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This. All day long. She has all the characteristics of bad news. Maybe they are. Maybe they have more room with Waller gone. But nothing has happened yet - They were both geography snobs from what I heard. More her than him.

The wife needs to shut her yap. That’s my two cents. I suspect he wants to come back, but she’s into cash and sand. Today will be interesting.

I think the Benford issue turns on what happens with Dane Jackson. Poyer, I suspect, is up in the air. The bet here is that his market is not what the wife expected, and he (they) will have to compromise on location or money. I'm interested to see what happens with him today.

I’d do it, too. Ed isn’t worth $10m. And there’s a good change both he and Davis walk next year. Real loser might be Davis, who I suspect would see market value depressed by going to this iteration of the Rams.

That organization understands how to protect a superstar QB.

Good for Keenum. He wasn’t coming back here. Personally I’d prefer not to pay the backup any more than Chad Henne made last year with KC, which, IIRC, was $2m. Keenum I believe was at $4m, and he was not worth anywhere close to that.

At the very least we wouldn't have seen Eli Ankou getting blown away so regularly. But there's also this little matter of putting up a 10 spot or whatever our paltry number was on the other side of the ball.

Allen to Diggs in Detroit was the best throw of the season. Hands down.

Everyone is replaceable. Some are more easily replaceable than others. But everyone is replaceable. (Note: this axiom does not apply to Josh Allen, who is not replaceable.) Personally, I prefer volunteers to hostages. If he wants out, then that’s fine. He can rework his deal and leave for a destination of our choosing. If not, then that’s fine too. Gotta have people who want to be here.

I might be in the minority here, but I trust McD to get this right. His track record speaks for itself. One of the things that I find . . . Interesting . . . About the conversation is the point that McD may assume responsibility for playcalling next year. It tells me that perhaps he wants things done a particular way moving forward, which suggests to me that he saw a particular problem with the defense. That suspicion may be unfounded, but the idea that McD is going to get his fingers into the defense more moving forward is very interesting to me.

I agree with the point on “needing” to make a change. Did this have to happen? No, of course not. The defense was good. My concern with Frazier lies in the idea that the “book” is out there on him. I’d like to see a “Spags” game out of him, or Lou A. game out of him when it matters most. We never quite got there. So, I completely agree - we did not need to make a change. I just wonder if it’s time for a fresh set of eyes, for fresh ideas, and maybe a little unpredictability at key moments. Time will tell, I guess.

I hated the Bengals game. I thought we were in trouble when I saw the inactives and Benford on the list. Not enough corners dressed and headed for too much zone. First play Burrow looked at Edmunds (over Chase, I believe) and threw right at him. Easy pitch and catch, just like the rest of the day.

We will miss him more than we we think. He’s kind of like Edmunds to me. Better than his detractors think. Probably not as good as his proponents believe. Overall he did a really good job. But, philosophically, it probably was time for a change, or at least for a fresh set of eyes.

He’s not as good as his supporters think. And he’s not as bad as his detractors think. We’ll miss him. But he’s not worth a cap hit greater than Milano’s charge. And, even if we had him at that number, he’s probably not worth keeping around with Milano and investing $20m in off-ball linebackers. I’d rather hire cost-effective replacement labor and sink the savings into the offensive side of the ball.

Could you elaborate? Is it the Hall departure of which you speak? Or the new hire? Or both?

1/8 = .125. They just raised the price by effectively the rate for the Cleveland game this year. They did the same thing the last time snow pushed a game to Detroit. I get inflation, etc., and I renewed today. But it doesn’t mean that I don’t think that it’s . . . a poor look given the crappy weather and other difficult experiences that we’ve endured as STH the last couple of years. (For example, the BS at the gates in the NE MNF game, the ridiculous amount of snow to walk through into the Miami regular season game that they couldn’t be bothered to arrange to have plowed, freezing our butts off too many times to count, the slow entry through Gate 6 this year against NE, etc.) Basically they just took a game (understandably, under the circumstances) from their best and most loyal customers and kept the cash.

His opinion has never mattered in this context. He is a sports talk show host. He could think present-day Joe Montana and Madonna are the best two quarterbacks in the league. Or the worst. It wouldn't change a thing.

This. We need to recalibrate: invest in the lines, get a little more creative, find a bit more speed, and deal with the need to have cheap labor on D and ST. Then we need a little randomness go our way for a change.

Garbage call. Most consequential piece over over-officiating I can think of.

I completely agree with you. 100%.

Maybe Buffalo didn’t want him. Didn’t heath Farwell leave in a similar manner after 13 seconds?. Maybe Bobby Johnson, too.

That comment makes me think of Dorsey losing his S in Miami early in the season over McKenzie. If we want better YAC then we should focus on the screen game.

Didn’t Josh, after Beasley returned, say something to the effect that there were concepts we didn’t run this year because nobody besides Beasley (who is in the autumn of his career) could run them? Not a good look for Hall, and maybe for Beane. But it may explain part of the thinking in not renewing/extending Hall.

Or McD wanted him gone and didn’t screw up his career by firing him.

The fact that he didn’t get an extension tells us that McD wasn’t heartbroken to see him leave. Based on where the guy was living in OP, I suspect he wasn’t making a ton of money. (He’s not one of the guys who lives in Birdsong, or in one of the new build areas.) And, the WR group probably was the second worst position group this year behind safety, so maybe it was better for everyone to move on.