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The offensive ineptitude and turnovers definitely skewed the yards allowed stats. The defense faded hard once Dallas exposed the weakness in the running game and Carolina couldn't stop anyone as the season went along, allowing 27 or more points 7 times in the last 8 games (only the Taysom Hill-led Saints scored fewer...), more than 30 points in 6 of those 7 and more than 40 in the final game.

Of all the O positions to suck at, center ain't it. Agreed that it's tough to fully judge since OL is so reliant on each other but Elflein is just not very good, and without star guards next to him should definitively be in line for replacement.

To paraphrase, "We lost more games in the NFL because of poor technique, than poor scheme" was a really interesting comment.

What a loser.

If Tepper needed Colbert to tell him Rhule is currently a hack at the NFL level, in the infinite wisdom of Brandon 'Donald' LaFell, "ooh wee mayne." I have no idea how Tepper watches other NFL teams, particularly like what we've seen this weekend, and feels any kind of good about Matt Rhule.

About to? I'd say it's already there.

God I hate the Cowboys. Not the same type of hatred as for the Saints and Falcons, but hatred nonetheless.

He's going to have some more growing pains but the guy just gives off gamer vibes and passes the eye test thus far.

Damn... how long has it been since we saw safety play like that in Carolina?

And after 2018 if Tepper had moved on from Rivera like he should have. I'm fairly neutral about Flores but would take him over Rhule any day.

These points are a sunken cost fallacy. What's done is done but leaving Rhule in place means no development for players currently here or other organizational improvements, and that's the main reason ditching him now appears the right move. The lack of winning is front and center but Rhule's most egregious failures are the crappy roster moves, lack of strategic aptitude, and overall team regression during his tenure. Any coach that comes in and actually shows progress on the latter 3 retains their job even if the winning slowly comes, and all 3 are achievable in most any circumstance... pretty simple.

Agree completely on the first points but still disagree on the last. He was very clearly a tackle and even if he did end up a guard, how epically awful wanted guard play this year? I simply can't feel good about his comments and the implications toward their ability to evaluate talent and see the big picture.

It's not angry ears - the guy openly commented (again...) about their dumbass 'idral' OL traits shading prospect evaluation. Regardless of what he said about Horn the Slater comment is still alarming in and of itself, particularly after the short arms BS with Christensen.

Rhule just comes across as more of an idiot day by day.

I have trouble thinking anything Rhule says is honest/transparent at this point. Dude has zero credibility.

This alone should seemingly be fireable, as it is a direct reflection of coaching/strategic ability.

Exactly. Keeping Rhule for another year just makes things worse.

But it took Jay-Z 7 years to out-rap the other rappers out there. The process is working.

Which is precisely the point.

Keep on rearranging those deck chairs.

I'm die-hard NFL but have never been able to get into college sports, even growing up with (somewhat) local football programs like Nebraska in the 90s and K-State in the 2000s (Snyder and his cupcakes...) as well as KU basketball just down the road. I've tried to get interested but it all feels so fake/pointless and contrived. Even in the heart of what used to be the voracious KU/MU rivalry I just never got it. Anyway, this is the college thread so I'm the odd man out. Hopefully it's at least an entertaining game for everyone to watch.

The same PJ who instilled so much confidence that they signed Cam... I just don't get it. Love me some Cam and glad he had his Arizona game but damn, as a fan this stuff is just more and more irritating by the hour.

I'm going to sound like a contrarian here but college football is what MLB used to be (and still might be at times) - the best teams have the biggest payrolls and the top rarely ever changes. How the hell is it even interesting at this point?

Might be me reading too much into it but I feel like his choice of words, "A lot of people say..." when talking about the arm length was quite interesting. Specifically because that's exactly what Rhule said and Fitt negated it.