BillsShredder83

The difference is, their is a sizeable chance, that Diggs major beef - is no longer with the org. If that's true, I think its possible and any bickering or tension with Josh or whoever could be salvaged. Im not saying for certain, but its a reasonable educated guess (in fairness, 1 of many). If 80% of the friction is gone, it could be a prime landing spot for the player and team. Just think back to that weird thing at St. John Fisher, with McD and Stef. Seemed like the incendiary spark that burned it all down.

Exactly. OP never said, oh man these sports are so similar.... he extracted thing they do have in common, which isnt the easiest task. Its a cool post/premise, well thought out. Seeing Neanderthals' in here have the point fly completely over their head, and act like OP is the one who is dumb, is genuinely cracking me up.

HE ALREADY DOES DERPPPPPPP. Anybody questioning that is only embarrassing themselves

If Brady can: -keep the offense steady, or add more wrinkles to pass game -learn to stick to the plan delegating coaching jobs -Further endear himself and earn respect of players -Let Leonhard cook, and learn on the job, expect mistakes he'll learn from I think he can look like a great coach. McD had problems delegating. NFL HC's have enough on their plate as it is, taking roles from others and doing them themselves is highly counter productive. You leave the most important things to yourself, and you obsess over them. You're stealing away from the main job, to do less important s***. Not only is that bad management, but it puts you at risk of burn out, and alienating that coach. If a Coach is f'ing up in-season; your job is to get THAT COACH right.... during the off-season you have to make sure you have the right guys you can trust. Hiring the wrong coaches is bad. Hiring the wrong coaches, then taking work off their desk, is worse. Hiring the wrong coaches, then taking work off their desk, and neglecting your work, for side quests, is the worst. ^^^HOW THE F*** IS ANYONE GOING TO PROSPER DOING 8 YEARS OF THIS ^^^ I get how it happens, especially as a control freak like they are, but you're breaking the foundation of your own home, to Windex the front windows, and mop the floors. Brady is young, and the job is intimidating. I could see a young first time HC, getting this right, just for survival. Especially the early years.

I dont even think either of those coaching types are wrong.... hard ass or players coach But I do full-heartedly believe that a change from one-to-the-other (either direction), can really change a good teams DNA!! The things that made that team good from the old coach, are still kicking around in the bloodstream, and all the sudden they add a whole 'nother skill set/strategy to it. I think that specific form of magical voodoo can only last 2-3 years, by nature, but you can still have great coaching. A good agent and PR firm can help a guy like that really close that missing $$'s gap. Squeaky clean image, incredibly likeable not only in USA's largest city, but everywhere. Its not insane to think that move could actually end up with him making more $$ overall. Not that they need it, but if any millionaire "deserves" an extra $50-100M, it's a guy like that!

We also saw it with the Canes and Brind'amour cracking open a 16oz can of rookie Bussy (🤣), in net lol Dude split reps with Anderson all regular season, then rode pine through ~3.5 rounds. Came in and absolutely saved a team that was sinking with a worn down Anderson. Vegas just couldn't figure it out. What I'm saying is we need our own young Bussy, coming off the bench. But seriously, anybody who watched knows that goalie change absolutely tilted that series... and thank God. VGK adding another ring would've killed my soul. Who will be our secret Canefederacy Bussy this season?

Ill be honest, I don't care. Its tough medicine but if we win, we're running it back with same coaching. Its objective a gamble moving on from arguably the 1st or 2nd best coach in our history. However. The message was stale, lockeroom was a tense pressure cooker, and were at our ceiling. Gamble could pay off (see Knicks winning it all). It could hurt. Im willing to trade out guaranteed good regular season team, for a possible SB winning team. Its binary to me, and i accept the risks as well as the upside potential.

Thats exactly what im saying though. There are a lot of different angles to this. And my post covered a few different angles with different conclusions. Me who died: let him go earn for my family My daughter (w/o kids or husband): dude can rot It was my daughter w/ kids: that one would be real tricky What family is to consider? If the family could get some type of restitution to help repay some of the damages, and were saying "hey wr could really use the help... we have kids that'll be in college [insert any hardship here].... the government has the final say. "Hey sorry about the kids college fund, but we'd rather he rots past his earning potential", and thats the final say. At what point is the "revenge", more important than the needs/wants of the family. The family should have the majority input here. If their wish is "death penalty", i can get behind that. I could also get behind them wanting to take his NFL salary, to try and better the kids or husbands lives. Personally, i kinda wish we operated at both ends of the extreme. Either fully commit to try and REHABILITATE these people, and salvage some value from them. Or decide, this person is destruction and a permanent drag on society, into a shallow hole he goes. They hover on this middle ground, where were manufacturing so many criminals (institutionalizing), lock them up 20years.... then release them into the wild. Theyre now a feral animal with no skills, and a prisoners mindset. Not all cases, but were certainly creating career criminals, and unleashing them on society, to reoffend vs new victims. They go in 5-10years... get out.... do it again. Rinse repeat. If youre not going to make any effort to rehabilitate people, then you need to lock em up till they die in jail. Not because I care as much about the criminal, but for the protection of society that doesn't live like that.

