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There was talk on the Hurricanes board about Brady as a potential HC next year. I nearly died laughing. He's not ready to run a college programme. He's even less equipped to run an NFL frnachise.

I disagree that the whole team was in shock. The offensive game plan was thrown out the window when McCaffrey went down. It took halftime for Brady and co to regroup. I think the defence got tired at the end of the half and Snow went ultra conservative for some reason - which is baffling because he dialed back up the pressure / man coverage AFTER he lost his best CB.

As much as I dislike to quote Colin Cowherd, he's right. This can't be a great team with this Oline. We can win the games we're meant to win and compete against the better teams in the league, but this Oline will hold us back. We all knew that coming into the season that, at best, the Oline would be serviceable. It's the next thing to fix in this rebuild project - I'm sure Rhule and Fitterer are very aware of that. Rome wasn't built in a day.

If Darnold was asked to win shootouts with this offensive line then we'd be seeing an awful lot of Walker. It's a team effort. That's what Rhule is building here. These aren't your Hurney / Rivera Panthers relying on a handful of star players to drag you to wins.

Pitts isn't a TE. He looks even less like a TE stood next to NFL athletes. He's a big WR.

Ian Thomas is pretty much the one personnel decision that Rhule and co have made that I just don't understand at all. He offers so little (albeit he did throw a nice block on the Tremble TD run!) and hasn't even flashed during these three years.

He's not going to make plays that aren't there at this level (he did in HS and College), so if you put him behind a bad Oline he's going to struggle running the ball. That said, if the play IS there to be made he exploits it - which accounts for the boom or bust nature of some of his carries. Ignore the avatar for a moment - to me has has excellent feet and vision, great hands for the position and good (but not breakaway) speed. He's not the monster athlete you want as your starting RB (he's not going to run people over very often), which is why I think he's always been relegated to 3DRB duties as he's versatile af, but the skill / talent has always been there to be a solid RB1 to me. Who knows if we sign him - having Dan Morgan on staff won't hurt his chances. He's a better back right now than Hubbard, put it that way (unless he's had a significant injury I'm unaware of).

Yep, cos they're a model franchise.

Sadly Arnold doesn't strike me as a high-pointer. I thought that was what we were getting, but he's a finesse TE who plays smaller than his listed size.

Why has Adam Gase been the Head Coach of two different NFL franchises?

Averages 5 yards a carry. Nearly 5k career all-purpose yards and 20 TDs. I've never been able to understand why he's not been used more in the NFL. I don't think we'll sign him, because life isn't that fair, but I think he's a brilliant player.

Duke Johnson is amazing.

This 10 day stretch gives the coaching staff a little longer to get Christensen, Brown and Jordan up to speed. The play of the iOL is unacceptable right now. I can't imagine they're not going to be testing the waters on a lineup change during this break.

Oooooph, no, but there's been a marked improvement in his play this year. I don't know if Snow is asking him to do less, but he's making more plays on the field this year. Davis was an All-Pro LB. You're doing him a disservice with this thread title. I'd argue he's the third best LB to ever play for the franchise... and there's a big gap between the three guys on the podium and everyone else (Kuechly, Morgan, Davis).

That 30 yard completion to Tremble got me excited. Our offence has been missing that for years.

You've clearly not been watching Paradis play. Hell, Moton was abused last night too.

Liked Darnold stepping up and winning the game for us. Disliked the Horn injury. If I can't dislike an injury, then my backup answer is I disliked how lost we were for a quarter without McCaffrey (although we regrouped in the second half).

Think that's enough to silence some of the "it'd be unprecedented for him to turn into a good NFL QB after those first three years in NY" doubters?

He's our deep threat this year and the Oline hasn't provided Darnold with much time to go deep. He'll see more targets now McCaffrey is out for a while. No biggie.

Sam Darnold without a doubt.

Mike Davis has lost his job to a career WR.

What did he say?

No RB? No Oline? No problem. Toxic Teddy doesn't win that game tonight.

Five guys that weren't on the team last year - 6 if you include Arnold's clutch first down. This staff / FO can evaluate talent. That's more than half the battle.