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A style similar to this I think. It seems fine but then just falls apart.

And the coaching staff on the new team is competent enough to maximize their potential.

It's passive, so no worries. The rowdy days are long gone and the reason it's no fun anymore. You sneeze too loudly and people text security on you.

Us: Browns, Giants and Saints; 2 home games Them: Chargers, Cards and Titans; 1 home game. The Raiders will finish ahead of us even playing in the AFC West, the NFL's hardest division.

Some good things, yes. You can't win a game and not have some good things happen. I'm a big picture guy and one win against a really bad Saints team isn't swaying my opinion of what needs to occur for this team to finally get o the right track. Rhule will get a few more wins this year, no doubt, but ultimately it's up to Tepper to do the right thing and get a new HC. My biggest fear is we get to 6 or 7 wins by season's end, not realistically in the playoff hunt and Tepper points to a couple games improvement over his 5 game barrier as cause to retain Rhule.

The NFL is set up where parity is king. Yes, there were some upsets yesterday and more to come. There are a few elites clubs, a few garbage teams and a WHOLE LOT of mediocre teams. That's why being a basement dweller is so damn frustrating. We can't even get to mediocre.

My bad, I usually pick up on it, but the sunshine crew in here this morning has my sarcasm radar skewed.

Our QBs just play with broken egos.

My biggest worry is the offense that CCU runs. They run the option to set up the pass. After getting burned in the option game, their opponents roll more defenders in the box and McCall lights them up. I mean, if we get rid of this staff and get a new one that embraces RPO concepts, that would play to McCalls strengths. Of course fewer and fewer of these college QBs are coming into the League as pure pocket passers anyway.

Reps are needed to hit wide open WRs? Who knew? Some of his throws yesterday were simply arse. Protection, check. Route recognition, check. WR beat his man, check. Baker able to complete the process, nope. When 90% of the the process to complete the pass is there and just the ability do what any NFL QB should be able to do and hit a wide open WR is not be done, you can't go back 6 weeks ago and complain about splitting reps.

Baker was completely healthy, so there's that.

And why not? I mean since we won yesterday all of Matt Rhule's blunders for the past 2+ years magically disappeared. We are going on a 15-0 run now!

Herbert was playing with broken ribs.

Our defense has a few of those type games per season like yesterday where they simply dominate. For whatever reason, it comes and goes. If the Rhuleaid drinkers think our defense is going to look like that every game the rest of the year, then the poison has already taken affect. Granted the offense probably won't look as bad, but they aren't turning into a well-oiled machine that the defense can appear to be from time-to-time.

Stafford had a broken or dislocated finger on his throwing hand, but hand it taped up and was trying to play through it. He was off all game. Our defense was playing lights out though.

The next 3 of 4 games are at home. The Panthers better make good on that because after Tampa (last one in that home stand) of the final 10 games, only 4 are at home. I see 3 maybe 4 wins in that final stretch of 10 games. If Rhule wants to eclipse his 5 win mark, he's going to need this team to pull off some upsets in this upcoming home stand.

Yep, already got my preliminary top two picks. I would have three, but you know, traded away the third pick for CJ (busted coverage) Henderson.

Because Baker is clearly the answer. I mean we WON yesterday! Whoot! Watch out Super Bowl here we come!!!!!!!

I wonder who these 3-4 people are that still defend Rhule here. Has to be members in the organization or members of Matt's family.

Lol, the defense and STs played nearly a flawless game and we won by a single score, at HOME. How many more games do you anticipate that happening?

Oh, we can lose to crappy QBs too. My point is we likely aren't winning more than 1-2 games versus good QBs all seson, so the wins most likely come versus the crappy ones. I think it was: Winston (again), Mariota x2, Gino Smith, Goff and Trubisky

There's those of us that want the band aid ripped off quickly and those of you that think pulling it off slowly is going to make it somehow better. Rhule is a sh!t coach, period. Now, will he manage some wins? Of course, there's some decent players on this roster. But each meaningless win (we AIN'T going to the playoffs, let's not be delusional) takes us further down the draft board and gives Tepper cause to keep this fool around longer then most of us would like.

I made a list yesterday of which QBs we have left to play this season and it was pretty ugly. If we only beat teams with crappy QBs, Rhule might actually break 5 wins this year, but not by much.