SmokinwithWilly

He let a bullshit artist hire a bullshit artist and we the fans are left with

Ok. So Hurney left 2 turds...

I think I've just about reached acceptance and am ready to see how big he can wreck the train.

Unless we work some serious cap magic, CMC is here. That contract is the turd Hurney left in the punch bowl on his way out.

Out of market and have a 6am tee time so it should just be starting as I finish 16.

David Newton proving he belongs with Rhule.

So this is the Rockstar offense that saved Matt Rhules job...

Defense wins championships. Offense gets you there.

That's his gonna ask for alimony face.

I'll act just like Robbie and drop it.

Make it my personal mission to bring back jeans Friday. Jorts are coming back!

I'd say BC to LT and Icky to RT. Bc looked good there at the end of last year and he would take on the better of the 2 edge guys most likely.

It's like they're allergic to watching film before they trade for these guys. Ironically, the best qb play we've had has been from T2G playing his short, checkdown passing offense which is what we all knew he was.

What JStew said on the podcast is correct. This team has no identity. With Rivera and Fox, it was smash mouth run game, pass to support and hard hit defense. Like it or not, we knew what to expect every week. Dan Campbell in Detroit in his opening interview said they were going to be an in your face, aggressive team. Day 1, he set his identity as the leader of the team. Year 3. What do we have? The Brand. Yeah. Everyone knows whatever the hell that is supposed to be. We're run one week, pass the next. 5 QBs in 35 games. 3rd OC. Guys out of position. Players have to execute, but they need confidence knowing what exactly they are trying to do. This team looks lost and that sits squarely on the shoulders of Rhule.

The one he did on BLeav was really good too.

I know I am at my lowest point right now. Even in the 1-15 years I had faith in JR. I have none in Tepper.

Thus is why I can't judge all pur picks yet. I have no idea if they are actually bad or if they are being put routinely in bad positions. What I can say for certain is it generally takes Rhule about 4x longer to see player strength and weaknesses than it should, sometimes longer, sometimes not at all. Perfect example is Chinn. Why the hell he is playing as a safety when his abilities were on display in full close to the ball is beyond me. Chinn looks like JAG but we all have seen he is much more than that.

There's too many to list but I'm one of em.

So after firing Fitts after 1 year, which GM are you bringing in? What GM is coming here knowing that have realistically no chance to do their job before they're fired? We might as well be offering a job as HC of the Browns.

What more could/should he Have done in 1 year? Give the man a chance to swim without the Rhule anchor around his neck.

You can't replace everyone every year. Who's offensive scheme was he supposed to get pieces for? Brady's? McAdoo? McAdoo was always a bad choice of OC for a guy like CMC. His offense is rudimentary and doesn’t begin to use the skills of 2 powerhouse pieces in DJ and CMC. Tepper said get an offense rockstar and we got a Whitesnake cover band. Rhule said he wanted to run a power run game. So we got Ickey, Bozeman, Corbitt, all guys who are run oriented linemen. Now Rhule wants to go pass heavy. How is that Fitts fault? Rhule changed his philosophy 2 weeks ago. Snows defense is college level. Horn is essentially a rookie, and CJ is in his first full year on a new team. Slater should have been the pick, but Rhule graded him as a guard instead of the all pro tackle he is. Chinn has been playing out of position making him JAG. A good coach plans his schemes around the players he has. He uses their strengths and minimizes their weaknesses. Rhule does the exact opposite. I'm not saying Scott is or isn't a brilliant GM. I'm just saying we have too little information to make that decision with any degree of certainty. 1 year really isn't enough time to gain that. He's been part of assembling a team with 2 SB appearances and 1 victory. Matt Rhule has not done a fuging thing in 3 years to prove he should be anything more than a mid level college coach. Yet you're willing to fire Fitts because he hasn't shown he's a top level GM in 1. If you fire Rhule and don't like who he's bring in as candidates for HC or what his team building philosophy is, then fire him too. Just don't declare him a bust yet because Matt Rhule pulled off the biggest scam paydays in the NFL.

I'm not saying Matt Rhule is the entire problem. I'm saying Matt Rhule is a HUGE problem and judging Fitts competence as a GM based on a guy he had no input in choosing and has no choice in firing is not a fair assessment of his abilities. He could be the next Brandon Beane but you wouldn't know because you're focused on blaming him for the incompetence of Tepper and Rhule. He's done his job as GM for Matt Rhule. He's gotten the pieces that fit the head coach's coaching philosophy. Now whether or not Rhule can actually use those pieces correctly is not up to him. You keep saying he's been bad. What has he done, that was solely his choice, that was bad that was worthy of him being fired after 1 season?

He was always a project QB. Thats what 3rd round QBs are. He should have been given some time to develop properly but instead he was 4th on the depth chart during a bullshit QB competition when it always should have been Baker 1, Sam 2, MC 3 and Walker hitting the pavement. But again, you're blaming Fitts for Rhule's incompetence. You don't draft a QB in the 3rd round to stick him behind a CFL qb. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows this except for... you know who.

You're going to judge a guy as success or failure because he gets 3 snaps in practice while a guy who never legitimately had a chance to make any team baring injuries got 50% in preseason. He never stood a chance against Rhule's pet project.

No. I'm saying this team might not suck if it weren't for Rhule. As GM, he's done his job bringing in pieces that fit Matt Rhule's philosophy. It's not his fault Rhules philosophy is poo.