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All these hot takes from an unpadded practice that is basically a glorified pep rally.

That's fair, and I understand the people that hate Rhule. The people I dont understand are the ones who would rather the team fail to be right about Rhule instead of Rhule just improving with the experience he has had. I get tempered expectations, I don't get hoping for the worst. I also dont get the people who turn any positive thing Rhule does or anything they agree with he says into some made up negative just to be doom and gloom.

All depends on if it goes along with what they want to hear or not.

Nothing they say to the media matters. It's a lose lose. What does he really have to gain from saying no? Then if the season goes terribly and they do fire him then it looks like a lie. He has absolutely no reason to back himself into a corner. Especially considering there is a good chance he has no idea either way. I feel like Tepper would be the one making that call.

I remember him looking bad against the bull rush specifically.

To be fair he looked fairly unremarkable in the snaps he played last season. Not bad but not great and definitely had some problems with the bull rush. Maybe he is better after an nfl offseason than he was last season.

We have replaced 4 of the 5 starters from this time last year. The only one left is Moton. We also greatly upgraded our oline coach. You're delusional if you think it's the same line as last year.

We have many more options than last year. We brought in 2 solid oline free agents, a top 10 draft pick on oline and from most reports our 3rd rounder last year has improved. We definitely arent nearly as desperate as we were last year. To say we are is just to blindly hate Rhule.

Again, people are reading waaay too much in to early camp coach speak. There is no benefit to them at all giving any kind of information or ways they are leaning to the media at all right now. It's a lose lose for them for absolutely no reason.

Baker wasnt aiming for the net. There is a dude in blue behind and to the right of the net he threw it to and the dude caught it. I'm pretty sure anyway.

Of course hes going to say that to the media. He has no reason to say anything else. Also I'm sure all of this is recorded and him and mcadoo are going to rewatch things a lot closer.

On paper they seem to be working together pretty well so far besides the huddle blaming any move they dont like on Rhule and praising fitterer for any move they like.

To be fair in the 2 seasons he took over a very old roster with holes everywhere and now our roster is much younger and much fewer holes overall. It just happens that we still dont know for sure if we have filled the QB hole which is the most important by far.

So many overreactions to a third rounder. Hopefully he becomes great for us and they are setting him up for success but there are reasons he fell to the third round.

This has been posted multiple times. First off Rhule has last say on the roster. Second off if you listen to the whole quote before you try to bash him he was just saying it's the players play the will ultimately decide the starter. Aka it's an open competition.

I'm not talking about previous press conferences. I'm talking about this one.

This feels like more of one of those hindsight is 20/20 things though. A lot of people werent sold on Herbert and there were some questions there. He also went 1 pick in front of us so I'm sure they thought there was a chance he would be there without trading a bunch of draft capital.

He has been here 2 seasons, and inherited a talent void roster that won 5 games the season before and fired their head coach 4 games into that season because it was so bad, he got here and then lost Kuechly, Olsen, and our best offensive player hasnt been healthy for half a season since he got here. I feel like most fans had unrealistic expectations. The roster has been improved a lot overall and as he has gained NFL experience the coaching staff has as well.

How did we not know that this post was going to devolve into the same people doing mental gymnastics to twist everything he said into something negative or dumb. This has been a good offseason, our roster overall has improved, our coaching staff gained a lot of experience, everything he said today was pretty much on the money. Will that equate to more wins this season? Who knows but unlike a lot of the Rhule haters who would rather the team lose so they can be right, I prefer he continues to grow with experience and the team wins. All the people twisting his words or bashing what he said were going to do that literally no matter what he said.

What would have been the non "cheap" route they should have taken in the past 2 years that they didnt? You take as many cheap low risk swings on younger qbs who have the physical tools as you can. You dont sit on your hands and wait.

No there were definitely some articles that said that Rhule was the one not sold on him.

It has been said from inside the organization that Rhule was always lukewarm on the idea. I think it has been confirmed by the timing. If this was something Rhule really wanted it would have happened a while back. Probably at the draft.

It seems like those two statements directly conflict with one another. Bashing him for taking pretty low cost swings for a qb then also saying he has to learn he cant win without a qb...

That's not how in game play calling adjustments work. Some of you really overrate what the head coach does.

That would actually be on the offensive coordinator. Its not the head coaches job to make in game adjustments to the offense. If anything he had more fingerprints on the scripted plays to open the game. The ones that actually worked.