GunnerBill

He never interviewed with the Raiders, nor has he with Cowboys. But he is a finalist for the Saints job. That was always the job I was most worried about with him I'd have been surprised if he'd ended up in any of the other vacancies.

I think Pete is a terrible hire. Not because he can't coach, he likely ends up in the HoF.... but asking a 73 year old to come and completely turn around the culture in a building is asking a LOT

Hiring Liam Coen.

Damn, I should be consulted!

And other than cover the kick off he was rough last week

Yea but what about refs uniforms???? We need to know what fans think!

See I think they might be the other way around.... Brady IF the Bills lose on Sunday and he can be convinced to take it with McCarthy the fallback if Buffalo win (doubt Saints wait another fortnight) or Brady turns it down. There was a point earlier this week I'd have had McCarthy as the front runner but consuming quite a lot of the local media / ITK reporters and podcasters from that market the sense is Brady and Kellen Moore both had extremely good first interviews and impressed the top brass there.

The Bills will be fine, of course. But he would still be a loss and it risks a Dorsey sized misstep.

Don't look now but I'm 4/4. I fear I am going to be 5/5 too. Brady confirmed to be getting a second interview with the Saints. I think if he wants that job he will get it. Raiders looks like a miss though. They haven't interviewed Flores and the belief is that Carroll, Monken and Spags are the guys at the top of their list.

It also means he is walking in as an already popular guy with the fanbase who desperately wanted Baalke out.

Turns out Coen WILL be the Jags Head Coach after all. All it took was a firing of Trent Baalke. https://x.com/RapSheet/status/1882567741439422629 He is in the building. Feeling growing that its his job.

The JoshShlosh?

I was actually thinming about him earlier when discussing west coast guys New England coulda hired as OC and dismissed him because, well, he sucks..... Jerry said hold my beer 😃

Which they also did....

Zach was a bad pick, no doubt. But they were still on the right lines coming out of 2022. The team had played hard, been 7-4 at one point before it fell apart, and the young talent had showed out. They needed a Quarterback who was an adult in the room. What they got was a declining great who acts like a petulant child.

Crikey, no. Why would I ask fans these questions? The NFL administration isn't perfect but if here and twitter are anything to go by most fans' ideas are even worse!

Carr would have been a better bet. Not that his stint in New Orleans has gone all that well, but he would not have put the young stars on that Jets roster in the shade the way Rodgers did and almost intimidated them out of what they had been doing. I'd have gone for Carr as a FA 2023 and then tried to find a way still to draft a guy from that decent class in 2024 even if that meant moving up some. I think they'd have won more games, be in a better spot now cap wise, I think the harmony of the roster would have been less disrupted and I think Saleh and Douglas might still have jobs.

Fair enough, then we were talking at somewhat cross purposes.

I still think the Saleh / Douglas regime was on broadly the right path before the Rodgers decision. That decision absolutely torpedoed them. It was a disaster from minute one.

AVP has been an OC in two places - an interim here in Buffalo back in '09 and then for four seasons in Cleveland before New England. But you completely missed the point of my post. The point of my post was that McDaniels runs the EP and I'm not sold on the EP as a fit for what Drake Maye does best. I actually think AVP's offense was the right sort of scheme. Not saying he is a great playcaller, but schematically I think what that west coast, spread variant asks of a Quarterback is a pretty good fit for what Maye does well. I'd have tried to go for another coach from that sort of tree: Bill Lazor was the name I threw out there as someone who has run it previously. Or Frank Reich if he would be interested in being an OC again. Josh is fine as a hire. I think he is a decent coach. But it means changing systems and while there is some cross over between the EP and the West Coast spread variant there are some differences too and mentally I think it is a bit more taxing on the QB.

I think Josh can coach, my issue with this is less that and more that I'm not sure the EP is the offense I want to put Drake Maye in. I'd have gone for more of a west coast / spread variant guy which is what AVP was running this past year. That scheme seemed to cater to him. I am not sure I want a ton of choice routes for Maye, I want a lot of "I know where my WR will be, hit my backfoot and get the ball there." I'd have taken a look at someone like Bill Lazor who is from that tree.

Yea I'd treat a catch consistently. Have you caught the ball with two feet or a qualifying body part down. If you have it is a catch. Scrap any judgment about whether the ball is moving. Scrap any need for a "football move" whatever the hell that is. Have you caught the ball, two feet or a qualifying body part down? If yes, it's a catch.

The Panthers and Raiders games are from November. The definitely upped their game in December and into January. I am not saying they are the "big bad Chiefs" of years past, but they are playing the best football they have this season (or at LEAST since the first two weeks) right now IMO.

Yea, it is specifically the lines that I worry about. They are not an unbeatable team. I don't think either NFC team would have made the AFCCG. But I always worry about the Bills against teams who dominate up front. On the offensive line's side the way our guys have played this year maybe I should worry less.

Ha. I just think it is a lot to expect their passing game to execute at a level it really hasn't think year - especially the deep passing game. But if they do with Rapp and Benford down it is definitely a concern.