Mr. Scot

I think the best summary I've heard of Kaepernick's situation was from someone who said that NFL teams will put up with an awful lot if they think you can help them win games. If your playing skills aren't as good, their tolerance level goes way way down.

I get the argument. I just don't know if I can agree.

You're not the first to describe him that way. Although Harbaugh is obviously talented as a coach, "impossible to deal with and wears you out" would concern me...a lot.

The latest from LaCanfora... It’s still most likely, in the estimation of executives and coaching agents I’ve contacted, that he remains in Ann Arbor, where his previous dalliance with the Minnesota Vikings — and College Football Playoff appearance — earned him a reworked contract a year ago. He backed that up with another playoff appearance this season before his Wolverines were upset by TCU on New Year’s Eve. Brace yourself for breathless report after breathless report about what he’s thinking and where he’s going — Harbaugh was mentioned in this space last week as part of the coming onslaught of Denver Broncos rumors — but one opportunity is likely to stand out. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay’s quirky, doomed-from-the-start experiment — seeing if a former player turned middling high school coach turned broadcaster could come in cold off his couch midseason and replace a beloved coach on a team without a viable starting quarterback — has gone as expected. Jeff Saturday has been a disaster, the Colts are now a laughingstock among their peers, and it’s difficult even to start to explain how an NFL team could go from allowing 33 points in the fourth quarter one week to blowing a 33-point lead the following week to going 0 for 10 on third down while amassing 173 yards in a (20-3) prime-time home defeat the following week to being down 31-3 early in the third quarter Sunday, the final act of an abysmal four-week stretch. But by golly, the Colts have pulled it off! That is the fruit born of Irsay’s brainchild. And he has alienated a good bit of the coaching community in the process, a result served back to him by opposing staffs gleefully running up the score whenever possible amid this six-game losing streak. He needs an established, accomplished NFL coach to attempt to dig out of this hole, and his old buddy (and former starting quarterback) Harbaugh could fit the bill. “Captain Comeback,” coming back to Indianapolis? “There or nowhere,” said one NFL coaching agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because speaking freely about the market could compromise his clients’ opportunities. “Harbaugh is almost impossible to deal with and wears you out, and Irsay is out to lunch. He can’t get [top coaches] to take him seriously, but these two are a match. That’s the best [Irsay] can do, and Harbaugh thought he had the Minnesota job a year ago and lost out to a guy who never coached before” in Kevin O’Connell. Another coaching agent agreed that Irsay landing Harbaugh might be the best way to try to win back a fan base and local media corps he has alienated. One general manager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is precluded from speaking about other teams’ front offices, said: “In a weird way, they were kind of made for each other.” It would be quite a combination, for however long it lasted, should it come to pass.

Players did get pissed at Pederson for that final game, and rightly so. But the problems that led up to that were pretty thoroughly documented by Eagles writer Jeff McLane. Basically, Lurie wants to be the head coach/GM/ etc. Howie Roseman is okay with it. Pederson, not so much. AS to Harbaugh: Niners veterans still grumbling about Jim Harbaugh Deion Sanders says 49er players want Jim Harbaugh out This stuff was happening despite their winning record, so it wasn't a "winning cures all" sort of thing.

The only guy with any Panthers connection is Jared Allen.

Harbaugh wore out his welcome with his players (similar to Gruden, but faster). Pederson wore out his welcome with Jeffrey Lurie, Reich with Otis the town drunk.

The GM who made that pick was the same one responsible for a lot of those prior round two failures.

I could definitely see him wearing out his welcome. Already happened once. The other is someone else's hypothetical. The entire discussion is hypothetical.

Taken from various poster's comments about him either tiring of the job or wearing out his welcome. It seems to be a common expectation, though most who've said it don't seem to have an issue with it.

Good points overall, though I gotta say I genuinely don't give a flying sh-t about the "marketability" of our assistant coaches.

Nothing is a smart move unless it works out, of course. But let's say you take Harbaugh, and in doing so bypass a guy like Shane Steichen. Harbaugh has the kind of decent four or five year stint that many people here are talking about, then leaves because that's his shelf life. Maybe that includes a championship. Maybe it doesn't. Meanwhile, Steichen goes on to coach for ten or more years somewhere else, maybe picking up a championship or two along the way or perhaps even just coaching his team to be a perennial contender. In that case, how smart a move was it, really? I know some people are okay with short, successful periods. I'm not. I prefer someone who's in for the long haul.

No bottle in the house. Just paxlovid for Lady Cowboy Fan. (I'm still negative so far)

I sense distrust

Was joking about rumors... Now with that said, my worry about Tepper is his love of big, splashy moves. I prefer smart moves.

We're trading for Deshaun Watson soon. Tepper will move heaven and earth to get him

I'd imagine the Vikings story might have embarrassed Harbaugh somewhat. He basically walked into the building like he owned the place. Then when they said "thank you, no" he responded with "well, I didn't really want the job anyway". That's kind of a "yikes" moment to me.

It's not exactly hard to look stuff up And hey, it works well as opposed to just making dumbsh-t statements which require no intelligence whatsoever. "Fug Fitt", for example

Honestly, people on a football forum running with rumors that may or may not be factual doesn't surprise me that much

Joe Buck has said repeatedly that the word was coming from the NFL. Albert Breer has characterized it as the league and officials following normal protocol, which more than anything shows they didn't grasp the reality of the situation. That in and of itself is more insensitive than evil. But the league has been trying to rewrite the story, making it one of those situations where the cover up is worse than the act itself.

Can't find any confirmation of it so far...

General belief was Payton wants the Chargers but it's not certain they fire Staley.

I didn't. I just put in context what I was quoting (as opposed to your entire post). Now, if you want to say that Moore is a better #2 receiver than a #1, you're not the first or the only person to make that argument. And I'd agree there could be some validity to it. It's kinda hard to say for sure though given that he's about the only threat anybody takes seriously at that spot. Marshall has potential but it's still just that so far.

It was in one of the post Rhule firing articles. Might have been Breer. Also could have been Person or Charles Robinson.