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No. I think they believed Corral was better than Howell or they would have taken him instead. I mostly believe they think he was better than willis as well but we will never know for sure since he went before. I do think the coaching staff/gm can potentially miss on a pick but its impossible to tell one preseason game in. It's weird how it was a fitterer pick after the draft when everyone loved it and now 1 preseason game in it was a Rhule pick though lol

I agree with you completely for a change. People want to scapegoat the performance entirely on coaching. Some players could have all the reps and the best coaching staff in the league for development and most of your mid to late round draft picks still arent going to pan out. Hopefully corral will but using this performance to hate on the coaches is a bit weird. He needs time more than anything

If he gets his hands on the rusher they are done. Had a bit of trouble with some outside speed rushes.

Barno and Brandon Smith, almost all of our WR who are competing to make the roster (especially Shi Smith I think cemented himself) and some of the end of the roster cbs looked solid in man. Brandon smith has so many flashes. He is all over the field, in both the good way and the bad way (he takes himself out of position with his speed and explosiveness sometimes) but if he can find a way to harness that and be where he needs to be and not take himself out of the play sometimes then he could potentially be a big time difference maker. Edited to add Ricci. Almost forgot to add him. I know they use him as a fb/te but dude has hands and I wonder if he can compete to get some snaps in the regular season at TE since that's something we kind of lack in that position.

I get it, everyone is always looking for an excuse to blame Rhule. The coaching staff saw where Corral was and knew he was going to need more time. They knew it when they had him 4th on the depth chart. They knew it when they let PJ get more reps to judge the rest of the offensive players on. If anything this just shows maybe the coaching staff was right on where Corral was and the huddle was wrong. Nah, I'm sure the huddle knows more and if he had gotten more reps he would be the starter by now.. Corral isnt ready. It's going to take time. Everyone who saw the offense he came from in college knew that and that's ok. Stop trying to spin everything into the coach's fault because you dont like him. Corral just isnt ready yet. That's why they traded for Mayfield.

Unfortunately success in the nfl and draft slot dont go hand in hand. I'm not at all saying Corral isnt going to be good, just that I have realistic expectations of the time he may take. I just think its crazy to say where someone was drafted is an exact correlation to where they should be at in the first preseason game. Tom Brady must have got a huge amount of reps in training camp and all those qbs taken before him must have failed because of the coaching by that logic.

He could have been given every rep in training camp. That doesnt mean he would have been ready. This isnt madden. He is going to take time, not just reps.

Corral gonna mess around and get a game winning "drive" lol

I agree he might look a little better with a few more reps but I dont think he would look noticeably better yet. Matt has said himself how he needed to really learn the playbook and get the mental right to feel comfortable out there.

It has a lot more to do with time than reps right now.

Corral looks like most people who werent blindly hopeful expected. Raw and not used to a real NFL offense. Most of us knew it was going to take time for him to get a grasp on everything. (Not this season, at least early in the season). He needs time, hes got to get the mental down first before anything else matters.

I'm not at all. Like I said it's the first preseason in garbage time. Everyone is overreacting. I havent said anything about how I feel about Corral's snaps yet. I'm just talking about the people crying about haters are in the exact same group as the ones over reacting to each 4th quarter snap.

It's ok to critique a player fairly. Liking a player doesnt mean you have to blindly praise everything they do. It's the first preseason game in garbage time. There are always going to be overreactions. The whole saying anyone who critiques a play is a hater gives me the whole Cam fans vibe.

Did you say the same when Darnold was doing it last year?

It was basically a handoff with its location. I know your agenda is going to be to bash Mayfield but if you noticed neither defender could even make a play to try to take the ball.

All these hot takes from an unpadded practice that is basically a glorified pep rally.

That's fair, and I understand the people that hate Rhule. The people I dont understand are the ones who would rather the team fail to be right about Rhule instead of Rhule just improving with the experience he has had. I get tempered expectations, I don't get hoping for the worst. I also dont get the people who turn any positive thing Rhule does or anything they agree with he says into some made up negative just to be doom and gloom.

All depends on if it goes along with what they want to hear or not.

Nothing they say to the media matters. It's a lose lose. What does he really have to gain from saying no? Then if the season goes terribly and they do fire him then it looks like a lie. He has absolutely no reason to back himself into a corner. Especially considering there is a good chance he has no idea either way. I feel like Tepper would be the one making that call.

I remember him looking bad against the bull rush specifically.

To be fair he looked fairly unremarkable in the snaps he played last season. Not bad but not great and definitely had some problems with the bull rush. Maybe he is better after an nfl offseason than he was last season.

We have replaced 4 of the 5 starters from this time last year. The only one left is Moton. We also greatly upgraded our oline coach. You're delusional if you think it's the same line as last year.

We have many more options than last year. We brought in 2 solid oline free agents, a top 10 draft pick on oline and from most reports our 3rd rounder last year has improved. We definitely arent nearly as desperate as we were last year. To say we are is just to blindly hate Rhule.

Again, people are reading waaay too much in to early camp coach speak. There is no benefit to them at all giving any kind of information or ways they are leaning to the media at all right now. It's a lose lose for them for absolutely no reason.

Baker wasnt aiming for the net. There is a dude in blue behind and to the right of the net he threw it to and the dude caught it. I'm pretty sure anyway.