Miyagi-Do Karate

If I am josh, I just wait. This is the worst year to sign a big deal. I know teams can get creative with how they structure, but it still probably will be less than what he gets after next offseason. the only reason he does it now is worry about a catastrophic injury or worry about a steep decline in his play; don’t think the first is too Worrisome and no chance josh is worried about the second— he is going to bet on himself.

that’s where I am at. There is no chance I would move him. You just bank on Culley figuring out a way to repair the relationship. Also, Watson strikes me as a good guy. I think if the Texans should some degree of competence with the new GM and coach, he will come around.

agreed. I expect huge things from him. You can see flashes. That he beat out Kroft too is a really positive sign. I think we will see him take it to the next level next year. This entire thread is falling to pieces and I only just opened it up!!

I have to give props to Culley. He could have been like EB, and just rot away in Andy Reid’s shadow. Instead, he made some moves to get to this point— eg, Bills QB coach and then Ravens, and now this. EB has to realize at this point being a former RB who doesn’t call plays under Andy Reid isn’t inspiring any confidence as a future head coach. People want playcallers, offensive geniuses, former QB’s/QB whisperers. I suspect that Culley showed a breadth of experience enough to sell himself as a key part of the ravens offensive success and Lamar’s development. EB needs to branch out and become an OC where he can call the plays and show we can develop a QB and offense.

yes, but you are forgetting: he interviews very well.

kind of reminds of a Doug Marrone. Assistant head coach to strong head coaches, but with no playcalling duties.

Haha-/ I have never seen a hire done out of spite.

Etienne and Spiller are both excellent and very similar. In fact, here is a picture of both of them together:

Same here. My vote would be to delete this depressing thread. 😁

Wow. I feel like the Texans interviewed him just to mess some more with Watson’s mind.

Next question: who is Dave Culley?

Agreed. There will be a lot of prove-it free agents seeing 1 or 2 year deals. Wait until that cap goes up to sign big deals.

Both James White and Rex Burkhead are free agents. They need to replace Taiwan with one of those guys.

It sounds like they really messed Epenesa up with his weight loss. The guy did exactly what they wanted, and then the Bills basically changed their mind. I bet you they have him bulk back up to 270-280. Coming out of college, I thought he was more of a bulky, set the edge, 3-4 type DE-- not a speed guy. There is a role in this defense for a player like that.

To be fair, we were much better at this during the regular season. Patriots game, end of Steelers game, and end of second Miami game. I don't know what happened in the playoffs.

your best write-up of the year. You are absolutely right about coaching. We lost the coaching battle in the pre-game prep work. The gameplans didn’t work.

Before last game, I would have easily rooted for the chiefs. Now I hate those guys. On a whole, a lot of terrible guys on that team— a solid guy like Mahomes can’t make up for all the other garbage they have on that team.

you can disagree now with the confidence of hindsight. But we could all see at the time that the offense was out of sync and we were struggling to get a yard at a time, especially in the red zone. I can tell you now that there was like zero percent chance we were scoring a TD there. The playcalling and execution were totally unhinged. hindsight is 20/20, but I figured the thinking there was get the points, get something to build on, and make adjustments to Come out with more confidence in the second half. it didn’t work. But the media painting McD as being overly conservative or out of touch isn’t quite right. If we were playing like our usual selves, he would have gone for it. He has done so all year long.

McD’s decision to kick in the first half based on “morale” was absolutely the right one. You could tell the team was shell shocked. They had to get points. I thought it was very astute coaching. The national pundits didn’t see how aggressive he was all year, and how this was a total change from what he normally does— based on his very good instincts of looking at his team at that moment. The second half decision was too risk averse, as I think McD will now concede. But hindsight is 20/20. If the D had gotten a stop or turnover, it would have probably worked out pretty well. But they didn’t, and we spiraled down.

No one disputes that there are absolute game-changer RB’s, like Henry, CMC, and Kamara. I guess the issue is weighing whether you can get a comparable or better back for less in free agency or lower in the draft. Kamara himself is a great example. Fournette was the first RB off the board at 4 overall. The Saints got Kamara in the third round.

And when the chiefs run this year, can you tell a meaningful difference between 1st rounder CEH and undrafted Darrel Williams? I suspect the chiefs are fine with a luxury 1st round pick like CEH, but he is not exactly important to anything they do.

Agree completely. I don’t get it— people want to replace the entire offensive line and draft a bruising RB. We have a top-5 offense. We also ran the ball pretty well for stretches this year. Grinding out the clock against both the Steelers and the Dolphins, for instance. i have a feeling that the improvements to the run game are going to be tweaks, and if we upgrade the RB position, it will be with more of a speedy pass catcher type of guy.

haha— love the Bach reference. Re Duke, I think he is too short to covert to TE. 6’2”. Everyone wants a 6’6” type target like a Kelce, Andrews, Hunter, Gisecki. Knox really can be that guy. He needs to just take it to the next level.

The future is now, Duke. The future is now.

don’t get me started on Angelo Badalamenti. What an epic soundtrack.