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not sure you are aware but every team gets injuries every year. I’ve heard it’s not a game humans should play

lsu boosters LOVE the guy. His name was obviously popular around the saints were he was on Sean Payton’s staff too. I think that’d be a brinks truck moment in his career and hard to ignore, unless he’s eyeing the Cincinnati job

You mean pink pills and rumors of cutting him before his first practice?

if it’s that the kid hates tlaw, and isn’t a product of the new regime…. It could be much simpler and about trying to set culture it’s a rookie head coach. He had his best games with the backup qb ”I don’t respect these guys and I’m not letting that loser get me killed- trade me” could be the behind closed doors sentiment that a guy new to leadership may be interested in stepping away from

I swear to god, if he allows a catch on the first drive I’m burning something down

I think managed expectations will be key here

im really not confident that McDermott isn’t clipping Brady’s wings some and we know factually that beane has handcuffed him at wr. At this crossroads, I’m confident that Brady has concepts like deep digs. Are you confident we have the talent and desire to play more vertically?

I think the sweep play that keeps failing is some heinous blind spot but I don’t think he’s a bad OC

I think this is the “is he ok” punishment, not the “you better clear him to play immediately or else” punishment this one is acknowledging the red line around the optics not that he was bullying doctors

appreciate the added context to my simple gut reaction. honestly, the other (possibly) interesting piece is those couple explosive run plays from Henry and bijan. the truth is that everything after bishops missed tackle on bijan is some degree of “whatever” yardage. Whether he missed that tackle 5 yards from the endzone or 500 didn’t change the quality of our defense at all - dude was gone. whether what happened after that moment was an extra 2 ypg on our average or an extra 8 ypg from that single missed tackle has some degree of being inconsequential to me. we have faced not terrible talents. Many of these teams are best designed to run. We let them hang and run more than they should strategically. We have allowed too many jailbreak plays. And yes, we are not good enough play in and play out On the bright side, I think that we are just the normal kind of bottom 5 rush defenders, generally, and not worst since games were played in corn fields type of rush defense. I don’t feel like we are stuck in comparisons to dust bowl depression era teams but will just be around the bottom of the 2025 pack and yes, the drum I’ve beat for quite some time seems to be coming home to roost: complimentary football for this roster is playing with a lead. pulling out the stops in the first half of games is more important than we talk about. It reflects in a lot of places and it’s why I thought for 2 off seasons getting a receiver that forces the opposition to cover much more green space every play is the biggest priority imaginable. Back up the safeties. It protects Josh’s health, and it lets the defense play one dimensionally in the second half and not worry about anything but rushing the passer.

Poyer will really bring the flash

Im not saying our defense is good. In fact I’ve been shredding this team… but Lamar/henry achane Kamara bijan then the jets/pats aren’t slouches with decent backs and mobile QBs. the problem being several of those teams don’t rank well in rushing as they are usually playing out of negative scripts and are forced to pass. instead we invited them all to run on us all game long by letting them hang. Targeting our weakest link with their strongest assets. it’s just not complimentary football to limit drives and shorten the games with this roster. We need to win 38-27 and have a bad scoring defense that can create a turnover or stop by harassing the passer one dimensionally

At this point, to save cash/cap and recoup draft capital post major trade for parsons

I think there is a big difference in the kaepernick 9ers losing harbaugh and the Allen bills losing McDermott maybe I’m wrong but I think those are barely comparable

Can you imagine what a guru like Mcvay/reid/shanny would do with Josh? Or even just a bulldog like Campbell who would embrace him fully? would Kevin O’Connell be terrible with Josh? Sean Payton? Jim harbaugh? between this at of higher tier guys and my last list rattling off random mid tier coaches I’ve got to be close or at 15 names that would be able the win the AFCE and beat the Skylar Thompson dolphins in the wildcard? Dan Quinn showing up with kingsbury would’ve been a fine enough floor. I think demeco is fine enough even if not a favorite of mine. Mike Macdonald similarly not a guy I’m stumping for but what’s the drop off? Are we talking dropping 10 wins over 9 years and maybe miss the playoffs 1-2 times when those extra losses are clustered as the floor in this list? But also a ceiling where some have rings?

I mean it’s an 11-13 win kind of result any given year. Missing the playoffs at 8–9 wins would be a pretty big fall theres some space in there, but not a ton. ignoring the bar napkin of 30 coaches and just saying avoiding one of the few that have no business at head coach- we get anyone even approaching average- which includes a lot of respected names through mid to late 20something in the rankings is going to have this team in the playoffs consistently and likely beating a lot of the wild card teams that McD has been lucky enough to draw the original post I replied to mentioned wasting Josh even more if we don’t get a top guy. I’m willing to risk maybe being a 10 win team as the downside if the upside is breaking through

plug in… I don’t know…. John harbaugh, tomlin, stefanski, vrabel, coen, Ben Johnson… do we think any of them cause the team to fall off a cliff? we aren’t going 20 years sans playoffs cycling through those guys with Josh at the helm.

Disagree tremendously. plug in any top 30 coach and really how far backwards do you go? Minimally at most

Do we think we have more of an Andy dalton problem or a Marvin Lewis/norv Turner problem?

I just think there was enough drama bubbling and mid season stressors that it’s weird to pretend Brady wouldn’t have a use for an elite receiver if gifted one. truly, I think the bigger flag than Brady not knowing how to use him was diggs working through things that lowered his own ceiling.

and ultimately we talk about the cap challenges that come with an extended regime - ie once you pay the qb it’s harder to get over the hump. If you couldn’t do it with that advantage, will you pull it off later without them…. you also get the less talked about attrition of your best talent in the front office and on the sidelines. at some point does a new regime come with a full compliment of talent throughout the facility, in addition to the fresh voice at leader. All fair considerations.

seems so easy. Win the first half, run the second half. defend the pass, don’t worry about the run because you are ahead and it bleeds clock for you i keep hearing about complementary football and it seems so obvious

it’s almost as if I keep saying the WR addition might dramatically help the defense key in on just stopping the pass. It’s the old colts undersized defense that needs to play with a lead, essentially. Stop the run by scoring early and not letting up. Rush the passer one dimensionally and get the turnover.

I almost wrote similar and thought about diggs, McKenzie and even everyone’s favorite lightning rod and white rapper Cole Beasley. Knox, Kincaid, Shakir, Palmer and Keon are all nice dudes and drilling them with having even less ego might be akin to low positive Josh needing to re-light the fire

yea, struggling to see that being far enough to both move the spot and not need to measure. I wouldn’t fault either spot on the field but struggling with a definitive adjustment on replay