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I will zag. He didn't deserve to be a head coach. The cardinals also had the worst GM ever over that guy. He just spent a year under one of the most innovative offensive minds in the sport, who NFl coaches flock to every offseason. He might explain how he can bring that experience into the nfl where he can focus only on offense. I think it's worth a listen.

Thanks for this. I was surprised by the news as I thought it had been spoken for. This answered it.

Heh, well falcons roster is pretty good outside QB…and he could pick a certain boy he knows

Tough though because the new rule where no in person interviews until next week may make it a holdup. They may have decided on Klint Kubiak but he'd be tied up in playoffs.

this is bad news:

Negotiating with a single bidder, that'll go well.

wow I"d been working on that for months and he just tweeted it out

One of the twitter people pointed out how much the OCs we are interviewing (sans roman) rely on 3 WR sets which we couldn't really with our personnel post Claypool (which was also a disaster). We have to get a better WR room. I think this is an awesome class, but without a current 2nd round pick, that second first looms large. If we get an established guy...like Higgins, then awesome. He's very likely to be franchise tagged though.

Damn I would have guessed BP would love Ramos.

2. Daniels went 8.

I would like to see their breakdown of position players to pitchers in their top 101, but my guess is they have probably aligned hard against especially younger pitching prospects.

Because I am a man of the people and I am hiding in this thread because the white sox are too painful Dane Bruglers mock is out. The painful? AFter the bears take Caleb Williams 1.1, Marvin Harrison, Malik Nabers, Brock Bowers and Rome Odunze go 3, 4, 5, 6. He has the bears taking Dallas Turner at 9. I think this will be a popular pick in mock drafters. I personally believe there is zero chance it happens at 9. If this is the board, either we take Fashanu/Alt (Fashanu is available in this case), or we trade back and get more capital. I don't see much of a difference between Turner/Latu/Verse in draft grades. I'd rather take Fashanu or trade back and take Brian Thomas (he is taken 17th). Other things of note: Jer'Zhan newton goes 28th, so he may be not the top ten rumor people had of him. Penix went 44th, McCarthy top 20. Ladd McConkey went mid-2nd. Personally, I'd be ok if we somehow got a 2nd, found that Tee Higgins became available, and drafted McConkey. Having 2 vet wideouts with a route master like McConkey as a slot would be perfect for a vet QB.

I wonder if we are about to enter a new trend for hiring in the NFL. The overwhelming strength of this coaching cycle is defensive coaches. Belicheck, Vrabel, Quinn, Flores all are guys with previous HC experience and successful at that. Add to that Mike McDonald may be the hottest DC candidate in a while. Raheem Morris has been extremely deserving of another stint for years. Meanwhile, this year we see a whole lot more creativity in defensive fronts stifling offenses. Whereas we had a 5 year run of "get an offensive mind and have them run a 2-high shell defense", Flores and McDonald have shown much more adaptability in schemes that offenses have failed to counter. Defensive coaches in Demeco Ryans, Bowles and Gannon all were successful in finding strong OC candidates, to the point that maybe there has been enough training under Shanahan and McVay systems proliferating, that maybe the set-up of "grab one of these strong defensive minds and have them run a version of the shanahan WCO" will work much better than when the Reid/Shanahan/McVay offenses were destroying the league and defensive coaches were struggling to find personnel to run modern offenses. I mean look where you can grab from now. Zac Taylor looked like he was all fluff until this year behind a backup QB they were still dominating on offense. Now his OC is getting HC looks. Tampa has a hot offense under Dave Canales. Baltimore has a hot offense with Todd Monken. Seattle has built out a strong offense that has disciples flourishing. San Fran and LA obviously. Buffalo has a strong offense with offensive minds to pull from. There is now more than one way to bake this cake, and a heck of a lot more experience from defensive coaches than the offensive ones.

Lmao if this dude becomes the next Brees

Lastly Jason Licht is an amazing GM. Tampa has been so rewarded by keeping that dude even as he navigated multiple coaches and a botched QB pick at 1.1 because he can just find talent at will.

I feel like last night was a situation where the eagles scouts didn't feel the need to tell Sirianni and Johnson that Todd Bowles blitzed a lot because they assumed they knew and poor Nick and Brian did not.

Not sure I've ever seen a coach more propped up by their coordinators, absolutely wild. Would be extremely funny to see Brian Johnson still get the Panthers job lol.

I shared the experience of others asking for examples of a collapse this strong before...and what I found funny was responses of just how many similar examples there were that I completely forgot. Boy...did I not really remember the cardinals being 10-1 and finishing 11-6 and losing first round. Turns out it was...3 years ago ha.

I think it would be extremely interesting to see what a Tomlin staff looks like outside of Pit. The nice thing about the pittsburgh job is they are probably 1.1 (maybe just ahead of the packers) of the entire org creating an environment for the coaches and players to succeed. They don't ask for a herculean job of one person creating the whole football operation like the bears often do. But it has also meant being very conservative with coaching changes and he inherited a lot. He's been super loyal. If he starts fresh...does he get pick of the litter of coordinators who are that tier of very good coordinators but unlikely HC material going to probably one of the most stable HCs around? I still think he's a great coach. I don't know how many other coaches could get a winning team out of 2023 Mitch/Pickett and Rudolph, and add to that their oline just has not found the answers in years.

Now bears interview Roman. First guy not on my preferences, I think he’s lost his fastball and failed to find a new passing scheme that works.

Bullish thing to watch is Dave Canales came from under Shane Waldron at Seattle. He’s certainly done a great job, much better line there. Both places have better receivers than bears now however.

Still…it seems far fetched. Their GM passed on Fields once. Their coach is not yet hired. Pittsburgh I could see.

I like Maye but he has some games where his accuracy really gets away from him.

1, 8, 9 would be dreaming. Among other things, it may allow you to take a top 3 receiver, but at 11, 12, 13 are the Vikings, Broncos and Raiders. All would be prime trade up candidates to get QB3 or QB4. Trade back, get additional picks, and get what is still possibly strong edge territory or beef up that oline with a JC latham. BUT, I don't think it happens. I think pittsburgh is much more likely to give up a first than the falcons.

People have all been very angry about things that I haven’t even seen actual clips or original articles for. Lavar ball was on tv every damn day in front of a microphone.