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You mean the side of the ball Wilks is known for and the unit he fired Snow from to hand over to his mate? Funny, that.

Agreed.

A long-term backup on a rival, sure.

No.

Absolutely not.

I'm confused - isn't PJ Walker, former starting QB for Temple, a Rhule guy? Man, you all love to cherry pick what you attribute to Rhule. He's a bad NFL Head Coach, but he's assembled a .500 roster in 2 years - the roster when he got here was absolutely awful. Sadly nobody is going to give him any credit for that.

I thought Mayfield had a torn ligament in his ankle?

Sounds too like Rhule completely soured on Darnold like he soured on Bridgewater. I didn't think Mayfield won the pre-season battle and I'm yet to be proven wrong.

Nah, a 'franchise QB' is one you're not actively looking to upgrade on year-on-year. There's only a handful of 'best player on the team' QBs in the league - they're not franchise QBs, they're MVPs.

I count 8 QBs you'd be very happy to hang your hat on there (Smith, Newton, Luck, Burrow, Lawrence, Ryan, Stafford and Murray) with several more that are considerably better than what we currently have on the roster. So no, it's not the surefire way to solve the problem, but it helps. As always correctly evaluating and developing talent trumps draft order.

Matt Cassel is the king of this particular game. He's pushed close by Matt Schaub though.

I don't think he was talent acquisition wise - this roster is in a much better place than where he found it, but clearly his College coaching methods don't work on millionaires.

He literally doesn't want to coach. He's certainly not coming back to be a TE Coach.

He isn't calling plays because he doesn't want to call plays. From people that know him on the Miami Hurricanes board, he's happy in his current role.

Shaq Thompson won't even be here next year.

This is a good roster.

I was going to say, I was more impressed with him getting beaten, but recovering in the passing game. We all knew he was a monster run blocker.

As I keep on telling people, this is easily a .500 roster with good QB play. On Sunday, Walker was good - he won't keep that up.

He was an incredibly raw player coming out of College. He was always going to take time to see the field properly - if ever.

I'm glad he got a second chance to be a starter, I think he's been hard done to as a player.

Salary aside, Russ Wilson.

That's Kenny Heisman to you.

It's not Father Time, he's going through a messy divorce (of his own making). His head isn't in the game - 99% of why he's succeeded if because he's willing to do whatever it takes to win. Right now he's missing practices on Wednesdays and missed a whole load of Training Camp to try rescue his marriage. He's not the Brady we've all come to hate (if not begrudgingly admire).

The man took a Super Bowl from us. Inject this into my veins.

I mean in Ryan's defence he is playing against Mahomes. But yes, it's Saleh's defence for the most part, he's way too green to be in the running you'd hope.