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I would want an offensive guy, period. We have never had a HC that was an offensive guru. It's always been from the defensive perspective. Even if we suck in year one, as long as those losses are shootouts, at least they will be entertaining. These low scoring losses suck all the way around.

Correct, did not. Lying no, but potentially misleading for the sake of deflecting an uncomfortable question and moving on. Absolutely! Rhule likely knew another loss or two likely meant a shakeup before his own job was taken, but he wasn't going to give the media any red meat.

Can we stop with trying to find the next boy wonder? The McVeys and Peytons of the NFL are EXTREMELY RARE. There's a reason only one comes around every decade or so. Think of how many prodigy whiffs occur before one actually succeeds. I mean, we just fired the guy who was deemed the hottest young offensive mind in college football not less than 2-years ago.

A poor man's Trubisky at that.

It's hard to build a team when you are consistently making missteps. It's hard to say this team is any better than last year and it has CONSIDERABLY more talent. That is on the coaching staff, particularly the head coach...especially one with as much pull in personnel matters as Rhule has.

How many degrees of separation is Pederson from either Baylor or Temple? Three or more, forget about it.

Chase Blackburn had better watch out, Rhule needs a Bear-Owl to be the STs coach for the clean sweep.

In his press conference a week or two ago Rhule stated that he did foresee making any coaching changes. Once again, he says one thing, then proceeds to directly contradict himself.

No to Lovie Smith, he couldn't even turn around a college program! He's a very good DC, but an ineffective HC.

McDaniels was my 2nd favorite last time. The popular belief is he's going to ride out his OC gig in NE until Bill retires. The only unknown is, how long is Bill planning on coaching? If Bill plans on coaching another 5-10 years, I doubt McDaniels waits around that long.

Why, so he can win one more game than this season and point to a trend of success? This is not college, you don't have to compete for recruits against the blue-blood teams. That honestly does take a few years to sell your program and get kids to believe in the process, turning those 2-star commits, in year one, to 3-star the following year and so forth. The NFL has ONE draft that all teams are on equal footing on. You're not at a competitive disadvantage to say the Patriots. So saying it takes 5-years to build a winner in the NFL is either sandbagging or hedging their bets until most of that 7-year deal is collected.

So if Rhule is canned in January, who's up for a NFL re-tread? I hope we've learned our lesson about over-rated college coaches.

This buys Rhule at least to the end of the season. Tepper probably wanted a pound of flesh and let Rhule know it was his skin on the line unless something drastic happened. If we win only 2 games or less in this final stretch, the Brady move won't matter because Rhule will be sent packing right behind him.

The offense has looked uninspired since the first quarter of the season. Once CMC went down in the Texans game it's like Brady, who apparently centered the entire offense AROUND CMC was at a loss of how to press on without him. It was also about the time other teams got enough film on our offense to figure out how to stop it. It was a doubled-edge sword for Brady and seemingly he was unable to adapt.

Rhule is doing this now so when we beat the Falcons in a meaningless game next week that he can point to this as the crux of the problem all season. Problem being we'll still get waxed by the Bills an Bucs in the week's ahead, so it will be an abbreviated victory lap by Rhule.

This is kinda buried in the link I posted earlier about drops: "In fact, their two top wideouts in Robby Anderson (seven) and DJ Moore (six) rank first and second in the category heading into Week 13."

We could see as many as 4 OL go before we pick, even if we tank. There are some really bad OLs ahead of us in the draft. I wouldn't shock me to see a record amount of OL going in round 1 this year. The '08 draft had 7 tackles, and 1 OG selected in the first round. This year could rival that. The '20 draft had 6 tackles and 1 center taken on day 1.

Putting a rookie QB behind this line next year would be the very definition of insanity. Somehow we need to get a 2nd or 3rd round pick back (preferably both) and spend those two picks on OL, period. Stop being cute (Marshall pick this year) and build the freaking OL.

I'm not sure if this has been posted...and this is not a total defense for Darnold because he was his own worst enemy at times, but his top two WRs did him no favors. Anderson and Moore tops in NFL in dropped passes

Dabo is a really good guy, but I long have maintained he stuck gold with his OC and DC picks year ago. He lost his OC going into this season and Clemson's offense struggled. It remains to be seen if their defense stays a top 5 unit as they have been all these years with Venables. In short, we get to see how Clemson looks without the two guys that kept them a top program in the nation. Dabo has his work cut for him in 2022 if this year's offensive struggles are any indication. As for OU, it's a smart choice. While their offense is usually high octane, the defense is what has held them back for a long time. It makes sense to go get one of the top defensive guys in the nation.

We ride with Cam and Darnold next year and look to the 2023 draft for our next franchise QB. This draft sucks for QBs.

Venables to OU is nearly a done deal. We are stuck with Rhule.

This is the dude we need, but in all likelihood will be gone before we can get him unless we go full tank. Ikem Ekwonu

Taking a QB top 10 in one of the weakest QB classes in recent years is the ultimate Panthers move.

Yup, hoping some teams ahead of us buy into the skill positions like CB and WR.