45catfan

Nice, now lets go add Dan Skipper as the other guard and I guarantee you our interior ain't getting pushed around (Paradis excluded).

Nailed it.... Also pointed out this wasn't about clearing a roster spot Gilmore.

Again, I'm unimpressed with this QB class. I'd rather stick with Danrold and invest in the OL. Could you imagine a rookie behind this O-Line?

Chud or Norm.

Not until AFTER this week (6 games). They didn't have to free up a roster spot this early for him.

If not Smith, someone else's roster spot. They are looking to sign someone because they can see and hear the mob at the gates. The mob is getting rowdy...

The larger point is we now have a roster spot and I doubt they just moved on from him for giggles. Me thinks there will be a signing in the next day or two. O-lineman possibly?

He's not on the coaching staff, so he doesn't have to sugarcoat his analysis. "it was as team faliure" blah, blah,blah...

Maybe an imminent signing? Rodney Smith was released from the practice squad, so we have a spot available.

Yep, while good, we aren't the '84 Bears. If the offense isn't putting points on the board, it makes the defenses job that more difficult.

Ah yes, coach speak to deflect blame from one obviously guilty unit and add a little criticism to another group to trot out the tired old tripe of a "team loss." Classic!

Except leads can and do evaporate, especially when the our offense can't match the scores of the opponent. I'm not expecting our defense to shut out teams in the second half, but I'm also not expecting our offense to lay an egg either.

If we must continue with this dumpster fire, move Moton back to RT, keep Erving at LT, insert BC at LG and try Scott at RG. We are stuck with Paradis because Rhule wanted another Baylor guy on the team.

Panthers staff: If you add more mayo and keep stirring, just maybe...

The fastest path between two points is a straight line. Why would teams even test our tackles when they can just push our IOL into Darnolds' lap?

This confirms what we all saw with our own two eyes yesterday, the IOL was atrocious! The tackles, while unspectacular, were at least able to hold their own.

Almost all of these guys were in camps and have only been at home for a little over a month. Worried about conditioning? Let them sit at home another month or two when the team realizes what we all know, that our guard situation really sucks and then let the panic begin.

So you are in the do nothing/sinking ship camp too? Cool. I will remember this when this camp of folks starts bitching in a few weeks once the season officially spirals out of control.

He may improve with Weight Watchers. No amount of coaching can fix fat, slow and immobile.

As bad as our guard play has been and Brown can't sniff the field???? Yet trying out FAs is laughable option here apparently.

Yes, because Brown is a liability in pass protection. He's a road grader in the run game, but unless he has suddenly found lateral mobility, he will get beat bad. You think Daley and Miller looked bad on the T/E stunts yesterday? Brown won't even get a hand on the looping defender. You did see his Senior Bowl practices, correct? Those were college players that was eating his lunch.

Joey Slye and Ryan Santoso would like a word with you.

Got it, so the best plan is no plan versus being pro-active and at least giving some guys looks/tryouts. Your assumption that every FA right now is garbage is just that, an assumption. Most of them most likely are, but the team has to identify a few and at least give them a try out. I have little faith in that because they made their bed this offseason with this group that even the most casual Huddler saw as a train wreck in the making.

So you are telling me that Miller is better than Ricky Wagner, J.R. Sweezy, David DeCastro, DJ Fluker, A.Q. Shipley...just to name a few. I could care less most of them are over 30, this is strictly a rental plan to survive the season so HOPEFULLY the team can attack the OL issue in the offseason. The plan for treading water for the duration of the season has failed. This OL has been exposed and the sharks are circling. Two lugs nut are already off the tire and it will only take two more before the wheel comes completely off. Blind optimism that this will somehow correct itself, is just that, blind optimism. The answers to our IOL problems are not currently on this roster.

That's assuming they are as bad as our guys (or worse) just because they aren't on a roster currently. Remember, no one was fighting over Miller in FA before scooped him back up. Had we not signed him late in FA, he may still be sitting at home too.