Khaki Lackey

If they lose Sunday I'll implement the DVR tape delay technique i.e. "daylight salvage time". It seems to come earlier every year.

Will Newton ask, "inperceivable says much about things, do you agree?"

"Not good say much no have good time." Jesus Christ, man. This is your career.

Not a great addiction to have when you're middle aged. If it's really about football, shame on her for not being willing to wait another year or two.

Robbiey needs to learn when not to say anything. He's not 100% wrong, but he needs to realize that sports is one thing that most grown ups allow themselves to be totally juvenile and irrational about.

Not drafting Fields is the one correct call of the Rhule era. Way to go, Matt.

No. He doesn't. That's the problem. All this time, I assumed "the process" was a thought out team building philosophy that he wouldn't dare telegraph to the league but you would see signs of it. For example, I thought his "process" must be, fix defense first, then OL, then get young QB. Makes, sense, right? A good defense is a QBs best friend, plus who would want to destroy a young QB behind a bad line? That's what the Jets do. Turns out "the process" is "try to get one percent better every day!!!" Rah rah, cheerleader bullshit. He had no plan. When he was hired, there was all this talk of analytics and sports science. I've seen no evidence of any of this.

I think after Luck ducked us to get his spine smashed in Indy, they probably wouldn’t be that foolish

Yeah, that would be an improvement, but I think keeping Rhule is our best chance at a top draft pick.

I wish no one ever tried to shoehorn the term "lame duck" into the NFL. He's not even halfway through his contract, and a good season salvages his job. Matt Rhule is many things. A lame duck is not one of them.

One thing I liked about Rhule early on was that he seemed really adaptable. Now he and Snow seem to be ignoring the failures and instead of learning from it, stubbornly digging in.

I’ve tried to be patient. I’ve seen enough of the Matt Rhule era.

We have too much invested in the secondary for them to get carved up like this.

Curable by winning, or beyond that?

Reports like this came out at the beginning of Ron’s 3rd year. There were threads on here about him constantly cursing out the players in practice and how they hated him and how he had lost the locker room. All exaggerated horseshit, of course. We might be in for a great season. I mean, I’m not going to hold my breath, but we might.

He’s going to be the offense version of Matt Patricia. Hard pass.

Why watch all 22 when you can parrot meme drivel?

I think we all know damn well that Baker's height is Matt Rhule's fault.

God, Ron drove me insane. He somehow thought it was virtuous to try to milk a 10 point lead for three quarters. He seemed to enjoy blowing leads. He even alluded to (paraphrasing) "liking close games where he relied on the defense" in an interview one time. Playing not to lose = Mr. .500. Ask John Fox. (However, Fox or Rivera would be preferable to our current 'playing not to win' regime.)

Officially? I’ll go ahead and file the paperwork.

God, remember when we though we had purged Sionne Fua and Rivera brought him back to try to convert him to OL? Ron fuging loved that dude as awful as he was. Why do coaches get these blinders with their man-crushes?

If picks are the coaches fault, I guess Sam Darnold is a really good QB. Why is he not starting?

Nah that's just you seeing what you want to see. Rhule's done planty to make this team bad, but I've never seen bad QB play overlooked as much as it was on Sunday. I guess Darnold is a hall of fame talent that's just being held back from Matt Rhule. Or did we actually blame the QB for bad play last year?

I agree, but we know the run D is a liability and the TOP really exaggerated it. The second half showed me that when the QB play wasn't awful (and Elflein is partially to blame also for all the bad snaps) that the run game improved and the run D improved too. (usually teams that are bad against the run wear out and get worse as the game goes on, whereas we actually got better.)

Do you know what the time of possession was in the first versus second halves?