Davidson Deac II

Well gotta go for it here. And that is ballgame.

I honestly thought he meant Darnold. CMC has played so little for us the last two years, don't really think about him anymore. But yeah, Abdullah is playing the CMC role.

DJ, Zylstra, and Robbie are having very good games today. If we could throw the ball more than 10-15 yards, they would both be approaching a hundred.

Our receivers have been open and playing well a good portion of the game, but bad throws and poor protection mean we can't get it to them beyond 10 or 15 yards. Our best pass play is throw it short and hope they run well.

Maybe they do, the jury is still way, way out on that.

I do hope the new coaching staff keeps Abdullah around.

Smart play would be to use the first and five to go deep. For us, its a two yard run up the middle.

Announcers talking about Game of Thrones got me to thinking. Which is worse, GOT ending or the Panthers in December?

Don't care about the draft pick, the whole tanking thing is rarely successful. It failed for the Jets last year, might have failed for Jacksonville, and it failed for the Falcons. But losing out improves our chances of getting rid of Rhule. That would be the best thing about it.

If we were in the middle of a playoff race, I would care. Since we are not, throw caution to the wind, go for two if we luck up and get a td, and just go for it on 4th down if we are in fg range.

People tend to read to much into these twitter comments. For all we know, could just mean a new restaurant she likes opened.

Don't know if that was the play call or qb decision, but throwing the deep ball there was foolish.

I would have tried to run the ball at least once there, in the hopes that the Chargers would forget to call a timeout

I watched him win a Superbowl with Ken the Snake Stabler as his qb.

Its amazing how inept both of these otherwise good offenses have looked inside the red zone tonight.

Pete Carroll had significant NFL experience, including being head coach in New England prior to taking the Seattle job. You are correct about Switzer, didn't think about him.

90% of coaching hires in the NFL end up failures. That number probably increases to 98% when it comes to college coaches with little or no NFL experience. In fact, the only truly successful one (winning Superbowls) I remember is Jimmy Johnson.

In fairness, Meyer wasn't fired just because of his on the field performance. Rhule may not be a good NFL coach, but at least he doesn't have the off the field foolishness that Meyer did.

There are three teams I would never want to model my team/process after. The Lions, the Browns, and the Bengals. All three have spent the last 20 years showing how its not done.

Well, in fairness, all three teams suck, so I am not sure it made much of a difference.

Nixon could be the best offensive coordinator of all time and I am still not sure he could improve our offensive performance significantly in five games. But if he does, then we will know that play calling was a big part of the problem as that is the easiest thing to change. Personnel and play design can be tweaked, but I doubt we could see significant changes in that regard.

In fairness most defenses slip as the season goes along if they aren't getting much support from the offense. But I am not saying the defense is top five/great. Just that it is significantly better than 2019, and somewhat better than last year when we went several games without forcing more than 1 punt a game. I am also not saying Snow is great. But when Rivera was hired, it took him more than two seasons to turn the defense around, and he was considered a NFL defensive specialist. Might be unrealistic to expect a college coach to get it into a dominant position in less than two years, regardless of how many draft picks we spend on defense. The reality is most NFL players don't really gel until their third year. But the point is the defense has gotten better. On the flip side, the offense and special teams have gotten worse. Baffling decisions at qb, offensive line inconsistency, both in personnel and performance, and spending a high pick on a wide receiver just after paying a free agent wr a significant amount of money, and now we are going to have to pay DJ if we want to keep him. I wonder how much Brady had to do with these decisions, and if they were part of the reason he was canned.

11 I think, if you are counting defensive picks under Rhule. But free agent signings and draft picks are how you fix things in the NFL. The issue is not that they did it wrong on the defensive side, its more that they didn't follow the same pattern on the offensive side. Instead of signing Bridgewater and then trading picks for Darnold, should have drafted a qb this past year, and drafted more offensive linemen. Should have kept Bridgewater for another year, drafted Fields or Jones, let them sit for a year while we rebuild the oline. And as good as Marshall might eventually be, probably should have gone with a heavier concentration on oline during the second and third day. I never understood the rationale behind drafting Marshall while extending/paying Anderson.

Ruhle did at least fix one issue he inherited. When he took over, the defense was old and terrible. 2019 was far and away the worst Panthers defense I have ever seen. Last year's was slightly better. This year's defense, while not great, has moved into the top 10 and is young enough to stay there for a few years.

Oldest and probably best rivalry in college sports.