Mr. Scot

That's the guy I felt would have wound up as our head coach had Tepper done the smart thing and fired Matt Rhule last year.

If he takes a new job, Payton will be joining Doug Pederson and Mike McCarthy as current coaches with prior rings from elsewhere. In my time, I've seen Jimmy Johnson, Jon Gruden, Bill Parcells (multiple times), Mike Holmgren, Papa Shanahan, Mike Ditka and of course our own George Seifert win in one place but fail to repeat in their new jobs. Most never even made it back. As far as guys who lost or didn't get there in their first go round but made it with a new team, besides Reid there's Dick Vermeil, Tom Coughlin, Bruce Arians, Gary Kubiak, Pete Carroll, Tony Dungy, Tom Flores, Gruden again and of course Belichick. I always feel like Marv Levy deserves a mention here too because while he didn't technically win a Super Bowl with the Bills, he did at least get to four of them in a row. Hard to imagine anybody's ever going to be able to match that accomplishment. Bottom Line: History strongly favors the guys who don't have a ring already. Obviously, it's not impossible to guide two teams to a championship, but it's incredibly hard and not a single coach (including some all-time greats) has been able to do it.

I don't think they're tanking. I think either Irsay is drunk off his ass again or he's just that frigging stupid.

That's interesting.

Damn. That's cold

Also not a fan...

By success. Some people know how to evaluate player skills. Others don't. That's why some GMs are Ozzie Newsome and others are Marty Hurney.

This guy helped.

Back when we signed him, David Carr had the best completion percentage in the league. Taysom Hill has a higher passer rating than several full time starting quarterbacks. And of course, the Panthers defense of last year was the #2 defense in the league. Stats aren't facts. Stats are math. Wisdom is knowing what they mean, and what they don't.

Their joke beat our joke

Lady Cowboy Fan was happy because she didn't want to play the Eagles if the Cowboys win tomorrow night. Just advised her if they win now, they'll face the 49ers

Didn't like that playcall

Ooooohhh, that's bullsh-t

With an identical title...

This sounds familiar Also, nobody is trading a first rounder for Lance.

Wow

Bills are gonna need to be careful about that too. They've been in danger of overusing Allen the same way to the Panthers did Newton.

Yep. I'm pretty sure people in every fanbase that got a Super Bowl winning coach thought they were on a path to championship glory. Every single one of them, without fail, has been disappointed. Hiring one of those guys guarantees nothing.

Is that still true in the playoffs?

Ron Rivera was a two-time coach of a year. The best statistical performances in college football have come from guys like Tim Couch and Timmy Chang. Similar results happen in the NFL all the time. Stats and awards are misleading. Judge by what you see, and even then you have to be discerning.

Never judge by stats or awards

Holy sh-t