BrianS

You can only play who is on your schedule. We knew the end of the season would be tough from the day the schedule was announced. No surprises. I can only hope that the front office has decided already that our performance this year has not been an improvement over last year. I can only hope the front office has seen that the team has lost faith in their coach. The only answer I need is that Rhule will not be in charge next year. This year is a throw away. Let's make next year better.

Fine. The all-stars weren't there for BC's outstanding performance against Washington. But you're talking about two of the better young edge rushers in the league there also. Gross used to get beat on the regular by Peppers, but he was still an outstanding LT for us. Were the guys Atlanta put on the field yesterday any better than the guys Washington put on the field that day? You could probably see it either way. But the entire situation makes no sense. You've got a rookie with promise. The single time you play that rookie in the position he played in college the rookie turns in one of the best performances of the year across the entire position group. And you never play him there again. Once again: I am not a pro level talent evaluator. BC may fail spectacularly at LT. But ffs, you have to GIVE HIM A CHANCE, don't you?

I would bring him back - so long as Rhule is NOT back. If you give Cam an entire offseason to work with his teammates and learn the offense, he can hold down the fort for a year or two more. We need to buy that time while the rebuild that was supposed to be happening now is actually done. You aren't going to fix all our problems in one offseason, but you can fix a lot. I know we'll never see 2015 Cam again, but I do think he can be 2018 Cam again. That Cam was pretty darn good until TJ ended him.

Not just guard - right guard. Opposite side that he has played his entire career. The longer he is here, the more Rhule looks like Rivera.

Yea, there was one. I remember the threads. Probably early last season.

Didn't watch the game eh? Yea, I get ya. Just to bring you up to speed, the defense only gave up 22 points. Falcons defense scored 7 against our offense. A second Falcons TD happened because we handed them a short field on a fumble. A third score, a FG this time, happened on an 18 yard Falcons drive. You guessed it, gave up the ball on our side of the 50 again. On scoring drives, the Falcons starting field position was: ATL 25, ATL 49, ATL 25, CAR 49, CAR 48. On non-scoring drives, Falcons starting FP was: ATL 25, ATL 11, ATL 46 (half), ATL 44, ATL 40 (game). You cannot win with the FP so firmly in the opponents favor. You put your defense in crap situations and you lose. That's it.

I don't see any way to sell the fan base on keeping him another year. Even if we manage to win a couple meaningless games at the end, we have not looked like a better team this year.

Completely agree on Bienemy. Reid's OC have been awful when they moved on. Likewise with Leftwich, he smells like another Adam Gase to me. Propped up by an all timer of a QB. I like Hackett. Set aside his time in Green Bay for a sec. When looking at his time with the Jags, keep in mind that the last time the Jags went to the playoffs they did so with Hackett as the OC, they won two games in the playoffs before finally losing to the New England Brady's at New England by four points. All with Blake *(&$@ing Bortles at QB.

Another topic here got me thinking, and then digging. We continue to see our QB's throwing interceptions left and right. We are frustrated. Understandable. And I don't think it's on the QB anymore. Let me show you what I dug up. Last year, the Denver Broncos were the most intercepted team in the NFL. Vic Fangio, HC. Pat Shurmur, OC. This year, the Broncos are the 10th *least* intercepted team in the NFL. All while employing our castaway, Teddy Bridgewater at QB. Last year, the Carolina Panthers were tied with the Jags as the 4th most intercepted team in the NFL. Matt Rhule, HC, Joe Brady, OC. This year, the Panthers the 2nd most intercepted team in the NFL. Sam Darnold, PJ Walker, Cam Newton. Doesn't matter. We now have seen four QB's play in the Joe Brady system. All of them have looked like turnover machines. TB5 leaves, and he reverts to being the solid game manager he's always been. We've been blaming our QB's for throwing picks, and I'm utterly unconvinced this is their fault. Any of them. Teddy is looking more credible by the day at this point.

That's actually not completely necessary. The language is interesting in that it says "fired or informed they won't be back". I can definitely see a scenario where Tepper says "Matt, you won't be back next year". That allows Rhule to finish out the year and doesn't put us in a worse spot with no one really capable of stepping up in the interim. It allows Tepper to get moving on finding the next guy.

