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Well they are doing kickoff drills and lighting players up. So the coaches are allowing the tone to be for people to get rocked. Hard to set up a practice with all that nonsense and then think people will pull out the kids gloves on a RB after all that IMO. don’t really like the way the reporting has sounded on of these joint practices. I’d rather they just do the preseason game and thump in an officiated setting where there is no confusion on how hard to play personally.

I only care about salary cap. That’s what impacts a team. That’s why I was using cap numbers. And Robbie ranks really high there.

Hit didn’t look out of bounds

Joint practice with the Pats seems like more a poo show than some great and ideal scenario.

Probably his paycheck Top 15 cap hit in the 21 and 22 seasons amongst WRs.

Defending Rhule with a quote by a bullshitting conman? Dang. Why you beating me to the punch on the good stuff. I’ll call it a night on that one.

How dare these guys question Rhule’s BS football competition. Matt Rhule is a professional.

Context is Matt Rhule said reps do matter. People obviously get better with them. He made that clear. Please don’t second guess Matt Rhule on that fact. He is a professional.

The great Matt Rhule said this weeks reps do matter. He said, obviously, the more reps you get the better you play. But I guess you know more than the professionals. everything and anything has always been a big deal here. It’s revisionist history IMO to act like this is something new. And Rhule frankly has gotten it light….given this is the worst window in our existence compared to the bitching we did about a Fox or a Ron during different windows. Nothing rational IMO about the Rhule diehards here at this stage. It’s just the opposite end of the spectrum of what you bitch about. Rational falls inbetween and doesn’t huddle lol. IMO.

Do you even huddle bro? you name it, it has been bitched about on here. and yes, people bitched about Clausen “starting” over Cam in the preseason. Because they watched the 2010 season. and they 100% bitched about Ron waiting so late to actually name Cam as the starting QB for the season. this Matt Rhule is being treated uniquely unfair is fan fiction. We have always been crazy here about the Panthers.

yeah, people never bitched about Marty or Ron or Fox or Shula or Davidson or anyone else. Never blasted their roster management, game day handling, tendencies, drafting, free agency, manner on the sidelines, etc. It’s just all unique Matt Rhule treatment that has never been seen before.

Well 2 things… 1. This is a sports message board on the internet. This is simply what has always happened and always will. 2. People question Rhule. And rightfully so. Because no one thinks the micromanaging hot seat coach is going to defer everything to people he doesn’t know well with his job and reputation on the line. Campen seems like a solid young coach. He also hasn’t held down a job anywhere for more than a year. I doubt Rhule is like, whatever you think is best, I’ll be over here.

I remain oddly excited about ST. I really like Tabor. Also Hekker has the 2nd best QB rating on the team for a reason lol. If we don’t see some fun on special teams this year that will be a travesty

Breaking news. Team with no LT finally announces the #6 overall pick and first lineman drafted is the LT.

Campen was a fine add. I still largely look at the top of the food chain if I were to rank the 32 NFL staffs. I at least think I give Snow decent credit. I don’t go around trashing him. And I’m not shy about doing those things, I’ve always said he has been the key to Rhule’s success. Which he clearly had in college. But I wouldn’t call him a great NFL DC. I think the staff is improved. But I consider it bottom 3rd of the league. So I wouldn’t call it great.

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.