At the very least Rhule should lose personel decisions.

[Zod]

He has basically been coach/gm in terms of talent acquisition.

 

It's obvious he sucks at it and that is a huge reason for the mess we are in.

 

If you aren't going to fire Rhule, then at least hand off all personel decisions to Fitterer and Morgan. 

[mrcompletely11]

I think tepper pulls his power

[Waldo]

That will fix the bad coaching and in-game personnel decisions...

This changes nothing really. Those 2 were guys Rhule wanted here like the rest of his staff. 

Burn it all down!

 

Edited December 13, 2021 by Waldo

[Snake]

I think tepper needs to move on. Lame duck HCs don't do favors to your organization. 

[BrianS]

I don't see any way to sell the fan base on keeping him another year.  Even if we manage to win a couple meaningless games at the end, we have not looked like a better team this year.

[Chosen Newton]

Why is everyone acting like the defense is not the problem..we got big ticket cj Henderson and stephon Gilmore and yet we're still giving up 28 points to ATL without calvin Ridley. Phil snow should have been let go with joe brady, this defense can't get a stop for their life. 

[TylerDurden]

I dont know who the final word on personnel is, although we've heard it is Rhule and certain moves like Sam and Henderson are directly tied to him having a previous experience with them - that being said, some moves were made simply because of the FO and the relationships they had (trades with BUF AND NE, as well as all draft trades) with other teams and have nothing to do with Rhule aside from just signing off on it.

That being said, imo, it doesn't matter who is making the personnel decisions because the personnel is not the problem.  The OL blows and MLB leaves a bit to be desired, but outside of those positions, this teams STACKED with talent.  There are a lot of other teams that are winning with a lot less.  

Rhule shouldn't lose his job because of talent.  The talent is there.  He should lose his job because he doesn't know how to use it.  If he is the overlord on all personnel moves, it really doest matter if he loses that authority because our problem is strictly how it is used on the field.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Rhule and company have made their share of personnel mistakes to be sure, but the real problem with Matt shows up on game day, when his staff is routinely out coached by the opposition. 

I don't know how you fix that after two years, short of firing Rhule.

Edited December 13, 2021 by NanuqoftheNorth

[therealmjl]

But he also sucks at being a HC so making him give up personnel decision only solves part of the problem.

[Oldschool Leroy]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Checks and balances are better. 

[Mr. Scot]

I can understand the idea but I don't think it helps. He'd still be in charge of depth chart and on-field decisions as well as setting the system.

And let's be real: If you have to take these sorts of measures, why are you even keeping him?

Edited December 13, 2021 by Mr. Scot

[AndrewLaskoski]

14 minutes ago, Chosen Newton said:

Why is everyone acting like the defense is not the problem..we got big ticket cj Henderson and stephon Gilmore and yet we're still giving up 28 points to ATL without calvin Ridley. Phil snow should have been let go with joe brady, this defense can't get a stop for their life. 

Defense isn’t responsible for the pick 6, holding any NFL offense to 21 points is passable

[BrianS]

5 minutes ago, Chosen Newton said:

Why is everyone acting like the defense is not the problem..we got big ticket cj Henderson and stephon Gilmore and yet we're still giving up 28 points to ATL without calvin Ridley. Phil snow should have been let go with joe brady, this defense can't get a stop for their life. 

Didn't watch the game eh?  Yea, I get ya.

Just to bring you up to speed, the defense only gave up 22 points.  Falcons defense scored 7 against our offense.  A second Falcons TD happened because we handed them a short field on a fumble.  A third score, a FG this time, happened on an 18 yard Falcons drive.  You guessed it, gave up the ball on our side of the 50 again.

On scoring drives, the Falcons starting field position was:  ATL 25, ATL 49, ATL 25, CAR 49, CAR 48.  On non-scoring drives, Falcons starting FP was:  ATL 25, ATL 11, ATL 46 (half), ATL 44, ATL 40 (game).  You cannot win with the FP so firmly in the opponents favor.

You put your defense in crap situations and you lose.  That's it.

[jayboogieman]

17 minutes ago, BrianS said:

I don't see any way to sell the fan base on keeping him another year.

I don't agree with doing it, but a shiny new rookie QB will appease a lot of the fanbase.