Dumping Joe Brady was never going to fix the problem within the season. There is a reason it takes an entire offseason to install an offense. The play design is lackluster, the situational calling of the plays is uninspired and many of the players executing the plays are subpar. It's easy math really. On average, an NFL team scores 24 points. In games where we score 24+, we are 3-2. In games we score less than 24, we are 2-6.

May I introduce you to Terrace Marshall Jr?

Arm length doesn't matter if you can't stay in front of your man. I'm looking at you Dennis Daley.

*DISCLAIMER* - I am very much in favor of finding out of BC is a NFL tackle. I have been all along. However . . . Except they didn't. Brady: If you believe arm length is that important, that's fine. However, here's the guy they favor over BC at LT: Dennis Daley The guy they have at LT is slower, not as quick, not as strong, not as explosive as BC is. I just can't make heads or tails of it. Daley's longer arms are irrelevant if he can't stay in front of his man - which he can't. I can't fathom why we don't just give him a chance. If BC comes in, plays LT and lays an egg, fine. The staff can then go "See? This is why we don't play him there." On the other hand, BC sports the best grade at LT we've seen all season in the limited time he's played there. Isn't that at least worth a long look?

I definitely think a loss to Atlanta will seal Rhule's fate. I still don't think we actually see that until after the season is over. One of the things that I believe is being way over-thought in NFL circles is the concept of finishing a bad season strong. We heard about how good Rivera was at the end of seasons. The more I've pondered this, the more I think it's fools gold. By the end of the season, many of the good teams start resting players for the playoffs. If a player is even mildly injured, no way he plays. The clearer the playoff picture becomes, the stronger this effect becomes. I think things like that sometimes give us these seemingly "good" results for bad teams at the end of a season.

Here's the problem Joe Brady has. It's one thing to look at what our offense has done the last couple years and go "I see what they were trying to do, and they just couldn't pull it off". Whether the failure was personnel or execution, if you could look at our offense and go "Oh, I see what we wanted to do" that's unfulfilled potential that you can work with. That's not what I see when I look at our offense. We definitely have personnel issues, but most teams have them. What I don't see is a consistent plan. "We're going to run the ball more" - Matt Rhule. Did you see it? I didn't see it. All I see is the same failures over and over, and I don't see what we are doing to either work around the issues or correct them. That falls on coaching, and in the case of our offense, Joe Brady.

If Rhule is let go, odds on it won't happen until after the season. There is no benefit. College coaches have already moved around. Pederson is the only unemployed NFL coach out there, and we can't talk to employed coaches. What's the point?

Can we please decide once and for all if Rhule has full roster control or not? I can't keep up.

Gilmore was actually a brilliant move. We gave up a sixth round pick for a high level experienced veteran to come in and set an example for a very young DB room. To top it off, even if we make no effort to resign him, we'll get a BETTER PICK as a compensatory when we lose him. There is no downside to that trade. None.

No. Name a Super Bowl winning coach who didn't win his first within five years of taking over his team. I'll wait. (Andy Reid is the only one I know of)

Faulty logic. Just because you were hired does not mean you are given the tools to succeed. You would think that it should follow, but I assure you that it does not.

I agree with this. Brady needed to go, he clearly wasn't the right guy. That also doesn't invalidate the possibility that he was set up to fail. A real conspiracy theorist might go "Brady was set up to fail so Rhule could claim that he should have appointed his own guy instead of looking for the best". Effectively, it could have been Rhule saying "I know best".

Wrong. That was terrible offensive football. It was admitting that Jones didn't have the arm to throw in that wind. That's all it was. The game was tight. There is no excuse. It's not like the Pats put the game out of reach running. They were a couple dropped passes away from losing the game. That's an offense Ron Rivera would be proud of. BS. It was a terrible display by a team that effectively admitted the limitations of their rookie QB. This was a game the Patriots simply didn't lose. Which is very different than saying they won it. Barely 200 yards of total offense? Come on.

Yea, I'm not sure why so many are lauding a Patriots team that managed to score 14 points. Their only TD was on a LONG run that probably should have been stopped in the backfield. If the Bills just made the plays that were in front of them I think they win the game easily. Jones doesn't have the arm talent to throw in that kind of wind. His one completion beyond the LOS was an amazing catch by the receiver.

Anyone who can't see the red flags with Josh McDaniels is not someone I want choosing our coach. This isn't to say the guy isn't a good coordinator. He clearly is. But he's not head coach material.