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According to the NGS Passing scores for last week, Darnold was highest with a 90. On passes with at least 2.5 seconds to throw, he was 11/17 with one or two touchdowns. Scored higher than anyone. But Darnolds our problem...

How many fans are they alienating, exactly? The NFL is worth more than it has ever been? Hell, their commercials have Tampax as "The Official Tampon of the NFL" (joking).

McCaffrey got a lot of hate too, at times, and look at him now. It's the Panthers way.

Give me Mayer from Notre Dame. All good teams in the NFL have a good, pass catching tight end. The best teams all have tight ends on the upper eschelon. Most of the teams with great offenses have THREE wide receiver options as well. Give me Jalyn Hyatt from Tennessee in the 2nd round with his 4.2 speed. You get those two guys and the entire complexion of our offense changes. Install the RPO, give Corral every rep you can, and let him build for the future with these dudes. That would be hard to stop by Year 2, which is something we see happened with the Eagles between Year 1 and 2 of Hurts. The biggest difference being AJ Brown.

He has had one good year with a unicorn of a QB, and you want to make him a head coach with Gardner Minshew...Matt Corral (may be good)....Darnold....Tommy Tremble....and Ian THomas.. LMAOOOOOOOORJWFEWFJEWOFNJEWdf JUST STOP ALREADY Keep Wilks, let Wilks bring in his own guys, draft Mayer in the 1st and Jalin Hyatt in the 2nd. Keep Corral and Darnold, try to give Corral all the snaps you can in the off-season to get him ready to go as he has every physical tool you could want; Rhule's little project just didn't get him the reps. You pair Mayer, Hyatt, Marshall, and Moore together to go with a power run game and a guy who can manage the RPO like Corral with his quick (fastest in the NFL) release, you have a recipe for success on offense. You have the option really to run a Shanahan type offense with those personnel on offense and I'm HERE FOR IT.

Look Darnold haters, if your receiver can't break free from man coverage and the Steelers drop linebackers into the throwing lane, then they only send 4 and they get there an 1.5 seconds, Tom Brady isn't going to get the pass off either. No QB is. This isn't a Darnold issue and I hope it doesn't take us spending like our 7th or 8th draft pick to search for a QB for you all to figure that out.

Our offensive line is a coffee filter and the Steelers are the liquid...putrid man. Casuals will blame Darnold but no QB is going to play better under these circumstances.

You guys really want to throw a rookie QB out behind this offensive line? Again, QB isn't our problem. With even average play Darnold would have a 300 yard passing game today but he gets sacked even when Moton gets a head start. WTF

Give me Mayer out of Notre Dame and Jalyn Hyatt out of Tennessee. Let's see what we have in Corral before we got spending any more picks on QB's. No QB's outside of Stroud or Young would be worth a 1st round pick this year. If we took Anthony Richardson we'd have two projects and Darnold which doesn't make sense to me.

There is a big difference between Purdy and Allen. What Purdy has shown is that game experience in college matters. 4 year starter, comes in and plays like a veteran. Who knew? Yet people want us to draft Anthony Richardson who has played one full season and couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with the ball. If we draft him, it better be a tight end conversion project. Otherwise, take Michael Meyer of Notre Dame and Jalyn Hyatt of Tennessee and call it a day 1 and 2. Roll with Corral and Darnold.

You think you're going to find a 250 pb horse who can step in like this in the 3rd round? The only reason the Titans let him go is because they have a bigger horse.

That's $10 million a year for what would likely be a 1,100 to 1,300 yard rusher who is a tank. I don't think that's a bad investment.

He's a big, powerful guy who seems durable and those are hard to find. Everyone who says running backs are a dime a dozen wouldn't say that if we had Derrick Henry. Big, powerful, durable backs are not easy to find and it appears we have one. I'm not giving him CMC money but 3 years, 30 million or maybe a little less wouldn't upset me, especially if we draft some explosive receivers or a decent tight end who can take pressure off of the run and pass game.

The year after 2014 was 2015, where we were __ that close to going undefeated. Our guys need to learn how to win and we are realistically only a few pieces away from being a 12-5 type team. Specifically speaking of safety, tight ends, and receiver.

I like DJ as a person, but he's either criminally underused or defenses are just teeing off on him. We really need a top tier tight end to take pressure off of our receivers and help open up the passing game. Imagine a Hunter Henry type instead of Ian freakin' Thomas. He would demand safeties, corners, and linebackers to pay attention.

McDermott is doing just fine. Will throw it 50 times a game if necessary and they have just as good of an offense as the Chiefs when healthy, and, they beat them. The Bucs won the Super Bowl against the top offense in the league, giving up 9 points. The Patriots beat the Rams, one of the top offenses in the league giving up 3 points. Hell, even the Rams and Bengels game last year was one the revolved primarily around whose defense was better. You can have a defensive minded head coach and hire a young and upcoming coordinator. I highly doubt Wilks will be upset at giving up 20 points per game if we have an offense that can score 35. We run the offense we do right now because it makes best use of the personnel that we have. You're not throwing the ball 35 times a game with this offensive line and tight ends group unless you want to lose. Hell, even our receivers can't break free which is a product of both scheme and skill. I'd be entirely confident in Wilks ability to modernize the offense while keeping a brick wall of a defense. He isn't Ron Rivera nor is he John Fox. He's Steve Wilks, period. He is his own man, own coach, and was his own player. He also does something that I've only really seen Ron Rivera do here and that is get guys to play for HIM and for each other. There is accountability here and I'm not saying that's not possible with another coach, but in an administrative or CEO type role he would likely have, that's exactly what you want. We could go get a Mike McDaniels or LeFleur but you see what happens to them? The league catches up. Without either/or a premier quarterback and wide receiver corp, they can't do poo. The Dolphins (mcdaniel) just signed one of their worst defensive linemen to $100 million+ for several years. How long do you think they will be humming? Truth be told, they stopped. Unless you get a generational guy like Shanahan who went into the 49er's and actually built the defense up as opposed to the offense, the results are going to come toward the median. Lastly, who is the best coach in NFL history? Bill Bellichek. Who are the top coaches right now? Dan Campbell (talk about lemons and lemonade), Bill, Sean McDermott, and Reid. All of those except for Reid are more of the CEO types and two of them were two of the best defensive coordinators during their time in that role. Wilks was one of the NFL's best before our roster building tanked. Ultimately, defense wins championships. It's why Reid has one Super Bowl despite the numerous Championship appearances while Bill has 7. It's why the Bucs beat the Chiefs in 2020. It's why the Patriots beat the Falcons after being down 28-3. I have faith the Wilks wouldn't be singularly focused on a power run game and defense only if we had the roster to handle a different style of play (we don't).

