mav1234

Honestly outside the Cardinals game, the offense looks overall similar the last few weeks as the preceding few. Brady wasn't good but he was far from our only problem.

Christensen, who Matt Rhule sees as a guard because of his arm length, is promising. Better coaching and interior line play, and who knows. At a minimum he appears servicable. I'm curious how his run blocking grades were.

The offense is a problem top to bottom, but let's start at the top: the coaches. They're the reason for this shitshow. Let's take WRs... DJ is a good example of regressing promising young players, and taken in aggregate it's clearly a coaching problem, not a player issue... The last two years DJs catch % has declined by 10% to ~56%, while he has dropped 15 passes the last 2 seasons vs 7 total his first two years. Yea QB play has been bad these last couple years but when it's every receiver dropping balls at every down and distance we have to stop looking at what player is to blame imo.

I actually think we got some very good players the last couple years in the draft... And like you, I am really worried they're going to be ruined by this piss poor coaching. You can see the regression in many of our 2nd year / younger players, and the rookies are largely failing to develop as you'd expect... Its the total lack of development that has me done with Rhule. I actually didn't expect us to win much this year anyway but seeing critical players seeming to play worse and be out of position more the longer they have with these coaches??? Bad sign.

I don't get why posters are getting angry at Darnold. I mean... He isn't good but the coaches are the idiots putting him out there. He isn't the reason Cam was benched... I kinda doubt Sam and Cam have any kind of animosity, anyway. I don't think Sam meant to throw shade at Cam at all. now RA shitting on fans or Miller shrugging at sack numbers... That's kinda bullshit lol.

I felt like it was done for the purpose of memeing, so I had to continue the tradition.

With special guest appearances from a couple decent Temple players and a whole bunch nobody else would sign!

I hope we stick with Darnold (and PJ as our backup lol) if Rhule is retained for 2022. Don't waste any more resources on QBs for this shitty staff to ruin/fail to rehab.

Offense and defense got figured out after the Dallas game. Honestly I think we may even win that game with CMC, but it's all over after that point. CBs started jumping all our routes, D was exposed as soft later in games, etc.

CRA was pointing out not every QB plays scared behind this line and that is a fair point. He wasn't acting like Cam and PJ never panic, but there's a huge difference in how they play relative to Darnold. That doesn't mean they're overall playing well, or even necessarily much better than Darnold is lol. But their footwork doesn't look as terrified.

Christensen, who Rhule sees as a guard because of his arm length, has played pretty well for a rookie being forced to learn multiple positions on the OL.

Great having an OL coach as HC, isn't it?

All good. Darnold would have been better with better OLs but still no guarantees from him in terms of franchise-level talent... I do think it's ridiculous mismanagement to try to rehab a qb behind the garbage we did but hey the hubris of this staff knows no limits.

Cam? True he sometimes trusted his athleticism tooooo much and gave up sacks, but that was rare, and he sure as fug could read defenses and had an incredible ability to extend plays.

The process isn't about records, it's about the friends Rhule makes (brings with him from Temple and Baylor) along the way.

Tbf I think Darnold (and Carr) had worse lines than Cam had, especially at the critical early years. Cam also is tough as nails and had athleticism that allowed him to avoid sacks those dudes didn't. Sad to think what Cam could have been with a truly great OL.

Dude Darnold is broken. It may be - and I think this - that with a totally new situation and new, good OL the Happy feet could have been cured... But that wasn't the case. It is clear his footwork is atrocious to put it mildly... This isn't about Cam...

Unfortunately, that was a few years ago now. Any coach getting the job now isn't going to want to rely on Cam. It doesn't mean they show him the door immediately... But I bet he is a transition piece at best. I wouldn't have a problem being wrong, just seems likely.

I love Cam but I don't think any offensive minded coach is coming here to build around Cam. They're going to want their own guy etc.

Sam does take personal responsibility tho. It's a total false narrative to say he doesn't. He's done it after every game and he did it after yesterday's. People are drumming up false controversy for who knows what reason. He's not a good QB, but not everything needs to be Cam vs someone else. It isn't Sams fault he sucks imo, he just doesn't have it. It's rhules fault for putting him in a situation he couldn't possibly succeed in - same way it's rhules fault for how cam has been treated the last few weeks.

He's a stronger runner than Abdullah. He could still become a better receiver - he had seemed to improve there but is still lacking. I dunno I think he was a good pick and is performing well for a rookie. Hell, he's picked at the right place for a RB imo.

Offenses are often synergistic.... The reverse us happening for us. The whole is even worse than the sum of its shitty parts.

He's definitely bad at his job, but has also blamed himself plenty... I just think he's not good enough to be a qb

I may tune in to watch Pickett get completely slaughtered for a few weeks but I dunno. So hard to be enthusiastic.

Can really see the process at work....