Mr. Scot

It's kinda like if you were an accountant having a house built by professional builders, but you don't think they're doing a very good job. If you fire those builders and look around for better ones, that's smart. If you fire those builders and then decide you're going to build the house yourself, you're an idiot.

And if that something is firing the guys who are doing the job and getting somebody new, that's fine. If the something is making those decisions himself? That's a disaster waiting to happen.

It's from NFLrums. Pretty solid chance it's bullsh-t.

That's the kind of dumbsh-t semantics argument I expect from somebody like Sizzlebuzz. Football decisions should be made by football people for football reasons.

You have, as long as I've seen you post on here, been dead set against owner interference. Are you now in favor of it if it gets the player you want? (or more specifically, gets us away from the player you didn't want)

If you're the guy with the least amount of football knowledge in the room, telling the guys who know better than you what to do is stupid.

It's not as simple as just saying "let's go get him". You also have to decide what resources you're willing to give up to do so. If the football people don't think it's worth it, do you want the owner to override them?

Undrafted free agent update... I believe that puts them at 90 players. If they do decide to sign any of the tryout guys, a corresponding roster move will be needed.

Per various reports, Tepper asks questions about the process and tries to make sure everybody is on the same page. Those things are fine. Overriding the people that you hired to do the job is not.

It ain't Slim Shady.

He's engaged to an actress whose name I forget. I think she was in a one of those Hunger Games ripoff movies.

No, we wouldn't. Tepper doesn't know how to evaluate football players, and he himself admits that. If Rhule and Fitterer don't work out, then he can fire them and get somebody else, but stepping in himself would be a dumbass move worthy of Jerry Jones or Dan Snyder.

I do. Rhule specifically stated in his interview with Rich Eisen that Tepper "leaves the football stuff" to he and Scott Fitterer. Darin Gantt also confirmed in his draft war room article that while Tepper asks questions about the process, he doesn't offer input on what players they should get. Likewise, in the article that chronicled the pursuit of Sam Darnold, the only mention of Watson was that the Panthers were interested but weren't actively pursuing him because the Texans weren't willing to trade him. From what I've read, a whole bunch of people got excited about something that was never going to happen. I'd say that's the same thing that's going to happen with Rodgers.

I actually looked up LaCanfora's article to see what his rationale for connecting Rodgers to the Panthers was. You guessed it: David Tepper The same dumbass rationale that was used to predict we'd draft Justin Fields and "pay any price" for Deshaun Watson. Oy

Tapper actually be like "the football decisions are up to Scott Fitterer and Matt Rhule".

Disagree. Darnold is the clear starter and head and shoulders above anyone else. Beyond Darnold though, pretty much everyone else is easily replaceable.

Our buddy Ellis with a little more detail...

Would grad school students be eligible to play for college teams?

If I remember correctly, teams are only allowed something like five tryout players this year. If two of our five are going to be quarterbacks, our current backups might have reason to be a little nervous.

He had a busy day, but will probably chime in later.

We knew about this one... Now it seems we're bringing in another quarterback as well. Eighth year of eligibility?

And definitely wouldn't qualify as a Rooney Rule interview.

"Just like last year" huh? So which dipsh-t does this dumbass alt belong to?

Ellis also confirmed this was official. So that's two new college scouts, two college scouts gone and two pro scouts gone (Luke being one of them). And of course, a new assistant GM I get the feeling they're not done yet though. Things could look a lot different when all is said and done.

"Coach centric" is probably a better description. Our front office is modeled after the Seahawks, where Pete Carroll has final say. Rhule has made it pretty clear that he's not a dictator though. Scott Fitterer runs the personnel processes and he ran the draft, though Rhule and the coaching staff helped set up the draft board. It's not like Belichick.