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Steichen has relied on facing the worst defenses in the NFL, leaning on one of the better defenses in the NFL, and scoring 20+ points in the 2nd quarter while being shut out consistently in 2 to 3 quarters per game. The Eagles offense from a coaching perspective is extremely volatile. It looks a lot like the Mike Shula offense that ran up the score in 2nd quarters to go 15-1 during the season, and went flat as soon as that offense hit a good NFL defense in the playoffs. Are we hoping Steichen is the best of Rob Chudzinski, Mike McCoy, Anthony Lynn and Norv Turner? A coach that is the product of the Seifert, Fox, Rivera and Wilks coaching lines? It's no wonder the Eagles offense resembles the Panthers 2015 15-1 offense. An offense that can pile up the points on a weak defense in the playoffs and then struggles when the buzz saw that is a top NFL defense gets in the way.

If you liked Terrell Davis and want the same kind of value that translated to the NFL, then this is your RB. His work ethic, power, agility, quickness, patience, instincts, blocking, and leadership are all there. He can tight rope a sideline while bulldozing LBs. Pushes the pile and has a powerful lean that a single defender struggles to stop. I doubt he would light up the combine, but put him on a football field and he will score TDs and get 1st downs. Best redzone RB in the draft. Best blocking RB in the draft. NFL ready. Mo Ibrahim Highlights Performance after injury Performance before injury Breakdown

The Eagles offense struggles against good defenses and they are lucky to put up 20 points and 20 first downs against a top defense. The 49ers will be the best defense they have faced all year. The Eagles defense has allowed offenses like the 49ers to put up 30+ points on them multiple times. The 49ers have put up 30+ points in 5 of Purdy's games (including a defense on par with the Eagles defense) and they went with a ball control game plan against the Cowboys. The coaching favors the 49ers. The Eagles defense has struggled with WRs on crossing routes, TEs who can stretch the seam, and RBs who can catch out of the backfield. They are going to struggle to stop Kittle and CMC. The Eagles LBs and safeties allow 70% receptions. It will be interesting, but it appears the Eagles are outmatched in coaching, on offense, on defense, and in playoff experience.

Realizing the importance of a coaching tree is critical to success. Champion coaches develop champion coaches and champion players. You won't find a SB Champion QB who has left their team to pair with a rookie coach or failed coach and turned them into a championship coach. The coaches that win the SB have all studied under championship HCs and had a part in developing championship QBs. Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells are the only 2 coaches to blaze their own path without a championship mentor. The other 33 have all come from championship coaches. 34 if Taylor, Shanahan, or Sirianni win the SB. Sirianni is the least studied under championship mentors. He comes from Philbin (SB champ OC) and McVay (SB champ HC). As for QBs, they get developed by these coaching lines and the legends of Montana, Unitas, Brady, Mannings, Bradshaw, Elway, Favre, and now Mahomes are forged. If these same QBs were with the likes of Matt Rhule, Urban Meyer, Dom Capers, Nathaniel Hackett, Matt Eberflus or Kliff Kingsbury there would be little to no development and no legend. Good coaches utilize their players better than other coaches to take a team to the playoffs. Good QBs are coachable, protect the ball, and produce clutch GWD in big games/playoffs. It does not matter where the QB is drafted. A good coach just needs a QB with average intellect and athletic instincts in the pocket.

Mitchell gave the Cowboys a chance. Shanahan wishing he handed it to CMC

Good QBs make bad coaches look better. They do very little to make a good coach look any different than they are. You can win a SB without a 1st round pick. You can win a SB with an average QB. You can't win a SB without a good to great coach. Every SB HC has never been carried by a QB. They have come from coaching staffs that have been SB winners/contenders (at the very least they see a conference championship). The offensive minded HCs have developed the best QBs in the game with other teams and make the most of the QB they take to the SB.

Will Kafka bring in Bieniemy as an OC? Bieniemy likely will be a HC or OC anywhere but KC next season.

