Mr. Scot

That's him

Yeah, that's fair. As I recall, everywhere that Dan Reeves went, he wound up taking Tommy Maddox with him. It became kind of a running gag.

Technically, it's also how we got Dan Morgan. My take: It's not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing. It's just a thing.

He's not exactly wrong. That's not really a new thing, though. Heck, people get jobs based on connections all the time.

Nope. For good or bad, this roster belongs to Fitterer and Rhule.

Lemme think about it... Nah.

I think he's actually better than he got credit for. As to rebuilding the line, my sense is that some of the free agents we signed might be bridge guys as we look to draft longer-term solutions. Sewell falling to us probably would have helped that a lot but c'est la vie.

Side Note: Dotson is the nephew of former Packers DL Santana Dotson.

I imagine there'll be more names associated with this, maybe even Jimmy Raye since he's unattached but well established and recently interviewed for the Assistant GM spot. Worth pointing out this might not necessarily be good news for Jeff Morrow who, despite his title (Executive Director of Player Personnel), has primarily been tasked with running the college scouting department for the last few years. Morrow and Matt Allen are the last executive level holdovers from the Richardson era.

I think this same story has been reported something like three times this offseason. Wouldn't surprise me if one of the prior reports came from the same bullsh-t Twitter page.

I can't blame Matt Rhule for too much last year knowing who he had to work with. I've said before that I see this as Year One of the rebuild.

He gone...

The Twitter page it comes from posts fake bullsh-t all the time. I'm not sure why anybody takes stuff they tweet seriously.

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.