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My buddy and I have a side bet that nick saban ends up as a rumor at some point (credible rumors)

I find it funny that a few months ago the claim against Warren was that he was an empty suit doing nothing, now the main claim is he is meddling too much in football ops.

George Ofman is not a real reporter anymore. Bears are idiots, but I don't put much into his insight.

I know some will say it doesn't hurt to talk, but I think this indicates the bears overweighing the importance of interviews in this process.

Has a very similar resume to Daboll, including the "at same level" for a while. Unclear why people didn't tap him after success in Tampa, etc but he's been dynamite since moving to College.

He may well, that’s why bears need to actually try to get someone others like rather than believe their pathetic interview round robin will surface the best coach. Trust others!

Must be what Cincinnati needed to get Luis Robert or something

We probably wouldn’t hear with Vrabel because most of the leaks are due to the nature of the request. I wouldn’t put smith at same level as McCarthy…McCarthy actually wins. I thought their offense would collapse without Moore, only to be more explosive last year. He’s a good coach, I wouldn’t hate it, he definitely needs right mix of players. He definitely can hire a damn staff that’s for sure. Now with Smith, the feather in his cap is probably that the falcons talent wasn’t what we thought, maybe he’s better than assumed. He’d be low on my list though.

This Ben Johnson chase reminds me of the white Sox 2018 offseason where our ability to land them seems a lot more based on other teams hopefully not deciding to land him than us getting him.

If Ben Johnson wanted Trent baalke kept them I’ll eat a hat

Jets have an open GM too. I’d assume Johnson’s hesitancy with that job were the stories of woody Johnson’s kids making decisions based on madden ratings (which to be fair are better than poles valuations)

I want Johnson and I want Johnson to pick his GM, personally. If I’m him as soon as I get in the private interview with Warren I ask for my preferred guy on same timeline

You know I don’t know if board will kill me but I wouldn’t mind a Pete Carroll Brian schottenheimer reunion.

Have to say…I’m not sure firing the coach in season did much (maybe got us a better pick). George may not do it again. Best news of day? Jags keeping baalke. No hot coach will sign up for that after how often he’s backstabbed the coaches under him.

one thing I’d respond to though, because in general it sucks that I care about this, is that it seemed like the 2017-2019 Hahn Sox were getting the big trades right, but they were getting a ton of the small stuff noticeably wrong. That stuff was often dismissed as not mattering, but it was the signal they weren’t capable of sustaining and was dead obvious by 2020 when they had no chips to improve the team in a playoff run. A front office we know is good would not get this much heat on stuff like this, but Getz got very few of the little things right last year, and he has to earn the belief of fans that he has the foot on the gas in collecting the right talent in every avenue.