kungfoodude

The overwhelming bulk of the remaining unvaccinated people have zero interest in being vaccinated nor care about the risks. There is a point where you can only protect people from themselves but so much. If you really want to stop that, you would not allow unvaccinated people into NFL stadiums under any conditions. The practicality of that in the US is muddy, at best. We also generally accept that the vaccinated have far lower rates of hospitalization and death, even if they can still get sick and potentially spread the virus. I don't want to make this false equivalency, but we do accept this kind of risk of spreading sickness with the flu every season. At the end of the day, the money is gonna win out and it has.

I can't say for sure Rhule will be better. I have been a Panthers fan long enough that I am more inclined to wait and see(especially when we are talking about a guy with one season of NFL HC experience to date). Saleh is a safer bet just simply because college head coaches don't usually get as many second chances in the NFL as coordinators turned failed head coaches. Rightly or wrongly, that is just how it has generally been. If you wanted to make the best bet possible, you'd bet on both of them to be failed NFL head coaches. It is the most common result, by a wide, wide margin.

I think that basically boils down to college vs. NFL. The track record of college head coaches to NFL head coaches is generally very poor. The obvious counter is that the road is littered with brilliant NFL coordinators that didn't make good NFL head coaches. Quite a few of those guys get multiple shots at it, however. Not as many college head coaches get second NFL chances of they flame out the first time.

I don't think so. The amount of teams that have said no, including us, is pretty indicative that something is up. He must be washed up pretty badly.

I don't know. I am pretty confused by what we are generally doing after our cuts. I feel like LB and OL are obvious needs. I just don't necessarily know if the coaching staff sees those as needs.

It just depends on the career arc. Both coach for historically dysfunctional organizations. It probably will depend in their second, third, fourth, etc stops. I think Saleh is definitely set up for more success with 15 years of NFL coaching in his background. I think Rhule has higher potential but it's also possible he may not reach it until his second or third NFL gig. Saleh also has a track record of success as a coordinator in the league, so he is likely to continue to be employed in the NFL even if he gets fired as head coach. Rhule is sort of a jack of all trades, master of none as a coach in his career. He is probably more likely to jump back to college if he gets fired from Carolina.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32121794/jacksonville-jaguars-urban-meyer-says-vaccination-status-factor-roster-cuts

It sucks but we have seen that you can basically keep trying guys out over the course of the season until you get it right. Might cost you some W's. In Detroit case, I don't think that is as big of a deterrent.

I really don't know. Some of the cuts we made were a little head scratching. Seems like when we think the staff/FO is gonna zig they zag. Don't really even mean that so much as shade as I don't think we really have enough info on what their master plan or tendencies are yet. It's sometimes hard to predict what their priorities are.

Bingo. Highly likelihood that this was why Cam was cut, IMO.

I bet I know why.....

How do we still have two long snappers?

The Huddle wouldn't be the same if people were reasonable.

I think that this Sean Gilbert trade is gonna make our DL unstoppable.

Agreed. He leaned game manager but he was a very effective NFL player. Now, admittedly, I think a bunch of that credit probably lies with Andy Reid but Smith played his part. I would definitely take "prime" Alex Smith over Sam Darnold, lower ceiling or not. And for the people complaining about Smith not being a true franchise QB, okay, fine. But pair that with the success he had in those five years and now we are a serious NFL team to contend with.

Not until contract 2 is inked.

If he was able to have the success(team winning wise) that Smith was in KC, abso-fuging-lutely. We have never even had back to back winning seasons. That would be the most successful period in franchise history and would be a big step forward in establishing us as a contending team. We can always go get another guy when the opportunity presents itself(like Mahomes) but that would be a massive step.

Well I have to drive 12 hours today, so my being up early is intentional.

In that case, PJ and Will were forged at room temp.

Yeah, he looked okay but it was still preseason. If he performs like that against the Jets, it will be a sign that we might have something.

There were 17 reps in a clean pocket in that game???

Erving, Elflein and Daley all have pretty extensive injury histories, as well. I think we will see a lot of shuffling.