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We have some toilet bowls being played and the Vikings and Bengals just kicked off. Jake Browning dropped an absolute dime downfield to Higgins on the first snap and Higgins dropped it. That dude has definitely dropped some balls this year.

Yay! We won the worst division in football!

It's one thing I give Saban a lot of credit for in the college ranks. The guy played very vanilla schemes for most of his career leaning on dominant defense and a ground and pound offense but as he saw the game evolving more and more toward spread passing attacks he adapted. Hell, his new high flying offense made Mac Jones a 1st rounder and Bryce Young #1 overall and look at them now.

Which was still inconsistent. Gettleman sucked. You've just never been able to swallow that bitter pill. The guy was a flash in the pan his first year when all of his bargain basement signings worked to perfection and key elite talents were able to carry a roster held together with duct tape and bailing wire. He just fell victim to his ego thinking he could build a roster out of duct tape and bailing wire every year. Then he went back to the Giants and tried to do the same thing and went 19-46 without Cam, Luke, and company. The guy was trash.

I definitely think Rivera is done. The game has passed him by and I just think he's lost his passion for it anyway. I can't see another team giving him another chance at this point.

Gettleman went into a season with Byron Bell and Nate Chandler as his starting OTs. Not because of injury or some other extenuating circumstances but because he thought that was a great plan. He yanked the tag on our best DB and then spammed picks at CB in order to field a secondary because he got butt hurt and just had to win a dick measuring contest. I was shocked by the firing at the time and bringing back Hurney on any capacity was Tepper level idiocy and mismanagement, but in hindsight Dave Gettleman 100% deserved to be fired.

I'd call zero back to back winning seasons pretty mediocre. It always embarrasses me that this fanbase thumps their chest about going to the playoffs with a losing record. We were a bad team, the rest of the division was just worse.

This. Rivera seems like a legitimately good guy but I don't think he gave this team any lift beyond what a generic middle of the road NFL coach would provide.

We'll need a time machine to bring back prime Cam and Luke if we want to achieve mediocrity again with those two. Without them it'd look like Tepper era Panthers per usual.

MVP at QB and DPOY QBing the defense.

I think he had the best talent by far. Honestly, Fox did the better coaching job before he just mailed it in at the end on his blame duck year. There's zero chance Ron Rivera gets that '03 team anywhere close to a SB.

If Bieniemy hadn't been so bad at OC then Rivera would've been fired mid-season but there was just no point in giving Bieniemy an interim test drive. When you have opponents openly kicking your scheme after the game you ain't it. It was shades of the Broncos mocking Shula post-SB50.

Oh look, the terrible team shows up every week because it's worth a lot of money. So inspiring.

We don't give them away. We get them beaten out of us on a weekly basis.

I mean, he didn't claim that this team was any better.

It's tough to imagine because we've been so bad for several years now but if we start winning again it'll come around.

My advice to Bryce is to not spend lavishly because you don't look long for the league.

Honestly, it's a hard pass from me. A franchise QB on a rookie contract is the closest thing to a cheat code that exists in the NFL and he blew it. In four years with Herbert they've gone to the playoffs once and we're one and done in that one. Herbert has a 30-32 record despite showing a lot of promise and putting up good numbers. Tl Telesco seems Hurney-ish. Makes some nice picks but can't build well rounded rosters and struggles to put a consistent team on the field year to year.

I'd take decision making via Huddle poll over Fitterer

I've never understood the In-N-Out hype. It's a good fast food burger well priced. Nothing more, nothing less. I was a west coast sales manager for years and I swear every trip I'd take I'd have to have four or five people ask me when I got back if I went to In-N-Out. No. WHAT??!!! But, I mean it's Boise, ID. At least 75% of Boise are Cali expats.

This might be the least attended game in NFL history with these two awful teams playing in even more dreadful conditions. We might fug around and win this game somehow. All bets are off when the weather is gonna be THIS bad. The Jags gave us a fight in Monsoon Bowl despite us being a far better team. It's just tough to accomplish anything on the football field in these conditions.

I just hope enough water gathers in the bowl for this turd to flush.

Well, the least shocking news on NFL history just dropped. Staley got fired the moment he stepped in the door this morning. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/chargers-fire-brandon-staley-tom-telesco

I hope it won't always be the greatest season but yeah for now it is. We got to the SB against long odds and lost a great game to a team that would become the greatest dynasty the league has ever seen. No shame in that.

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