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playing our starters for over a quarter vs backups in preseason game 1 doesn't seem like the greatest idea. I have no issue w/ Rhule playing Sam and Baker w/ our 2s. But I don't think that is his play when he does play those 2. is there a coach in the NFL that played their staters for the quarter last season in preseason game 1. Rhule's QB competition is bogus to begin with. In no way do I want to see our starters out there taking part in some fake competition all preseason.

Because you don't want to play your starters in a lot of preseason ball. Preseason is largely about sorting out the bottom of the roster anyway. The loss of a game hurts that. I didn't think 30% of the snaps was chump change in game 1. Bump it to 40%. But I don't want Matt Corral dominating the snaps yet. I want to develop him. He isn't getting much work in camp, throw him out there for 3 NFL quarters with limited gameplanning and it could go south quick.

it's preseason game 1. I mean, if you gave Sam and Baker 2 series a piece that would mean starters playing into the 2nd quarter?! In preseason game 1. Did a single team play their starters for a complete quarter last preseason in the first game? How many played their starting O at all?

I think PJ and Matt get all the snaps. 70-30 split in PJ's favor. Which isn't bad. You don't want to drown Corral with too much especially since he hasn't gotten a ton of work in camp. I still think Rhule looks out for PJ. He is going to get cut. Give him preseason game 1 to try to get picked up as depth elsewhere.

they got a preseason game this weekend. Camp is going on. Wonder if Sam Mills Jr was missing time for the HOF stuff. I mean, right or wrong, Ron seems like a show up guy given how he went about his battle with cancer. Just speculating. Wonder what the difference in opinion was on. Doesn't have to be coaching style.

best content has never come from the Panthers org IMO. It's been from local media. Which has fallen off a cliff. Local media is dying in general. We use to have heavy Charlotte Observer and the Herald coverage back in the day. That's all been shrunk down and is going away. now we just got jazzed up Panther PR.

I think how bad PJ Walker is, is overstated around here. He isn’t a NFL backup. That’s just Rhule being Rhule. Let’s establish that. But he is still better than a lot of QBs we actually drafted. He can’t avoid the dumb play….but a lot of guys we drafted couldn’t do what PJ has done on a NFL field (like the AZ game). He has some level of sporadic ability. So he isn’t the worst we have put on the roster in reality. Pike, LeFors, Touchdown Jesus. Hell, PJ probably is better than Clausen.

The loss of a preseason game doesn’t impact the top of the roster. They weren’t playing anyway. You largely only saw them twice in the preseason with 4 games. And that was a team being more on the risky side. Why play starters in 3 now. only exception I have is for rookies or bad players. I think you could throw Icky out there to get some work. Thought Darnold should of been out there all last preseason. I don’t want vets that can actually play being thrown out there for 3 preseason games. 1 is good enough for them. DJ Moore doesn’t need to be out there for 3 games. Same for Moton and everyone else that is legit.

When there were 4 preseason games….how many did you actually see the starters get any real work? Wasn’t largely a half in game 3 and maybe a series in game 2? I’m not looking for more than that. already know Baker is better. I don’t want to see our starters playing multiple series in preseason game 1. I think Rhule let’s it be the PJ show personally. Does him a solid and let’s him audition to get picked up elsewhere in game 1. I didn’t take his answer after actually watching him say it that he was really looking to play Sam/Baker. Seemed like textbook Rhule of just trying to avoid giving the media the actual answer early in the week. Which was basically his thing last camp. He gets all weird when he tries to play that game. think Rhule is planning on the Patriots game to be the game he plays/auditions the QBs. He trots them out for one game. Which is all he did last year with his starters.

that’s means you have to play the starters the entire time Sam and Baker would be competing? Who wants that? It would double up the time you play our starters in a meaningless preseason game 1. It’s not a comp if one is with the 1s and one is with the 2s the next series.

I bet they hardly play if at all this weekend. he will probably say he didn’t want to put them out there with all second string. Because who wants the actual starting lineup playing through a fake competition for 2 different QBs in the first preseason game.

The literal point of these shows is to argue different positions. Whether they always believe them or not. and yeah, it basically is Simms acknowledging what everyone else knows. Baker is better and should start. Forced to argue the counter point of why he doesn’t have the job right now. Baker not being elite is also irrelevant. He should be given the job because he is clearly better. A high end backup is better than Sam. An average starter is a no brainer over Sam.

I think PJ will log the most snaps in preseason.

No one is going to take on Sam Darnold via trade. We would have to cut him.

I’d rather see less Chubb. I hope Hunt plays.

Enjoying your coverage and I enjoyed this Foster/Rhule mashup you tweeted too lol

The GM shouldn’t be trading draft picks for a Matt Rhule 2022 season.

Matt Rhule shouldn’t be allowed to trade draft picks. when cuts happen some old vet will get cut for young blood. That should be all he can work with

Vegas also has Rhule as the most likely to get fired. I’ll go with Vegas over some unnamed PFF source. Plenty of scouts and and other unnamed NFL sources also call us a clusterfug, a college clownshow, etc too

Again, I’m talking about how he always mismanages it….every year. It’s a running theme. How he goes about that has varied every year. But the fact he has made a mess of it is the constant. Pick a year where he didn’t. It seems you are suggesting he hasn’t made a mess of it every year. Again, I’m just betting it continues. It’s his calling card. And it always varies how he goes about the mess.

I don’t know the history of it. They could be serious. Players do have family and friends that take to the internet

Rhule has consistently mismanaged the QB spot horrifically since the day he was hired. I merely am a suggesting he continues doing what he does. I mean pick year. Any year would sound crazy if called in advance. That’s just Matt Rhule effect.

Sam didn't have trash around him at USC and he couldn't stop the turning the ball over then either. He came into the league being a turnover guy. The NFL didn't make him that.

I'd probably go Waddle like above. Hill is going to create opportunity for others. He demands too much coverage. Waddle is the benefactor and cheap Pitts seems too risky in that offense this year given the cost.

No way in hell Sam Darnold was suppose to come back and unseat Cam Newton just because Cam had 2 weak/bad games. Rhule is likely going to mismanage the OL to start the season too. That's kind of Rhule's thing. Specifically the QB mismanagement. I'll keep betting on Rhule being Rhule until he proves he shouldn't be viewed that way.