Mr. Scot

Back in the day, Marty tried to swing a trade of Julius Peppers for two second rounders but Belichick said no. Don't figure we'd ask for anything close to that big a return for Bridgewater.

They were interested in him last year. Would be funny if he followed Newton in two separate places.

How many months will you ban him if they don't?

Angry, nah. Low tolerance for stupidity? Yeah.

Oh, I wouldn't bet on that. There's a fair number of people out there who lack the brains to even realize just how stupid they look. That tends to be the kind of personality that pulls a dumbass stunt like this kid did.

No, it's a dumbsh-t clickbait title. The article itself is worthy of being read and discussed for Peter King's take on the story, but characterizing it as "big news" is bullsh-t when it's really just an analysis of things we already know.

That's not "big news".

Any other loss would have had the same effect. I think people are probably more pissed about this one because it was late in the season, because it was against Rivera and because Rivera botched it. I remember when it happened, several people characterized it as Ron screwing us over one last time.

It does nothing of the sort.

I'd say Newton handled it better than a lot of us would. Charles Johnson agrees...

I have said, and will always say, that when the game is on I want to win. But if we're in a situation like we were last year, losing isn't exactly gonna bother me much. And yeah, obviously winning that game hurt us. I don't really think anybody can rightly say otherwise. Thanks again, Ron

If you gave me a choice between a quarterback who has great physical tools but lesser mental skills versus one with top mental ability but lesser physical skills, I'm taking the latter every time. As to Fields, and college quarterbacks in general, very few college systems challenge quarterbacks anymore.

Not sure I'd call them "objections", but trading up makes me nervous. I've said elsewhere I have concerns about all three of the "runners up" behind Lawrence.

One NFL personnel executive told Peter King he thinks it's going to happen. In his latest Football Monday column, King was talking about Todd McShay's analysis of the top four quarterbacks. In that context, he mentioned a man whom he described as "an NFL personnel man who is scouting quarterbacks" having said this: “Three of those four will be taken in the first four picks. The Eagles [at six] will be lucky to have a good one fall to them.” That'd likely put Miami (pick 3) as the team not taking a quarterback. King also mentioned that McShay has Trey Lance, not Justin Fields, rated as the third best quarterback. If the Eagles would be "lucky' at pick six, I guess we'd have to be even luckier at pick eight.

People across the country: "What a stupid, disrespectful little twit." Kid: "Man, everybody's talking about me!"

Typically no, but Seattle liked having more communication between their departments than a lot of other teams might. That helped Fitterer get the job here and I imagine he'll foster that same sort of practice.

Going by what his responsibilities were, I'd say probably not.

Fitterer dabbled in pro scouting but with the Seahawks, that area was primarily under Trent Kirchner (and John Schneider, of course). The college side was Fitterer's primary thing.

Weis doesn't coach anymore.

Growing up, a good buddy of mine had an uncle who was an absolute dipsh-t. He once got his face shown on local TV as he was being hauled away by the cops. While my friend's mom (his sister) was crying her eyes out over his arrest and what was going to happen to his kids, his attitude was like "Whoo, I got on TV." Little sh-ts who pull dumbass stuff like this so they can get views on social media remind me of him.

Garoppolo reminds me of Chris Chandler. Can be good, not necessarily great, sometimes struggles to stay healthy.

As to my grade I've been saying "incomplete" and I still say it. He did gain some respect from me by finally moving on from Marty, but more so for deferring to what Matt Rhule wanted in a GM. When he first started talking about non-traditional models and doing things differently and blah blah blah, I remember thinking "Oh crap, we're gonna screw this up and hire some Marty Hurney/Howie Roseman type so Tepper can act like he's the smartest guy in the room". Thankfully, that didn't happen

Even Tepper himself has seemed to acknowledge that he kept Marty too long. I suspect if Scott Fitterer does a good job as GM, Tepper's going to get an even better perspective on just how big a mistake that was.

Reminds me of the stuff I've seen about hundred million dollar quarterbacks. I think Roethlisberger and Manning are the only ones to actually win a Super Bowl after getting a hundred million contract. Granted, Tom Brady kind of skews things.