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Considering we had our prized offensive player on the field yesterday and he barely got the ball, I'm not getting my hopes up.

But, but, but he's lost weight and works out every day with Shaq! And he cares about his people! And he can coach every position!

Like I said in the game thread, we've moved all these pieces around and upgraded the OL, brought in a proven playcaller, etc., and ehat has changed? Literally nothing. The offense was just as dysfunctional for 3/4 of that game as it was all last season. That is where the answer is revealed... it wasnt the OL. It wasn't Joe Brady. It wasn't Teddy. It wasn't Sam. It wasn't Cam. It's not McAdoo or Baker... it's Matt fuging Rhule. My guess is that he has a concept or gameplan he wants to be the overlying plan of attack every week, and the OCs are trying to run a functional offense while trying to appease him, and that's why poo looks so dysfunctional on gameday, because there are too many cooks in the kitchen, and the one that ultimately calls the shots is a fuging idiot.

He literally is 5 missed sacks (where he actually has his arms/hands on the QB) away from averaging 15 sacks a year. And I venture to say if they tracked missed sacks, he would easily lead the league, by A LOT. He's always there, it's just a matter of finishing... and if he ever gets to that point, I don't want to give up a guy averaging 13+ sacks a year. I know it's frustrating, but he's the best we have up front and he has vastly improved in every aspect of his game. He just has to finish the plays when he's there.

And that's the thing... I dont see how anyone could objectively argue he isn't the worst. McCarthy is on the hottest seat because it's Dallas. I don't think he's a great coach, but he's an average one and experienced. If he was any other smaller market, he probably lasts 5+ years easy, hovering slightly above .500. And people keep bringing up Kingsbury, but I think that is an even more damning comparison for Rhule. Sure, the Cards tend to flame out late, they don't always seem focused, but his teams win... and he came into the position with even less coaching experience than Rhule, college and pro... and yet, he quickly turned them into a competitive team with a shot at the playoffs every year. He might not be living up to heightened expectations, but again, for a guy who had even less experience than Rhule as a COLLEGE coach, not even pros, he came in and made them win more often than they lose. And that led me to a moment of clarity this morning - Kingsbury has success because he played college football at a high level and specializes in something tangible that he's able to coach into his team. Rhule is struggling because he doesn't have that. At all. What made him successful in college was his ability to talk and be a salesman, so he could recruit, get guys in the program, and then was pretty much hands off from there. College, more than any other level of the sport is about, as my coach used to say, "the Jimmys and the Joes, not the Xs and the Os." It is becoming very evident, Rhule doesn't know how to manage even the most basic duties on gameday, and he damn sure doesn't know how to implement and run a gameplan during the week. Nor has he demonstrated any ability to actually coach guys up from a technical standpoint. And that's the difference. He literally can't coach. At all. And he keeps flailing around trying to talk his way into success, like he did in college, and it just won't work.

Man, I'm telling you... Stefanski making him call that timeout on the faux-4th down attempt to allow them to kick a FG after burning our timeout... My God. Once Rhule saw what the actual endgame was there, he should've walked straight up to the suites, apologized for wasting everyone's time, and put in his resignation effective immediately.

I accepted it after the first quarter yesterday. I knew we would still have to overcome Rhule to have any degree of success this year, and that would've only been because of the sheer talent we have now. And despite how cynical many of us are, I probably being among the most, they still found a way to make us sip a little bit of the offseason koolaid. Well, that poo came crashing down fast in that first quarter, and I got that sinking pit in my stomach when the realization hit me - "He just wasted another year of our Fandom and our lives," desperately hoping for a winning season that Tepper elected to defer, yet again. Disgusting.

I dont know. I can see a lot of similarities with Baker and Brees, and I think Payton enjoys the process of developing a guy more than taking a finished product that everyone thinks is the surefire, next big thing.

That would be a resounding and unanimously undisputed, YES. Not even close. Considering the next closest to worst were all fired already, he has it by A LOT.

Yup. That fact keeps slapping me in the face while we were discussing the other coaches in their debuts in the other thread... so many other coaches we could've already had in here twice over to fix this poo. And yet, here we are. Tepper has really fuged us over good.

Pilares redux.

Welp, there's our bad, and then there's the Cowboys tonight. Yikes.

I wanted Daboll or Flores, but I even look at what McDaniel did today. And no one thought much of that hire when it happened. He schooled Belichick. And here we are, still stuck with this fuging idiot who has a thorough, proven resume demonstrating how unqualified he is to hold the position - and he adds to it every fuging week.

