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Per Ellis/Glazer Rhule not exactly “safe”


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1 minute ago, Cuttinedge said:

The fact they consider 2 of those OCs “rockstars” is further proof they don’t have a clue 

Well if you're trying to get some rock-star for an event. The Rockstar kind of has to want to come and play. It has to be worth his/her while. Sometimes when you can't get Prince/Elton John/Bruno Mars/Whoever is big now...you have to settle for 38 Special, or the Goo Goo Dolls.

We are definitely gonna have to settle I'm afraid. We'll probably wind up with Vanilla Ice as our OC

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Rhule isn't safe. His departure from this team is part of a 2 year plan. He gets to close this season out for the tank. They're going to bring in an OC with NFL pedigree and take that side of the ball away from Rhule entirely. There's two reasons for it. One is that the original staff that Rhule brought with him had virtually ZERO coaches with legitimate NFL experience and as a result, couldn't lean on their history to convince their offensive players that they were still in the game plan. Rhule's biggest mistake in my opinion was his staff selection. I would almost be willing to bet that whatever higher profile offensive play caller we bring in is also going to be something on paper that indicates the line of succession will go through them. Associate Head Coach, or some other variation of the term. 

Our QB situation became by degrees harder to solve with Darnold's 5th year option being picked up. I think he goes into next season in a competition with a QB we draft in the 3rd or 4th round. He'll get 3 or 4 games and if he falters again, Rhule will be fired and Darnold will be done. Whoever our OC is will take over as interim head coach, try to see what they have in the rookie and try not to worry too much about the record in order to set us up to draft the solution with an entirely new regime, cap space galore, and a damn solid defensive core to build on. It will be a high profile destination next offseason, but not this one with as muddled as the waters are now and the fact that we're kind of married to Darnold for one more season. 

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