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If we let Russia run over Ukraine, then then Chinese get eyes on Taiwan. Global geopolitics at work. I'm not saying that we get involved in a ground war in Ukraine--I don't think that's a good idea--but I'm all for making this really, really painful for Russia should Russia move on Ukraine. And, we should beef up our presence in Poland and the Baltics. Don't want NATO in Ukraine? Fine. But invade Ukraine and you get an awful lot more NATO in other nearby places.

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Probably just posturing. He’s in line for an extension, right? Maybe talks aren’t going as well as he would have hoped. So he threatens to go back to the A’s and relearn how to play second base or centerfield or whatever. Have at it.

I feel like he gets a little sloppy when he gets knocked around a bit. I caught only bits and pieces of this year's AFCCG, but I wonder if Cinci hit him a few times more than we did. It's part of the reason that I keep coming back to the point that we need to find a pass rusher who can get home. We didn't have one this year, and it hurt.

Crowder always feels like a handful when we play him.

Interesting. Wonder if this makes Morse more likely to stick and increases the odds that Williams and/or feliciano are cap casualties.

I thought he was a volunteer coach at the high school of one of his kids. Just the same as coaching the dolphins to a winning record, right? I kid, of course. I don’t think the idea of hiring someone “fresh” is all that crazy. Maybe not a great idea, but not completely, impossibly nuts. (Look at the NBA.). But to do it now would throw a reservoir of gasoline on the Flores fire.

Yup. This is the game. Playoffs on the line and he punted in OT. IIRC, had the Colts picked up another first down, we were looking at a tie in the best case scenario. Which was as good as a loss w/r/t our playoff chances. I was dumbfounded by that call. Still am. A Jauron-ish example of playing not to lose.

Fun fact: the office linebacker has a voiceover role in a movie that recently premiered on Paramount Plus.

I dont know this for fact, and it’s distant info, but tierney may have physically left for NJ with daboll. So this would have been done last week.

I agree with you to the extent you believe that McD is NOT in over his head. His record speaks for itself. It is excellent, and he turned this franchise into a powerhouse. But could McD have a credibility problem in the organization moving forward if we have another meltdown like we did in KC? The jury’s out on that one. He comes off as this hyper-prepared, exacting person, which is great and nothing but respectable. At the same time, the team was not prepared to play Pittsburgh and arguably Indianapolis this year, inexcusably lost a game in Jacksonville, let a game get away in Tennessee, and blundered away a road playoff win in another inexcusable way. I think he’s a really, really good coach, but it’s fair to say that he’s got a lot to clean up next year. And, given his handling of McKenzie this year (perfectly appropriate to take him off of PR duties, in my view, and probably overdue), he’s got to do something about the blunders at the end of the KC game. Which, of course, is much harder if he called the D because he can’t fire himself for that. But, realistically speaking, if he’s going to discipline McKenzie for poor play, someone has to take a hit for poor coaching (looking at you, Heath Farwell). Read Joe Buscaglia’s recent article in The Athletic. The evidence is there. Either Farwell didn’t communicate it to Bass, or Bass just messed up. I can. OT punt in Indy snow game. We were really, really lucky to win that game.

Maybe. But the text didn’t read that way. In any event, I point to an earlier comment in this thread in which it was noted that an obese, bald, middle-aged man bailed on work early the night before Schoen was hired to enjoy himself. Read into that what you will.

I couldn’t agree with this more. I’d add only that there’s great benefit in making the D-lineman run side to side early in the game to dilute a pass rush later in the game. Andy Reid gets this. We didn’t for awhile this year. Pin and pull maybe helped that cause a bit. I don’t know. But things changed for us dramatically when the run game had even a marginal improvement.

Principle. And probably revenge. But principle is high on the list.

A couple of things: 1. Brian Flores has HUGE balls. I don’t know that I agree with all of the allegations in the complaint, but if I was the victim of the sham nonsense that he describes, I’d be pretty torqued about it, too. 2. I think there’s something to the Daboll stuff that going around here and in that complaint. He struck me as . . . very unhappy as the season progressed. 3. The night before Schoen was announced as the NYG GM a middle aged, obese bald man bailed on work early and was celebrating. Take it for what it’s worth.

This bell can’t be unrung.

Apparently HCQ doesn’t work on incompetent doctors. So we’ve learned in the past 18 months. Sad.

Could be. But those who know him rave about his intelligence. So there’s that. Another option would be to bring in a guy like David Culley, who was here before, has been all over the place, and apparently did nothing to help Josh. “Terrific guy” was the quote an anonymous Bills staffer gave when asked to describe his performance here. (I’d bet $100 that was Daboll, for what it’s worth.)

It’s been trending this way for awhile. He’d get a nice bump, be the OC in waiting, and maybe even get on the fast track to a HC position.

The same place as the intelligent conservatives, apparently.

Now I’ve seen it all. Doc harping on competency. Have you convinced anyone of your HCQ/flintstones vitamins cure for COVID-19 yet?

And josh couldn’t work with him as much in the off-season if he was on staff. That’s important, too.

Yes. In the same way your zinc/HCQ/Flintstone vitamin/heaping side of bologna concoction can be considered an effective treatment for COVID.

It’s too bad that he lost another dream job. Normally I take no delight in someone getting fired. But this guy is a jerk. Not because he quit on us. For sins committed prior to that point.

I’m hopeful that there’s mutual destruction in that division next year.