Absolutely! Too many views on how it takes 5 to 10 seasons to develop a team. The coach needs to win coming out of the gate and maintain that winning culture. Must be competitive to contend for the SB by year 3, and win a SB by year 3 to year 5. Picking a different QB every season for 5 years means you are just a farm team for the rest of the league. QB must be able to demonstrate they can produce GWD every year they are in the NFL and be connected with the HC/OC. Just need a good HC and an average NFL QB. Use the draft capital to build around the QB. Maybe the team gets lucky and lands a Manning or Mahomes, but that should never be part of the plan. The SB can be won with Mark Rypien, Brett Favre, Kurt Warner, Tom Brady, Brad Johnson, Rich Gannon, Jake Delhomme, Matt Hasselbeck, Drew Brees, Colin Kaepernick, Russell Wilson, Nick Foles, and Jimmy Garoppolo. You can beat 1st round QBs like Jim Kelly, John Elway, Steve McNair, Donovan McNabb, Peyton Manning, Matt Ryan, and Patrick Mahomes with the previously mentioned QBs. What you always need is a new HC (not a SB winning HC coach who has already made the media rounds after they left their previous team) who has at least been to a conference championship game, but would rather have them be a coach from a SB winning staff. Could also be a coach who spent half a decade learning under a dynasty proven HC, and has been to the playoffs for at least 3/4 seasons. This HC is a must. The 1st round franchise QB is a bonus if the moons align. A 1st round QB is not a necessity. Get it right and enjoy the journey!

You keep putting your false narratives out there trying to make people believe you and not look at my comments. Never said Ekwonu was a bust. He is an ALL PRO guard playing LT as a waist bender being used out of position. Give me poo for saying he is not an ALL PRO LT worth the 5th pick, but a bust he is not. As for Glass, you like to leave out he was on my list with Ridder, Purdy, and Coan. He is a developmental QB that is still in NFL circles waiting for his opportunity. Developmental QBs "suddenly" appear after 3 to 5 years of working and waiting. I have no doubt he would win more in the NFL than Darnold and Walker. You should talk about how I'm wrong about Steichen or how he can be paired up with a young QB in the draft to have SB success in 3 to 5 seasons with 2 or fewer losing seasons up to that SB. Yes, Derek. I keep typing David almost a decade in to Derek's career. Carr would be a good fit for Kafka and Payton.

A young OC as HC and a good young QB who is not clutch does not make for a dynasty. They have to win the SB in 3 to 5 seasons. There have only been 2 OCs who have not been to a conference championship game and won a SB. They did however study under championship coaches for over half a decade and have been to the playoffs consistently. Steichen has been to the playoffs 1 time as a coach. He has never been to a conference championship game. He has not studied under a championship HC. Gruden and Gibbs are the successful examples and they both needed 30 year-old QBs in Joe Theismann, Rich Gannon, and Brad Johnson to achieve that success as young OCs. Young drafted QBs paired with successful older OCs who have been to a conference championship have not happened for championship teams. The closest you get is drafting Aaron Rodgers and sitting behind a HoF QB for multiple seasons. McCarthy was 6 years older when hired and 10+ years deeper in coaching experience with a conference championship game under his belt. Steichen needs more time if he does not come up big in the playoffs this season. Otherwise, he is just using the Panthers HC position as a stepping stone for his 2nd chance in the NFL. Even if Steichen becomes the HC, you will want to pair him with a QB who has proven he can win and go to the playoffs on the NFL level - like a David Carr.

In the SB era: 48% of HCs last 5 or more years in one spot. 41% of HCs get at least 2 opportunities. 56% of HCs get their team to the playoffs. 42% of HCs win a playoff game. 13% of HCs win a SB. Finding a HC is more important than finding a QB, and it's easier to find a good HC who can get you to the playoffs than it is to find a good franchise QB who can win in the playoffs. A good HC can have success with a broader range of QBs. A good clutch QB must have a good HC to make it to the playoffs.

It's not Daboll. It's Kafka and Tierney. Kafka has been riding Tierney ever since The Alabama national championship in 2017. Brought him to the Bills and had him work with Allen. When Culley left Daboll wanted Tierney as QB coach, but McDermott wanted his guy in Dorsey. Kafka is the next in line from Brown > Walsh > Holmgren > Reid on that coaching tree. Tierney will be the better coach, but he needs a couple seasons as OC. I am hoping Kafka can bring Tierney in as his OC. Giving the Panthers the best offensive minds and QB developers in the NFL. Finally, people are on the Kafka train. Wish you were all with me on this train 3 years ago when I touted Kafka over Rhule. The Tierney train will be the hot one in a few more seasons. Kafka HC, Tierney OC, and Fangio DC is playoffs year 1 and a likely dynasty.

