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Erving's versatility, Rhule's favorite trait, shining through again.

Sam Franklin, Sean Chandler, Dayvion Nixon, Colin Thompson, Sam Tecklenburg... the favoritism is real.

What was always an incorrect/incomplete take since the 'year 3' outcome always just continued tracking what happened from year 1 to year 2, and we all know how that went in Carolina.

This whole 'just needed a quarterback' thing ignores Rhule's strategic ineptitude, inability to evaluate talent, and other potential issues being hinted at throughout his time at the orgnaization. A couple of additional wins through better QB play doesn't paper over all of those fundamentlal failures. And Tepper... well, the degree of dumbassery can vary by opinion but little question that Rhule was a massive mistake.

I strongly suspect that Rhule was voluntold to bring in coaches with significant NFL experience in order to keep his job, or perhaps with the understanding that year 3 would be it if the results didn't improve notably. At no point prior did he ever adapt, so it seems unlikely he'd suddenly do it of his own accord.

Yup. He completely thought he was outsmarting the league with the Rhule hire.

No real disagreement on any of this, and perhaps humility is a strong word, but the anger and bullheadedness at the end doesn't have to solely reflect his approach to team management. Perhaps as a more cynical take, we can maybe hope that his pride has been stung enough and that he wants to be publicly lauded enough that he follows an actual NFL process when looking for the next coach.

The fact that he actually sounded a bit humbled/defeated at times during his press conference gives me a small sliver of hope that he might get something right this time, if only by accident. I'm hardly counting on it, but it's a sliver more than I had in the recent past.

It absolutely wasn't, and the media hype around him was just incredibly dumb. McVay fever at its finest.

No, it wasn't and no, it didn't take incredible insight to conclude that hiring a middling (in the sense that he couldn't beat real competition) college coach like Rhule to a 7-year contract with complete control of an NFL team was a bad idea. Perhaps the rose-colored glasses were too strong to remember 'the haters' but it was absolutely a questionable hire at best, and flat out dumb at worst, and plenty of us called it out.

Yeah, there is no 'all of us' when talking about Rhule's hiring. Many of us were skeptical at best and strongly averse at worst. This trainwreck was visible from day one.

Didn't look like it to me but they can consider it even for the absolute BS roughing call earlier that gifted them points.

Damn, what a throw by Carr.

I'm here in KC and can hear people screaming around the neighborhood. That was ludicrously bad.

The Raiders going old school with the I-formation FB isos.

It was such a dumb risk though. Like really dumb. The hype around Rhule was mystifying at the time and he bought into it, literally and figuratively, hook, line, and sinker.

I figured the truth was something less than what was described here, but even then it's pretty dysfunctional. The immediate removal of Snow leans that way, though it could simply be something like Snow being unwilling to finish the season of Rhule gets hired and Wilks cutting him loose now.

First thing Wilks does is give Snow the boot... hmm...

I want to give Tepper some credit for fleeting moments of something resembling humility, but I also love the pointed questions that he clearly didn't enjoy having asked. Onward and upward.

Fixed it for you.

Getting into the dodging and non-answers right off the bat.

That is quite believable.

An Ohio State QB?

Funny how Tepper was so frequently on the public eye during that period and into 2020, and then just vanished when it became clear the emperor had no clothes.