DrDawkinstein

You look better in a bikini than I wouldve guess.

Vrabel wont let that happen. That's a McDermott thing.

We draft small on Defense. Ed is small even if he's strong. Milano is small and he's our biggest LB. Plus, our lack of technique on open-field angles and lack of technique on tackling opens us up to injuries instead of being the ones to deliver the shot.

No, Hard Knocks is the least of our worries. We could use some more hard knocks instead of never tackling in practice.

Yes, there are other bad coaches in the nfl. So what? You're agreeing McD is no better than any of them? Overlooking the Dolphins shouldnt even be part of our discussion as it should never, NEVER happen.

His brand new 6-year contract just started. So his options are slim outside of directly pushing Terry for a regime change. Which I'm for.

Fireable offense in itself.

Agreed, and why I'd be willing to keep Beane (or even prefer it) if we could move on from McD. The HC is always very influential in who gets drafted. Maybe not down to specific guys, but McD and the staff are OBVIOUSLY guiding Beane on things like smaller LBs that can cover, and whatever else fits his schemes. Heck, Whaley's best ability was to constantly shift the type of guys he was drafting to fit the ever changing needs of our coaching carousel. If moving on from McD means cutting Beane too, then at this point, fine. But I'd like to see what he'd do with a different influence. Someone Offensive minded, riding him harder for actual WRs and playmakers.

I think you just found the closest thing we have to an "identity". Unfortunately. If it were 1 or 2 star players, then that's on the individual players. When it's the entire team in all 3 phases, that's on the coaching. No one is asking for "extra" motivation. But if they show up this flat and unprepared to play against a division rival then something is wrong in the building.

Brady never won a SB when they had Moss and Welker. When they were winning SBs, the Pats had guys like Deion Branch, Troy Brown and Julian Edelman and Chris Hogan. But they had great coaching to go along with it. Not to say we couldnt use better WRs, or that it isnt a factor. But winning without them has been done before.

Neither of those were as bad. The Vikings was a hard fought game and we were in it the whole time. The Jets was a bummer, but we bounced back from that season opener as there was still time. Today was rock bottom of a downward spiraling trend.

I dont disagree that the coaching prospects are worse this year than they were a few years ago (with Harbaugh, Payton, and Vrabel available). But I do disagree that we cant make a change. (Terry WONT, but we still could and should) I like Kubiak too. Gotta be an Offensive HC and an old, "former HC" DC. Seems to be the formula for success.

Probably should have waited until the end of the game for this. 29 still wouldnt have done it.

He's a good coach at making a bad team good. He simply cant make a good team great. Time to go. (Years too late)

Vrabel owns McD and now the AFC East for as long as he's in NE. It was a nice run... to no where.

Absolute garbage. You cant convince me McD still has the locker room. His message is obviously stale, and/or the players finally figured out that he aint it and his schemes suck. Time to go.

What costs more? Cleaning up this mess that is probably insured in a number of ways, or proactively spending the capital to replace an entire fleet of jets? The knew the risks, and I'm sure had these costs analyzed and baked in.

Tragic. RIP.

Because no one in this situation knows what they are doing.

lmao

Another way to put that is, we play up or down to the competition instead of simply having our own identity and performing consistently.

But in a similar vein, Brady didnt win a Super Bowl when he had Welker and Moss on the Patriots.

DAMMIT, BULL!

How about Flacco and Burrow are both very good? The defense is the problem there. Bengals are 1-4 when scoring 38+ points in last 2 years, other 31 teams combined are 62-4-2. If I were starting a team from scratch and given the choice, I'd pick Burrow over Lamar.

Pay him $15M.