Mr. Scot

You're going way out on a limb with this The notion that they might try to trade Anderson is probably believable. Heaven knows we've heard that before. McCaffrey? I'll believe that when I see it.

Hiring an outside consultant isn't going to change the perception around the league that Tepper is a sh-tty boss. Honestly, neither are press conferences like he gave yesterday but hey...

Have you noticed that a pretty heavy portion of your argument is based on the idea that Scott Fitterer must be blamed for anything his bosses do wrong? Are you also going to try and tie him to the contract Tepper gave Rhule?

Just 3 weeks ago, you were guaranteeing all of us that Rhule was going to take the Panthers to the playoffs.

Scott Fitterer and Matt Rhule never met until the day of his interview. Calling him a "Rhule guy" is kind of disingenuous. Also, Joe Person confirmed that Rhule was in charge of the quarterback decisions so you can't lay that on Fitterer either. As far as roster improvement, I don't have to give you my argument. David Tepper said yesterday that the roster has gotten significantly better over the last few years and he considers it a strength of the team. I don't really see Fitterer being fired as it is, but it would be a really dumbsh-t move if he was.

I'm not a member of the Corral bandwagon, but given how absolutely sh-tty the coaching has been, I don't really think we know anything much about him yet.

Disagree, but even using that logic, none of what you're saying changes the impression you leave out there for other candidates. Tepper was willing to be patient with a mid-tier college coach who was obviously in way over his head. He looks pretty stupid for giving Rhule that contract and that level of control already. If he then turns around and gives a guy with over 20 years of actual solid NFL experience less time than he gave that college coach to do a job where he didn't even have final say, he looks like an absolute moron. We already know from other reports that Tepper is a guy people don't want to work for. The last thing we need is for him to make that perception even worse.

You talk as if we gave up something significant. We didn't.

What a lot of head coaching candidates don't like is having decisions made for them. Again, I'd let him make that choice.

Gee, I wonder who this is

I'd let the new coach make that decision himself.

That "quarterback competition" thing was just beyond stupid. Telling Ekwonu he had to earn his starting job wasn't much better.

Doubt it. Phil Snow would still be running the defense and Joe Brady or Ben McAdoo running the offense. Hell, it's not like we went above Rhule's five game ceiling even with Bridgewater.

Snyder gave Rivera full control of the operation. He used it to hire Marty Hurney and the architect of the Lions 0-16 season.

Plus one of our biggest impediments to actual player development is now gone.

Rhule still would have been the head coach.

Valid, but at least he does have some success to point to. Tepper? Not so much.

If he was bidding against himself for Mayfield, I'd say he won. We got him for peanuts and the Browns ate most of his salary.

Tepper complimented the roster yesterday too.

If you really want to lure a great head coach, trading away some of our best assets isn't the way to do it.

I'd tell them to go console themselves by asking dad about his bank balance and what they're getting for Christmas this year.

The thing I've said before, and it's true, is if Tepper fires him after putting him in a situation where he didn't have final say, he'll be essentially blaming him for the actions of his boss. Other good GM candidates will notice that. I also don't think people should be counting on Dan Morgan given that he and Fitterer are close friends while neither Morgan nor Tepper has any ties to the other.

I only had him as one. I can't edit that anymore but you can if you don't mind. Mentioned it elsewhere, the thing about Steichen is you have to watch what the Chargers do. He'd be a really popular choice there and it would be a natural fit for him. He does have one connection here that I know of, but that's a little bit awkward given that it's to our current interim head coach.

You misspelled "stench"

Passing game coordinator. He was an OC at the college level but that was at a minor college and a while ago. And it's not so much leaving out the guys in their 50s (I listed Martindale and Anarumo) as it is there aren't that many.