Mr. Scot

You could call Rivera a decent NFL coach. You could even call him a bad NFL coach. Either way he's still an NFL coach. Matt Rhule is a college coach who's employed in the NFL...temporarily. If he doesn't get to that point, then your argument is lost.

Check the math again and you'll find that three successful years are more than zero. Rivera earned his additional years by improving. Rhule hasn't done that yet. Heck, there's an argument to be made that he got worse. Rhule has basically one more year to try and show that he can do something in the NFL. I wouldn't bet on him getting there

I hate to go back to 5th grade math here, but 100% "sucking ass" is worse than 70%.

Matt Rhule went 5-11, then 5-12. You're not really helping your argument here.

You're actually helping make my argument for me.

There are only two other NFL teams looking to sign offensive linemen? Well then, that changes everything

If you look down the list of assistants that we have at this level, I'm sure you'll notice a trend.

That's also because the "bulk" of NFL free agents aren't really that good. You've got a few top guys who make a lot of money and can afford to be picky. The rest are second tier or role players at best, camp fodder at worst. That second group is who will be picking from. But again we'll probably have to pay more for them than other teams right.

It's not that unusual.

Coach being a lame duck can be a risk because the next coach might not want you like this one did. Will we be able to sign free agents? Sure. We might have to overpay for them though. Will we be able to sign really good free agents? Eeehhh, maybe. You'd have to overpay even more for that though. Attractive destinations often get players for less. Unattractive ones have to pay more, and as a consequence use up more of their salary cap. Bottom line: While there are certainly players who will come here for one reason or another, we are not an attractive destination. And that makes the process of ruster building harder.

The "NFLrums" Twitter is not a reliable source. About the only reliable thing posted on that Twitter is stuff that they plagiarized from someone else. If you can find it from another source, it might be valid. If they're the only place it's listed though, pretty solid chance it's bullsh-t.

There are some players who won't, but believe it or not every NFL player is not necessarily Rod Tidwell.

Funny that the coaches, who should technically be older and wiser, didn't see it your way. Your argument really only works for players that don't have better opportunities somewhere else. And if they're at least half decent, chances are they will. Will there be players that will sign here just for the money? Probably. Will they be all that good? Maybe, maybe not. If they're at least decent, we might have to overpay and use up more cap room to keep them from going somewhere else. That's not good team building.

Well that's an option, I've got a lot of ideas

I think he might be more of a nut than a plant

I personally like the idea of Tepper selling the Panthers and buying the Dolphins from Stephen Ross. That way he can stay in Florida all the time and be far away from us.

Sizzlebuzz will be along shortly to explain how The Horsesh-t Way will make it all better.

Don't have a third (traded for CJ Henderson)

I'm not following the soccer side of things but I have heard some people allude to that.

If you think this team is an attractive free agent destination, I have a feeling in a week or so you might be disappointed. It's been repeated numerous times that people all around the league look at us and see a lame duck in the head coaching spot. Nobody's going to have positive feelings about that.

Wilson is actually a really good reporter, but I've been getting a weird vibe from him over the last year or so. Since he got fired from The Houston Chronicle, he seems a little different. He floated around independently for a while before latching on to Pro Football Network. Found that kind of strange given his reputation. Add in that recently I had a chance to hear him on a radio interview and something just sounded...off. Felt almost like he'd been drinking or something. It was just weird. But yeah, all that stuff aside he's generally been very reliable source. I just don't know if there's something going on with him in his personal life.

Most players aren't "free" yet, but we've had multiple assistant coaches leave for lateral positions and at least one assistant coach say he didn't want to interview here. That doesn't exactly make us sound like a mecca.

I don't think there's any way you get the Texans to agree to something like that.

He kept a sh-tty GM. He praised that sh-tty GM as one of the best talent evaluators in the league. He fired an underperforming head coach when he should have fired the GM first. Then he let the sh-tty GM lead the search for our next head coach. Unsurprisingly, sh-tty GM found a sh-tty college coach. Tepper stupidly hired that head coach, but didn't stop there. (but wait...theres more) First, he gave Rhule a ridiculous contract that pays him as much as the Rams pay Sean McVay. Then, even worse, he gave him full control. Two years later, when it became obvious to pretty much everybody except Tepper that the head coach he gave the ridiculous contract and full power to was woefully underqualified, Tepper still decided to give him another year. Now he's looking at trading crazy assets away from a rebuilding team in order to get a quarterback who's in a load of legal trouble. And the most fun part of it all, he actually still seems to believe he's smart. Oy So to sum it all up, yes he's a football dumbass. Honestly, dumbass might not even be a strong enough word.

Yeah, not a fan of that. I've said before I think Tepper believes he can just "big ball" his way to a championship team then turn around and tell everyone to bow down to his superiority. And that might work, except that when it comes to football he's a total dumbass. As far as Watson, if it does turn into a bidding war I don't really see us being in any position to win it.