LinvilleGorge

This will be a controversial idea, but I'd like to extend Reddick and shop Burns. I still feel like we're right where we started with him. Waiting for potential and flashes of brilliance to develop into consistent greatness. I'm starting to doubt that it's going to happen and he and Reddick are a bit redundant and Reddick is clearly the better, more consistent performer right now... and we badly need to recoup some of the draft capital we've pissed away.

Barring a dramatic turnaround down the stretch I'm ready to move on.

He definitely has a gun slinger mentality to him. He'll have to reassess the risk/reward assessment both throwing and running in the NFL. He has a damn good arm but some scouts will question wether his arm will allow him to make the throws he makes at the college level in the NFL. He has more a prime Drew Brees type arm than say a prime Cam or Josh Allen type arm. There are also going to be some teams that knock him for his height. Being a 6' tall QB isn't near the knock these days as it used to be but most teams would ideally like a taller QB. I think he's going to really impress teams in the whiteboard. He's REALLY good at presnap reads. At the same time, NFL teams are going to exploit that early on with disguised looks. He'll have to learn how to read defenses at the NFL level but I'm confident he can based on what I've seen out of him in college.

You don't think players are pissed about their coach publicly going overboard healing praise on them only to soon thereafter get cut? You don't think they still have friends on the team and voice those displeasures? Work environments are work environments and the same politics, rumors, and BS exist across the board. Just because these guys make millions of dollars to play a game doesn't mean that basic human psychology ceases to exist.

I think what Tepper is learning is that there aren't perfect translations between business and football. The hedge fund world is not a fair fight. Big money, big analytics, and virtually endless variables create huge advantages for the deepest pockets. In the NFL, the hard salary cap creates a much more even playing field and the "stocks" you're looking at are much more limited. There's a lot more stocks than there are NFL caliber draft talents and quality free agents and coaching prospects. There a reason why the same handful of names are rumored to everyone with a need in that particular category. There's still a lot of variables at play, but way fewer than in the investment world and multiple firms can't invest in the same "stocks". It's an all or nothing proposition. It's just a LOT different and success in one doesn't automatically translate to success in the other.

I just think you're flat out wrong. You're telling me that if you had a high profile public facing job and your boss was saying things about you that you found to be misleading if not outright false you'd just be fine with that? No big deal? I call bullshit.

That's the thing. Rhule sucks at coach speak. How many times has he gone over the top with praise and then taken an action shortly after that shows that praise was bullshit? What Belichick does better than anyone is simply saying as little as possible.

9-8 would still be dicey. We can probably only lose one more game and have a legit good shot at the playoffs. We lose two and we're gonna need a lot of help due to tie breakers.

An embarrassing blowout loss where we didn't even come close to competing.

So in this viewpoint, is it ever possible to move on from a bad player without "scapegoating" them.

Oh wee mayne.

With 6 losses already, every game is starting to rapidly become a must win especially with so many of the other wild card contenders holding tie breakers over us. If we end up tied we're probably gonna lose out. We may only be able to afford one more loss. Two at absolute most and that would be very iffy.

I kinda think we do in Gross-Matos and Fox. I think Gross-Matos was out yesterday. In hindsight, that hurt. Against run heavy teams, Gross-Matos needs to be getting a lot of snaps.

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Sums it up perfectly. "I can't read what you linked, but since it doesn't fit what I want to believe it's complete BS."

I wouldn't be opposed to re-signing Reddick and trading Burns. They're redundant and Reddick is a lot better. Burns is a lot bigger but Reddick plays a lot stronger. We're still kinda where we've kinda always been with Burns - hoping flashes develop into consistent greatness.

Marty always had final roster say under JR, even when he was brought back as im"interim" GM. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article162361923.html

You asked for an example. I gave you one. It just so happened to be arguably the greatest coach ever.

Kinda seems like a bargain considering we're paying Teddy $17M this year to not play for us and we'll pay Darnold $18M next year to not play for us.

Most don't spend the type of resources we spent to go after the likes of Teddy and Sam within the space of a year either. Most don't have to swallow their pride and go back and beg the guy they cut to come back. Most don't end up facing off against another guy they cut and that guy ending up looking like prime Drew Brees against them. Those last two instances happened within the space of the last two weeks.

They didn't have roster control. Ron still doesn't. You being mad doesn't change that. This is gonna go the same way as when you asked specifically who would make a move like benching D-Jax today and I pointed out Belichick benching Malcolm Butler in the Super Bowl and you ghosted on that conversation.

They didn't have final say on rosters. Rivera doesn't in Washington now either. Most NFL coaches don't. That's why it was such a big deal and so surprising for a first time NFL HC with minimal NFL experience to get it right out of the gate.

He has final say. That's what the article from the Panthers' official website confirmed which is what I've said. Fitts has influence but control is on paper and the paper says Rhule.

Texas has been flailing since they ran Mack Brown out of town and honestly, they had been flailing for the prior 15 or so years prior to hiring Mack Brown. The Mack Brown era has been the anomaly of Texas football during my lifetime. The rest of the time they've basically been nonfactors.

Did you click the link?