Rhule: I Thought He [Tahir Whitehead] Played Well."

[TylerDurden]

When asked to evaluate Tahir Whitehead's play this year, Rhule responded, "I'll talk about yesterday...  I thought Tahir played well yesterday"

Uh oh...

Has Coach Rhule found his Haruki Nakamura?

[raz]

narrator: he doesn't think that

[BrianS]

This is who he is stuck with!  WTF do you expect him to say during the season!?!?

[CRA]

Rhule channeling a little Ron/Foxy. 

[LinvilleGorge]

One of us is gonna have to fall on the sword and give us the Panthers fan equivalent of this gif one of these days.

[Daddy_Uncle]

What is he supposed to say? "He played like poo?" So many of you don't understand coach speak and it baffles me

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, Daddy_Uncle said:

What is he supposed to say? "He played like poo?" So many of you don't understand coach speak and it baffles me

One of the things I like about Bruce Arians is that is probably exactly what he would've said. LOL!

[JJman Returns]

This is part of being a HC. If you expect better out of a player, you tell him that, not the media. If he wants to single him out, he’ll do it in practice around his teammates. Not to reporters. 

[*FreeFua*]

7 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

One of us is gonna have to fall on the sword and give us the Panthers fan equivalent of this gif one of these days.

That would require one of you to actually attend a game...

[pantherj]

Now come the lies about the players. Whitehead has looked like a blinking MORON for months! He's the reason Boston thought that Bucs RB was coming out of the wrong gap. He goes around out of position, shoves our own defenders out of position, takes moronic angles, and you know what.... I love him. Please keep thinking he's playing well. I want high draft picks to replace him.

[CRA]

6 minutes ago, JJman Returns said:

This is part of being a HC. If you expect better out of a player, you tell him that, not the media. If he wants to single him out, he’ll do it in practice around his teammates. Not to reporters. 

but in fairness, that is exactly what Ron/Fox did.   They gave bullshit answers when asked about obvious problems. 

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

That would require one of you to actually attend a game...

You never fail to provide a perspective completely lacking in self awareness. LOL!

[TylerDurden]

8 minutes ago, JJman Returns said:

This is part of being a HC. If you expect better out of a player, you tell him that, not the media. If he wants to single him out, he’ll do it in practice around his teammates. Not to reporters. 

Agreed.  Problem is, he's been bad all year and has continued to play.  We're losing, in large part due to our defense.  His snaps have been limited and yet, when he's in, bad things continue to happen in his vicinity.  If we're losing anyway, why not play our young guys?  Coach speak is one thing, but to continue to trot the guy out there when he's doing the same things is where I start to see red flags.

[MasterAwesome]

13 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

One of us is gonna have to fall on the sword and give us the Panthers fan equivalent of this gif one of these days.

They could have just panned the camera around the stadium and zoomed in on any random Panthers fan at the end of the first half after that Moore non-catch and got that reaction.