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Skip Bayless on The Golden Calf of Bristol, Baker, and the Cowboys. Will always be over the top trolling.

Players no doubt have a lot to do w/ how coaches are viewed. Largely QB. It is the great eraser or exposer of what coaches are and aren't. No position matters more to the career of coaches. then comes the Sam Darnold move. If Matt Rhule and his staff had thicker skin and accepted that they were flawed (as an all college staff would be)....and just kept Teddy for the 2 years they originally planned to and had then made moves to bring in long term options behind him to take over....I think Matt Rhule's job security would be much different today. And he wouldn't be viewed as such a doofus either. Sam Darnold was just a nightmare move. Because he is so bad it was going to be 100% on the coaches to try to turn chicken poo into chicken salad. And not even a good staff could make it work w/ Sam. And they immediately got off a sensible rebuild with the move.

maybe the billionaire should of taken your advice when he was head coach searching. But instead it was just him Marty Hurney rushing and then doing a complete brain dead contract on top of that lol. Then let him bring in an all college staff lol. I mean, Tepper could of used google and done a better job when it came to that hire and all that went into it.

I do think he has changed his mind on investing in the communities significantly until he gets his stadium addressed with Charlotte. That’s his leverage play. He can move it all.

like maybe the giant clusterfug in RH that this dude was the point man on?

Carl!

It would probably be really popular on wallstreetbets on Reddit.

So Tepper Sports loses its CEO and COO in a span of about 3 months. I mean, any one thing on its own isn’t really that noteworthy…..but RH shitshow followed by all this turnover at the very top doesn’t scream well run organization.

Maybe the black helmets will fix the jinx we have in the all black uniforms. We have a horrible record in the all black. 3-11, I think.

have faith. The helmets are only going to be worn once. Plenty of thread making potential still will exist. About how they need to bring them back.

2020ish would be a better team. We were in every game that season except to the Super Bowl champs. I acknowledge we got better on O vs 2021. But we don’t have he coaching or QB IMO to get us from competitive to a winning season. I don’t think the D is improved. We lost our best pass rusher. We also lost our best corner. Gilmore might not of played every snap but locked it down when he did and plus he brought a poo ton with him to help not just players but coaches too. Those are 2 big dings to the pass defense. And the pass defense is what the D was last year.

I expect a very 2020ish Carolina team this year. Defense worse than last year. O better than last year. Probably can hang in a lot of games. We still have a weak coaching staff by league standards paired with average QB play. So I don’t see how we get over the hump.

I’m simply saying OC doesn’t matter much if you can’t field a certain level of talent at key positions. Not in terms of winning. Just take a an exaggerated example. Andy Reid is forced to play me for 16 games and there is a madden cheat code that I stay healthy. It doesn’t matter Andy Reid is a great offensive coach. He has a fan at QB. He would have his hands tied and all his great plays would be irrelevant. NFL teams can simply play all the wildcat, direct snap and power run stuff he would attempt. He would have the worst offense in NFL history most likely. a good OC isn’t winning with Sam Darnold, behind a bad OL, and a rookie RB that can’t catch. Only so much you can scheme up. Because you will face good coaches….who don’t have talent issues handicapping the play calls. They are largely going to beat the team that can’t field a starting caliber lineup.

Only enjoyable thing about hiring Payton would be listening to 89 talk about it

That sounds like 2020

Matt Rhule’s plan is coming together. also, Rhule clearly a secret Jerry Richardson plant to destroy what he was forced to sell.

equate it to having a punchers chance. Again, given the best player on the field by a wide margin was DJ Moore. there is some weird narrative I don't buy that you could of schemed more success out of last years horrific talent on O. We had the worst QB in the NFL. One of the worst OLs. Large had a rookie RB that couldn't catch. Joe Brady sucked. But a good OC would have sucked with that talent. It's why Josh McDaniel had a worse O than Joe Brady in 2020. You can't magically scheme solutions for horrible talent. Too many opponents have the coaching and talent lined up against you.

Again, we were middle of the pack in terms of run/pass ratio. You seemed to be suggesting we should of been top 10 when we simply didn't have the talent to commit to such. I mean, it just turns into punting every down and accepting defeat at a certain point. Attempting to be balanced is the best you can do when both are weak. And the best player on the field also is DJ Moore. maybe with an improved OL and CMC back we can run more. I'm not arguing against running more. But over committing to the run last year wasn't going to win games either or make us look better. It would just be pathetic offense.

I didn’t ignore the elephant in the room. I said that giant elephant made it even easier to focus on shutting down a weak run game. Especially if you weren’t one of the worst run Ds in the NFL.

the GM literally said yesterday that Tepper would be involved in who they actually decide to start at QB.

If I had to tier/rank the QBs in terms of best option come week 1. Contra Cheat God Mode QB: PJ Walker. You can't die. You can't lose. Average/Competent NFL QB: Baker Rookie/Developmental QB: Corral Drunk Jimmy Clausen on Steriods: Sam Darnold

I mean, the games themselves in large part haven't really allowed it though. I mean, you can want to run....but if you got a weak OL and rookie RB running behind it (and a D not respecting the QB play)? Well the good defenses can simply force you out of it. I think that happened a lot. We played 4 teams that were in the bottom 10 in run defense and we beat 3 of those 4 teams. Problem was our run talent wasn't good enough for the be the gameplan that actually unfolded vs good defenses. They could focus on stopping the run. And had little to fear if they wanted to be aggressive in doing it. You can't exactly impose your will on others when your run game is weak playing against good defenses. It's a talent issue prohibiting it. Compared to other NFL teams, Carolina has been one of the more balanced teams in terms of run vs pass under Rhule. If you look at the teams w/ the heaviest run percentage they had legit run game talent. I mean, sticking to the run when you are forced out of it is just conceding defeat when it is a talent issue primarily.

5-7 wins