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Letting Curtis Samuel walk was the right move, and I still say the CMC trade was the right move at the time. It just sucks in hindsight because we used the draft picks on magic beans and he went to the absolutely perfect place for him. But anyone following his injury updates this year has to have Deja vu back to 2021.

2-3 wins, but that was assuming they trotted out Bryce every game. Its still 2-3 wins, just for different reasons.

wish we’d drafted Ladd ngl

Because they could have scored every possession if they wanted to. Was he not extra conservative in the first half? You can’t have it both ways. plus, let’s wait until after five games (3 with an injured qb) before we start tossing out PPG as a metric for how good an offense is. Chargers completely handled the panthers and could have kept scoring in the second half if they wanted.

I mean what part of the team isn’t being evaluated at this point? I remember one time Buckner talking about the 2001 team and laughing. He said “we were last in offense and defense. No one was saying anything to anyone on Mondays.”

Pertinent. currently third worst in the league. Playing way more cover three than anyone else, over half the time, probably because we simply don’t have the players to do anything more complex and don’t have a versatile enough front seven. compare that to the chargers, bears, and saints who are running a wide range of coverages. Adds weight to the argument the coaching staff can’t really figure out the defenses. Obviously there’s nothing Dalton hasn’t seen at this point.

what it do, tho

Chargers proved my point. They scored six in the second half because they didn’t need to do anything else. because of how like math works even if only 4-5 teams take their foot off the gas in the second half the panthers aren’t getting to the all time record.

Al “Rasputin” Snow

Saban knows the power of the draft. It’s one of the reasons he was such a deadly recruiter. He could show recruits all the guys that sat on his bench for two years then went in the first round. Obviously the NIL had changed things because why the fug wouldn’t you go to like Colorado and get paid? i haven’t heard that the quit because of the NIL. Sabans other power was his Rolodex: look how many coaches now were his assistants. It wouldn’t shock me but the guy was 72 years old. Dabo is the main one who has threatened to quit because of the NIL but of course he hasn’t because he’s such a bitch.

Oh absolutely. it’s how people like Jim brown were just able to murder everyone. They were athletes decades ahead of their time. of course back then you could put screws through your helmet so if someone tried to slap you they’d pierce their hand lmao

So I know a guy who works at one of the big youth football academies in Florida. he told a story once that the dolphins problems during that era were all Wayne Huizenga because he was starting to lose it. Nick took the bama job because a.) it was his quickest way out of Miami and b.) it’s probably the best football job in the country, regardless of pro or college. but Saban would never say anything about it because the Huizenga family is VERY influential all over Florida highschool football and if he knifed them it would hurt him recruiting the region at Alabama. maybe we’ll get some stories now that he’s retired but at this point it’s not like he has anything to prove.

Say what you want but I guarantee Alabama doesn’t lose in Nashville if he’s still there Lmao forever

There are great stories from Saban's time in Miami

I mean at this point there are legit concerns about having enough guys to even play Sunday.

If he's open to something like that, he's almost certainly heading back to San Francisco.

he's completely washed and can't even play special teams

brad idzik and it feels like this was part of their agreement to keep the marriage together. He gets a pass for his infidelity (and pinky swears it will never happen again) and she gets 40k to self publish a shitty book that he threw some chapters into to give it some weight. It has a forward from tony dungy of all people. Lizzy is trying to be a motivational speaker so it'd make sense she made him pay for this in exchange for her not ruining him in the eyes of evangelicals. All relationships are transactional after all.

apparently Saleh was about to fire Nathaniel Hackett, who basically does whatever Aaron wants. https://x.com/jjones9/status/1843731147664306325https://x.com/jjones9/status/1843731147664306325 also what aaron wants doesn't really work This is from Ted Ngyuen

he didn't live up to the hype because he blew his knee out his rookie year and required like 3 years to come back to form. When healthy he's a consistent 10 sack a year guy. i don't know if having your career neutered by the field in houston counts as not living up to the hype. dude had microfracture surgery and it's amazing he's done as well as he has.

also it's not stated explicitly but it's pretty clear he drove her into an eating disorder because he'd tell her she was gaining weight and didn't find her attractive anymore and stuff.

This might come across as snobbish but the book isn’t published by like an actual publishing house. It’s some company where you pay like 4k/month for six months and they do all the the typesetting and try to get it through the Amazon algo etc (Amazon doesn’t carry this book btw) This company almost exclusively does book versions of like business success people or whatever. People that made their money selling books about how to make money etc. go to their seminar, pay 1000 bucks for real estate secrets, he signs a book at the end etc. I only mention this because the book is very clearly not edited for content. Like someone threw it into word search to make sure everything was spelled right and that’s it. There are multiple times when Lizzy is describing something and facts are changed to make Dave look better, but like….theyre not changed consistently. when they finally admit their marriage isn’t working (unclear if this is before or after he confesses) she describes him as having gone out drinking with his buddies, but also says he was downstairs praying with his coworkers because she went down to see what the noise was, but when he comes to bed he reeks of cigars and beer. There’s just constant poo like that where a story is cleaned up to make Dave look better but wasn’t done competently, so you can see what it was originally.

Also Dave’s sections are written just like he talks. And specifically like he’s trying to talk himself out of getting in trouble or getting caught. And this guy is so fuging full of poo and just cannot accept blame for anything.

He blamed marital problems on Lizzy not wanting to have threesomes Lizzy was struggling to afford groceries for their kids when he got his start in Seattle (new coaches make like 12 bucks an hour). She was having to beg for food while he was blowing his road trip per diems on strippers and beer the book has a bunch of stuff where they each report their recollection of something. Dave describes himself admitting his infidelity as this tearful, emotional thing where they hugged it out and sobbed etc. she described it as him just shrugging and being like “yeah I cheated on you.” he lied pretty much all the time about how much money he’d make. he describes his first job at USC as being with “the greatest football program in the history of college football.” This is 2009, they went 5-4 in pac10 play, and beat Boston college in the emerald bowl shortly before Pete Carroll fled to avoid sanctions. Another member of the coaching staff was his jerk buddy and it’s pretty clear who it is, though isn’t named.

Oh absolutely. Tepper definitely has a type and it makes perfect sense he’d go back to someone like Rhule. Canales has a lot of the same energy. Tepper is a fuging mark.