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Tepper strikes me as the type that the more people ask for something and the louder they get the less likely he is to do it.

The players weren't but from a play calling perspective what they were doing just made no damn sense at all. Could the staff just be that dumb? Yeah, absolutely.

Very possible. I think he's basically already fired and he probably knows it. I mean, there's no salary cap on coaches. Who's to say a team can't go to a coach and say, "Listen, we're going a different direction after this year. We can fire you now or how about $5M to out your thumb on the scale in a non-obvious way and get us better draft position? And yeah, there will be an iron clad NDA you're going to sign." I'm not saying that it happens but I'm honestly not aware of anything that would prevent it from happening. And honestly in an industry with only 32 tightly linked potential employers in a very small community of professionals it's not like people are going to super eager to burn bridges giving up the dirt anyway. NFL blacklisting is real. Not in a coordinated way but just in the fact that all 32 employees are very similarly motivated type of way. You don't have to have coordination for all 32 teams to arrive at the same conclusion on potential employees.

You have to do it from a coaching perspective. Honestly, it looked like the Giants were doing it this past Sunday. That did not look like a team trying to give itself the best opportunity to win. I mean, you're running the ball at will and you still let your terrible QB throw it 37 times? That doesn't make any logical sense if you're actually trying to win. We were in the same situation on the other side but we only let threw it 25 times. I don't think NFL teams go out there and deliberately throw games. But you can make decisions throughout the course of the game to tip the scales toward your desired outcome without being blatantly obvious about it.

We don't have to "tank". We suck. We have barely beaten two other teams in recent weeks who also suck. If we played the Saints and Giants 10 times we'd probably go roughly .500 in those games. We just happened to win those coin flips. We aren't beating any other teams who aren't headed for top 5 picks in April. #1 is looking like a long shot at the moment but top 5 is well within reach.

I could see them making a push for him. I still think the most likely future is as Shedeur and Hunter's agent or as their marketing person. He would actually be really good at the latter. He could be a beast in the world of sports marketing.

I just don't pay attention to any of it. Don't follow them on social media. Radio? WTF is that? People still listen to that ancient technology? Sports podcasts? That's just the same thing as those awful ESPN shows. Just tune it out. I'm terribly disconnected from the sports world these days other than watching the actual game and you know what? It's fuging awesome. LOL

Have you not been paying attention? Those screamo shows have been doing this poo forever. Stop watching that poo, man.

I was very surprised to see in that article that evidently UGA wasn't even in the recruiting picture.

My good buddy grew up in State College and is a big PSU fan. We were in college at the same time as Lavar and I'd end up watching quite a few Penn State games with him. He was big on Courtney Brown. I was watching to watch him at DE but it was this LB who was standing out to me. I kept telling him that Brown was alright but Lavar Arrington was the real player on that D.

Not at all. I'm fluent in all forms of southern drawl.

I was doing some stuff through Fox Sports. I interviewed quite a few players and draft prospects. TD and Hoover were probably the two biggest.

I was one of the first people to interview TD in a long form format after he was drafted. I think I still have the audio of that kicking around here somewhere. I'll try to dig it up this weekend.

If there's one thing that feels like a safe bet it's David Tepper falling for something really dumb when it comes to football. He may be a brilliant hedge fund manager (which feels like a grift to be honest seeing that his hedge fund basically mirrored the S&P 500's performance) but the guy is a certified moron when it comes to football.

Tell the Commanders that.

I hope all the Panthers fans who bitched about Cam have enjoyed the post-Cam Panthers.

Evidently some Bears players are lobbying Eberflus to bench Caleb Williams. I'd be surprised if our boy DJ Moore isn't among them.

And we have the wish.com version of Tua.

That OL is a disaster. Dude didn't stand a chance last night.

Bryce and Caleb's struggles are for very different reasons. If Bruce had Caleb's physical talent you'd probably have an elite QB. Unfortunately Bryce doesn't have the physical talent and Caleb doesn't have the mental toughness.

That's fair. I guess that kinda speaks to what I value most in OL play - consistency. The SB50 OL had a higher ceiling of play but Remmers was a massive liability against speed rushers as we saw in our only two losses that year. We missed out on an undefeated regular season and a Lombardi because Remmers absolutely could not handle elite speed rushers and Shula could not scheme around it. Roll the pocket? Focus on plays allowing the ball to come out quicker? Nonsense! We do what we do! We'll keep an extra blockers in and just keep running our same slow developing downfield stuff no matter what!

This honestly might be our best overall OL ever. Our other good OLs had worse weak links IMO that were easier to exploit.

I'm much more familiar with the 4-3 so I'm sympathetic to that but there have been great defenses of both varieties. The good (well actually bad) thing is that we need such a defensive retooling that we shouldn't be beholden to either front and our best and only big money front seven guy (Brown) is scheme versatile.

That FG should seal it for Miami. That's good for our draft position. With Tua back(for the time being) I really don't see them as a threat for draft position. They're a lot better than us when they have Tua.

Trai Turner was an absolute road grader before injuries started taking their toll. That Turner/Norwell pairing was special with Norwell being a great puller.