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I mean, we added a very good ST coach and secondary coach. But our big 3 trio of HC, OC and DC is still one of the weakest in all the NFL. I wouldn’t call this a great staff. You can call it improved. But just saying something improved doesn’t equate to good.

I think this team could have potential on O. But the coaches seem set on limiting it to date and making it as hard as possible. maybe Rhule shows up in NE and starts repping his starters properly. Or maybe they are working on chemistry in season as a Rhule slowly puts the people in place….when they should of gotten in the work this off-season. I mean we have seen in season how it takes weeks for OL groupings to get chemistry down. C/QB. All that. And the first half of games is where a big chunk of winnable games are.

I mean, NFL history is slam full examples of stubborn people and flat out idiots. Massive egos too where everyone thinks what they do is always right. and the older I get, the more I realize that every single avenue of life contains idiots. The people running your town, school board, state, country, big corporations. You name it and you can find idiots. The good old boys club of coaching is no exception to that rule of thought. We aren’t in Spartanburg. These aren’t rookies. And Rhule still has Sam, Elflein, Jordan, etc competing for starting roles. Whatever you want to call that….it isn’t good. there aren’t a lot of good NFL HCs coaches. It’s not an easy job. And we have seen the college to pro experiment countless times. You can keep claiming Rhule isn’t a problem. I don’t care. Free country. But others think he is and it isn’t an unreasonable take at this stage. So I can think Rhule isn’t a good NFL HC. You can still hold out hope. Neither should be a problem. And if Rhule proves the doubters wrong? That would be fantastic. But my money isn’t on it.

We were 16th in pass play percentage in 2022. 15th in pass play percentage in 2021. Which puts us essentially exactly in the middle of the pack. It’s a passing era but we weren’t pass heavy by league standards

You mean the part where he opened with how the Panthers and himself are viewed as a joke?

I wish I had the energy to find the clip of Rhule explaining how they went about gameplanning each week. But it wasn't like was Joe Brady was just doing whatever he thought was best each week. Rhule explained that X coach would gameplan for what they would do on short yardage, X coach would do the game planning for 3rd and long, X coach would do the planning for redzone, etc. And it was a bunch of positional coaches. And then the O of course was lead by Rhule's handpicked Darnold. But it's not Rhule's fault. The HC overseeing the entire game as it is called out in the ear. Matt Rhule would complain each week like he was trapped in a bunker and would crawl out to see the results that he had nothing to do with.

did you notice in Camp Confidential, Rhule opened up camp talking about how he and the team are looked as clowns. That they might be laughed at or hear that Rhule is this. Then goes on about his argument of how that totally isn't true. I mean, I just thought that was a weird intro lol.

This is how I go about viewing things. I mean, take camp and preseason. Rhule brings in a clear cut improved C and QB. But we aren't even in Wofford anymore and he is still acting like it is a heated contest. You got to Rhule everything up as you go about predicting things on a Matt Rhule lead team. And not only is Matt an in over his head HC but he is now a hot seat version of it. So I think it increases his odds of more poor decision making. I'd like to think he would be improving. But nothing about this camp seems to suggest Matt Rhule can get out of his own way. But I clearly say that as a guy who Rhule 100% lost last season. I still think it is understated how bad last season was. And I do think Rhule has Urban to thank for that. If not for Urban, Rhule gets more attention.

well, if the HC, OC, and OL coach are all together that Sam, Elflien, Jordan all should be competing still for a starting spot this close to the season....I would call that everyone getting on the same wrong page.

Teddy didn't just sit back and let Rhule throw him under the bus. Rhule was publicly critical of Teddy not making a redzone play post game. Teddy pushed back. The beginning of the end. It's not unique to Rhule. All NFL coaches when it gets real bad start firing guys to hopefully buy themselves some time and divert blame.

We had a bad QB, a very weak OL and a rookie RB. No team can actually do what Rhule voiced he wanted to do. When we faced a very bad run defense in Atlanta....it was largely implemented. But a horrible run D provided the only opportunity. Rhule hired a passing OC, had no OL, no RB, and no pass threat at QB.....and was complaining about Joe Brady not running enough. That is fine and dandy but I see that as a Matt Rhule created issue first and foremost. You can't run on teams each week with that cast. Especially when the other teams knows you want to do that and that you are afraid of your bad QB. It's weird have people on focus on it as Brady not doing what Rhule wanted. He didn't have the tools to do it if he wanted to at least attempt to compete most weeks.....and every play went through Rhule's ear. Joe Brady shouldn't of been here. The O problem is still largely a Matt Rhule problem. We weren't pass heavy under Joe Brady. We were pretty balanced in terms of pass/run. Which is about all you can attempt with the horrible folks we had on O last year.

