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What the hell is Bryce Young going to do with a dowfield specialist like Evans? On the one hand it would be a giant waste of his talents, but in a silver lining sense perhaps Evans could make occasional lemonade out of those lemons Bryce likes to toss downfield. Not sure why he'd want to try though.

Maybe the candidates declined to talk a second time. We'll never know.

Ricky Manning Jr sighting... haven't heard his name in a while. Joking the Raiders to coach CBs. Was apparently a defensive assistant for Seattle. https://twitter.com/joearrigofsm/status/1750323502048227402

I agree with you and that's my point - it is about football, specifically him realizing he doesn't know jack and needs to get tf out of the way. He's done so much amage at this point that until we see it actually happen for an extended period of time, I'm not assuming that it will.

Yeah he is, at least in this regard. Nothing he's done so far proves otherwise, with most every action to date supporting that he knows nothing about football. Until that changes in calearly visible ways dude has zero benefit of the doubt.

There's being hopeful and there's the utter nonsense, 'get on board or gtfo' euphoric, and quite toxic, atmosphere that developed for god knows what reason last year around the team, staff, Burns, etc. No issue with the former, but the latter deserves derision and will hopefully be in short supply this year, replaced by a decent recognition of the reality of the team's situation. This will allow for actual discussion and recognition of multiple points of view, good and skeptical alike.

FWIW you weren't the only one who had the rose-colored glasses on... it was truly baffling how pervasive the nonsensical overoptimism was. I daresay a lot more folks will have a more realistic outlook this coming season.

I have no idea what the history is here or why you dug this thread back up, but as an impartial observer that first post was most definitely not suggesting that Carolina just allow Bryce be used as a tackling dummy. He was very obviously suggesting that they either pull him or prepare for him to get hammered given the state of tackle play at the time. There is nothing in this thread openly hoping that Bryce gets hurt/wishing injury on him. Zilch. If anything, many posts are concerned for his health and folks are saying it makes (made) sense to save him from that risk and offer up Dalton to the Dallas pass rush.

If the numbers were there, yup. He's a competitor.

The Peter Principle is real. Put another way, no one is good at their role in a promotion unless they were either doing the job before and just didn't have the title, or they prove it. We can only hope it wasn't the former option given the pathetic FO actions of these past seasons, so with Tepper's track record the skepticism will remain until the latter occurs.

So Tepper hires a search firm and, lo and behold, ends up with the in-house candidate that, per varying reports, Tepper already trusts... What a surprise. Again, not Dan's fault for taking the job and maybe he ends up being great, but it just doesn't inspire confidence at this time.

What is the opinion in this tweet based on, exactly? Would be curious to know. If true, blech, with the fringe silver lining of them understanding his limitations and weaknesses and actually attempting to build to cover for them.

60% of restaurants fail in their first year and 80% fail within 5, so I'd say yeah. that was trying something unique and it didn't work out, though I heard it was pretty good pizza.

Eh, Tepper sucks. Nothing against Dan and this isn't his fault, but it's an L until proven otherwise. Call it the 'Appaloosa Effect'.

Indeed they were/are, and I daresay that Brown showed much more potential and 'flashed' more (as much as I hate that term) relative to his position than Bryce did this year. Bad OL, bad receivers, yada yada... Bryce still didn't show much above the Mendoza line within the realm of what he could control, and hte little bit that did look good was far from consistent or predicatble.

If we're playing that game, the Chiefs giving the ball back on the 2-inch line would have made those field goals irrelevant anyway. There is merit to OP's premise, as ludicrous as the notion of blowing the Bills up entirely is, and the Chiefs are Exhibit A. Moving from Smith to Mahomes was very risky at the time but they knew Smith wasn't going to get them there, so they made a move and it has worked out better than anyone there could have imagined. Could have bombed too but they were already not winning SBs, so why not take a calculated risk?

As far as the general public is concerned yes, he does call the plays. Just like any other situation where the HC is calling plays but still has an OC, who knows what that mechanism looks like behind the scenes.

What an awful decision, and it slipped out to boot.

I cursed him. I hereby rescind my comment and Love can now go back to making the 9ers look bad.

Love has exploded these past weeks and looks absolutely legit. Reminds me of Josh Allen's rapid ascent at the end of his second season.

You are incorrect, but as I clearly explained the definition and my position I honestly don't care enough to discuss it futher. If you can't/won't the distinction between the names on your list and guys like Frank Reich then that's on your side. That's not to say that someone like Belichick has anything left in the coaching tank if he goes somewhere else, but that class of coach gets the benefit of the doubt. Everything comes to an end at some point.

Well yeah. No one else cares about the Panthers in the slightest.

Pretty well established and widely-accepted that retread is used as a slight pejorative towards a middling, replacement-level type of coach whose teams don't tend to stnad out over time. I can't comment about every usage you're thinking of but no, those guys you list would not be retreads. I'd argue that Quinn is a bit above that level (and Pederson above that) but still not someone that would be near the top of my list for a new coach.

I don't know why you're posting this, as I'm just saying the term itself is stupid and meaningless.