LinvilleGorge

Sure wish we had those 2nd and 3rd rounders back...

Unless we can fix our OL situation I wouldn't want a rookie stepping on the field for us.

You don't shoot your cap situation to hell and trade away half your upcoming draft to rebuild. When you need a QB and four starting OL, you're not all that close... especially when your cap situation isn't fantastic and you have minimal draft capital to work with.

Honestly, the rebuild talk was just to temper expectations and buy time. Everything we SAID indicated rebuild. Everything we DID indicated these guys thought they could produce a quick turnaround and compete. Now here we are with a cap situation that was setup to be really good looking mediocre at best with a draft class heavily hampered by trading away picks for players that clearly aren't doing much to help us right now. Honestly, I think Rhule is just a snake oil salesman.

It really would be. As much as I'd love him here I only want him here if we get our poo together which honestly doesn't look like a promising proposition. Outside of that, yeah the Steelers are probably the best case scenario.

There have been more Steelers representatives around Chapel Hill and UNC games than any other NFL team. There's only one high level NFL prospect on UNC.

Did anyone actually watch the game? This was a game plan of necessity. It was bitter cold with 30-50mph winds. Not exactly conducive to airing it out.

Not just QB. The OL is a dumpster fire. Every receiver has regressed. The D has looked like trash two the past two games. I'm really not seeing anything for Rhule to hang his hat on right now in terms of signs of progress.

It's so easy! All we gotta do is call running plays and we win all the games!

Unless he's grown leaps and bounds as a man and a coach from his time with the Broncos, no he shouldn't have. McD was low key every bit the trainwreck with the Broncos that Lane Kiffen was with the Raiders, Broncos ownership was just smart enough not to air out the dirty laundry in full public view.

Hell, I wouldn't blame him.

They paid Brady a poo ton of money. It's not like we settled for Joe Brady. This OL is the OL Rhule and company wanted. We paid Erving and Eflein decent money despite them not being very good... or very reliably healthy. The stats that Moore has put up with the QB play he's had is borderline Herculean. If we let him walk, expect him to become a household name elsewhere.

Fedora had no desire to recruit or play defense. He just expected his offense to outscore everyone anyway.

Fitts and Rhule really started talking big when we started off 3-0. Unfortunately, both of Rhule's seasons started with promise before unraveling badly. This one even worse than last one. What we expected was a couple of struggle seasons while showing progress. What we've actually gotten is a couple of flailing seasons showing regression.

This is Larry Fedora 2.0.

And now he's back at his alma mater in the college game where they're throwing out $100M contracts like it's the Oprah show.

Draft status seems to often follow guys around for far longer than it should. Swap Darnold's and Minshew's draft statuses and Darnold is out of the league and Minshew got traded for a decent return.

I just don't think his personality and coaching style work long-term with pro athlete grown men and I think he probably realizes that himself. He's better suited for the college game with younger guys.

Minshew was my A (by a significant margin), Trubisky was my B. Once the am Stafford ship sailed, those were the only two vet options that interested me.

Yep. Kinda like failing to draft a QB, sign a Trubisky to a low level FA deal, or trade a late round pick for Minshew because you'd already made a deal to trade way too much for Sam Darnold and pickup his option to triple down on the two other mistakes.

Nah, I don't blame Hurney. This is ALL Tepper. He's the check writer and ultimate shot caller. How he didn't have enough information available to him to immediately fire Marty Hurney is baffling to me and that's on him. If he needed a place holder to buy time while he figured out who the long-term person at GM was going to be, fine. But you tie Hurney's hands. Tightly. You don't let him influence you on who to hire as the next HC, that's for damn sure.

Unless there's something behind the scenes that indicates Rhule can right this ship, he's gotta go. Based on what can be seen from the outside looking in, Rhule needs to go. Both of his seasons have started out looking promising and then quickly come off the rails.

12 INTs, 6 fumbles. Teddy last year? 11 INTs and 6 fumbles, but 9 fewer TDs.

You gotta stop overstating things. No one is "lusting" after these guys. We just didn't want to spend all those resources pursuing trash. Myself and many others said this all along. Why Panthers brass thought Teddy and Darnold would prove to be something other than what they'd always proven to be I have no clue, especially when guys who have played better were available for way less.

Trubisky had a 24 TD season in a Nagy led offense. He might actually be the greatest QB ever.