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Yes. Though it looked like Fit sees Rhule as his customer for the draft process. Which in a way, he is. 1)Tremble was the oddest pick with the lowest grades because it was a 3rd rounder TE with a team with so many needs. It was Rhules "favorite guy", and he signaled touchdown when we got him. Fit referred to it earlier as the a pick coaching staff was high on. Some GMs would not have made this happen. 2)When Fit suggested going oline earlier, Rhule said yeah, if there's someone there that we want, but remember we have BC, 3rd round tackle, 2nd round Guard. We waited on oline until BC...we were sweating that the Bengals would take BC, and could have been burned. It was the only time we had to trade up. Rhule is a gambler....I love it. 3)Shi Smith and Keith Taylor were prospects that Rhule coached in the senior bowl, Rhule stated he "loved coaching that kid" and that low in the draft the scouting gets fuzzier. 4)Day three Rhule leans to Fit to make sure we're getting Hubbard. I'm sure there were disagreements un-filmed or on the cutting room floor but from what I saw Fit was a master managing a complicated process with two strong-personality customers. You do not want to force a player on a coach, and sometimes a coach overrates a player. We have had an unusual number of Baylor and Temple guys. Some hits (Robby), some not (Whitehead). Rhule is a man on mission, and I think Fit is working great with him to get him there.

Heres a predraft jets perspective on Shi and Taylor:

I agree. To be fair, no CMC, a patchwork Oline riddled with injuries and Brady still orchestrated career years for Teddy, Robby, and Samuel with a decent running numbers for Davis. I'm going to withhold judgement. This year will be a good test of how good Brady is as an NFL OC.

The Lions win was all D.

When you consider who we lost going into that season, then a new coaching staff without a preseason, tough division, SOS, # of close losses against good teams...I'd say we exceeded expectations though it doesn't show in our record. I agree. Rhule is definitely in "win now" mode. The sheer # of addressed needs.... new QB, new LB's and 4 draft picks that should have significant PT/contribution. With CMC coming back ...this just is not the 2020 Panthers. If we end up 6-11 for some reason, it might be a bit early to pass final judgement on the Rhule/Fit experiment. It took 3 years at Baylor and Temple and rebuilds take time. That said I'm thinking 8 wins...with at least one against a team with a winning record. Of course I'm hoping for more.

Its fun now to dream. When we lose a game (and we will lose games), those dreams will hit reality...and people will swing the opposite way.....the sky is falling. We definitely addressed some of our weaknesses in the offseason. But...will our defense make that jump? Will Darnold ball out? Will the oline hold? Will we avoid the killer injuries? Odds are, at least one of these are not going to go our way. Sheesh, I miss 2015. One thing for sure, Tepper, Fit and Rhule are playing it shrewd and aggressive. If anything, they are going to make it exciting.

You know, it'd be nice.

jets' management player evaluation is the key issue? ok.

I did it mom. ...you did it Ja... I'm so proud of you son...Look at Daddy over here in Panther gear... Good stuff.

With the way injuries always batter the line, and based on how bad Elf and Erving appear to be, we at one point may be starting a 3rd round rookie at LT and 6th round rookie at L guard.

Its funny with 2 Moores... I was actually referring to David and realized it and edited it in time. He just doesn't have Robby's speed. Robby is tall and fast.... I really hope we keep him.

I think they saw the possibility of this coming which is why we are so stacked at WR with David Moore, Marshal and Shi coming in. I really really hope its just speculation.

Robby called Bridgewater the "icing on the cake" for coming to the Panthers...and some of his tweets/quotes were interpreted by some to throw some shade on Darnold, even though they look like they were on the jets. He is up for the second year of a 2 year deal, had a career year last year and really gave us a discount because what Rhule did for him in college: "...if it wasn’t for Coach Rhule making things happen, I wouldn’t be in the position that I’m in today....There wasn’t much he had to sell me on… I wanted to be a Panther.”

I agree.

He's going to say blah blah blah Darnold blah blah blah....whatever.

Normally I just peruse the board...losing Cam was a shock last year. Even so, it just seems like there is record amount of change this year. We didn't get a preseason last year. This really is the first full season with the new headcoach, GM and owner working together, drafting 11 new players and a new former first round QB. I really think we have something here.

We do have Moore, he doesn't have Robby's speed tho. Robby rocks and I would absolutely hate to see him leave. I don't see them doing it for a pick next year....maybe for Oline help?

We had like four or five different guys play left tackle last year. Scott started like 4 games, Okung 7 games, and didn't Greg Little actually do a couple?. Seems like it got so bad we swung Schofieled to tackle at one point.

I think the entire huddle is speculation at this time of the year.

I really think that is what is going to happen barring injury.

In the ghost game, the pats ran cover 0 blitz over and over and the jets couldn't handle it....five interceptions. The Patriots made Sam Darnold and Patrick Mahomes see ghosts with the exact same blitz - YouTube In 2020, on 68.9% of his dropbacks, he wasn’t even blitzed. That means defenses were getting to him without sending extra defenders leaving LB's back for coverage.

Dude you just quoted it. Why is the "given up on" so crucial for the comparison?

Answer my question first.

I still can't bring myself to watch that again.