He's already being given 2nd round grades, sometimes 1st with what he's done at Coastal. People underestimate how good the Sun Belt is, for obvious reasons and history but it's slowly found its way up and is now the best G5 conference in the country according to several of the most valued computer models. The AAC's best team in Tulane even lost to Southern Miss, a Sun Belt program, and the game wasn't even that close. The last place team in the East division beat Virginia Tech and should've beat Virginia. Georgia Southern beats Nebraska. App State beats Texas A&M who beat No. 6 LSU and was 2 yards from beating Alabama at Alabama. Marshall obviously beat Notre Dame and that game wasn't all that close. Scouts know quality when they see it. Perception hasn't caught up yet but McCall would've been fine staying put in the G5. If he goes to Liberty and plays in C-USA I can't help but feel like his stock may fall a bit because that place is going to be a dump.

Why would he go to Wake Forest over App? Outside of Clemson, if you believe in computer models, the Sun Belt East was on par with the ACC and was the top G5 division in the country and the entirety of the conference was ahead of the AAC. If you can play, you can play. Josh Allen went to Wyoming, Carson Wentz went to NDSU, a chargers back-up went to NDSU, Trey Lance went to NDSU, Mahomes was at Texas Tech (who isn't any better than Coastal was before Chadwell started flirting with Liberty). If you can play, you'll get your shot. Doesn't matter if you're Division 2, FCS, G5 or P5. At this point, he needs to go somewhere he can ensure success, otherwise he's costing himself money.

Not sure why 4 Corners shat on you but Leach was an innovator. Kliff Kingsbury owes his career to Mike Leach. He made guys like Lincoln Riley, Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray possible. He was a real innovator in the game and made the Air Raid system palpable, if not preferred by many around the country seeking to level the playing field against more talented opponents. Tactician, intellectual, and by most accounts a decent human being if not demanding. I'll miss his Press conferences and general wisdom imparted and I'm sure everyone who knew him feels the same. Sad day for football. A Sunflower in a field of daisy's has fallen.

He could go to App State and be on a fairly explosive offense with a coordinator proven to run some Pro Style passing concepts. He actually wanted to go to App State but Eli Drinkwitz decided not to offer (2018-19). Who knows? There are going to be a lot of openings and some will be with places who have explosive, pro style offenses. By all accounts McCall is a hard worker so I'm sure he will be fine wherever he goes.

Why is that funny? Every team who has been to the playoffs with a losing record has won a game.

We are a half game back of the Bucs and they are a very, very bad team who cannot run the ball. If they didn't have Brady they may be a two or three win team right now. We have four weeks to finish here and I honestly think that there is a good chance we get it done. We have an identity on offense and sound play from Sam (if mcadoo doesn't kill him with naked boot legs first) and a tenacious defense who is pretty good at every level. I'm not saying we win a playoff game, but you never know. When you're hot your hot and we just saw the Panthers physically destroy a team trying to make a playoff push.

Chadwell went to Liberty. I'm semi-hopeful he ends up at App State but I'd be shocked if he doesn't go to Liberty or a contending P5. Liberty because Chadwell is there and they actually beat Arkansas and came within a 2 point conversion of beating Wake Forest. Good program, even if I have a disdain for the Liberty business model.

Baker showed that QB isn't our issue. He went in with 20 snaps in practice and had his best game of the year for the Rams. That's a system and talent issue. We don't have tight ends which shuts everything else in the passing game down. Furthermore, defense still wins championships. Look at the past few Super Bowl winners.

The thing is that they don't understand football. They think we are running smashmouth football because that's all Wilks wants. We are doing that because we have the personnel to do it with and our tight ends are the worst receiving group in the league. Tight ends open up the entire passing game in today's schemes and we have none that would qualify as a concern for opposing coaches. I'd say we hire Wilks, let him go find an offensive coordinator who is inventive, and build out the offensive side of the ball. Look at Tua before Mike McDaniels got there. People wanted him straight up cut. Look at Hurts before they figured out the system to run. I'd take Sam Darnold and a competent offensive coordinator along with a first round wide receiver all day, every day going into 2023. I'd also like for us to attempt to find a receiving threat at tight end because that would open up DJ Moore more than anything else that you can do. For those comparing Wilks to Fox or Ron, you don't know what you're talking about. Wilks is his own man. And even if he were Fox, last I checked Fox went out and got Manning who threw 50+ touchdown passes in a season and got the Broncos to a Super Bowl. So sign me up for that.