Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!We haven't even finished Week 5 and we already have our first firing of the season. The dumped Matt Rhule on Monday in a move that wasn't all that surprising. Going into Week 5, Rhule was already on the hot seat and that seat became hotter than the surface of the sun after the Panthers got destroyed by the on Sunday.We'll be covering Rhule's firing today along with all of our other normal Monday stuff so let's get to the rundown.As always, here's your weekly reminder to tell all your friends to sign up for the Pick Six newsletter. To get your friends to sign up, all you have to do is with them. 1. Today's show: Week 5 winners and losers, plus full recapIt's Monday, which can only mean one thing: I stayed up until 3 a.m. last night recording a podcast with Will Brinson and Ryan Wilson that touched on everything you need to know about Week 5
Landen Akers Jersey , and let me just say, it's probably for the best that you listen. We covered all 14 games from Sunday, which means we likely spent some time talking about your favorite team. One thing we do every week is hand out our weekly winners and losers from Sunday's action. Here's a look at who made our list. Ryan WilsonWinner: . The man threw a 98-yard touchdown on the third play of the game against the and had 348 yards pa sing by halftime. Allen looks
Los Angeles Rams Hats unstoppable and so do the .Loser: Matt Rhule.The Panthers coach didn't even make it to Week 6. Will BrinsonWinner: .Brinson has named Cooper Rush his winner after every game that Rush has won for the and I'm starting to think that he's going to keep doing this until Rush finally loses.Loser: Jerome Boger.The long-time NFL ref will probably be getting free TB12 products for life after bailing out the on Sunday. Late in the fourth quarter of Tampa Bay's win over the , Boger threw a flag for roughing the pa ser after Brady got sacked for a 10-yard lo s on third down with three minutes left to play. The horrible flag gave the Bucs a first down and allowed them to win the game You can see the play and judge for yourself whether it was .John BreechWinner: . It took five years, but it appears the have finally figured out how to unlock Hill's talent. The Saints jack-of-all trades had one of the most impre sive performances of the season with four total touchdowns (three rush, one pa s) and 112 rushing yards in a win over the . Hill joined Archie Manning as the only other player in Saints history to rush for three touchdowns and throw for a TD in a single game. Loser: Kliff and Kyler.These two combined to make two ugly mistakes in a span of roughly 10 seconds on Sunday and those mistakes ended up costing the big time. On Murray's end, he decided to slide down for a nine-yard gain when he could have easily gotten 10 yards on a second-and-10. At the time of the slide, there was under 30 seconds left to play and the Cards had no timeouts, so Kingsbury called for a spike. The problem is that Kingsbury only called for the spike because he thought Murray had gotten a first down. The third down spike made it fourth down, and at that point, the Cards had to try a field goal that they ended up mi sing. A QB who doesn't know where he is on the field and a
Matthew Orzech Jersey coach who isn't sure what down it is in a key situation doesn't seem like an ideal combo for winning games.Not only did we list our winners and losers, but we also recapped every game from Sunday. To listen to today's episode, . You can also watch . 2. Panthers fire Matt RhuleAfter le s than three seasons with the Panthers, Matt Rhule's disastrous time in Carolina has finally come to an end. Rhule went into the season on the hot seat and that seat only got progre sively hotter with the Panthers getting off to a 1-4 start. The final straw for Panthers owner David Tepper came Sunday when Carolina got blown out 37-15 by the 49ers at home. Here's a quick look at Rhule's time in Charlotte.It was a disastrous tenure. Rhule was the Panthers coach for 38 games and in those games, he compiled a 11-27 record. Things got especially ugly over the past 12 months with Rhule going just 3-16 since Week 4 of last season. The Panthers actually started the 2021 season with a 3-0 record, but things fell apart after that. Rhule's .289 winning percentage in the NFL since his hiring and the four teams that were worse all fired their coaches during his tenure.The Panthers had zero offense under Rhule. During his time in Carolina, Rhule went 1-27 in any game where his opponent scored at least 17 points. Basically, every Panthers opponent knew that they could beat Carolina by simply scoring 17 points due to the ineptitude of the Panthers' offense.Rhule gambled
Matt Gay Jersey on the QB position and lost. The Panthers coach made two big trades during his time in Carolina and both deals ended up being spectacular failures. First, the Panthers brought in , and after it became clear that he wasn't going to fix things, the Panthers made a trade for , who has arguably been worse than Darnold. Rhule for a season, but that didn't work out so well for the Panthers, either.Steve Wilks taking over in Carolina. With Rhule out, Wilks has been named the interim coach for the rest of the season. The Panthers' defensive pa s game coordinator/secondary coach does has some head coaching experience as he was the Cardinals' head coach in 2018. Wilks has also spent plenty of time in Carolina, having been on the Panthers' staff from 2012 through 2017.The bottom line with Rhule is that he was a good college coach who just couldn't cut it in the NFL, which we've seen happen time and again. The upside for Rhule is that the Panthers still owe him for the . Of course, there is offset language in the deal, so if Rhule takes a college coaching job, the Panthers won't have to pay him any amount he's paid at
Ben Skowronek Jersey his new job. (For example, if the Panthers owed him $8 million for 2023 and a college team paid him $5 million, then the Panthers would only owe him $3 million). Rhule spent time at Baylor and Temple before taking the Panthers job. 3. Week 5 grades: get an 'A+' for upsetting , get a 'B' for taking care of Every week I team up with six of my colleagues here at CBSSports.com to hand out grades, and this week, the Giants got an 'A+' for somehow storming back from a double-digit deficit to beat the Packers in London.Here's a look at the grades from two notable games that were played Sunday:Giants 27-22 over Packers ()Giants takeaway:On paper, it didn't seem like the Giants were going to have much of a chance to beat the Packers on Sunday: Not only did they go into Week 5 with a banged-up starting quarterback ( ), but they were also
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