MasterAwesome

You ever see a T-Rex try to hike a football? Exactly...

I mean…Kenny has spent more than 3 months on our practice squad over the last two seasons. So if these teams wanted to sign him, they’ve had plenty of opportunity to do so.

Based on the exchanges in this thread, I think we know who the resident Huddle Karen is lol.

Meh he’s got some very uninspiring Rashard Higgins-esque production but I guess they’re banking on his potential. Just don’t really see him achieving that potential catching passes from Marcus Mariota.

Whoops...who's gonna tell them?

Even though this article is about a specific player on another team, this is the message that I think every fanbase should take to heart and engage in a little introspection. Every fanbase has people who incessantly direct hate online towards these players deemed underperforming - "this lazy POS just collecting paychecks" etc. and justify it by saying they make millions and therefore are subject to hate and criticism. It's okay to be levelheaded and say a player is performing poorly and that we need to upgrade a position, but fans can take it way too far. This is just common decency stuff that applies outside of the sports arena as well. If you have a server at a restaurant who is inattentive or slow with their service, puts in the wrong order, etc. But before blowing up on them, consider maybe their loved one just passed away, or they're a sleep-deprived single parent raising 3 kids at home trying to pay the bills, or they have some kind of up-and-down debilitating neuromuscular disorder and it's a particularly rough day for it. Yeah maybe in some cases it's just a lazy incompetent employee but you're not always in a position to make that judgment call so why not give the benefit of the doubt?

Rhule created the playbook and did the playcalling? Cause that’s what I’m talking about. Not some generic instruction like “run the ball a lot” or something.

Can you elaborate on what this means? 99.9% of our fanbase hates Darnold + Rhule. If we suck, they're getting boo'ed bottom line. Not sure what you mean by coddle/hide how bad he is...we know what he is at this point. Rhule knows he needs to win this year, and the way you do that is by playing the best QB. I guarantee if Corral shows out in training camp/preseason and the team believes he gives us the best chance to win, then he'll start. Simple as that.

Yeah I don't think Sam's nosedive after Game 4 was because teams figured him out...I mean as everyone points out, he's the same dude with the same issues that he's always had even since college. His/our offense's nosedive was because teams figured Joe Brady out.

Ah duh thanks.

Even crazier considering that number is boosted simply because of his height/weight. So he's even less athletic than that number would suggest.

I'm confused....is dead cap not specific to players who are cut/traded? Why would Matt Paradis and Haason Reddick have dead cap considering they simply played out the entirety of their contracts and left organically in FA (i.e. simply were not re-signed)?

Looks like a strong correlation between amount of dead cap and level of success as an organization who would have thought a crippling amount of dead cap could impact your ability to field a competent football team?!

It's hard to argue against the success of Gettleman's tenure here; his run as the Panthers' GM was objectively much more successful than Hurney's. But if you're able to evaluate his individual performance as GM within the scope of his actual role, it gets a little more muddied. People discredit Hurney's 1st round picks and say it's so easy to draft superstars in the 1st round, in particular the top 10...and yet look at those 1st round picks you've highlighted lol. Also if you evaluate their entire body of work as an NFL GM, Hurney never had anywhere close to as bad of a 4-year stretch as Gettleman's in NY (19-46 overall). I absolutely believe that Gettleman being hampered by our abysmal salary cap and not being able to afford to shop at Tiffany's was a blessing in disguise. It seems like with the Panthers and Giants, the more money and flexibility Gettleman had, the more harm he did to his team. His one big money FA signing for the Panthers? Matt Kalil. But yeah they both sucked, bottom line.

Ironic...Gettleman came here to clean up Hurney's mess, then he goes off to the Giants to create his own mess that their new GM has to come in and clean up. The circle of life. Poor Joe Schoen has his work cut out for him...what a disaster Gettleman was in NY.

I think you need to re-read the OP cause you seem to be wayyyyyy overblowing what he said out of proportion. He said he wouldn't be surprised to see the team use Hubbard at RB with CMC in the slot (an important qualifier that you are overlooking). You somehow took that as him saying Hubbard is a better RB than CMC and that we should bench CMC in favor of Hubbard? He's not even necessarily advocating for that, just saying he wouldn't be surprised. I think he's simply making a case for the package of Hubbard (RB) + Moore/Anderson/CMC (in the slot) being a potentially effective wrinkle to use in place of a package of CMC (RB) + Moore/Anderson/presumably Marshall. I don't think that's a contentious or rose-colored take, assuming he means using that package sparingly and not as our default package in transitioning CMC to full-time slot WR. But @DaveThePanther2008 can correct the record if I'm wrong and clarify if he was saying Hubbard is a better RB than CMC.

Never really been a soccer/futbol fan but I went to my first Charlotte FC game on Saturday and the atmosphere was pretty electric. I am all in on the hype - I just ordered like $250 in apparel lol. I'm still trying to figure out our roster. I don't know these guys nearly well enough to pick them out on the field during the game. But the way you guys are describing Fuchs, he sounds kinda like the Roy Kent of Charlotte FC.

