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That's where the split of responsibility comes in. If Rhule had the control it's claimed he did, most Fitterer decisions have to be taken with at least a grain of salt; in the Gilmore example, perhpas it was Rhule who pushed for the addition. Now I'm not saying by any means that all good was Fitterer and none of the bad, just saying that it was a very unusual dynamic that greatly clouds the ability to judge.

Perhaps this is just me hoping, but I'd like to think that he saw the failure that Rhule was/would be and felt he could leverage that into a job that wouldn't be working with Rhule for long and that he also wouldn't have to compete for in a conventional manner. He pretty quickly got more power last season and is now the full GM, and it wasn't a difficult path to identify.

I thought so, but it seems I thought wrong.

I am almost 40 and have never heard the term 'flats' before today.

That last episode made me tear up more than once, and I'm not afraid to say it.

You ignored what I said about dynamics. If the odds of sucking are equal might as well keep the guy that has shown he can be more dynamic, for better or worse. I daresay that Darnold's team have generally been worse than at least some of the teams Brissett has played on, but this is going too far into the weeds for a discussion about what amounts to guys whose ceilings so far have been average at best. Brissett has zero dynamics and zero upside, so I'd rather go with someone else.

It's ultimately up to Reich and the team, but I'd rather see Darnold and his moments hang around then move to Brissett. Am I expecting a miracle? Absolutely not, he'll most liekly suck. But Sam has some dynamics and Brissett is in that 'Alex Smith but lamer' player category that is just so bland and predictable. Alternatively, throw a little more money at Heinecke or something, but don't wave the white flag right off the bat with a guy like Brissett.

Again, place holder how? For what? Brissett is 18-30 as a starter, including 11-19 in 'Reich's system'. I just don't see the point in wasting time when you could plop any warm body out there with some unknown characteristics and do the same thing.

At this point, screw bringing in yet another 'bridge guy'. Bridge to what exactly? And the whole 'knows the system's thing is overrated when the QB is very limited anyway, the OC is likely to be different, and it's been years since they were together . I know it's more complicated than that but damn, a signing like Brissett would be incredibly bland and pointless, just like the last one.

Brissett is discount Teddy Bridgewater, which is saying something. Pass.

I can't stand Rhule but that's the type of thing that occurs all over. Won't ding him for savvy business, particularly against a guy like Tepper, if it actually holds up. But... ... this is exactly right. Should be pretty easy to sort out one way or antoher with the offset language that is there.

Particularly Mahomes without Tyreek. Mahomes is an amazing talent and still arguably the best QB n the league but that offense has definitely looked much more mortal the psat 2 seasons than in the past.

Overrated? No. Overspoken? Yeah.

That flag gets thrown 95% of the time in today's NFL, and this wasn't a case of Mahomes running straight at a guy and stepping out at the very last second. It sure looked like he shoved him when Mahomes was clearly at the boundary and it was a poor decision on part of the defender for even inviting the possibility of the flag, a flag that again is thrown multiple times every week in the NFL. If you want to rag on the refs then I get it but that call ain't it.

They call that every week, nothing 'fixed' about it.

Cam said it himself years ago, too.

Reich and Fangio would be bringing back those 1995 vibes. Greg Roman is available and he was a Panthers coach from 1995 through 2001, so the whole gang can get back together.

No one has said Wilks isn't qualified to be a head coach and no one can definitely say that race played absolutely zero part, but attempts to claim at this point that race was a, if not the, defining factor in light of what the team has said for months and Wilks' objectively average outcome (doesn't get more average than 6-6) is unintentionally biased at best and disingenuous at worst.

Very vanilla choice. At least it's not an obvious dumpster fire from day one like the last hire though.

Shut up, Matt.

Plenty of us have been saying for a while now that mediocrity is not attractive and the team should keep swinging even with the risk of change being that things get worse. The issue is that there are incredibly dumb risks where failure is predictable from a mile away, like Rhule and the Browns for many years now, vs smart risks. If the team is taking smart risks then that's all we want. Show some intelligence in trying to rise above the mediocrity.

Hernandez was versatile and Bill loves his versatile players, but Gronk handily outproduced him by tens of hundreds of yards/16 Tds their final 2 years together (they were about the same their rookie year) even with them playing about the same number of games. Hernandez was the cheaper of the 2 but still pretty good so yeah, lock him up (no pun intended) in case something happened with Gronk.