Coach Tuesday

My read is that they’ll make Cole an offer he’ll have to refuse.

Anyone have a link to this?

You raise a good point which is that if this had happened in Dallas or NYC the head coach would be Dead Man Walking, for better or worse.

Not just “some fans.” The FO has basically admitted they focused last offseason on stopping the Chiefs, specifically, which helps explain among other things the second round pick on Basham (because protection and pressure became an issue for KC in the Super Bowl) - as if it didn’t occur to the FO that perhaps the Chiefs would improve their o-line to the point where it would be more important to outscore them or cover their fast guys.

Interesting. So draft a corner high and some good WRs will be pushed down. Fine with me but if a special elite receiving talent like Jameson Williams is sitting there at 25 I probably still pull the trigger.

The Denver Broncos are about to sell for close to $4 billion dollars. With that kind of brand value at stake you simply cannot have glorified gym teachers screwing up basic game strategy decisions like this - it is 0% acceptable.

Odd to see the financial info made public for a GM hiring, no?

I think they legitimately like their young d linemen. Oliver is a star, Harry had an insanely good run to end the season, Rousseau already is one of the best run defenders in the league as a rookie, and Basham showed some real juice toward the end of the year. They need a bit more depth at d tackle and they need one impact edge rusher to emerge. May or may not be Epenesa (who appears to be the only one in this group with real bust potential) - could be a twitchy tweener OLB they draft or find in the dollar CD bin in free agency. Star, Addison and probably Hughes moving on will open up spots for younger guys. Overall I don’t see d line as an issue and don’t think the Bills do, either.

Agree completely and having an all-Black leadership in the crown jewel of old NFL franchises, especially in a city marred by racial divisions, would be a huge positive for the NFL. I hope it happens and I’d be very happy for Leslie.

Their rivals keep doing it though! The Chiefs had a hole at left tackle this offseason and the Ravens, thinking they had surplus at the position, traded them Orlando Brown leading up to the draft. The Chiefs ended up with one of the best lines in the league, turning a weakness into a strength. The Ravens’ line meanwhile ended up a shambles. And then Pitt traded them Ingram midseason because Tomlin wanted “volunteers not hostages” and he turned out to be the missing piece for that defense, allowing them to kick Jones inside - that trade helped spark the Chiefs’ late-season defensive turnaround. They were reeling before then. Pitt meanwhile proceeds to lose to them in the playoffs. You’d think their AFC rivals would’ve learned after what the Bills did and would stop making deals with Brett Veach but no - I’m sure he’s already scanning the rosters of the Colts, Dolphins and Browns looking for some cherries to pick…

I think this is exactly right and what McD meant by “execution.”

Goal for the offseason should be to add SPEED and AGGRESSION on both sides of the ball. Period. (And maybe fire the ST coordinator.)

Right but PSE isn't confirming that. Great that she's setting a goal for herself.

Agree with all of that. But what is he going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again?

Misleading/incoherent title. She says she's "confident" she'll have made enough progress in discussions in time for the April 1 budget submission.

Can there be something in between "fire him" and "you stupid morons he's never going anywhere and you're lucky to be allowed to speak his name"? Specifically: is it ok to expect that McD has to account for his performance with the season on the line, and put in processes or make changes to prevent something like that from happening again? No, we're not as fans entitled to know what those things are, but it would be nice to know it's being addressed. The fact that his stomach is turning over about the end of the game is a good start, sure, but blaming "execution" while saying "the buck stops with me" while refusing to explain what the hell he means by any of that is more than a little frustrating...

What about Chad Hall as Daboll's OC?

Agree with your points in this thread. Scheme really isn’t the problem - talent is. Don’t change the scheme. It’s time to tweak the player acquisition strategy a bit to somewhat de-emphasize culture. The culture has been built and it’s now Josh’s team. Period. You don’t need a high-character vet in every position group meeting. Josh is going to set the tone for this team. Beane can afford to take a few more risks on “character” if it means acquiring high-ceiling athletes who can do things like chase QBs, catch footballs down the field or intercept passes. They also need to be a little bit more willing to take financial risks - this isn’t a car dealership. Yearly returns are important but the goal should be to win a championship during the Allen Window. Anything less than that is total legacy failure. We don’t need to overhaul the schemes on either side of the ball. We need to move away from guys like: Addison Star Sanders Feliciano Taiwan Jones Wallace Go find some better football players who can impact games. Phase 1 was dismantle the old regime. CHECK. Phase 2 was find a QB and build up a winning culture. CHECK. Phase 3 is STOP HIDING UNDER YOUR BLANKET AND GO GET US A LOMBARDI MCBEANE. Ugh I’m still pissed. But I think I’m right about this. Time to recalibrate the personnel strategy. Coaching is fine (enough).

Didn’t I also see Williams returning punts and covering punt returns as a gunner? He would have played some on defense, too, if the coaches had let him. I’d love to land that kind of all-around sparkplug.

He beat them earlier in the season and was a squib kick away from beating them a second time last night…

Knox also had to stay in to help out on Brown’s side a bunch last night because the rookie was STRUGGLING.

They’ll definitely go after him if that happens.

Not to mention THEY INVESTED A QUARTER-BILLION DOLLARS IN HIM. If that was your money at risk, wouldn't you take steps to protect it?

Agree with all of that but would prefer he brings in some coaching talent who could actually challenge him to stretch more. With the game on the line last night was anyone in McD’s ear about the situation they were facing? Because it sure seemed like he somehow didn’t know the Chiefs were only down by 3 and had all of their timeouts. A competent veteran assistant HC/special teams coordinator would do wonders for the game day operation.