kungfoodude

LOL. Looked that up, not only is Ron the first with two playoff appearances with under .500 record......he accounts for two of the three times in NFL history that has happened!

Well he certainly has done a good job of keeping them under .500. I think Ron might be the first coach to take a team to the playoffs with under a .500 record more than once.

Oh the homer fan.....gotta love 'em. Must be nice to have a persistently positive outlook bordering on delusion.

Bookmark that account. It is gonna be hilarious to read it in 4 years.

Dear God....I like Curtis....I wouldn't wish that on him.

There is nothing wrong with having good MLB's but having so much invested in a position that has lesser value in the modern NFL is just not the way to build a winning football team. That is where we always seem to struggle. The last 15 years of Panthers football and the kind of investments we make in the draft and free agency are basically the reason we have never had a back-to-back winning season. We rarely build teams made to last. We build them for the moment and then scramble to recover when changes happen.

Yep. I am okay taking a MLB with a top 15 pick in 3-4 years if our franchise building is going fantastic. If not.....we can probably get a good starting MLB in the 2nd-4th round.

Honestly, even guys like Barkley and CMC aren't likely to be franchise changing players and the positional value is low. Even freaks like Peterson or Henry are only capable of elevating a team so much. I hope we as a franchise can finally move into the modern era of NFL football. This will be the first draft in a long time where I have that hope.

I think we also have fans that are frozen in time. For all the shade thrown towards a guy like Rivera who had issues changing to suit the modern NFL, we sure do have a lot of fans caught in this same time capsule. Positional value exists because of the trends in the league as a whole. If you are going outside the box, it better be because you are planning on setting that trend rather than trying to live in the bygone era of NFL football.

Well, given how aggressively they pursued and closed with Rhule, I think it's more likely that they just didn't have a clear answer after round one of the interviews and it took until round two for the final decision to be made.

It also teaches you to be a lot more relaxed when you do interviews when you don't really need or want a job. It just becomes old hat, eventually. The the government contract world is nuts. I have had some government work and it is wild how that stuff operates versus the general industry.

I go through the motions even if I know I am not going to take the job(and I usually am not). It just keeps you a little sharper plus the mental and verbal jousting is sometimes kind of fun. I used to try and do 2-3 interviews a year even if I had no intention of taking the job just to kind of stay sharp or entertain myself. I don't do that as much anymore because I am just used to the drill a lot more at this point in my career.

Exactly because you can't always tell if the recipient is thin skinned or takes ribbing from his "underlings" well.

Some of them are loose but some are very scripted and intense. I don't really care in either situation, personally. But the majority of people in those scenarios are not particularly cool, calm and collected.

Yep. He probably viewed this as, "I don't need this job, so what do they have to offer that makes we WANT this job." I almost always do that.

Yeah but not many employees have the sack to take that tact with a potential employer. You get a lot of deferential behavior and BS. Some of those types want a yes man. That is why I generally go into most interviews not caring much or viewing it as what they have to offer me, rather than what I need to do to work there. You'd be surprised how often that is successful. And, typically, the places it isn't aren't usually places I want to work anyway.

He may have set the bar for worst modern GM.

Thank you.

Plus the 49ers are probably legitimately just a QB away from having a Super Bowl title already. To me, that is the best scenario for Watson imaginable from a football success standpoint. Other than that, Miami seems like the best possible scenario for a "future bet" and living situation scenario.

That was one of the biggest reasons I keep saying the 49ers.

It wouldn't be high on my list of destinations either, TBQH. We aren't an attractive team in 2021 for a guy of his caliber. Perhaps after this offseason/draft that may change. That is the thing, there are also about 98% unknowns in these scenarios and about 2% knowns. It's possible this saga lasts until the beginning of the season or until the 2022 offseason. No harm in speculating. It is the offseason for non-playoff teams.

Well there are 31 possible destinations for him. We are probably on a shorter list, due to our need for a QB. So, that probably puts us into about a 10 team category. Other than that, we have no idea what he does or doesn't want for his next franchise. That we have to speculate on or wait to hear.

Yeah, some of the teams people are talking about being involved are almost impossible. People are ignoring the salary cap situations of those respective franchises. People need to remember this is going to boil down to(if it even happens): 1. Where Watson is willing to go(he has veto power). 2. What the Texans are willing to accept in a trade. 3. What teams are willing AND able to give up to get him IF they even want him. That's pretty much it.

I can't agree it is a pipe dream. We are a possible destination but a lot of dominos have to fall to make that happen. The first of which being him actually wanting to come here.