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Mr. Scot

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  1. 2 hours ago, top dawg said:

    Once the reporter doubled down, I began to doubt that it was made-up. IIRC it was Josina Anderson. In any event, I'm glad that the  Panthers and Tepper pivoted away from Johnson.

    I don't doubt that his agent set a high price tag. I heavily doubt that it was what Anderson said it was since the agent himself denied it publicly.

    With that made public, would have been pretty tough for him to go into an owner's meeting and say "just kidding, that's the price".

  2. 2 hours ago, t96 said:

    16 teams lining up to pay him? based on what lol, we don't even know if he's gotten a single offer.

    You think if Johnson became available for an OC job, teams wouldn't step on people to hire him?

    Hell, every team in the league has changed OCs in the last few years.

  3. 31 minutes ago, Wolfcop said:

    Call it whatever we want. Maybe, “Thank God for unanswered prayers.” If some of the scuttlebutt is true, he is not good HEAD coach material. 

    It's only a "dodged bullet" if Canales is successful.

    That's a question that won't be answered for a while.

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  4. 35 minutes ago, magnus said:

    Especially trying to remember people from years' past. 

    I think it's kinda cool that they actually list these guys out now.  I find it funky there's only one pro scout under two directors of pro scouting (all of which nebulously may be under Adrian Wilson, or Morgan?)

    That said it's worth remembering that they just kinda make all these titles up.   Jeff Morrow had a new title every single year, possibly while turning down other jobs, or to reflect new responsibilities, before he went on to be a Senior scout.   Which I 

    Everybody has a smattering of area scouts, national scouts.  I'm not sure why Carolina doesn't have someone sent to BLESTO or National services.    But anything above that, the titles are just whatever.   I've spent a lot of time staring at staff pages and I couldn't tell you why a "Player Personnel" guy generally outranks a pro or college director, how a guy like Pat Stewart would be a VP but not be under a President, how several different directors seem to have a head up on others.   

    Maybe it's just negotiated, but hierarchy's absolutely just made up and nobody's ever really chosen to make such a thing standardized. 

    Yeah, the titles are largely window dressing. The job descriptions are very fluid.

    Can't remember if we're still using BLESTO or not. Vaguely remember seeing something about it a little while back but don't remember the specifics.

    Pretty sure Morrow is the last holdover from the Richardson regime. He was Director of College Scouting for a while under Marty. His title over the last few years has been one of those "step back" roles that you typically see people take right before they retire, but he's still here 

    Can't help feeling that a lot of the current staff could well be reassigned or perhaps restructured out of the building after the Draft. But then again, with an in-house candidate having been given the job, that might be minimized (or maybe not even happen at all).

  5. Just now, Martin said:

    If play calling is what he loves, what a great spot he’s in. Dan can do all the leadership stuff and Ben can stay in his lab coming up with new stuff, and still get paid a ton. Good for him. But he should have handled it better imo.

    I'd agree there.

    It's the kind of life altering decision plenty of us would hate having to make, but ya gotta do your best.

  6. 3 minutes ago, rayzor said:

    agreed. with us you're hoping that the owner doesn't continue being a dumbass. in washington you're hoping the new owners don't become dumbasses.  washington did seem like a much better situation than here, but still there's a lot of unknowns there. the snyder stench may take a few years to air out. 

    quinn pick as HC seems like a panic pick. and then adding in kingsbury seems like an odd choice. i think they might have been trying the genius strategy we used last year in trying to get as many diverse mentalities in as possible. 

    bottom dweller franchises tend to stay that way for a while for a reason. every once in a while one breaks out. i'm just hoping that our blind squirrel making decisions this year falls on an acorn.

    I'm sure the Commanders would tell you Quinn was the guy they really wanted all along 🫥

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Wolfcop said:

    Some people are not meant to be head coaches. He just may be one of them. Whether Canales works out or not, I am glad the Panthers dodged a bullet with Johnson. 

    Don't know if that's a "dodged bullet" or not just yet.

    Probably also worth noting that some of the quotes in this piece read like damage control on the Commanders part.

    "See, he didn't turn us down. We turned HIM down! Yeah...that's right" 😕

  8. 5 minutes ago, axl-69 2.0 said:

    Wonder if hes a complete ass like Josh McDaniels? Done well as OC but give him a team and he cant handle it. 

    Not sure I see it. McDaniels certainly believes he's head coaching material. The problem is...he's not.

    Johnson? Don't know. Some guys just really don't wanna be in charge. Maybe that's him.

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  9. 10 minutes ago, rayzor said:

    i think people just like the idea of him as HC. he's not eager, that's for sure. that's a red flag. he's looking for the most ideal situation and i just don't think he's ever going to find it. 

    It honestly could just be good self-awareness.

    It was reported elsewhere that he and his wife say down and discussed their situation and agreed that they love where they are now.

    One thing for sure: If he ever becomes a free agent, he'll have half the teams in the league lining up to pay him.

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  10. Just now, rayzor said:

    it could be that it takes a half season or so for us to get stuff worked out. bucs got off to a relatively slow start with their offense before it started clicking. 

    i expect a positive transformation. i don't expect it to be quick, though. 

    That's apparently what Canales said about Tampa's line, that it took them until about midseason to really catch on

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  11. 1 hour ago, rayzor said:

    stuff he said heading into tampa pointed in the direction of being pretty adaptive and opportunistic...run if it's working, pass if it's working. 

    with his emphasis on protecting the ball, i'd count on a lot of running and a lot of shorter high percentage passes.

    but i think he's also going to be pushing the run a good bit. the goal, i think, is to be able to be balanced and proficient in passing game and run game so you can switch to or lean on either one as needed. if it goes the way it did in tampa, he's going to keep pushing some elements of it when it isn't working all that well until it is working. 

    Got that impression too...

    My biggest deal is that I want him to be smart. I don't necessarily care what his particular emphasis might be as long as he knows what he's doing.

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  12. It sounds like he might not really want to be a head coach that badly.

    There's been some conflicting reports. General belief is that Johnson still feels like he's not ready for a head coaching job yet.

    Another source though said that he didn't like that Commanders executives were "basketball guys" who he believed didn't really know football.

    Whatever the story, the general perception is that he kind of screwed Washington over making his decision while they were in flight to come see him.

    And as it turns out, the five members of the Commanders brass that were on the plane at the time actually learned that he had turned them down via Twitter before they ever got his text.

    Ouch 😕

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  13. 12 hours ago, Tr3ach said:

    The scheme we are probably going to run definitely isnt a power run.  It will actually focus on passing to rb a lot if its anything like they did in TB.  We will probably draft a pass catching rb in the mid to later rounds.

    Everything I've read makes me think we're headed toward being more of a passing team.

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  14. Will tell you what I've read...

    Canales' offensive schemes seem to heavily use zone blocking.

    There was word in both Seattle and Tampa that their lines werrn't suited for what they were running there (Canales was not the OC in Seattle) but Canales believed they would "catch on" over time, and ultimately felt they did.

    If I were guessing, I'd expect a similar approach here.

    (hopefully with better results than last season)

  15. 9 minutes ago, Mills said:

    I’ve always been of the opinion, and said before that not much will change until the scouting department is overhauled. 
    The number of draft picks that we’ve missed on is inexcusable.

    I know that a few of those scouts are holdovers (Cole spencer, morrow). Not sure how culpable they are/were in the terrible drafting but we couldn’t have been much worse in the last few years.

    That's the kind of change you likely won't see till after the draft of it happens.

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