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I think Person is being generous with his timeline on Rhule. As I said yesterday, my gut feeling is that Rhule will have to either win out or can only lose once in the remaining games to have any chance to keep his job going into next season. Tepper is not JR. He has shown he has no qualms or hesitancy to attempt to fix a mistake once it is identified, costs be damned. He has looked about as miserable as he possibly could every time we have seen him on gamedays this season and we know from Sheena Quick's leaked texts, he has already stepped in and forced moves to be made at QB when Rhule was the one that created the problem to begin with. If this was the past ownership, sure, I think he gets another year. I don't get that feeling with Tepper. Money is nothing to him and if he feels he has made a bad investment, he has no issue cutting his losses. And again, Rhule hasn't shown any tangible signs of improvement as a coach to this point. The fact that his decisions to mostly ignore offense while missing wildly at the most important position on a football team, not once, but twice, negates any improvement the defense has made. And anyone with eyes can see every Sunday, it's not that we're outmatched physically, because talent-wise there are few teams better than us from top to bottom (outside of OL)... we are simply being outcoached.

I don't know about any of them specifically, but I know the profile for me is a young, aggressive, forward-thinking, offensive minded HC. I've been saying it the last two hires - please no more conservative, defensive-minded coaches. Daboll is probably my favorite. Lafleur is intriguing.

Hey Teddy. You're right.

Yeah, I'm going 95-5, Rhule is out of here at season's end.

TBH, this moves feels a lot like bringing Cam back, in that I suspect it was pushed for by Tepper. I also mention that because I am now of the mind that it's starting to feel like we either have to win out or maybe only lose one for Rhule to keep his job at this point. JMO...

But, to play devil's advocate there, while it may be hard to run with those lopsided scores, the games got that way because he wasn't generating any production with the offense he was trying to run before the games got out of hand. He was just bad.

I've been stuck on the same thing... I dont get the timing at all, and would definitely suspect it had to do with some type of internal struggle. They could've realistically made this decision weeks ago, and if we were sure of it (as we should have been) after Miami, why wait until the Sunday of our bye week? A Sunday? I just don't get it.

I was hoping Sean Ryan would take over the playcalling duties, but nope... who tf is Jeff Nixon??? A Rhule crony?

Weird timing, but it had to be done

Smh... this sucks. Well, I guess we can look forward to a lot of minutes for Bouknight and Kai? Hope it's just tracing and they all have no actual infection or symptoms.

Sounds like you don't believe in our positionless, amoeba defense! DBO, bro! DBO! If you can imagine a 197 lbs. LB, it can be a reality!!! (Until he is getting pancaked every week as our opponent runs for 300 yards.)

Agreed and I will say, fwiw, Henderson finished last game amongst highest rated defenders and was graded over 90. I also expect both he and Gilmore will be getting a lot more snaps with Donte being IR'd now.

While i'm sure its possible, I trust zero things Matt Rhule says at this point... and Donte is a guy he talked up and vouched for going into this season. Donte played well early, but safety help or not, he looked bad the last two weeks in every type of scenario imaginable, and you could tell by some of the plays that safeties had nothing to do with it... like one on one coverage in zero blitzes. He just got exposed, and then despite being a captain, acted very immature while dealing with those struggles.

Agreed, until the last 2 weeks. And when it went sour, it went sour quick. But yeah, Whitehead was complete and utter trash on the field from day one.

The way this played out with Donte, especially what happened as of late, reminds me a lot of what happened with Whitehead last season. They talked him up, named him a captain, he ends up getting picked on in games, suddenly has a mystery injury pop up and gets demoted/benched, or in this case, IR'd.

I agree about the run game, but specifically to how we were being effectively attacked in the passing game when our opponent needed to pass, the last two weeks they went after Donte.

I expect the defense to play better now at least. Washington laid the blueprint on how to beat us, and one of the biggest tenets of it was to attack Donte in the passing game. He was horrible the last two weeks, and I'm sure Sunday was his last game as a Panther. Also, the ghost of Hurney still wanders the halls of Mint St. apparently... Amazing how all these mystery injuries go from barely noticed or not mentioned to season-ending in two days time. Pathetic.