Win a SB with a HC who has already won a SB with another team? Good luck with that. The last time he won a SB was 2009. If he was good enough with his coaching philosophy to win, he would have done it multiple times in a single decade. At least, he would have gone back to the SB as a HC to lose it if he was better than the majority of SB winning coaches. Stay away from this trap.

Never trade picks for a SB winning coach. It's still a risky coach that I don't want, but you are better off going with a defensive minded college coach (at least a couple of them have won multiple SBs) with little to no NFL experience and using the picks on players. SB winning coaches will get you close but they don't win SBs. 5 SB winning coaches have gone to the SB with 2 teams. Only 2 have gone back to the SB with a new team and lost. Don't do it. I'm good with getting Payton and giving him 2 seasons to post a winning record and 4 seasons to win a SB when he isn't under contract.

The DC and OC are for rent. Separate from the HC at the start of a rebuild. HC brings in his offensive and defensive guy that he loves. The DC/OC were former HCs or DC/OC and want to prove themselves for more opportunities. They are allowed to bring 1 or 2 coaches of their choosing to develop and take with them when they leave in 1 to 3 seasons. In return, they teach and develop the HCs guys to be the future DC/OC. Imagine hiring Rhule and allowing him to choose Brady and Snow. Rhule agrees to work with someone from a chosen list of former HCs for 2 to 3 seasons. Ex: The year is 2000. Rhule is hired. He brings his guys Brady and Snow. Rhule is given a list of OCs and DCs to choose from. Rhule, Brady, and Snow agree on McAdoo and Wilks. McAdoo brings Gilbride. Wilks brings Holcomb. Chase Blackburn is a franchise carry over >>> Rhule HC, McAdoo OC, Wilks DC, Brady QB/PGC, Gilbride TE, Snow Asst.HC/DB, and Chase Blackburn STC. These coaches get together and fill out the rest of the assistant coaches. McAdoo and Wilks agree to 3 year deals with the knowledge that they will likely not be retained at the end of their contracts as they are mentors/tutors who are given a chance to develop their chosen assistant(s), and they are free to explore HC positions as a package deal with their chosen assistant with complete support from the team. Would this have worked? Couldn't have turned out much worse lol. I doubt Rhule would have agreed to it, but we would have never had to deal with that headache if this were the plan. Better than letting an inexperienced coach drown and fire coaches only to have to replace them with coaches they did not choose in hopes these coaches could tutor and save the failing inexperienced coach.

Seifert screwed up when he thought he was Bill Walsh and could dump Beuerlein because he found Jeff Lewis and Chris Weinke as his back up. Too bad he had a real NFL QB succeeding in NFLE in Dameyune Craig who he never gave an opportunity to start and prove he could succeed in the NFL. Draft Brady in 2000 and Brees in 2001. Beuerlein, Brady, Brees, and Craig would have made for a nice QB room. Bill Walsh he was not.

Fangio is going to be DC for Jim Harbaugh or Sean Payton if he takes a DC position. I doubt he is not going to pair up with a HC who has less than a full year as an independent OC like Ben Johnson. I don't see that happening with all the opportunities Fangio has in the NFL. Fangio interviewing likely means Harbaugh or Payton is serious about taking the HC position. It would be interesting to see Burns at OLB/Edge, Brown 3 tech DE, and Chinn at SS in Fangio's defense. Panthers have the players he needs.

That penalty to make it harder on the Ravens with 30 seconds in the game was unnecessary. Good game. Bengals defense wins it. Bengals defense is good enough they did not need help from refs.

Are the officials going to factor in at this point of the game with small penalties?

Harbaugh is great at game management

This is why you draft defensive playmakers with the 1st round pick and not a QB like Burrow or Stafford. You can find other QBs that can produce enough to match a 1st round QB. Freakishly talented WRs and defensive leaders are what a team should draft in the 1st round. Trade down for more picks if neither are available. Only draft QBs in the 1st round who have the pedigree that has allowed them to be around professional sports since the age of 10. The Mannings or Mahommes. Arch Manning will be available in a few years if the Panthers need to go all in on a QB because they still have not found one.

Bengals defense is winning this game. Ravens and Bengals offenses seem even.

Bengals punter just keeps trying to flop

Did they not just rule that a fumble in the other playoff game yesterday when it came off his finger tips after the arm was impacted?

Appears that was a bad decision by Huntley. Play was designed for Huntley to protect the ball and be pushed in.