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He should be here. Hopefully if Rhule gets fired he's on the short list. Steelers got guts. And integrity. Good for them.

This should bother me but it doesn't. Not anymore. This isn't a special team anymore.

Why would they?

Lol people acting like him trying for an actual promotion with another team is he I'm rejecting us. Lots of stuff to complain and whine about with the panthers, but him trying for a promotion is not him trying to get away from the panthers. It's a fuggin promotion you ninnies! Why would he not want to try for that regardless of how we were doing?

Lol you think he knows the difference?

Im just preparing myself for that kind of move. Seriously, would anyone really be shocked for us to do that? Or to use that first pick on defense?

He's the most interesting to me, but we'll either go Pickett or a CB.

Here's one thing to consider, and I'm saying this as someone who for years has been on the jim harbaugh bandwagon, could he have done that with any other team or was it just a matter of right place, right time, right crew(players)? If not, then why has he not had a dominant team outside of that? I mean there for a minute Stanford was pretty good, but they also had a pretty good QB. Since San Fran, where has the success been?

That embarrassing episode with minny makes hit pause on harbaugh and question whether or not he's a guy that a team would actually want to work with. Why did they really not want to bother with him. Is his ego too big? Also, Rhule has kind of ruined the idea of hiring a coach out of college for me. The mindset and coaching style for a college coach vs. pro coach is different. I know Harbaugh has pro experience as a player and HC and he's had success, but college coaches coach college ball for a reason that isn't just money. It's where they belong. Same with pro coaches. He might be good, but I would rather look elsewhere....mainly at coaches who coach adults.

We're drafting another corner at 6.

Lol that's true. the hit made the man.

It matters as to the character of the guy that is supposed to be the coach. Character matters, especially for leaders because what they do and say have a profound impact on the people they lead and, to a degree, is a reflection on who they are. If the coach/leader is an ass, it's going to cause problems at some point that are detrimental to the org. they are leading.

Lol don't worry about it. I totally misread the OP as well.

Nah, I thought it was dumb when I saw it was one of the options. Didn't need anyone else's help to see that.

The oline is, ultimately, his fault. It's his team. His guys. It was his position coaches. It's his responsibility to get the best players and make sure they are coached up correctly and doing their job. When they fail, it's up to him to make sure their mistakes are being corrected. If he got up and placed blame on them, he's placing more blame on himself.

Doesn't make him a good leader or a good human, for that matter.

Could be. I think they'll take a drop next year but they'll be tough for a while.

True. Tough era.

It can happen, but not if you aren't willing to 1) acknowledge that you can make a mistake, 2) realize you made a mistake 3) learn from that mistake and 4) rectify that mistake. That goes for Tepper and Rhule. I think Tepper is more likely to be able to let experience teach him and guide him than Rhule.

Good coach. Good leader. They'll be back in it in a year or two. Probably two, making allowance for the Superbowl loss slump.

Yep. Could very well be a wasted pick. If Rhule gets fired, new coach will probably want his guy in there taking advantage of a much better class.

I'm hoping that we have taken steps to rectify this and that Rhule keeps his mouth shut and let's the grownups do their jobs. I don't see that happening. He can't keep from being who he is, a manipulative narcissistic micromanager.

Thsts why he suggested trading for Joe Thomas (in hindsight) might have helped neutralize that jackass von Miller. We haven't valued the OL or shown much ability to help the OL for two coaches now. It has been undervalued and we've shown no ability to judge personnel in our limited attempts to help it.

It won't take 7 or even 5 years to find out what Rhule is capable of. I think most here already know. Rhule has had no sense of urgency because he had that 7 year cushion. If that cushion is taken away, survival depends on being able to acknowledge that your plan isn't working, find a fix, and adapt, putting your fix in place. Good minds can pull this off. Narrow minds can't, neither can dummies. There's a slim chance that Rhule has a good mind in there somewhere, but more likely he's one of the other two. Adapting, should he try it, might look like this:

Lesson from Stafford is to hold out and wait for a contender. Don't go to a bad team. Don't let your old team trade you to a bad team. Play for teams that can get you a ring and that have coaches with experience winning in the pros.