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The missed facemask was huge. I also thought the refs missed a potential targeting on the ball that #12 dropped around the five. The DB hit the WR right in the ear hole with the crown of his helmet.

That would have been a tremendous haul to rebuild this team after the Rhule era.

I don’t know what that is.

Stationed in Korea.

I swear I saw two digits on the back of the jersey, but whatever. AFN doesn’t have an option to rewind to see it again.

That wasn’t the WR. That was an OL.

If Young was a couple inches taller and 10 pounds heavier, this QB debate you all have every week wouldn’t even be a debate. While size will obviously play a factor in his draft status, he is, hands down, the best pure QB in this draft.

So now we are speculating on who the speculative head coach may be thinking about hiring based upon speculative connections and speculative desires of the speculative head coach?

The NFL and the Dolphins did not police themselves here. The NFLPA (again, the players’ union, was involved in the investigation, and the findings that they signed off on include the fact that the protocol was actually followed. The NFLPA would not let this be covered up if something were amiss. If they believed something were covered up, they’d exploit it as much as they could to get more for the players they represent.

The NFLPA, the organization whose sole purpose is to advocate for the players, participated in this investigation. If the team and NFL really screwed this one up, the NFLPA would say so.

If only there had been a young GM in the making waiting for his shot around the time Richardson fired Gettleman.

They're not supposed to be done for the rest of the game. They are supposed to be checked, through a series of tests, for a concussion. The Dolphins supposedly did that with Tua last week, and he cleared the checks. Those checks also include an NFL neurologist unaffiliated with the team.

You stated earlier that his head was whiplashed into the truck tonight. That alone could cause a head injury and reaction we all saw. However, everyone is acting like this could not have happened without a prior concussion. I don’t believe that to be the case. No one but those inside the organization and the NFL’s neurologist know what happened with Tua last week. As a boxing/MMA fan, I’m sure you’ve seen a guy get his bell rung with wobbly legs come back to win a fight and be completely cognizant in post fight interviews. I don’t buy the back injury piece, but I’m not aware of any scientific articles saying every hit to the head, even a hard hit, causes a concussion. The NFLPA requested an investigation into the handling of Tua. I’ll just wait until those findings come out to make statements asserting that the Dolphins covered something up.

Yet everyone here is acting like they understand exactly what happened with Tua, the Dolphins, and the protocol during and after last week’s game.

I’ll tell you something I do trust. I trust Huddlers to bitch about the next coaching hire, no matter who it is.

Concur on Baker. He is an absolute spaz as a QB. No calming presence whatsoever.

One of the biggest complaints against Rhule has been the lack of halftime adjustments, was it not? Another was the way games wherein the Panthers fell behind often turned into wide margin losses, right? Both of those things changed in this game. While you are correct it is still a loss, it shows a progression from this staff that can bode well for the team going forward.

That is on the coaching, but it is also on the coaching that the team came back from that to take the lead.

Of course, they coached the team back from 14-0 and 20-7 deficits today to a place at which they had the lead with a minute to go.

How exactly would you propose going for the TD there? Passing? If they called a pass play and Baker threw an INT, this whole board would be bitching about Rhule not going for the easy points and lead. Rhule haters are always going to find something to bitch about. It has turned this board into a miserable place full of insufferable blowhards. This team looked like absolute poo for a quarter and a half, yet it took the lead in a game in which they were down 14-0 and then 20-7. That’s something teams from the last two years never would have done. This team did, on defense, what should have been enough to win on the last drive. The fact remains that but for the refs poo calls on that drive, the Panthers are 1-0 right now.

You can’t blame one loss on a previous two year history when that one loss showed things that weren’t shown during those two years, like halftime adjustments and a team that didn’t roll over and quit when the teams from the past two years would have.

The only thing not running in that situation would have done is leave Cleveland with timeouts to use as they drove further down the field for a much easier game winning FG attempt. Your all’s unwillingness to admit that the Panthers would have won with this strategy but for the two missed calls shows you just want to blame Rhule for everything.

The Rhule haters are too blind to acknowledge the fact that the Panthers fought back from, and would have won but for two blown calls by the refs, a game that looked to be a sure loss in the first half.

WTF do you all actually want? Last season, the team opened the season (and a few games) doing good things only to collapse in the second half of season and the games. All off-season you all bitched about “No adjustments. No adjustments.” This coaching staff and team made adjustments in the second half today, and but for two obviously blown calls by the refs, the Panthers are 1-0 right now. Most of the fans here will never be happy. Y’all just want to bitch and moan from your Lazy Boy hoping this team fails so you can be right about Rhule.

The average huddler gets paid absolutely nothing to have anything to do with football whatsoever.