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Love it. And that's exactly how he projects in everything I've seen. He has that gravitas about him that makes you want to be your best self. I am optimistic.

I remember that too, and the more that comes out, I'm shifting from believing he just didn't know to that he actually just didn't care.

That is noteworthy and amazing. It was not coincidence he left that first year trying to work in the organization while Rhule was here.

Now that you mention it... funny enough, I don't ever remember seeing Rhule with the OC before. EVER.

I'm not sitting on the edge of my seat for it... unless the C3 guy can being something out of Stew with what he has already shared from his source, it's likely to be very benign, safe, and boring... everything I've seen from Stew on IG while Rhule was here was tip toeing around the actual issues. I love Stew, but he clearly didn't want to step on any toes and I bekieve has some loyalty to Tepper because he helped him get into a post-career track, IIRC... so everything he said was generic, "guy have to play better... I dont think any one person is the problem... I hate to see a gut lose their job," etc.

Nope. He said everyone tag Smitty and have him on the podcast and he'll tell it there.

It's not just Cam. Again, objectively, he would instantly be the best QB on the roster. But aside from that, I honestly can't root against Wilks. I want him to win. This roster really is not that far off, so the rebuild talk to me is insane... most of the turnover that needs to happen is at the bottom of the roster. We have a solid secondary, OL, and a few great young core pieces. What if Wilks could get this team fired up and we make a run for a wild card? I know it's asteonomical odds, but what if? People complain about the draft position, but I know for a fact, not a single person would be complaining if he could find a way to win 10 games and gave us a shot at the playoffs. It would give the fanbase hope for the first time in a very long time. And I honestly really would love to see Wilks be the guy to turn around this franchise... what a fairy tale story that would be, and then let him fully install his own systems and schemes next season with a staff of his choosing. The players love him, the fans love him, and he's a hometown guy. It would be awesome, and if he could get Cam to come back and make a run with him, get Luke on the staff, man... that would be awesome and I would not give a single fug about draft position.. just because we pick #1 doesn't mean we'd get it right either.

I'm still not understanding how DJ is even being brought up. Name the last time you saw a player sign a multi-year extension and then traded the same season? The cap hit would void out any value we would receive in return. Its just dumb.

Damn the lows for the defense are LOW. I know Wilks has been supporting Henderson, but I think Taylor may end up taking his spot. He's on the bottom end of these grades more often than not.

He seems to have gotten back to form coming back from last season.

Just posted the same thing in another thread... Wilks assuming the HC job has me excited for the first time in a very long time. He's always had something about him - a certain gravitas - that commands respect and admiration, both among fans and players. And I think a huge thing we were lacking under Rhule was that among other things, but also that the players had lost their competitiveness. They weren't competing for a full 60 mins... as cliche as that sounds. And I think Wilks is a guy that can bring that out of any player. It's refreshing and exciting.

I dont think any of that matters, except - WIN. I'm not looking forward to a "next head coach," just as Wilks said, I'm thinking about right now, and how do we win right now, and everything after that will take care of itself. I think Wilks could really earn this job, and I would love that. I think he deserves it as well... and what an awesome story that would be... Outside of scheme-related stuff that had to be changed, the biggest issue this team had under Rhule was they lacked direction snd just didn't compete for a full 60 mins. I really think Wilks can pull that competitiveness back out of them. He already stated that everybody here had an opportunity, snd that is going to bring out the dog in a lot of guys. I'm excited for the first time in a long time.

Said it will be on the injury report tomorrow. He doesn't know until then.

They have had multiple discussions in the last 24 hours and he said they are on the same page about adjustments that need to be made, so he feels good about that.

That was awesome. Love what I'm hearing from Coach.

Hey, there's always a silver lining... at least he didn't have his wife there yesterday to commence the occasion with the old celebratory fingers up her ass.

Drummond is the guy you used to always see chaperoning Cam between interviews and would stand off to the side during the pressers and cue him/them on what was appropriate and when the presser was over and such. I always saw him but didn't know who he was until last season. He hasn't been nearly as visible over the last year or so, but that's apparently tly because he went from a communications guy to football ops. Not good.

