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still no.

btw, he'd be one of the first to go in a demolition and restructure of the team. like the OP said, trade him and he'll never get hurt again. here he has done nothing but get hurt. time to cut bait.

yeah, i think he's checked out. just like the rest of the team. i miss smitty. i miss cam. i miss TD. i miss luke. i miss every player we had who had that fight in them. we got the HC equivalent of David Carr getting sucked down into that abyss of Eeyore. the rest of the team is just sitting back and collecting checks.

"it's not good if i'm out there and can't help the team" it's not good if you aren't out there and can't help the team. at least if you're out there, there's a chance you can do something good. sit on the sidelines (where you have spent most of your "career") and you're no good to us at all.

interesting perspective and he's not wrong. the biggest problem we have right now isn't running the offense (even though that's huge). the biggest problem we have right now is a lack of identity and a losing culture. until we get someone that can instill fight back in them or just dismantle the team and start over pretty much from scratch, we aren't going anywhere long term. it will likely have to be someone that isn't afraid of tepper and who tepper respects. it will have to be someone that can step in and take control of everything to build the team right. let tepper settle in on his vision for the team, what he wants their identity to be, and then find a coach who can build that and give him the control to do it. this collaboration experiment we've got going on is a failure. you don't need a bunch of brilliant minds. you need one decisive mind who will get poo done.

we've got an 8 month old great pyrenees that is finding something random every day to chew on/destroy and for being a giant puppy, she's quiet and sneaky. we are planning on getting a live tree, but we're starting off with a fake one without anything on it first for a couple days, then adding lights for a couple more days, then shatterproof ornaments and just see how she does with it. she's also really rambunctious and runs around a lot and really clumsy so there's a few ways that she can bring that tree down or do some damage. first year in a new house so we're wanting to do up Christmas really big, but puppy has us a bit nervous.

at this point could we do worse? bring him in. let Luke be the DC.

ok...you'd think after 50+ accounts being banned you'd figure out you aren't wanted around here. bye again.

Ben Johnson = Andrew Luck = Doesn't want to come here

when cam came in, we had good talent on the team, but no heart. they had adopted fox's "it is what it is" spirit. cam changed that around. now we have no heart and very little talent. no player on this team is going to turn that around. we're going to need a coach that comes in and wakes them up. i think we were trending that way with wilks, but then we brought in reich who is just a nice guy, but not one that will fire everyone up. i thought that duce would help with that, but after training camp he went silent. oh well...it is what it is.

this is how you tank.

the absolutely insane thing is that we can still win the division. i mean we'd have to win out...but you know,

I hope it happens

I hope so. Found out I have to work overtime Sunday. (Got to love being in salary and having to work two extra days of overtime). Still I think I'd rather do that than watch. Hopefully we get the win and we somehow get this poo straight.

No.

Reich should have taken a year off before he went back to coaching to recover from irsay. I wish he had.

At least he didn't wait like he did with Rhule. He learned quicker. Of course this quick move is what is gaining Tepper the most criticism from around the league/media.

I just hope he lucks up and finds the right fit for Young and that he can become good, because the alternative is getting stuck in this pit of apathy for another few years.

Should save some time, then.

Except he won't be forcing his new HC to get on the BY train. He'll hire someone who already is on board.... someone who thinks they can do something with him and help him reach his potential. The coach will have some slick speech on how he can make the most of him and Tepper will buy it and then we'll find ourselves looking for a new coach in another 2.5 years.

By the end of the season, the only ones in the building are going to be those who are sold on BY, and you can be sure that whoever is hired as the next HC will be completely sold on him as well, because he won't get hired unless he is. You don't have to like it....you might hate it....but our wagon is hitched to Bryce Young. Might as well get used to it.

Y'all arguing about Cam in all this? C'mon....just let that stuff hang in the past. We've got enough issues now.

Best course of action, considering our draft situation, is to find a HC with a legit plan to make/help Bryce succeed.

I just want wins and I could care less about the bears. And since we're linked with Bryce for a couple more years and we gave up so much for him, I don't see why anyone would want him to anything but succeed....unless being proven right about him is more important than your team winning. I'll just leave it at that.