Mr. Scot

Well, one man did. Unfortunately, his opinion was the one that counted.

It's nothing of the sort. Dude seriously, I'm used to you being logical and level headed but you have absolutely lost your mind over the Darnold stuff. He's our quarterback now. He'll succeed or he won't. If he doesn't, we'll try something different. This is not the end of the world.

It's not confusing. It's silly. We basically ended up paying a second rounder for Darnold. The first rounder we didn't use on Fields was a choice. Just like any other first round pick, that choice may turn out to be right or it may turn out to be wrong, same as every draft in team history. But to call that "mortgaging the future" is temper tantrum throwing by people who are having an extended sh-t fit because the team didn't pick the guy they wanted. It's getting ridiculous

Multiple sources are reporting he's taking time away from football, maybe permanently. He's not going anywhere.

Quick note on this... The Bills do have the option to decline permission to interview. Morgan wouldn't be the final decision maker in the organization, so the Bills could indeed block the interview if they were so inclined. Given the relationships between the two teams, I don't expect they will. But they could.

Here's a veteran option.

Just the one season. They fired their head coach at the end of that year and replaced him with John Fox. Meyer moved on to the Bills for two years before joining the Chargers.

This was his bio from the 2020 Seahawks Media Guide. Scott Fitterer begins his sixth season as co-director of player personnel. Originally joining the Seahawks’ staff on June 25, 2001, as an area scout, he recently served 2011-14 as the club’s director of college scouting. In his current role, Fitterer works collaboratively with Trent Kirchner in directing both the college scouting and pro personnel departments to manage and strengthen all aspects of the Seahawks roster. As the director of college scouting he coordinated the Seahawks’ entire scouting operation and compiled all of the college scouting information required to set the draft board. He is responsible for the evaluation of all draft eligible players nationally, oversight of the Seahawks college scouting staff and works closely with GM John Schneider and the Seahawks coaching staff regarding the NFL Draft and college free agency. Before joining Seattle, spent three seasons with the New York Giants, 1998-00, as a part-time scout before being assigned to the West Coast region for the 2000 season. Was a 1995 draft pick of the Toronto Blue Jays and spent three years in the Blue Jays system (1995-97) before his career ended due to three shoulder surgeries. Was a two-sport athlete in college, playing quarterback in football and pitcher in baseball at UCLA (1992-94) and LSU (1994-95). In 1998, Fitterer returned to UCLA to earn his undergraduate degree in history. Born in Seattle, he is a graduate of Kennedy High School in Seattle. Scott, his wife Cherish, daughter Ella, and son Cole live in Sammamish, Wash. Before he left, hey gave him a new title (VP of Football Operations) but neither he nor Kirchner were ever named Assistant GM.

The Saints are the team that has two assistant GMs...or did with Jeff Ireland and Terry Fontenot. Now that Fontenot has gone to the Falcons, I don't know if they're going to keep that arrangement. Fitterer used to be a co-director of player personnel along with former Panthers scout Trent Kirchner, but neither was ever named Assistant GM.

Speaking of... He'll be catching his next passes from Andy Dalton and/or Justin Fields.

That whole "boycott working out at the team facilities" thing might just cost him his entire salary for this season, a cool 10 million. Something tells me that particular boycott might be about to go away.

Maybe we can trade him to Denver too.

No he wasn't. Seattle didn't have an assistant GM. And most of the power there belongs to Pete Carroll anyway. Fitterer started off as a scout and basically worked his way up to director of scouting.

Both of those were pretty funny

There was a play last year where he literally stood up, took a step forward, saw nobody coming at him and just kind of shrugged his shoulders. I had to rewind it a couple of times.

Fair point.

When you play for a head coach who kinda likes great athletes, that sort of thing could be a bit of an issue.

I'm still trying to figure out what exactly "a GM" looked at that made him think this guy was worth trading up for. That Bills war room video says it all.

Who let you in?

Staying healthy isn't his biggest issue. Watched him an awful lot last year, and what I learned was that if nobody's running straight at him, he has no idea what to do. It's basically like the old joke about a karate guy not knowing how to react if someone doesn't attack him the way they do in class.

Kuechly retired prior to free agency so unless he's clairvoyant, not likely.

Rhule referred to his time in New York as basically being his "junior and senior years". They've pretty much confirmed that they're going to treat him like a rookie, and I think that's the right approach. One good part of that though is that unlike a typical rookie, he won't have to get adjusted to the speed of the game.

To give you some context, there were some big fans of Justin Fields on here who, prior to the draft, had talked themselves into believing that Sam Darnold was only picked up as an insurance policy just in case we couldn't get somebody better. The way the draft went down didn't exactly meet their expectations.

Thanks. Our friend Sizzlebuzz isn't going to be real happy to hear the Tepper thing though.