I dont even believe that, man. I honestly believe whoever came here was going to look a thousand times worse than however they looked elsewhere. Darnold and Mayfield are exhibits 1a and 1b. I thought Baker at worst would be average, and maybe even just slightly below - his performance over the years in Cleveland would dictate that - yet, here he became the second worst passer in the QBR era over the first 5 games. Same for Darnold. His floor should've been 20ish for QBs, and I don't believe in him at all, and yet, he ALSO became statistically the worst passer over a stretch of games that had ever been tracked in NFL history. Cam, a proven elite QB, even with a lesser arm, who has demonstrated the ability to read a defense and work the short to mid game fairly well since his injury, came in here and went 5-21 with 2 picks and like 5 batted passes. I've been saying it ad nauseum, but it's not coincidence. I also had speculated all along, since last season, that Rhulr was meddling with the OC/gameplan/playcalling... and now all the reports coming out that he micromanaged literally everything pretty much confirms it. If it looked inept and dysfunctional, you can almost guarantee that jackass was directly behind it. I fully believe, if even in some miraculous turn, that had we acquired a Brady or Rodgers, he would've made them look like poo as well. Idc what anyone says... the offensive scheme itself was dysfunctional and as a bad coach, you make elite players look like good players, and good players look below average.

I said it before, but I rarely wish ill will on someone once they leave the organization, but Rhule is the exception. He knew he was in over his head, and yet he continued to take down our franchise with him. If you had any dignity about yourself, admit you can't do it, which was a fair thing to do at the least, by the end of last season, and don't bring unnecessary suffering to others. But nope... he decided to make us his casualties, and for that, I wish him nothing but professional failure moving forward. People might not like that, but he'll be ok... he'll be making 40 million, so that can cushion the old pride. And if your speculation happened to be true, scot, that he tried to get rid of "keep pounding" in favor of his own generic, vanilla, college bullshit, then he can go to hell. The sheer arrogance of it all.

While that is concerning, if I'm understanding the gist of the screenshot you posted, it sounds like that exec ends it with saying he thinks Wilks gets the job and that he was brought in here with that intention all along.

You ain't getting a high first rounder for a RB in the modern NFL. If they offer a first at all, you take it and never look back.

NGL, in hindsight, a lot of us were just being loyal to our franchise. It wasn't about Rhule. But I will say, as a guy who hated the hire and never wanted any part of Rhule, because I always saw him for what he confirmed he was here... I still was a bit fooled in season 1. Once he was as the hire, as with any transaction with the team, whether I like it or not, I try my best to pull for their success because that's success for our team... so, although we saw those early signs of dysfunction and problems (Whitehead and Redzone/Goal Line situations standout early from year 1), there was those few bright spots where I thought, "wow, he might be one of those strategist-style coaches like a Belichick-type," like the fake punts that actually worked and some of the successful, gutsy 4th down conversion calls. But then as time went on, it quickly became apparent that had nothing to do with strategy. The league didn't have tape on him on tendencies yet, and he just happened to get lucky at the right times... but I was still hoping he would pan out because the alternative was too painful to process. But then we started hearing the "they run that college stuff," from guys like Sean Payton. Teddy coming out with this quote. Then the fake punts and 4th down calls started looking completely telegraphed. Then the DBO sign and making the whole team run laps. And there was the Senior Bowl shitshow including the legendary, "the harder you make us coach you guys, the harder we're gonna have to coach."... And I still wanted to cape for my franchise, especially when the criticism was coming from guys like Payton or Bridgewater, who were outside of the organization... But, my God it became apparent really quickly, no matter our hope beyond hopes that he would figure it out, that the alternative was indeed the reality... he was the clueless, slimey used car salesman we thought he was.

Yup, whoever the source there was (I suspect it's Stanley McClover), they were dead on with every thing. Absolutely all of it. Also revisting it... I would expect Chandler and Franklin to be dumped sometime before the end of the season, because so far, everything in that thread came true. Also revisiting it, the part about Dunlap pops back out. It affirms what Tepper alluded to yesterday that Rhule STILL had final say on all roster decisions - because Fitt wanted Dunlap, and Dunlap wanted to come here. Remember Dunlap tweeted out glowing stuff about Fitt and that Fitt knew what it was. And then Fitt said nice stuff about Dunlap and basically made it sound like they just had to get the agreement worked out... when in reality, he prolly had the deal set and ready to go, but Rhule didn't okay it, and then Dunlap ends up in KC, and Burns spends another season without a bookend to pair with. Rhule really had the whole building in shambles because he's a fuging idiotic egomaniac. It's really unbelievable. We knew it was bad from the outside, as we, as fans, could literally see the dysfunction rolling into a boil snd overflowing in front of our eyes... and yet, I just can't fathom how Tepper INSIDE of the building knew this stuff was going on and let it get this far out of control. That's insane. That much dysfunction, you have to know, in personal lives, business, pro football, whatever... you have to know that you aren't going to turn it around at that point. Patience isn't even the word for that. Again, it is straight up insanity.

That also didn't come off very endearing. The way he spoke about Charlotte made it sound like it was some dump that he swung in and rescued, single-handedly with concerts and soccer and us uncultured backwoods nobodies should be thankful. That was also very off-putting.