Wonder who pushed for Mayfield...

[Sgt Schultz]

4 hours ago, CRA said:

Teddy didn't just sit back and let Rhule throw him under the bus.   Rhule was publicly critical of Teddy not making a redzone play post game.  Teddy pushed back.    The beginning of the end.  

It's not unique to Rhule.  All NFL coaches when it gets real bad start firing guys to hopefully buy themselves some time and divert blame.  

 

And the irony was that Teddy's criticisms were spot on.  Still, he said unflattering things about Camelot, so he had to go and if we screwed ourselves in making that happen, well, that's The Process.

[pantherclaw]

7 hours ago, CRA said:

Sam is also the biggest cap hit on the 2022 roster.   That a pretty massive cap hit.  It's a weird space for Rhule to be operating.  I don't think Rhule moving on from Sam is the absolute certainty that people think. 

and that's coming off last year where Teddy was the largest cap hit on that 2021 roster.    

I mean, I think moving on from Sam is the right call.  Better to make a horrible move, admit it and move on.  That often isn't seen a great deal in coaching.  Because while moving on from mistakes is correct it also highlights pretty massive mistakes you are making. 

 

I don't believe any coach is afraid of admitting a mistake, cutting bait, and moving on. That is a fan's perspective,  not a professional.  

[CRA]

18 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

I don't believe any coach is afraid of admitting a mistake, cutting bait, and moving on. That is a fan's perspective,  not a professional.  

I mean, NFL history is slam full examples of stubborn people and flat out idiots.  Massive egos too where everyone thinks what they do is always right. 

and the older I get, the more I realize that every single avenue of life contains idiots.   The people running your town, school board, state, country, big corporations.  You name it and you can find idiots.   The good old boys club of coaching is no exception to that rule of thought.   

We aren’t in Spartanburg.  These aren’t rookies.   And Rhule still has Sam, Elflein, Jordan, etc competing for starting roles.     Whatever you want to call that….it isn’t good.  

there aren’t a lot of good NFL HCs coaches.  It’s not an easy job.   And we have seen the college to pro experiment countless times.   You can keep claiming Rhule isn’t a problem.  I don’t care.  Free country.  But others think he is and it isn’t an unreasonable take at this stage.  So I can think Rhule isn’t a good NFL HC.  You can still hold out hope.  Neither should be a problem.  

And if Rhule proves the doubters wrong? That would be fantastic.  But my money isn’t on it. 

[Basbear]

3 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

My guess is that it was Rhule that pushed for Mayfield.  Well pushed may be the wrong word. I would say he was the first and final vote on the matter. 

Yea I dont understand the anti-Rhule group now flips on the Baker deal?? I thought they allll agreeed he pushing hard for Baker to save his job? Now Baker looks decent, it was someone else??

[CRA]

I think this team could have potential on O.  But the coaches seem set on limiting it to date and making it as hard as possible. 

maybe Rhule shows up in NE and starts repping his starters properly.  Or maybe they are working on chemistry in season as a Rhule slowly puts the people in place….when they should of gotten in the work this off-season.    I mean we have seen in season how it takes weeks for OL groupings to get chemistry down.  C/QB.  All that.  And the first half of games is where a big chunk of winnable games are.