Augie

Did you ever really think he would be back? People often say what is convenient in the moment. I can live with that. It’s not all black and white, truth or lie, either. Sometimes situations are evolving and all you can really say is what you are doing now. I don’t feel they owe it to me to share every little detail. Maybe that’s just me. My guess is McD said he was going to call the D, Leslie didn’t like that and had a decision to make. He might have hoped for a HC gig, but here we are.

Marv should be glad his time was before the internet made so many people lose their minds. Lots of message board tough guys who don’t know as much as they think they know. There are things we need to do better, but this tear it down and start over stuff is crazy right now.

You know that not to be true or accurate. It’s obviously more complicated than that. But I thought you would appreciate the Super Bowl or Bust mentality.

Yeah, who wants a dome NOW???

I don’t know, spending all day at a Mighty Taco should probably come with some type of health warning! And maybe a plumber…… 🤷‍♂️

Second in the NFL last year giving up 17.9 points/game despite being decimated by injuries (including in the playoffs). But you feel free to be you. Please don’t embarrass yourself by mentioning 13 seconds. .

Is it constipation related? Sounds more likely than “Oh God, I hope I make it!” You don’t stop to post that! Best wishes, regardless! .

And now, let us all take a moment to knock on wood. We had a pretty good looking plan last year…….until we didn’t.

It is a tragedy that we need to be careful/fearful to some degree in almost any situation. Per the Boyst thread, be AWARE. Always. Sadly, this is not new. Monica Seles getting stabbed on the court comes back to me. We have some very troubled people among us.

….so, the Bills have WMD and they’re not allowed to talk about it? This has gone too far!

He got thru the interview without serious injury, so I think we are making progress. 🤷‍♂️

I’ll be the sucker who pays the bigger price the second time around. As a last minute decision I didn’t get registered or anything. Tickets will be expensive, but hardly the biggest expense of the trip.

You are going to make some people very, VERY MAD! 😋 But seriously, I haven’t seen this yet, but it seems to be science. Therefore we like it.

Of course! I just disagree, right now. Could another coach do better is only one side of the coin. You know the other. We have a group, right now, built to win a certain way. We have some aging on defense, but we are now in a window. I don’t start over now. See if he can get it done with this group and this scheme. A new coach wants to do his own thing, and far too often the players are not fits for what they want to do. Like when you move houses, the sofa (or OLineman) was fine in the last place, but now it doesn’t work. So we start over with new pieces. I think we are too close to start over….now. And times change, so we shall see.

And THERE is the disconnect! I do NOT pound the table for McD. He’s done enough to get at least one more year, so why are we doing this now? THAT is my thing. It’s just pointless. 🤷‍♂️

I think of it as a weekly series type of thing. Check back next week.

You want to make it sounds like I don’t want want to win a SB. I really do! I also realize that 31 teams are disappointed every year (some as early as October). McD is 4-5 in playoff games, and we all with that was better. I just won’t concede to the woe is us attitude. He gets AT LEAST this year, so beating it to death here at this point seems senseless to me. What can we do better? Realistic things to improve? That is more my focus, and quite frankly this is getting tiresome. We are not all supposed to see eye to eye on everything. That would be weird. 😋

I lived in the Tampa market during those years. It’s interesting, and we’ll never know how it might have turned out, but I think Dungy would have won it with the Bucs. Gruden was just so lucky to fall into that spot (again because he was the top name and got to pick his spot) and won almost by default over his old team who hadn’t even bothered to change their calls. That is one of the most underrated boneheaded moves in the history of the NFL. There is video of John Lynch belly laughing on the sidelines saying something like “they haven’t changed a thing!! 😂”

They are a single team. They are the outlier. Keep that in mind. EDIT: Apparently at least a couple posters disagree. Are they not just one team? Are there a bunch of teams firing coaches on the way to SB’s? It seems getting TOO emotional can affect the way you see things. .

The best candidates get to pick the best situations, or even sit out a year waiting for the right team and deal. Nobody wants to step into a bad management situation, it just makes the job too hard. The thought that we would consider a % of ownership shows how desperate we were. Any time you consider a new job, one question you need to ask is what happened to the last person in that position. Fire someone after a 14-4 season and I’d have to at least ask, is ownership reasonable?

So McD would go collect SB rings somewhere else? 😋 Chip Kelly replaced Reid and had a record barely over .500. I do like how everyone likes to reference Reid and the Eagles. Philly has a top notch organization right now, but it doesn’t always turn into SB appearances. Sometimes you are the Browns.

Firing a coach after a 14-4 season, in that example, is a short leash. Most teams and fan bases would sign up for 14-4 all day long.

I disagree to some extent. The opportunity to take over a good roster with a franchise QB would certainly be attractive. But to take the job after another guy got fired after a 14-4 season tells you they have a very short leash. It reeks of Browns style management. I know, they will negotiate a big fat contract and be financially cared for, but I’d have reservations about that management.

Do you disagree to agree?

Here’s a thought I don’t think I’ve seen yet here: If you fire a coach after, say, a 14-4 season, how attractive is that job scenario for top HC candidates you hope will replace your 14-4 coach. I know I’d have reservations about following that up.