Is there any chance at him getting a crack at the NFL again. Certainly there is major restitution ordered in this case? Or a huge civil lawsuit. If he has POTENTIAL to get signed, I'd seriously consider letting him out while he has a chance to pay even some of the damages. If everything went pristine, theres a chance he could see 1 decent short-term 2nd contract.... and that could really help that family that was torn apart. I dunno if she had kids that could g2 college, or a husband with a young kid in the house or what, but if theres potential for him to "help" (using that real loose here), I'd at least consider it. I have a 3yr & 12 yr old, if Ruggs had killed me in that crash, and he could use that talent to help my wife or kids out, in any type of meaningful way, I know thats what I'd want. At the same time, if I were the girls parent, and there wasnt anyone effected left to "help", I'd let him it out on the sideline. Its tricky, bc I'm sure that's the argument Ruggs attorney would try to make. From a society standpoint, the kid was an idiot, but I dont remember him being a career criminal type, at all. On a larger scale, the longer you leave people like this locked up, the more likely they become institutionalized and angry drains on society. Is it in society's best interest, at scale, to let people like this rot? I dunno that it is. There's a lot of nuance in there, and it's hard to get any large group of people on the same side over something like this. Is jail's intent revenge/punishment? Or is it reform? I'm far from a hippy, and think death penalty needs to be used more... but with the salvageable folks, I see it a bit different. Sweden has a pretty remarkable record for actually reforming criminals. I think it's worth a try, because what were doing now clearly doesn't work.

This upcoming season will be that magical 2years post-ACL too. I dont think it's insane to think he could look better than last year. He was ALWAYS the type of WR that was going to age gracefully (physically anyways). He was never a burner, pure route running technician that could survive losing a step, then 2 steps. Contrast that vs the aging Tyreek Hill type WR's that were always going to fall off a cliff (before the injury, I mean)

Could be they seee what a lot of teams see with these diva WR's. Year 1 is a honeymoon, but it gets sketchy after that. You go into an arrangement like that knowing its a 1yr max situation. Was 2 years away enough to "re-set" his internal clock to year 1 player? I dunno, but it's worth exploring. After years of garbage WR core, and injuries and hand wringing at deadline "because the thing that happens every year happened again," I dont understand anyone making an emotional decision to CHECK IN ON A serious talent, at potential bargain bin money. We have DJ Moore, and Shakir, everyone else is a major question mark/injury liability. I'd 100% kick the tires

Interesting. What's lead to you softening your stance on it? Youre probably right. Heres how I see it: 1. The trial thing got handled, and didnt reflect poorly on him in my opinion. I watched the trial and didnt trust her at all (and Ive been critical of him). 2. McD no longer here. I know Brady was technically OC for like a half year, but just a feeling that him & McD was a major issue of conflict. 3. Stef may have gotten a small dose of humbling over the last 2+ years. May be mentally willing to accept/embrace a reduced role. No longer a 1A, but he could really eat as a #2. I'd imagine itd be really nice to notice that while you lost a step physically, you can re-gain it by drawing a weaker corner/less or no double teams. Could eat with DJ Moore opening field for him.

Yeah, I'll admit I have a visceral dislike of the dude. I was already on the fire McD train before that "article" had dropped, it flipped my opinion - opposite of its intended effect. 25 Years From Now: Article: "Hero Sportswriter Ty Dunne saves orphans from fire" Me: *under my breath* I hope he's always reallllly careful walking down the stairs

Anybody know the deal with Des Reid? Ughhhhhhh. I know his frame is probably too small for NFL, especially when he had a hard time staying healthy in college... but the kid IS ELECTRIIIIIIC. If nothing else I think he could grab a spot as punt returner and earn a jersey, where again he was ELECTRIC. Hope he somehow ends up sticking

Just like with Damar, I think its a very personal decision. If he wants to give it a go, and the medical staff can sign off on it, then I absolutely think he should. And I'm not saying that with a Bills bias, a 6th rd'er who's only played a handful of games is not moving the needle either direction. Kudos to the Bills for letting him explore his options instead of squashing them. I believe by staying on IR, he's extended what has to be extremely crucial health insurance (maybe he wouldve been covered even if he released w/o an eventual IR? Since it was an on-field accident). Insurance and/or medical bills that this young man would have absolutely zero way to pay. If I were him I'd be hitting stem cell treatment, and HGH. I think with the injury distinction he has he'd be removed from the testing pool? Or maybe he can even get a rare doctors exemption considering the severity of the injury. Hoping for the best for this kid though!!