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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.

Right up there with hater/hating as well.

Tied for 6th best in the league, with 2.5 seconds of pocket time. Make of that what you will. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2023/passing_advanced.htm

While Tepper is still an idiot until he shows he's not, IMO folks are making too big of a deal about the tenure length. Rhule's teams showed no improvements across 2+ years, and Tepper should have fired him after 2021 anyway (ignoring that he never should have bene hired int he first place); this year's team was absolutley inept and also showed zero improvement from week to week, both interms of players and strategy. It's not difficult to explain that improvement on the field buys time, even if it takes abit for the wins to come through. Dan Campbell in 2021 is the exact example of this - that team won very few games, but they showed steady improvement throughout the season and a drive to compete. Carolina has a massively deep hole to climb out of and one season may not be enough for a big change in the W/L column. While I was always against the Reich hire, this was the same barometer for him. There was likely much more behind the scenes that we aren't aware of, particularly regarding handling of Bryce, but it was ovious that the team was not growing at all. Talking heads like to make a big deal out of it but NFL coaches see all that and a frank conversation with Tepper can explain exactly what the issues were that led to Reich being let go, just like any other job on the planet. In the end it will come down to if Tepper has actually learned anything and if candidates actually believe him if he say he has. In generla though this particular aspect of the process is probably the easiest one.

I see someone has some time on their hands.

I'm not sure about that, but 2014 wasn't too far off of this, particularly in the receiver room, and Cam dragged them to the playoffs in the similarly-weak NFC South. There was some more talent on that OL for sure, but that year's tackles were on par with this year's guards.

My God, Cam with the offense the Hurts has would be amazing. We already know what magic Cam could do with an offense like Carolina's this year.

Wtf is LaFleur doing? This is negligent.

Green Bay is screwing around. Just end it already.

Oh crap, Jordan Love has a towel on his head.

And that is why arm strength matters.

Does this cool the 'Dan Quinn for a coaching spot' talk a bit?

This is absolutely delicious.

I am.rolling at the guy standing there waiting to put the sunglasses on Aaron Jones.