rayzor

pains me to say it...but it was the right call handling it the way they did. just having the gig handed to him on a silver platter wouldn't have played over as well as letting him "compete" for the job and assert himself as the bona fide leader of the offense. i mean probably everyone "knew" that this would be the outcome and sure, it was just a show, but i think it was probably better for the team to see him work for it at the risk of missing reps. confidence gained in baker outweighs the reps he missed out to sammy in the show. he will get the needed reps soon enough, but he'll get more out of the other guys in those reps because of the confidence they have in him. all that said...i'm still not sold on baker overall but it doesn't matter if i am as long as the guys around him is and once they get into actual game situations they'll find out soon enough if that confidence is misplaced or not.

nice try, but until rhule starts winning games, expect the hate and the deserved lack of confidence to keep flowing. since he is essentially at the core of this team and responsible for managing it, most issues facing the team will somehow be directly connected to him. his disapproval is going to keep showing up in most threads because all threads in the fabric of this team connect to him. you want the hate to stop? team will have to start winning first. rhule will have to prove he can coach a winning team. you don't have to like it, but no one likes losing and so far that's about all we've one with him.

Jokes on you. I had already wet myself. Thanks, Depends!

the problem is that he can't win more than 5 games so far. this year will probably be more...but how much more? 2 more games? and then the year after that he'll finally get us a winning season? and then how many more before we get into the playoffs? the dude just hasn't done enough to prove he's a good winning coach.

i don't really have a problem with that, though i hate to see Saunders go and i'd like to see us upgrade LT and LG depth there. Would rather move on from Michael Jordan and Bozeman should be the starter when he gets back. Aside from Moton and BC, i really don't want any leftovers from last year on the roster.

i'm not upset. i don't really care. it's just preseason and i'd rather not have it at all. said before if we're going to have them, i really don't want starters or key players playing in games that don't count. preseason isn't a good judge of how any team is going to perform against anyone because it's just an evaluation tool of players and groups in relation to each other...not really how they will perform against an opponent. goals isn't the same for either team. winning (even winning downs) isn't a priority.

he can. you just can't see it.

just preseason, but the amount of investment rhule has put in corral is pretty bad. he's been an afterthought. what does anyone expect? i mean rhule understandably has been preoccupied with that QB1 "competition", but this sure doesn't help the surprising reputation rhule has built for not doing a great job developing or getting invested in young players (unless they were baylor/temple guys).

yes. unless it's a true developmental guy like Corral, you don't want to use that 3rd. Have realistic expectations for that potential 3rd spot and who you have available. If you can keep them on the PS, do it.

probably best to do. i mean keep PJ i guess on the practice squad and if he gets picked up by someone . i mean we'll need someone for the practice squad, but just being real, if it's not Corral and we're down to the 3rd QB...we're kind of screwed anyways.

As it should be.

wouldn't it fall under felony murder?

but you shouldn't be "playing to win the game" when the game doesn't count. to protect yourself from someone who is doing it i guess you kind of have to which really just makes for an unnecessarily dangerous situation.

i watched it and we don't need that kind of poo, especially in practice...which is why i hate preseason games and joint practices and the probowl game. too big of a chance of someone with something to prove taking a cheap shot on someone that isn't going full bore in a game that doesn't count. but that kind of poo is bad no matter what type of game it is. don't want my players getting knocked out from a cheap shot. don't want my players knocking other players out taking a cheap shot. that's a line you don't cross. when you are on the bubble, that kind of thing right there pops that bubble.

He got it started. He started the attack and escalated it all. He's just as guilty for the murder.

just about including myself. you see, i have these arguments in my head....

6 wins is very realistic. 7 wins is optimistic. all of that is based on what we've seen from this team before and the schedule we're staring down now.

thank you...and losing has made it difficult to be a fan. it's just not fun for me to be a fan anymore. like i said elsewhere, i'm not ready to give it up completely but i'm not far from it. if we were to start winning, though, things would get a lot better. maybe that will start happening this year, but we have no identity and no wins. when that happens things get bad. many people (myself included) thinks that with better coaching that this team could be better. we got a guy who did ok as a college coach who has only proved he makes mistakes running the team and an owner who is fumbling a lot as well. it's up to them to show that they are better than that. prove the doubters wrong and build a winning program. either they can or they can't...and it won't take years to do it. if they can't do it this year, they won't do it under this leadership.

OL shuffling leads to lack of ability to gel (largely rhule dabbling) OL depth RB room (CMC staying healthy and i'm not convinced the guys behind him can do all that well) TEs DL (esp. DT) LBs game management

it does make perma-banning difficult. there's still ways to find out who it is, but IP banning doesn't do what it used to. takes more work to keep someone gone. fortunately it doesn't take long to realize who some of the nuts are. they kind of broadcast it. sometimes they just announce it, "i'm back! you thought you could get rid of me but you can't do nothing" and then i just go ahead and ban them. it can be kind of entertaining for a minute or two.

tomorrow.

we'd have more traffic if we were winning. we wouldn't have the negative bs if we were winning. winning cures all.

no i'd be jumping on that bandwagon with a bucket of fried crow on my lap and a bottle of tobasco in my hand. i want to be wrong and i hope i am.