LinvilleGorge

It's not about the season, it's about today. What are you doing today? Name a coach? Bill Belichick benched #1 CB Malcolm Butler in the SUPER BOWL.

I'm sure Fitts is having an influence on the trade activity, but it's not up for debate about Rhule having final say. https://www.panthers.com/news/matt-rhule-has-final-say-looking-to-build-relationship-with-gm

Fitts is just a paper pusher for Rhule. Rhule has final roster say.

That was probably more of a prisoner of the moment thinking considering Arizona was missing their MVP candidate QB and their likely HOF bound #1 WR.

It was pretty clear fairly early that WFT's passing plan was pretty much "find #26 and throw to his guy". We should've yanked Dante at halftime. This is the second time in three weeks Rhule has failed to make an obvious depth chart move. Sam should've been yanked at halftime vs. the Pats, but Rhule wanted to give him a chance to "play through it". This is professional football. It's not about not hurting feelings. Do your job or we'll put in someone else and give them an opportunity.

It's happened time and time again. I don't know if he's a flat out liar or if he just gets nervous and forgets how to "coach speak" when asked pointed questions about what he knows are going to be divisive decisions.

“I’m really excited to coach Cam Newton,” Rhule said. “Just getting to know him, being around him, seeing the way he’s rehabbing, taking this seriously. I think if he does this right and we do this right, his best football is ahead of him.” Teddy was signed about two weeks later.

Oh, we've sure seen "his guys" at QB. Please god no more of any of that.

Good luck attracting a good OC when word will be out that your seat is hotter than lava.

Our D was middle of the pack last year, not bottom 5. And honestly, it might end up middle of the pack again this year.

Rhule wanted full control. This is what happens with full control - full accountability. Sam is here because Rhule wanted him here. Same as the other 52 guys. We'd be better off and Rhule would have more of a chance to succeed with a strong GM with final roster say. IF Rhule comes back next year, it needs to be without final roster say. He did nothing to earn that and he's shown he shouldn't have been given it. Want to come back? That's gotta go.

Sure. He can have until the end of this one. Without strong signs he's developing though he can GTFO at the end of this season.

Kelly actually looked promising in the NFL until Philly gave him roster control. That's when things spiraled on him. We gave Rhule that out of the gate. Rhule would've had a much better chance to succeed had he been paired with a strong GM. If he was demanding full control out of the gate then that should've been the red flag we needed to look elsewhere. Very few coaches are cut out for full control in the NFL and it took most of them years to prove themselves before they got it.

Or draft picks. Wait... you're open to the idea of using an entire draft class on defense in a league that's been trending toward offense for two decades? Oh, you want to trade 2nd and 3rd round picks for other teams' 1st round pick busts? You want to overpay subpar vets to avoid spending draft picks on OL? Cool. Thanks for your time but I just want to be honest with you and let you know that we're going to be pursuing other candidates.

I just see the ellipses as tears.

I get it. It sucks to lose to a bad team when things were looking up. But to pretend there's literally nothing trending upward? Absurd. Our D was straight up open ass today. Trash. Yet we were in the game until the end because we actually have a QB now. Prior to Cam, this game would've been a curb stomping. Cam allows us to compete. Obviously we weren't good enough today to translate competing into winning, but two weeks ago we would've lost this game by 20+ points and it would've been over by the midway point of the 3rd quarter.

Cool... we get it... you're in midair... after jumping off the cliff... so what are you actually trying to bring to the conversation? Besides... you know... typing like this and being in unconsolable despair?

I'm ready to replace both coordinators. Because I'm ready to fire Matt Rhule barring a dramatic turnaround.

We need to be smarter about match up football. Yes, Burns and Reddick are very good pass rushers. But against teams who have the game plan and ability to cram the ball down our throats, Gross-Matos and Fox probably need to be our base DEs with Burns and Reddick used more strategically as situational pass rushers. I'm not saying take them out of the game, but basically those guys should probably be pretty much splitting snaps with Gross-Matos and Fox in those match ups.

We can compete with Cam even when the D straight up sucks. That's what I'm saying. Not trying to make you feel better.

Now imagine what today's game looks like with Sam Darnold at QB.

Bingo. It's the coaches' job to get the players to do their job. If they can't, then they're not good coaches.

Funny how the WRs can suddenly catch again now that they no longer have to worry about Darnold throwing them into trainwreck hits.

I'm not ready to just move on from Brady. I'm ready to move on from Rhule too.

Fug thinking about the playoffs. A big part of why we're flailing is because this team is way too quick to start feeling themselves. We had Fitts and Rhule openly talking about playoffs at 3-0. We proceed to faceplant. We sign Cam and beat the hell out of a badly shorthanded Cardinals team and then we faceplant against a bad Washington team. This team has to learn to just take things one game at a time.