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Call the position whatever you like (SS, OLB, etc), the bottom line is that he was up around the LOS much more his rookie year than he was last year and has been this year. Chinn needs to be close to the ball to maximize his skills, not playing center field.

Snow started this crap with him last year.

Perhaps as important, if not moreso, is Phil Snow not being his DC.

Compared to Erving loafing vs Atlanta and letting Darnold get rocked...

Duh... I completely missed it. However, I am also completely blaming Rhule for my lack of engagement.

Maybe I just missed it but he wasn't on the inactives and didn't record any snaps. Suited up but held out for health precaution? Snap counts: https://www.panthers.com/news/snap-counts-carolina-vs-tampa-bay-in-week-7

And the Giants just keeping Jacksonville alive.

Saquon went out of bounds 3 times on their last drive or this Jags/Giants game would be long over. Flashbacks to Jamal Anderson in the NFCCG years and years ago trying to keep the Vikings in it.

I expect this game to be much more of an outlier than the norm as the season goes on but I have zero faith that Rhule trusted/deferred entirely to anyone on the staff. Might just be my bias though.

Has he ever shown any kind of ability to evaluate OL talent? Rhule sucked.

Didn't say he would be repeating the performance.

Had one today.

Spoiled by Cam.

The narrative is that Brickhands Hubbard will get the passing work but I don't see how unless they are intentionally tanking. Dude can't consistently catch a cold.

I saw your profile pic and was like, "I don't remember posting in this thread".

He had his rookie year with non-injured Cam, his rookie year with Stew at the very end of his career, 2 years of non-injured Olsen (2017 and 2019), and no years of DJ with Charger-level competent QB play. He's also had no years with an offensive mind like they've had in SD/LA though Turner was better than anyone under Rhule and Ekeler has still only ever put up 1550 total yards and 20 TDs at his best. CMC had 2400 and 19 in 2019. I'm not taking anything away from Ekeler but at absolute best they're similar players, though Ekeler has always been surrounded by much better talent. Ekeler is not wholly better than CMC.

Ekeler has also been palying with Rivers, Herbert, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, and decent offensive coordinators. It will be most interesting to me to see, given what he's done in Carolina with what's been around him, how CMC performs with that caliber of cast in SF.

That was over a decade ago at this point.

What's Zylstra up to these days? Taye Biddle might still be available too.

Your browser history...

Or he saw the writing on the wall and was finding himself on the preverbial outside along with Rhule. I'm just speculating, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

The comment is clearly context-specific and, based on ownership tenure thus far, accurate until proven otherwise.