Coach Tuesday

Pete Carroll although he’s like a Lovie Smith on speed.

The McCaskeys are gonna have a hard time selling the fanbase Todd Monken after the Trestman and Nagy debacles… that’s not a small market where owners have clout like Jacksonville.

Feels like the kind of thing where the league would change the rule just in time to deprive Buffalo of that bonus.

Belichick was contacted by Brady about the Raiders job: https://www.nfl.com/news/bill-belichick-potential-nfl-return-raiders-tom-brady-multiple-teams

Good stuff. But you’re missing a “dark horse” like Gruden going back to the Raiders, or Carroll finding a chair before the music stops. There is almost always one head-scratcher and I expect the same will happen this cycle.

He was in a hurry to post this drive-by “analysis” of the 2014 draft, during playoff week. Give him a break.

Everybody gets a keyboard and an internet hookup.

It’s much easy to scream about journalistic bias than actually read things. Humans change. McDermott sounds like he’s changing. Maybe Dunne has evolved too. Mouth-breathers on the internet don’t like nuance. I don’t know what’s worse - the folks in this thread cursing out Dunne without reading the article, or the folks in this thread proudly proclaiming that they won’t pay for content (while at the same time complaining about how content has gotten worse). These kinds of takes contribute to the sh__ification of society.

Activate Hyde just to safely catch the punts.

This is exactly right. He has a TON of work to do this offseason and it will set him up (better or worse) for the main trajectory of his career. Does he want to be great? If so he has a lot of work to put in. If he wants to crack jokes and try to coast by on his athleticism he will have a short career. But the ceiling remains very high.

They should send him to Carolina.

Did ok. Better than Spector. Needs to tackle a bit better (noticed him getting dragged for a couple of first downs) and missed a couple of zone drops leading to completions. Again, better than Spector. He can play.

Nope after the Flores lawsuit there’s zero chance the Krafts are that stupid.

It wasn’t just the record. There were multiple instances that we know about (because they were public) where he flubbed it this year. A whole series of gaffes at press conferences for example. He’s just not ready to be The Guy yet.

Bc they had this whole succession plan thing. Clearly someone in the building wasn’t in favor of it…

Someone posited here that Vrabel rushed to do the Jets interview to pressure Kraft to act…

IDK about Solomon - he seems unable to decelerate. Jerry Hughes and Mario Addison, lots of pressures but a weird inability to wrap up.

Butterfly Effect game, fascinating to see how the consequences for NE materialize. In terms of the Bills, Coleman has a lot of work to do this offseason as do his draft mates Bishop and Carter.

That wasn’t Bishop….

Milton having his Rob Johnson moment…

lol Mitch just assured Josh the MVP

Suspect he is bad at “managing up,” perhaps among other flaws.

Cheap shot in the sense that he didn’t have to work for that block at all - so it’s not worth pointing out on a clinic tape like Baldy did. Dawkins had many great plays in that game but pancaking a defender who was engaged with two other blockers after the play was basically over is not an example of elite line play. Anyone off the street could do that. If he’s really trying to maximize his dollars he’ll try to shop himself as a man corner. He put good tape out there this year because the Bills have played a decent amount of man coverage (probably bc they’ve felt they had to blitz more because their line wasn’t winning). And when they did he really held up. He would be paid many millions more as an island corner. Paying him will be fascinating. He is on a slow but steady upward trajectory to greatness but still isn’t there yet - he’s not being game planned against yet. But someone will be willing to pay him a ludicrous sum because he is on the cusp of greatness.

Another drop for Gabe Davis…

Sweeping the division would be nice too.