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Interesting that in your scenario the #17 team can (seemingly) be favored to win a division. Cool. I think Atlanta is going to be better than people are predicting. And TB ranked higher than them when they appear to me to be the most depleted team in the division? I guess this illustrates why no one pays me for my opinions.

Kelsey was the guy no one had an answer for in the playoffs. They couldn’t defend him.

People just want to stop the run, and the pass. That’s it. Not personal. I hope the new defensive scheme maximizes him.

That was supposed to be a little throwaway joke. 7 years. Tepper gave him 7 years. Which really isn’t very funny either.

Man, Bridgewater would have been fine for two seasons of building the team. The real screwing up started with running him off after a year. Seriously, how bad was two years of him going to be given where the team was? Bridgewater may have told Rhule something that sparked that. How impatient was Tepper for a QB? That was a possibly factor. But really analyzing the missteps of a guy would couldn’t learn to be an NFL level HC, after he is gone, kind of pointless. On his positive side there is a higher level of talent that was achieved last year, it was almost tangible. On paper the secondary was pretty covered, OL came on and got pretty good, top third maybe. So some things were getting figured out. Maybe he really did need 7 years.

Couldn’t edit the above post but wanted to add I will say Young is doing things that Cam should have done that I don’t remember him doing much of. He took his off-seasons off. Young is at SMU throwing to his WRs which, damn right I like to see that. Then I think, a guy with his negatives to overcome, would do that type of stuff though. He’d be used to it. Business as usual. He has done that to succeed his whole life. I definitely value that type of ‘want to’ in my football players

I agree with you there on the expectations. We don’t really know anything yet and there are a lot of areas that applies to. If it turns out the team actually made a good decision on Young, the situation in our division is fairly unique in that I can’t think of a division fully populated with teams on the bottom of the talent barrel the way the NFCS was last year. Maybe the old NFCC in a couple of seasons but even so most times I remember there was one team that dominated which has not been the case here. So I can see a path but again, we know nothing really until they kick it off in regular season mode. And then it will be a few games of the modern NFL’s extended into the regular season preseason practice games. Which is what we get with the labor rules they go by now where you can’t really practice enough to hone things before the shooting starts.

He was tired of Fox and JR. I think Fox had someone watching him maybe, checking on him away from football. Jenkins said something about not being a child and that sort of thing.

Jenkins was missed big time. He should go in on that crazy kick block TB game alone. I’d like to see TD and Luke go in together.

I have the nostalgia for the low tech old days when NFL Primetime was without a doubt a highlight of my week. They need to bring back Australian Rules Football and the America’s Cup overnight programming, repeat that stuff all day, break on with some scores and reports on actual sports news that doesn’t involve contract, money, and focus on the athletic side not the business side. 4am after a late shift, America’s Cup was a blast. Present the content with much less emphasis on the personalities of the talking heads they employ and, again, place the emphasis on athletic side of sports. Too ‘80s? Maybe, but I could handle ego deluded Berman and his nicknames, and Tom Jackson kissing his ass all broadcast long. Yes Boomer, no Boomer, yes Boomer, haha that’s a good one Boomer. I do recognize that much of the old days’ appeal hinged on the more entertaining style of play celebrated on Jacked Up, which the media helped take away from us (if a guy wants to sacrifice his old age for millions of dollars he could never ever get a chance to earn otherwise, $ which elevates his family for generations, isn’t that his right?). Go back in time and stop the overt show biz there before you bring in Skip and Steven A and their TMZ oriented yelling and theatrics, and take the other fork in the progress road.

Comedy gold there CWC. Man you think a lot of yourself.

Yeah I watched an interview with him probably the same one a lot of people have seen. My takeaway was really, that guy is going to be a leader on that OL and the team as well. He has the qualities.

I think Rhule’s failure was easy enough to see coming. There are things you stay away from, generally, if you want to succeed in the NFL. College coaches are one. Successful ones are outliers. I think this last coaching decision went as well as we could have hoped. I can see a good outcome from it without squinting too hard. As far as the other things to stay away from, I need to be shown that the draft wasn’t another of those somethings that you should not do. We better have hit on an outlier. This is going to be a very interesting year. Lot on the line.

The entire postseason was Kelce. The one that plays TE for KC. Not one team stopped him. They handled everything else KC threw at them but when it came down to it they just had no answer for him.

I am with you. I feel Cam’s story is one of unfulfilled potential. I always rooted for him and the team. Always. Hate is a word used erroneously nowadays by so many that don’t understand what real hate is (hint: it is even stronger than what people are feeling that are mad at me for ‘hating’ on him).

I am not gonna be drawn into repeatedly defending a perfectly reasonable thought, don’t twist words. I never said I was worried about a damned thing. I never said the team was gonna suck. If you can’t wrap your homer mind around the intent or motivation behind the sentiment, don’t make it my problem.

You want to see it as negative, it is nothing of the kind. It is gonna happen. That is one of the biggest hurdles in sports or life: what you do when your ass gets kicked? That will tell more truth about this team than a hundred articles saying how great these moves were. If you think they won't run into a humbling type of ass kicking, that's not optimistic. It's closer to delusiuonal.

Good lord. You have friends? I guess I must not be one. edit: they are talking like winners. Like it is a done deal now that they have Reich and the gang, and a new quarterback who is highly rated. It will be interesting t see what happens when they get their asses kicked one time. Simple. Not a word trick or trap. How they respond. You don’t think it would be interesting? Or is it you don’t think they are gonna get their asses kicked? To me it is one of the most interesting things in this whole scenario.

Tepper could have ten football teams with all his money. Point being he owns only one, has All that money, and is not giving his football team a level playing field. okay not the best characterization but it was hard to resist playing field. He is not giving them everything they need because? I have no answer, if he cares about his football team for reasons other than the money he can make. He claims that he does care and want and all that. Don’t see it while that field is what it is.

Optimism reigns for these guys right now. It is gonna be interesting when someone smacks them in the mouth real good one time.

We can see it was a big move, just fine. Feel free to insult people that aren't guzzling the koolaide, after the issue is resolved. Which it isn't.

I think so too. There don't seem to be any questions or much doubt about his understanding the NFL version of his job on the mental side which is where the holdup usually is. The physical side: arm strength, athleticism, foot speed against NFL defender foot speed is about as good as it will ever be right now. We'll how it plays.

If it doesn't work out, the franchise is screwed for years. That might qualify something as a mistake. It is funny though, maybe someone has a horseshoe somewhere, and they miss on the sure thing everyone thinks this guy is but hit on last year's 3rd. That takes luck. Luck has not been big on hanging out with black cats.

Well, it would still fall under 'sometimes the best deal is the one you don't make'.

I have had the same viewpoint all along may as well own it. What would change my mind, is not what some other internet posters think, it will only be if the draftee shows he was majorly worth the sacrifice made to acquire him. I don’t believe, historically, anyone has ever decisively done that, in a matching scenario. Pretty sure no one has ever taken a player of Young’s stature at QB, or close even, with the ultimate pick. It will work because he is really really smart, they say. A football genius. We’ll see. I don’t really like his arm that much either. But what do I know. The proof will be in the pudding soon enough.