JawnyBlaze

I watched it too, I didn’t get the impression Fitterer is on the hotseat. He seemed to be indirectly blaming the personnel problems (probably mainly the QBs) on Rhule. And the irritated tone at the end came from Fowler asking if he just rolled out of bed that morning and decided on a whim to fire Rhule [“on a whim” is my addition]. Definitely made it clear that he is familiar with Fowler’s work and doesn’t appreciate either his past words or the implication from the question.

The bolded parts are simply wrong. CMC and DJ are both playmakers. Teams just don’t have four playmakers at skill positions very often. Even the Chiefs just had Hill and Kelce. The Bucs are pretty much just Evans and that other WR who’s always hurt. Fournette is ok, but replaceable in that offense. Our skill positions are above league average. We just need competent coaching and QB play. And our lines are both good. We have better OL play than I’ve seen in 13 or 14 years on this team, and our DL is great. No DL has four all pros, but Burns and Brown are great with Ionnidis being quite good and YGM is fine at his job and still young.

We need a coaching staff and QB. We could use a TE. Our OL is good now. RB is good (CMC ain’t going anywhere, and even if he does a solid RB can be found in the 3rd round or so. The run game is schemable to be sufficient moreso than other positions), WRs are good even if Robbie goes (good, not GREAT). DL is very good, LBs are solid but we could use one more as an upgrade to Wilson or replacement for Shaq if he’s a cap casualty, secondary is great. We really are close.

Payton would be great but not if it costs us draft picks. So realistically at the moment Ben Johnson is probably my front runner, with Flores not far behind. If Tomlin or Harbaugh get fired they’d probably jump to the top.

And we can start researching the next HC. Poor form to do it while you still have one, but once he’s gone you can start the search for the next HC. And potential HCs will be thinking of Carolina as a definite opening rather than a possible one. There’s no benefit to keeping him other than possibly worsening our draft pick because Wilks or whoever might win a game or two that Rhule wouldn’t.

Yea, he got away with one for sure there. One of our young backup DBs, forget which one.

Eh, we typically get the short end of the stick on most calls but PIs for the most part seem legit to me. The ones called against us anyway. The Robbie no call made me raise my eyebrow but it wasn’t as egregious as the comical roughing the passer against the falcons today or the two terrible ref decisions at the end of our game with the Browns.

He’s not an NFL starter. Barely a backup. But he throws a better ball than Baker and he’ll make the games more interesting to watch than Baker. Might end up more mistake prone, but he’ll make something happen every now and then. When we got Baker I never thought we’d be seeing the second coming of the Bridgewater offense but they have just been boring and pathetic same as two years ago, but with even worse production.

Littleton is trash. Should a made the play on the TD and on the 40 yd run

Shula was the worst OC I’ve ever seen. Give him an average QB and he doesn’t have any kind of scheme. If anything would be worse than Rhule+McAdoo it’d be Rhule+Shula lol. I just vomited a little just thinking about it

No one needs a Mike Shula type. That’s just blasphemy

He was drafted in the 2nd. Hard to be a bust when you’re not drafted high. Maybe slightly underperforming, if he was a top half 1st round pick you could call him a bust. In his case, worst case scenario he’ll just be a pick that didn’t work out.

No, what will the new HC and QB have to work with? We’re not going to get any kind of return on the trades, if it was for a high first each then sure, but no one is going to give us that. We’d trade DJ and CMC and get draft picks that would get us Robbie and Chuba equivalents.

Honestly, Baker is better than Darnold but put Darnold back in when he can play. At least he’s not getting every other pass tipped

Batted at the goal line, I’ll take that

I feel a big defensive play coming on the 1st and 15. Safety maybe, tfl something.

That woulda been good from 60. Gonzalez might be looking for a new team next year. I know he was solid too but Pineiro has been money

Damn Baker has been throwing terrible mid and deep balls

I liked that swing pass play to DJ

Last game the receivers were dropping everything

Never. I’d rather have Quinn if it’s between him and Rivera

Rhule is the main problem. Not having a good QB is a product of the main problem, but of less negative impact than how bad of a coach Rhule is.

Shenault with 100 yards on that drive with the return and catch!

Luvu is one of our best players on defense. Gotta lock him up, he definitely survives the imminent coaching purge.

Factory? Tua has a couple good games and they’re a factory?