LinvilleGorge

The flip side of this coin is that people have posted similar takes regarding every draft bust ever. Maybe Ickey is a bust. Maybe he's the next Jonathan Ogden. Most likely he'll be something in between.

He should've been fired after last season but he wasn't. I'm not gonna start beating the "fire Rhule" drum this year until we see what we look like in meaningful games during the regular season.

It should absolutely be winning record or bust for Rhule this year. Give me at least 9 wins or hit the bricks.

This. No one is tying a new coach to a 3rd rounder coming off of an entire season on IR. If Rhule is retained, it probably means Mayfield earned an extension. If Rhule gets fired the new staff is going to want a shiny new QB of their own.

He was already basically going to get a redshirt year. Missing a year of practice is definitely NOT a good thing. The kid needed the reps, even if he was just running the practice team.

You can't "bulk up" your feet. Bulking up and putting more weight on your feet is only going to make you more prone to foot injuries.

Hate it for the kid.

Yeah, he's nursing a shoulder or elbow injury or something. It's a nagging injury on his throwing arm. Definitely something to watch over the course of the season in terms of contenders.

You can't practice when you're on IR unless you're designated to return and even then I think you can only start practicing when you're within three weeks of your designated return (minimum of 8 weeks on IR). So if he goes on IR he's going to miss a lot of practice.

Isn't Stafford hurt and Brady MIA for some personal issue?

Mahomes is on midseason form. Playing that schoolyard ball slinging it all over the place.

Clausen didn't "fall off". He was terrible from the get go and remained terrible. Matt Moore was a solid backup QB and that's why he played 11 seasons in the NFL vs. Jimmy only being active in 21 NFL games (13 of those being in his rookie season). Moore started more games (32) than Clausen got a jersey for. But let's not get it twisted, Moore was primarily a career backup. He only started the majority of the games for his team during one of his 11 seasons (12 starts for the Dolphins in 2011).

It seems like all the other teams are treating the 2nd preseason game as the old 3rd game. Basically the regular season walk through where the starters play the most they'll play in the preseason. Meanwhile, neither of the guys supposedly competing for our starting QB role see a snap in this game.

Out of sight out of mind. Bozeman is hurt so he's out of sight and out of mind.

Yeah, Elflein is probably typical decent NFL backup caliber. Jordan is trash.

Yeah, it's once we put some film on tape for the opposition to study that we start getting vastly out coached and out schemed.

The only way you fire a HC early on in the season is if you want to seriously evaluate an existing assistant as a potential HC candidate. Other than that, suck it up buttercup. Fire him late in the season to get a jumpstart on the search.

Yeah, if you have multiple injuries at any given positional group you're gonna be on trouble regardless of the quality of your roster.

The regular season will tell but I'm not convinced so far. Particularly concerned with the OL (when have we not been) and DL depth.

There's potential to be significantly better but so far not so good.

Brown, Pleasants, and Daley all look like guys who are simply not NFL roster caliber. Surely there are some OL and DL on our final roster who aren't on our current roster.

Well, I'd rather see that than him getting blown up by a safety.

That's my point.

This. Those two traits are nice and it's something to work with and try to groom. But damn, he looks bad other than that. I mean, Sam Darnold throws a really nice football. That doesn't make a QB.

Corral looked better than he did last week... until he went color blind and started throwing balls directly to Pats DBs.