Mr. Scot

Not at all what he's saying. That you can't run a football team like a hedge fund though is correct.

Sad to say this is pretty accurate...

That jibes pretty well with what Michael Lombardi was saying.

I'm never a fan of one year firings unless there are deeper issues then just losing games. The more I read, the more it sounds like that may be the case here.

In these case, it's AB. Still can't believe they did that though

Breer goes through that sequence in his article.

Guy from the 33rd Team commented on that same thing not long ago. He mentioned that with the next hire, York first Lynch and Shanahan six year guaranteed contracts, then promised to be completely hands off and let them do what they needed to do. General consensus is that's exactly what Tepper should do at this point as well. The question is whether he will. And as Pat McAfee mentioned, you still gotta hire the right people. I desperately hope that he brings in someone like Kevin Colbert to help. Otherwise I don't have a whole lot of confidence in that last part

What Lombardi said about rake having "PTSD" might actually help explain a lot. Most of the positives that you have about Frank Reich were things that came before the Wentz thing and his last few years with the Colts. Had we hired the pre-Wentz Frank Reich, maybe things could have gone smoother. As it is though, no it didn't work out.

This might be one of the more definitive articles I've seen... Excerpts: “His thing is, the minute it gets bad, it’s going to get worse, so we better try something else,” says one former Panthers staffer. “He’s a hedge fund guy; that’s what hedge fund guys do. The second something stops earning money, they take their money out of it, take the profit and move on to something else.” “He doesn’t care about the money,” says a former Panthers coach. “He looks at it like a stock—you make a poor investment, there’s a sunk cost, boom, you move on.” ... And that sounds good on paper. The problem is, in pro football, if you keep churning through coaches and scouts and philosophies, you wind up with collections of talent that go together like scrambled eggs and ice cream. So it is that there’s a positionless defensive player, in Jeremy Chinn, drafted to play for Matt Rhule, who was excellent early in his career then fell into disuse simply because he didn’t fit new defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero’s defense the way he did Phil Snow’s. So it is that the left tackle Ickey Ekwonu, who played great as a rookie, had some of his physical limitations (namely, his length) show up this year in a way they didn’t last year. So it is that another lineman, Bradley Bozeman, has seen a similar fate after the staff changes. The blood from those messes is, very much, on Tepper’s hands. He’s the one who picked the coaches, who chose to move on from them and who signs everyone’s checks. ... One example came with how Reich’s staff was assembled. Tepper felt like Rhule hired too many assistants who weren’t ready for their roles. He told people, after firing Rhule, that no Fortune 500 company would just hire one guy, then let that guy hire everyone else. He asked why it was like that in pro football. He also liked how the Giants went outside Brian Daboll’s tree to assemble a staff and how the 49ers capitalized on the NFL’s incentive system for having diverse coaches and scouts hired away. So Reich was hired, and then a well-intentioned Tepper called for Reich to bring together a diverse all-star staff, with depth and experience within it. And it’s true that Reich hired a lot of good coaches. But they were coaches from different places, with different ideas, and it was always going to take time for that to mesh. The problem Reich had was the offense was lagging behind the other units, and there wasn’t enough adjusting or evolving, and all that was affecting the development of the quarterback. ... And if there’s one other problem, according to those there, it’d be that Tepper does have his hands in everything, which is an issue because he’s not in the building daily. He’ll be around Friday through Tuesday or so of a game weekend and for the road trips, but he still lacks the day-to-day context needed to be that hands-on as an owner. ... Highly recommend reading the full text. It's extremely informative.

I'd say closer to intestinal gas

Also... No, don't hold back. Say how you really feel

I didn't really have any issue with keeping those two guys. Frankly, there's a lot of our current staff that I'd be fine with keeping.

Sure, dude

You got triggered by "Sure, dude"? Wow! Would this be a bit of "protesting too much"?

Which again is baffling. Michael Lombardi's take on Frank is kind of interesting in that regard though.

Was thinking the same thing

Sure, dude

Wording matters here. Suggesting that Reich "didn't want" Bryce isn't really accurate. The idea that he might have wanted Carr or Stroud more than he wanted Bryce Is likely much more accurate.

No, I'm actually correcting what you said. "Tepper wasn't the one who wanted Bryce" would imply that it was somebody else's decision entirely. "Tepper wasn't the only one who wanted Bryce" says that he did indeed want him, but others did too. There's a difference.

I don't think anybody debates that Fitterer wanted Young. And no, they weren't likely to be alone either. The person most heavily in contention is Frank Reich (Josh McCown likely second). And although I'm not generally a fan of judging things by social media, It's pretty hard not to find the fact that Reich's daughter is liking posts saying that he wanted Stroud... interesting.

Two videos of Mike Lombardi from the Pat McAfee show... The idea of Reich being "broken" from some of his prior experiences actually make a lot of sense. As mentioned before, some of his choices here were just baffling. Also, his statement that the job could be considered desirable if it comes with a 6 year guaranteed contract is consistent with what's been said elsewhere. And McAfee's final comment is correct: Tepper still has to make the right choice.

The flipside narrative that everybody wanted Bryce as the first choice isn't exactly plausible either. I seriously doubt they went through that process with no disagreement whatsoever.

Wrong. His specific statement was that Tepper was not the only one who wanted Bryce. That very statement includes that Tepper wanted Bryce. He just wasn't alone in it. Then you put that together with his confirmation that Tepper did indeed chime in on the decision. Outside of that, there aren't any more specifics.

And one day, you might stop getting banned and making new screen names