I do blame it on Rhule. He did the same thing for Teddy and then vouched for Sam, and Fitt, coming in as the new guy, was trying to oblige the guy who clearly is calling the football shots in the building. But, everything hinges on Rhulr and what he wants... and yeah, Fitt traded picks to facilitate all of that, and everyone knows my stance on Sam from the beginning, but I believe he was trying to give Rhule what he believed he needed from the outset to build his "program." Same with the Henderson trade... That was a guy Rhule loved and vouched for because of the interactions he had with him the year prior. Now that Fitt gave him all the tools he asked for and his team failed, someone else had to step in and make some decisions, i.e., forcing him to bring Cam back. And now we're still losing, so its an even further indictment of the coaching staff and I feel the keys have been taken away at this point and we see what Fitt wants to do. I believe in them because he comes from a proven program in Seattle that built a perennial contender. The front office has guys like Morgan, Stewart and Sulaiman - all proven guys who are well-regarded league-wide from proven, established winning programs. The front office is legit and I believe in them 100% for the reasons listed. The issue is the coach and how much power he has had to this point. We gave the chef the ingredients he asked for, and he still delivered a poo sandwich. Time to let the football minds make the decisions and see where we go from there.

Same Ricky, same. And I pie'd CRA initially bc I agreed with everything except getting a new GM. The coaching staff has to go, but I believe in Fitterer. I'm 100% on board with this front office and scouting dept. The coaching staff from top to bottom has to gtfoh yesterday.

Welp, seems if that's the way Mrs.Gilmore feels, then Mr. is likely feeling very similarly... and if that's the case, it sounds like Rhule has completely lost this locker room. And if so, unless Tepper makes a change, sound alike keeping Gilmore will not be an option. Rhule has made this franchise into a fuging joke.

Told yall. He's done. And again, this is why you don't invest money in the RB position. Get better soon, CMC... But yeah, he's done as an elite football player.

Yeah, I'm over it, bro. There is just a segment that is fixated on and determined to make Cam the problem and salivating at every opportunity for perceived failure so they can make threads like this. Lamar Jackson threw 4 HORRIBLE picks last night. But his coaching staff knew what tf they were doing and made the right decisions when the time came and their defense and run game held up their end of the bargain, as they usually always do. And yet, I don't see Ravens fans calling for his head en masse. Because they understand the big picture and appreciate his talent, even on a bad day/night. We seriously have one of the dumbest fanbases out there, period.

The OL doesn't even matter at this point. Yes, it's bad. Really bad. But it isn't much different from last season's... the difference is the league had a full year of tape on Brady and his elementary ass offense and now they know how to shut it down. We heard it all last season and through this season about our "college style" offense and defense. The problem isn't just that we are running those style systems, its that barely anyone in the building had any fuging clue or experience coaching at the professional level with any hint of success, so once the rest of the league adapted, our staff didn't. It's why you see the Dolphins yesterday, who arguably have a worst OL than us, completely mop the floor with us... why? Because they have pro-level coaches, who adapt and adjust. OL sucks and you're playing one of the top ranked pass rushes in the league? Start running college style RPOs that stretch the defense laterally and take away their ability to push upfield. They based their whole offense off of that one principal yesterday and our coaches had no fuging clue what to do. And its been happening all season. Philly, NYG, MIN, etc., all had offensive deficiencies similar to us when we played them, and every single one of them beat us by adjusting and outscheming these fuging amateurs on our staff... and yet, our staff learned nothing from any of those games. They haven't implemented any of the poo we've seen other offenses running on us. They suck at their fuging jobs and need to go. But I agree that it doesn't matter who they put back there, but not because of the OL. Until we get coaches that know what the fug they're doing, we could have a Megazord of Cam, Manning, Vick, Elway, Rodgers, and Brady in their prime back there and they will get ran off the fuging field.

I'm serious. I would be fuging ecstatic if he Petrino'd or Saban'd us right now. It would be so fuging awesome.