NFL/Potential Yankee Elimination Day Open Thread: Fire this college supergenius edition
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Matt Rhule proved to be the Greg Schiano of Urbans Meyer:
Unsurprisingly, Rhule’s Carolemple Panthewls did not thrive. He was fired on Monday after a 1-4 start to the 2022 season. After going 10-23 in his first two seasons, it’s surprising he even got to start a third. In 2019, the year before Rhule took over, the Panthers went 5-11, their worst record in nine seasons under Ron Rivera—but Rhule never outperformed that, going 5-11, 5-12, and 1-4. In Rhule’s final 19 games, his team went 3-16 against the spread set by Las Vegas bookmakers—Vegas’s models simply couldn’t adjust for how aggressively Rhule’s team was underperforming. He looked naive and overmatched, and now the Panthers are paying Rhule $40 million not to coach their team going forward.
Never trust an NFL coach (or GM) who says it will take 7 years to turn a program around.
Sherman also links to his piece from last year about the Meyer regime in Jacksonville, which was so hilariously inept there was stuff I had forgotten. Insisting on playing his washed-up OSU binkie and then lying about it! Not understanding why you want to use vanilla schemes in the preseason! Tebowwwwww! Somehow, teams refuse to learn the obvious lesson here.