SmokinwithWilly

Easy. Salt crusted ribeye with rosemary butter. Flat iron steak with a bourbon jus Slow smoked beef ribs with a dried chili and coffee rub Med rare filet finished with roasted bone marrow and fat salt

You must have had a lot of piss poor cooked steaks from Golden Corral.

He strikes me as the type of guy that puts no salt on his steak. Can't have a guy like that in the locker room.

Deep safety to cover the long bomb. White team is up 90 in the 1st quarter. Maybe yellow needs another 10.

I used Harbaugh but I wonder what would happen in that situation. Obviously it hasn't happened yet, but you have to think at some point it will in the NFL.

Serious question though. If we are hiring Harbaugh and all other interviews are a sham for the Rooney Rule, what happens if minority candidates refuse to interview because it's all for show and they have no real shot at the job?

Just use this.

I wonder how much Rhule had to do with that. He could have wanted to play for a contender or he could have been tired of the BS Rhule was constantly spewing.

I'd still rather have the picks and salary. Hassan Reddick cast 15m per year and does what Burns does. That's not saying Burns is bad or not talented or anything of the sort. For a team in a rebuild, with a new coaching staff, that 25-30m estimated, plus 3 2nds this year, 2 1sts the following 2 years is a lot to work with. You may get a player of Burns talent in the draft, you may not. It also needs to be considered that it may take 2-3 years to be competitive since we don't have a franchise QB yet unless you believe Sam is the answer. So maybe half his contract is during a competitive time for the franchise. It's all dependent on how you see the team and it's future. I'd like to be able to keep Burns, but not for the price I think he's going to command. I think the team could benefit more from using the picks and salary wisely than what Burns alone brings. Of course that all depends on if we get it right starting with the HC.

His job is to protect the brand. We all know that. But waiting 30 minutes after Hamlin is taken away in an ambulance after CPR doesn't do that at all. Look at the emotions it pulled out of people, not just the players. Telling these men to warm up and get ready to go doesn't protect anything. It makes you look like a compassionless asshole. If you're the CEO of a multi billion dollar organization and your job is to protect the brand, you need to be able to read the room. Suspending the game to allow players time to recover from what they saw wouldn't be difficult. No different really than if a game had to be called due to lightning. Reschedule, play the game, and at least pretend like you care. It's not a good look for the NFL right now.

And they wanted him to keep playing. Crazy.

We can only hope.

I hope they could look at these men and read the room so to speak. They were shaken. They were genuinely scared. To hell with SOP. Pick up the phone and say I can't put these guys back on the field in the state they are. You have to make sure these men, all these men including Damar are OK before you ask them to take another snap.

If owners want to save face at all or show any support for the players and coaches, they fire him immediately.

If true, Goodell needs to go ahead and resign.

If you have any decency at all, seeing the emotion on these men's faces during all of this before he's put in the ambulance, you know this game is done. As soon as that ambulance was out of the stadium they should have called it.

Pretty much. A guy is on the field fighting for his life. No one really gives a poo about doritos or mountain dew.

Big time. When was the last time you have ever seen these men scared like that? I would have expected them all to tell the NFL to go fug itself.

Goodell makes the call. You could see the players faces. This wasn't just concern. These guys were visibly shaken, some probably traumatized. It's too much to ask of any of them to go back out and play a game. Making them warm up. C'mon. A teammate, a colleague, a friend could have just died on the field for all they know and they can't decide if they need to continue in under 60 seconds? Gotta be better than that.

You're not.

I'm trying to remember a worse evaluator and developer of talent and I'm struggling. If he's not bottom 3, he's definitely bottom 10. I can't recall 1 player that I can say really improved under Rhule's tutelage and that's saying something given some of the players we have.

The NFL told the league years ago when they changed the rules for WRs to make it much harder on DBs this league was moving towards an offense oriented league. We need someone who's rolling with the league instead of trying to stop it. They're not making playing defense any easier. Just embrace it already.

After watching the end of season press conference last year, I seriously believe he thought Rhule would be fired. You could see it in his body language and hear it in his voice he had no confidence in Rhule at all. He may have very well thought Rhule would be gone at the end of the year, he would have the offseason to find a new HC, and start putting his fingerprints on this organization. There's only 32 of these jobs available and whether or not you think it's a good situation, you never know when or if you will ever get another shot to run an NFL franchise. If he succeeds, he's going to have a job for decades. If not, well, it's back to obscurity in an NFL FO somewhere. One thing to remember is Tepper is heavily involved in what's happening, so much so that we restructured multiple contracts to make room for a player that didn't want to be here. How much Tepper was involved in the Burns no trade, we don't know either. The one thing I can say for certain is Tepper needs to let the NFL people do their job and stay out of it.

Also, the Saints are wanting a 1st, probably more seeing as he has a ring, for the rights to Payton so that would need to be factored in as well if we were on his list, which we apparently aren't.

Rhule was given roster control and was making decisions that no head coach should be making. Henderson trade was a miss, but it made sense given he was on the outs with the only coach in the NFL worse than Rhule. Risk vs reward. The Darnold trade was a response to getting rid of T2G publicly and having no other option. You can't negotiate a trade well when you have no leverage. We didn't really have a choice to pay what the Jets wanted because they could simply tell us to F off and we were screwed. It was handled terribly by Rhule and the FO. Mayfield for a 5th. Meh. Most 5ths don't contribute anyway so it wasn't much of a gamble at all even though it didn't work. Why anyone thought Baker/McAdoo would be a good pairing is the bigger question regarding that trade. Perryman was hurt in preseason and didn't want to be here, not shocking with Ray-Z at the helm. The others have Rhule's inability to evaluate or grade talent all over them. Typically a GM assembles a team for a coach and tries to find players to fit the coach's philosophy. That's doesn't appear to be the case, especially considering Tepper's willingness to get over evaluate situations, ie Watson. Seeing Fitts perfrom this offseason will be a much more accurate evaluation of his abilities. If he has that opportunity, fine. If not, that's ok too. It just wouldn't surprise me to see Tepper and Rhule's fingerprints all over the GM job the past 3 years.