45catfan

I've got Miami, Atlanta and NO, that's it. Now knowing us we will lose one of these and pull an upset versus TB or the Bills. Any way you slice it though, I can't get us another 4 wins. Yesterday was about as much of a lock of a win as there could have been. We pissed it away.

The stats don't lie. We were 2-9 on 3rd down and 1-3 on 4th down. Combined 3-12, for a conversion rate 0f 25%. Penalties? Ron's team had 1 MORE than we did and we had 1 MORE than them converting a first down due to penalty. They had the only turnover so we had the only extra drive of the game. You've dug your trench, that's cool...I'm moving on.

For all the praise D-Jax has got lately, he looked like garbage yesterday. Pssst....Donte, you get paid first and then you act like you don't care. You still have six games left, man.

3rd downs actually WERE a problem though. The rub I put on Brady/Rhule is PJ knows the entire playbook and while Cam played well, you don't need your hands tied on the money down. Having limited play calls on 3rd down is a bad spot to be in. Again, I'm not sure the mixture of Cam/PJ, but it was too early for Cam to play 100% of the snaps. I would have waited at least another week before making that move. Agreed the defensive side was lacking yesterday, but it's also true we needed our offense to sustain drives just like they did to us and that can't happen without converting 3rd downs.

Cam did look good, but the staff should not have let him play all game. They should have mixed in PJ to keep Washington guessing. Ron knows Cam 100% and the entire game plan was tailored to Cam's strengths with only 1 full week as the starter, which played right into Ron's hands. That's on our coaching staff.

Agreed we take the best OL regardless of position. Chances are some other OL besides an OT will be there when we pick.

I remember talking up Chinn and everyone was riding Simmon's/Clemson's jock. "Who is this this FCS Illinois State no-name kid?" "You can't go against the Blue-Blood Clemson guy." Blah, Blah, blah. We made the right damn choice x 2. Brown over Simmons and Chinn to fill that void a round later. And for those still saying the 2021 draft was better than the 2020 drafts is smoking some dank-arse Jamcaican weed. PASS IT!

Ignore him, his entire world revolves around Chapel Hill. Raleigh is a nice area. Lots of young professionals and a thriving area. I will agree to stay away from Durham though and it has nothing to do with the Blue Devils.

Then again if we lose, folks will be back on the cliff's edge questioning everything within the organization. The emotional roller coaster that is the Huddle.

Just last week folks here were apologizing to Teddy and even thought we should have kept him. This is funny! Teddy is a mediocre QB no matter on what team he's on. He's not garbage, but he's not a franchise QB either.

Up and down besides Moton when you look at running and pass-pro. Again, we have one OL who is legit across the board and that's Moton when he's at home at RT. The rest is a roll of the dice. Some games decent, some games bad. Good in pass-pro and not in run blocking; and vice-versa. Outside of Moton the rest of the O-line play is a bout as consistent as the number of holes in the slices of a pack of Swiss cheese.

As with every year since Gross retired, LT is a revolving door journeymen who at best are average and mostly poo. Daley's penalties hurt more than anything yesterday and the game plan to get the ball out quick helped him. If we ever want to stretch the field more than a few times a game, this needs to be addressed permanently. Jordan is playing better as been mentioned. Hopefully this isn't short lived and he's actually growing into a better guard.

Bingo! If Elf can solidify the center spot, we have 2-of-5 spots settled and can focus on the other three. BC needs to beef up. I'm not giving up on him yet, not as a guard. I'm not sure he's going make it as a franchise LT, maybe as a backup LT.

Good and good. Neither of them were good and that means we can look for an upgrade in the off season. If they were still here, we would be content with them.

Another no sh!t metric. Those of us that actually watch the games know both our run and pass blocking was near the bottom of the League.

Hey, I was all for cutting Ian and saving the $2M. The team had other ideas though.

Linderbaum or Ekwonu. Either one would be a massive win. I would like the local kid for obvious reasons.

My favorite draft sight has 7 OL in the top 32 on their current Big Board. While they have 5 QBs in those top 32, NONE higher than #12. You go with the strength of the draft, especially if a position of need. This should be a no-brainer.

Even if the MRI comes back clean, they won't admit it. There will be "something" there which could be lingering or potentially damaging if Darnold isn't shut down. People will think Rhule is talking about his shoulder, but really he's talking about Sam's psyche.

Sad, but you are probably correct.

I thought Hurney left for DC?

...Or sit tight and take the best O-lineman. Crazy right? Yes, this is shaping up to be a very good OL class.

No, Delhomme's arm was actually toast. Jake could no longer could hit the same passes (windows w/velocity) he did prior to the Tommy John surgery. He kept trying though and it led to numerous picks. Yeah, once it was obvious his arm was a limp noodle and his confidence was shot, they put him on IR.

Enter PJ, the scapegoat. This organization is so laughably transparent when they think they doing their best slight of hand moves.

R-A-R-E, but yes. That's scalping and illegal, but it's seldom one can sell tickets more than face value here in Carolina. Other teams, it may be commonplace. Here it has to be a marquee team and/or a marquee match up. We've been so bad in recent years that there's really no such thing as a marquee match up. So, it would take a team like Dallas or Green Bay coming to town to get such a sell. Even then, it's THEIR fans buying tickets at that price, not ours. There, once again, is the problem.