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Eli would never see a NFL field again. Perryman a Pro Bowler. BC on the bench. All in on Sam. The Rhule thumbprint

Howell got him some new nikes for senior bowl

end of the day, Pickett and his agent are drawing more attention to it. Joe Burrow has small hands if going by the word of the old football gods.

pics of practice don't have the white on them and have the NFL logo

what if I told you he has a tiny head too?

or Clausen

I think Matt Rhule will draft a QB because it is his best shot to angle to get even more time and not be fired. Rhule essentially will attempt to make year 3 his year 1.

bengals clearly don’t understand the Jay Z way

I’m not calling him a criminal. But all the “worries” about him didn’t take place when he was kid and 30 years ago. so if you hire him, the present day media likely could revisit all the incidents as an adult and in doing so you run the risk of new info and people coming forward. So if you hire him, you take that risk. Which is one.

well he was a NFL player with the incident with the woman took place and he was a coach at Colorado whose job came to an end when the sexual assault stuff was being investigated. Which is another red flag. Hire him and you are taking the risk any and all of that comes back given he get that caliber of job. And today’s landscape and media is different.

I think it is safe bet teams are worried if they hire him his Colorado days are going to be revisited by the present day media. and I would assume there is a risk of the higher profile job people get, the more often you see people from the past coming forward.

I still find it interesting that they only Tabor's contract details have been released and not McAdoo. Tabor being a legit ST coach that orgs/coaches have opted to keep through HC changes.

some guys just interview for the experience of interviewing too

and it’s not that he is incompetent. It’s he is a hands on and one wants to control everything incompetent type. So it doesn’t appear to be in his coaching DNA not to be able to not put his thumbprint on everything. he probably could work if he was just an actual figurehead that hired good people and just let them do their thing.

True. But it’s also a true an incompetent person can have good people around him. And the fact an incompetent man leads the group defines what ultimately happens in the end. I still think Rhule is the problem. And I have been hard on Fox and Ron at times. Didn’t think they were great coaches. Incompetent was never a place I went with them. Even in the dark times they had. and maybe Rhule will turn into something one day. It’s clear he has a long way to go and so don’t expect there to be enough years for him to learn on the job in NFL HC attempt #1.

Maybe the reporting of him staying hinging on a rockstar hire was distorted truth maybe Tepper said if you want to stay then find and hire a NFL staff or something. I doubt Glazier was 100% wrong on him being told something about hires

It’s almost like a clear cut change has been made. Whether that is Rhule or an owner demand….Carolina looks to be going from college guys to a pro guys. I’d like to see some more shakeup too. Given how Matt Rhule has explained how they do things….I’d still like some of these guys under the coordinators gone. For example, the OC doesn’t work up the full game plan. The staff under him, Rhule’s buddies are tasked with different eras to gameplan each week. Think some of that needs to shake up too.

Dude survived 4 different HC changes in Cleveland lol. That is something. I will say this. He has had some great return men under his watch. Think he had a Pro Bowl returner every year in Chicago and then there was the whole Cribbs era in Clev. Now maybe some of that is just lucking into talent. But he defiantly knows what a return guy should do.

It’s a decent hire. Better than McAdoo. if Rhule gets fired in season….we have options. Fields and the Bears looked pretty dang good vs SF in the game he was the acting HC lol

There is nothing to tear down. We are one of the youngest teams in the NFL. Rhule just immediately turned the car off road and has us stuck in the mud. A new coach simply puts the car back on the journey Matt Rhule was supposed to lead. you are projecting arguments I am not making. I’m saying hot seat HCs and lame duck HCs don’t get the same freedoms and ability as coaches who are where Matt Rhule once was. At least in well run franchises. And we are now entering that window with Rhule. so Rhule in theory this year should have his hands tied and restricted from bigger impacting plays that have high odds of impacting the next HC and putting him in a hole. None of that is a new concept or some weird made up scenario for Rhule. Doesn’t mean we won’t add players. Sign guys and do some extensions. It all has to be under the mindset Rhule could easily be unemployed in season next year though. No one is saying Rhule will be sabatoged. Or the team is being tanked. But Matt Rhule won’t have the same luxuries and freedoms he had early. Lame duck and hot seat coaches don’t get to do whatever they want (in well run franchises). Matt Rhule is in fact a hot seat HC. Even the Panther employed writers acknowledge that. The fact we only can land a bum OC the league cast off to a nothing jobs confirms where Rhule is at in the eyes of everyone. As does guys turning down interviews for a “promotion” here. Well run orgs simply start putting constraints on coaches like Rhule now finds himself being.

I mean if you wanted to craft a worse case huddle nightmare scenario…. Imagine if they did hire Joe Brady. And he Fields worked out great. Then the Bears meet the Bills in the Super Bowl. meanwhile in Carolina. Matt Rhule is finishing packing his 4th consecutive 5 win season in Carolina

You want me name all the head coaches in NFL history who have been on the hotseat or were entering lame duck seasons? Who then had their hands tied in terms their ability to make hires? Sign players? Draft guys? no thanks. We can go Carolina centric. We can talk about the last time it happened here. The year was 2010. The coach was John Fox.

yeah, it’s pending you actually have a good front office. Our own is David Tepper. And as today, you can’t call him a good owner. so it is worrisome how Tepper will allow Rhule to operate while on a hot seat.