Huh? You’re the one who spoke broadly on our entire season’s passing yardage and attributed that to Sam, and I’m pointing out Sam only started 2/3 of the season and way outperformed our other two starting QBs on passing YPG. So our season’s lackluster passing yardage was dragged down significantly by our other two QBs, mainly Cam. But okay if we exclude Sam’s best FOUR games of the season (lol) then he still had 30 passing YPG more than Cam. So again, your conclusion is correct (Sam sucks) but your premise is pretty silly.

Your conclusion is correct but your premise is terrible. Cam started 5 of those games for us last season and averaged an abysmal 135 YPG passing, compared to Darnold’s 210 YPG in his starts.

Psh who cares about these bum mock drafts.....who does WalterFootball have us taking?!

Teams just did not seem to care about covering this guy lol I've never seen someone that wide open that many times. But dudes like this are exactly why I'm always excited for preseason (at least until I inevitably get bored one half into the first game). Is he likely to blow it up or even make the team? Nah, but there are intriguing traits that you're excited to see potentially translate onto the field.

You sure? In the video in the OP he talks about Corral being Top-10 worthy. And he tweeted after we drafted Corral that he was “Round 1 worthy”. https://twitter.com/CSimmsQB/status/1520239470112808961?s=20&t=LbBMJkeM0zSJ6xyaO9ZJ3Q

Again.....your entire rationale about Brady could be applied towards Sam Darnold. Except not only do you not trip over yourself to rush in and defend Darnold anytime a criticism is levied towards him as you do for Brady, but you actively participate in the trashing of Darnold. Possibly more than anyone else. Are you or are you not deflecting blame from Rhule every single time you trash Darnold? I think Darnold deserves a ton of blame for our offense so don't misconstrue this as me defending Darnold, I'm instead trying to understand your argument. You're saying one thing but your pattern of behavior prove the complete opposite. I'm simply asking you what's the difference between the treatment of Brady vs. the treatment of Darnold...which you conveniently ignored entirely, just to continue to grandstand about how badly Joe Brady is wronged. You didn't mention Darnold once in your entire response to me asking you how you draw a distinction between Darnold/Brady scapegoating. Oh actually I know the difference between the two: the amount of Joe Brady criticism is about 0.000000001% of the amount of Darnold criticism. Seriously, how often is Brady even mentioned on these boards? Once every 2 months? Why overblow this so badly? There....since you're clearly having a tough time answering my question, I went through your own post and switched out "Joe Brady" for "Sam Darnold". Does your post still hold true or not? If so, why do you spend 75% of your posts on here trashing Darnold when he is only a small part of the problem and does not deserve the focus (your words)? If not, can you explain the difference?

I don't follow all of their posts but I can attest to what has been said in this specific thread, and poundaway even explicitly stated that it all falls on Rhule and he has made a lot of mistakes (first post on Page 12). So if that's your go-to example of someone breaking their back to defend Rhule and deflect all blame from him, then that's pretty damn flimsy. So that begs the question: how do you reconcile spending so much time trashing Sam Darnold when you agree that it's analogous to people trashing Joe Brady (neither are/were the main source of this team's problems)? How is one deflecting blame from Rhule but not the other? According to you: -Calling Sam Darnold the worst QB in the NFL and saying he shouldn't be starting and that he's terrible, etc. = OK -Saying Joe Brady was a terrible OC and it was smart to get rid of him = NOT OK, and is simply a tool used to deflect any blame towards Rhule. Help me understand the distinction between the two above. Also whether we can actually get rid of Tepper is irrelevant. Your whole argument has nothing to do with pragmatism - nothing we say in here is going to get rid of Rhule either. Your argument has to do with Huddle posters deflecting blame from the people truly responsible for our mess of a team. Is that or is that not ultimately David Tepper? Or maybe that's not your argument anymore...your argument has already changed several times over the course of this thread that it's hard to keep up. I mean you literally went from "Joe Brady was an impressive OC and led our offense to career numbers in 2020" to "Joe Brady was not a good OC and deserved to be fired"

Lol just stop man...you repeating the same line over and over again isn't gonna make it true. You're 100% arguing in bad faith at this point which is disappointing. Point to a single person/quote of someone breaking their back to shield Tepper/Rhule. Everyone on these boards blames them wholeheartedly for our failures for the last two seasons. You realize that by your own logic...when you trash Sam Darnold, you're deflecting blame from Matt Rhule, right? Or by trashing Matt Rhule, you're deflecting blame from David Tepper? I'm guessing you are unaware of your own flawed contradictions considering you trash Darnold and Rhule just as much as anyone else on these boards. Everything you said about the Brady/Rhule relationship applies to Darnold/Rhule and Rhule/Tepper. Unless your logic is entirely inconsistent, which appears to be the case. So let me slightly reframe what you said in your post above: "When you talk about Matt Rhule...it inevitably leads to Tepper's flaws as an owner. David Tepper hired a HC he shouldn't of (sic)". Therefore please tell us CRA...why are you scapegoating poor Matt Rhule?