Mr. Scot

No, they didn't. They told Erving they want him to compete for the left tackle job. They did not tell him that he's the starter.

That's your opinion. The team sees him as a starter and has repeatedly said so.

I can't get behind the idea of a quarterback competition on a team that still has a lot of needs. (and no, quarterback isn't one of them)

Last minute news that the Panthers will be represented at Fields pro day, specifically by Joe Brady and Sean Ryan. The Falcons are sending their quarterback coach as well. The Patriots are sending Josh McDaniels and personnel exec Dave Ziegler. As far as I know, the 49ers are still the only team sending a GM/head coach combo A few other teams also decided to attend at the last minute. I think the Broncos were one of them.

The guy who helped Josh Allen turn into what he is now is Ken Dorsey, Newton's former quarterback coach. While he was here, Rivera had Dorsey be less of a coach and more of a friend because he was too scared Cam might not respond well to anything negative. So in truth, Ron actually did bring in a "real quarterback coach". He just didn't let him do his job.

Watch them trade a huge haul to Atlanta.

Updated info on Fields' second pro day tomorrow... Previously only two teams, the 49ers and the Patriots, were confirmed to be attending. There's now word that a third team will be joining them. The Falcons.

Word that our old buddy Ross Cockrell is re-signing with Tampa.

They owe us for Gilbert.

Rhule. Tepper wanted a non-traditional, analytics type GM. Rhule wanted a guy with a solid background as a talent evaluator.

Valid point.

Oh, I get it. And I also know the same people who say "if we just win one, I'll be happy forever" will be the same ones just a few years later loudly complaining about how the team sucks.

There's been many hints that the Panthers don't necessarily think all of the top five are capable of being "THE QB". If you don't believe that, then you take the best non-QB available.

Agreed. Keep your cards hidden.

Can't go along with that at all. I want this team to be perennial contenders.

How Matt Rhule sees it... Basically, they see him like a rookie.

I honestly wouldn't take it to mean much.

Here's Florio's summary of the full article... The Eagles reportedly treated former coach Doug Pederson like “a baby,” according to unnamed sources who claim that Pederson was beaten down by relentless second guessing. In 2019, for example, after a Thursday night win at Green Bay, Pederson was grilled by owner Jeffrey Lurie (an analytics aficionado) over the fact that Pederson hadn’t called more passes. “[Pederson] was ridiculed and criticized for every decision,” an unnamed source told TheAthletic.com. “If you won by three, it wasn’t enough. If you lost on a last-second field goal, you’re the worst coach in history.” Said another unnamed source, “The fact that Doug had the success he did with all the poo going on in the building, sometimes I look at our Super Bowl rings, and I’m like, ‘Holy cow, I don’t know how we did it.'” Per the report, the undermining of Pederson began in only his second season, which ended with a Super Bowl victory. Prior to the start of the 2017 campaign, word spread through the organization of a three-hour meeting between Lurie and defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz. Multiple unnamed sources told TheAthletic.com that “there was a feeling around the team that Lurie was vetting an in-house replacement for Pederson in the event the Eagles got off to a slow start.” The article points to tensions between football and analytics, a dynamic hardly unique to the Eagles. One unnamed source described the team’s analytics department to TheAthletic.com as a “clandestine, Black Ops department that doesn’t answer to anybody except the owner.” That’s how it currently works in plenty of NFL front offices. And it’s why so many coaches have embraced analytics. If they don’t, the analytics employees tell ownership that, if the coach had done what the analytics called for, the team would have won. Complicating matters in Philly is that owner Jeffrey Lurie is very involved in the draft preparations, and he always has been. But that’s his right, as the owner of the team, to be as involved or uninvolved as he wants. With most if not all owners finding a way to state preferences when it comes to huge decisions, it’s better if those owners actually have put in the work. In Philadephia, enough work was put in to win a Super Bowl. That’s the good news. The bad news is that things have collapsed quickly. Chances are that the failures in Philadelphia bear plenty of fingerprints.

According to Florio, the part about tension between football people and analytics people is a common thing (link) The article points to tensions between football and analytics, a dynamic hardly unique to the Eagles. One unnamed source described the team’s analytics department to TheAthletic.com as a “clandestine, Black Ops department that doesn’t answer to anybody except the owner.” That’s how it currently works in plenty of NFL front offices. And it’s why so many coaches have embraced analytics. If they don’t, the analytics employees tell ownership that, if the coach had done what the analytics called for, the team would have won.

I get that. I'd just like more validation.

Lot of people actually gave him credit for not taking the bait on some of the questions he was asked. He was given plenty of opportunities to talk sh-t about the Jets, but declined them all.

It's possible, but I'm gonna need a better source.

That'd be the last question he'd ask on that job.