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You told what's going to happen so no need. Thanks.

Good to know.

Have no idea. But he's a QB and we we need one, so this news is prevalent to pick values, who we could target, and the whole dynamics of pick 1-9.

Fun little "oh wait is this a Luck situation" period. Onto the draft!

Is Interim in CE or BCE?

hold on to the ball!!

Play of the year

Kafka flexing so far but is a bit too happy with the D Jones runs

Well this would really shake things up and it’s looking like a real possibility. There’s like silence and he’d have to declare tomorrow. Jeez

I don’t even think Norv would want him if he still coached haha. For me, unsure if Scott is OC capable from everything I’ve seen.

A random thought about Dorsey—(not CAR specific) He’s not being talked about much but a funny connection he does have is his old colleague and college coach in Chud. Wonder if he’d be calling BC for a buy out if he lands a gig. Unsure if he’d really be able to pull many BUF coaches with him to a new spot.

Canning Rivera then was a STRONG sentiment for a huge contingent of fans. It was already loud after year 2, even greater after that bad start.

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If Staley is out, the probability Payton is going to San Die...Los Angel...Englewood skyrockets, and Denver will be in a pickle for who they want. But rumor is Harbaugh interest is mutual there... Some guesses: AZ: Honestly, I think Vance Joseph may become the HC LAC: Staley out, Payton in CAR: Ben Johnson HOU: Jonathan Gannon DEN: Jim Harbaugh IND: Ejiro Evero THAILAND: Kingsbury Looking at this list and who's been interviewed where, there's honestly a chance Steichen stays put which I find quite interesting. But I wouldn't discount a Steichen/Reich type combo here.

Likely referring to how many people wanted him gone after year 2, and then again after we started 1-4 after that AWFUL Cardinals game. Right before the whole "Riverboat" stuff started.

And the reality is he was out of football in 2020, Missouri in 2021, is a Rhule hired, Rivera's longtime right hand man. It's this strange combination of being tied to our last 2 regimes (that we supposedly all hate) and yet he's this perceived safe baseline choice. Unsure about on this forum, but I distinctly remember many did NOT like what happened to our defense under him when McD left. He was always perceived as this great positional coach, the tightest coach w/Ron, a practice leading, hard-nosed dude, but didn't cut the mustard as a DC. It was then even worse with Eric Washington. He has a great image, is a great dude by all accounts, awesome locker room guy, all big reasons he got hired to AZ as HC with only 1 year of DC experience. But I have as much trepidation with him as our HC as I do with guys like Mayo or Moore. He's a half-career college guy with really just Rivera & Rhule coaching room experience sans a year with the Browns. He followed Ron through Chicago and SD straight to the QC.

That sounds like an unnecessarily, relentlessly negative mindset. It's okay to be optimistic even though he's made some bad moves. It's not like the guy wants to lose. But I see that av, and I sense the likely unflinching stance. Not trying to throw shade specifically at you. You do you, but I really don't dislike the guy THAT much to just entrench my fan experience moving forward as this unmovable "we will never amount to anything and our owner is the worst" mentality. It's a new day, maybe we finally find a great coach. We've only had 3 good ones (at their peak) and 2 duds. It's not like he's siloed this time, he has new people around him, let's see what happens.

Look at our old pal Dean Marlowe making a playoff INT. Good for that dude.

Yeah. So that would mean whoever we hire is the wrong hire. Seems pointless to just bash the choice no matter what because of Tepper hate.

Interesting note I mentioned elsewhere: Johnson has only 3 years less of NFL coaching experience than Wilks. Johnson: 11 years NFL coaching, 1 as OC Wilks: 14 years NFL, 3 DC

So you prefer the owner not to like the guy he hires?

I can actually see that over us, ATL, WAS, and some others. Don't know how they'l continue to finagle the cap, but he would be a nice fit there that can sometimes lead them to a winning record but never go deep in the playoffs. Smells like a nice purgatory situation for them that they'll think is a home run hehe

Correction on a Wilks stat--he only has 3 more years of NFL coaching experience than Steichen and Johnson.

Meanwhile EVERY single AFC QB is a 1st rounder lol. The AFC has simply been selecting all the QBs in recent years. Naturally, what happens would be the NFC didn't get those guys. Trevor, Burrow, *Tua, Herbert, Mahomes, Allen, *Lamar, NFC is about to be a QB wasteland, best be the team to get ahead of it and find a good one, right?