the Panthers job is as unattractive as many say it is (assuming that Tepper can stay out of things). Even if Rhule gets fired this year, there is a pretty reasonable amount of skill position talent on the team and if the OL gets upgraded and an actual NFL-caliber coach/coordinator comes in I think they could muscle through the darkness of next season and be in a pretty good spot in 2023.

This also leaves of Smitty's 2005 Triple Crown (not an 'official' award but still big), one of three to achieve that since 1966 and the only one the last 29 years. The other two are Rice and Sterling Sharpe in the early 90s, and Smitty earned it with Jake chucking the ball vs Montana and a still-young Favre.

Considering that the on-field product under Tepper has yet to approach mediocrity, it's perhaps fair in that context. That's a given, and I always assume that other answers are just from the lesser 'not Rae Carruth' pool.

I don't know that people generally hate Rhule so much as he's a victim of the long-running poor performance of the organization. He has put plenty of poor and questionable tape out there and seems out of his depth but Siefert, Hurney, Gettleman, etc were all pretty disliked at various times as well. I don't blame Rhule for shooting his shot with this job. It just doesn't seem to be working out and fan sentiment is that they're tired of seeing it.