Teddy was showing resistance and pushback in season though too. I mean Rhule realizing he shouldn’t of hired Joe Brady is fine and correct. The timing of the firing wasn’t about us improving…..it was about Rhule throwing someone to the football gods because he was sucking though and under big heat. I’ve never alleged anything sinister in terms of motivation lol. Rhule just isn’t a good coach and is going to look out for Rhule when the seat is hot. Which I think is normal. And he is and has always been in over his head so he navigates messes of his own making.

So you think Ben McAdoo is the one throwing Sam Darnold, Elflein, Jordan, etc out there as co-starters at this point? I mean, whoever you deem is making those decisions. It all comes back to Matt Rhule. There is no sound reason for anyone to be doing some of this. We aren't week 1 at Wofford. It's either a charade gone to far or they are clueless.

yeah, and it would be him doing it in back to back years. Where the biggest cap hit on his roster is a one year wonder reject QB. Moving on from mistakes is good....but at the same time it highlights what a disaster Rhule has done at the same time. and I think a big a part of Rhule moving on from Teddy was Teddy calling out how whack a program Rhule was running. Not so much Rhule easily admits mistakes. Which it doesn't appear is actually the case. See all the bullshit starter competitions this year that have no real logical reason. A coach not wanting to admit he has been wrong might make sense though to explain it. I've already said I think Rhule finds a way to start Sam and then moves on to Baker in season. That remains my guess and I hope it is wrong.

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Sam is also the biggest cap hit on the 2022 roster. That a pretty massive cap hit. It's a weird space for Rhule to be operating. I don't think Rhule moving on from Sam is the absolute certainty that people think. and that's coming off last year where Teddy was the largest cap hit on that 2021 roster. I mean, I think moving on from Sam is the right call. Better to make a horrible move, admit it and move on. That often isn't seen a great deal in coaching. Because while moving on from mistakes is correct it also highlights pretty massive mistakes you are making.

Sam throws a TD preseason game 1. Rhule holds out all starters this week vs the Patriots Rhule then makes a decision. It's not hard to think Rhule simply argues that Baker wasn't significantly better than Sam enough to unseat him in his position and that Sam will start the season. Argues that Sam has to perform well enough to keep the job though. I still think Rhule is going to implement some weird desperate hot seat coach logic. He can suck w/ Sam and then move to Baker. Fans will be excited Rhule finally makes the right call. He can't suck w/ Baker and go to Sam. Fans ain't having that.

Yeah, that was discussed when we drafted Corral. Rhule has to win this season. If he doesn’t he mostly likely is done. There is little reason for him to care about developing a 3rd round rookie. No rookie wanted to land here. If Corral were to play this season, what it probably means Rhule was fired.

Urban, Lou Holtz, and Rhule (to date) rank ahead of Saban IMO.

Need both? It’s called a backup QB. They get backup QB reps and are called the backup. They come in if the starter is hurt. Rhule’s backup has always been ready to go. In fact, he has never lost a game when he went to his actual backup QB for whatever that is worth. If it’s the end of the competition then Baker would be deemed the starter. Would command the role. Rhule hasn’t done that. He would get starter reps. Get to work on developing better chemistry with his center for example. Didn’t we see a botched exchange Bakers one drive? Are Elflien, Jordan and BC the starters? They got the nod.

Rhule a year ago Matt Rhule looks at Slater. That’s a guard right there. We need a LT. Matt Rhule looks BC. Look at those tiny TRex arms. That ain’t no T. Draft Icky Well, I’m not sure we can start him over our LT BC lol. Matt Rhule should have nothing to do with a QB, OL or frankly anything on the offensive side of the ball.

Yeah, because he is 7-0. We count all professional football.

That’s college talk. If you have 2 starting QBs then you got none. Baker has missed 3 NFL games in 4 years because of injury. And his injury was to his non throwing shoulder. Part of the reason we played 3 starters last year is Tepper had to bring in Cam to stop the booing that was going on in BOA at the midseason mark. PJ didn’t get hurt. He was available to do the job Rhule had him rostered to do.

Probably not him alone but yeah. Last 2 in Rhule and Ubran have been really bad. think we see more Mike McDaniel types when teams want to be different