Rhule claimed it was because the muffed snap changed things. But: A) The muffed snap was again, because Rhule played Elf over Boze in the first place. B) That's not an excuse, because like you said, you're already in FG range, so why not attempt something to get in the EZ. C) They claim they were running an RPO, like what we hit DJ on to start the drive. I have no idea what it looked like after the fact, but considering Baker handed it off, I'm assuming the pass option was well-covered, so I think it's safe to say that wasn't a very creative call. Honestly, they did what Rhule preferred - play conservative, and it cost us.

Regarding the gameplan, Baker took blame for it, and i cant remember if it was Baker or Rhule that said they were playing so poorly it changed what they were able to call, and you could see it. Especially the whole first quarter, it's hard to really dial up your best stuff when you're constantly inside your own 20 and sitting at 3rd and 12+. Also when you're botching snaps and getting every pass deflected it affects your ability to run and pass when you want. Cleveland was dictating everything we did for 75% of the game, and because we were getting nothing from so many plays, we couldn't run our intended gameplan. Rhule said we had planned to run a lot more, but couldn't because of what happened early.

Positives from today? We are one game closer to Rhule being fired. Hopefully.

Like I kept saying in the game thread, if we settled for the FG, we lost. And their kicker damn well could've hit from 75 yards. It's just zero awareness from this fuging braindead coaching staff.

I've been saying that across the forum the whole day... people keep acting like if we forced them to pass we'd won... Brissett converted a ton of 3rd downs with perfectly placed passes for the entirety of the game. He absolutely abused Jackson, Horn, and Henderson when he needed to make a play. Again, it was embarrassing. And I told people we made the wrong choice in re-signing Donte over Gilmore. I wasn't sure about Henderson, but am leaning now more towards we lost that trade big time. And I love Jaycee, so I'm hoping that was just rust, but he looked like poo today. I would've taken Keith Taylor all game over each of them all day.

0-2 here we come!

Doubt it. Prepare for another L. You mean the Giants that embarrassed us last season with a lame duck coach who was hired the same year as Rhule, that they picked over Rhule after Rhule took our offer to them and tried to get them to match it, who is now fired? Those same Giants with our former GM that ran their team into the ground and completely depleted them of talent, who is also now fired? Those Giants that were missing like all of their receiving corps, playmakers, and starting OL? Those same Giants that despite all of that, beat the poo out of us and kept us from even achieving one first down in that game? Yeah. For all that changed for them since then, so much has remained the same for us, namely, Rhule is still our coach. So, I will expect us to lose until we don't.

No, I got all of that, but I have just changed a lot since 2015-16. Those experiences taught me no one will ever care about officials jobbing us, and thus, I should prepare for the worst possible outcomes with officials... and blaming the officials accomplishes nothing, because I'm convinced they are doing it for the league, not because they're bad at their job... they just step in for specific outcomes and to influence games in specific ways, and we just always seem to be the team between them and the trams they're trying to prop up. So complaining about it or blaming our shortcomings on them does nothing, because they will keep doing what they've been doing and why would the league change something they are intending to do? They won't. So, I go back to ehat can we control? And that brings me back to the point of the game should've never, ever been to that point where those calls decided it. And had our coach not been the usual buffoon we've all come to know him to be, we wouldnt have been. Rhule, once again, coached to lose instead of coaching to win, and everything we saw today, from struggling OL, to inability to stop the run, from guys just looking lost and going through the motions - all those symptoms are earmarks of a Rhule tram and the ultimate outcome was manifest destiny. Stefanski could've decided to punt it on first down the entire second half, and the outcome still would've been the same.

Yup, hit every single checkmark. Always helping teams hit new records and milestones or breaking streaks was one of the first things I noticed as a kid watching our games. It's a deeply entrenched part of our culture.

I disagree. Who won? And that's what made this one sting a little more. They beat us with the guy that would've been their 3rd string QB had they kept Baker on their roster. Stefanski was making a point to say, "yeah, we gave him up for a reason. Watch this..." and then proceeded to beat us with the guy that would've been backing him up. It was fuging humiliating.

Too be honest, he reminds me a bit of Rich Rodriguez, who went from all-world, can't miss genius, to where tf is that guy?

That faux-4th down attempt to end the second half was so fuging embarrassing. And Rhule did exactly what a good boy does, and played right into it a d called a timeout. fuging idiot.