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How about Tom Brady?? 😉

Gotta tip your hat to him. What an incredible career.

Khan is an awful owner because he cannot for the life of him figure out how to install consistency in the organization. I think he is clueless when it comes to football (the Fords?) but doesn't have any to assist him in that regard (Chris Spielman?) In Khan's tenure as owner, the Jags have gone through Mike Mularkey, Gus Bradley, Doug Marrone, Tom Coughlin, and Urban Meyer as Head Coach, and James Harris, Gene Smith, David Caldwell, and Trent Baalke as GM. That's just dreadfully bad. I don't think it's a stretch to say that's 0/9. That said, if you're the next person he taps to be the HC or GM, I don't think any of that matters to you. Unless you think of yourself as a failure, you think of yourself and your vision for the team as the one who will upend that trend and set the Jags back on track. Whether you're Matt Millen and Marty Mornhinweg or Kevin Colbert and Bill Cowher, if you're hired by an NFL org, you think you know the recipe for success in the NFL. With the NFL salary cap, you don't have to worry about becoming the Oakland Athletics. If anything, I think being hired by Khan may even be more attractive to some than being hired by someone like Jerry Jones, who you know is going to meddle and interfere and judge every step you make.

I liked Jim Schwartz. I think of the post 0-16 coaches, he is the one I most would have liked to see given one more year. I know putting him above Caldwell in that regard is probably a pretty hot take, but Schwartz was like Campbell in a lot of ways, his players always gave it 100% and left it on the field. There was never a game where I saw his team play to less than their ability. His last season we lost the last three games by a combined 6 points (one of them in OT) and an additional three games earlier in the season by four or less points. If 2 or 3 of those had been wins, we would have won the North. His teams were pretty undisciplined, but in hindsight I wonder if that had more to do with the players. Suh is still Suh eight years later, now with Bruce Arians. Titus Young was a problem back then too, and that turned out to be much larger than football.

I got Eberflus to the Bears right so I’m just going to hang my hat on that and ignore the rest. 🤠

Well I guess it’s a good thing I’m not paid for my opinion on sports then. I won’t lose sleep over forgetting about Kellen Mond lol

Ultimately it is. But if the choices are “trade me to the Broncos or I retire”, it makes more sense to do the former, especially when you’re a rebuilding team.

The Steelers organization doesn’t make many mistakes, but not forcing him out the door two years ago was a huge one.

Here’s hoping the Jordan Love led Packers go 3-14 next year.

Hackett to Denver. I’m sure they’re hoping his friend follows….

I think it would internal, even if they’re not currently on the coaching staff (i.e., it would be someone the UM Athletic Department knows well). It would not be a Campbell/Fickell/(insert rising MAC coach here). It may be completely out of left field, like Juwan was. Mike Hart falls into that category a bit, but I think there are others who would be on their radar as well who may not be on any of ours. Jay Harbaugh? 🤔

As long as they’re not getting ejected or costing us 15 every game lol

You are correct, I re-read the rule. Is it too late to re-sign Tavai for a few games? Plug him into Glenn’s defense to give NOLA some extra film??

I believe that was a quote from Rodgers, not Payton.

To be clear, in case it wasn’t, my comment about him being OC was in jest. I think the most likely role for Payton next year is on FOX or NBC. I think some of it is burnout, but is easy to be burned when you’re standing as close to a dumpster fire as he is. The Saints need to press the reset button in a major way. With what he’s done with them over the last 16 years, he’s earned the right to say that he doesn’t want to be the HC of a team that goes 2-15, even if it’s needed. if any NFL team picked him up for any role, the Saints would have to be compensated. I don’t think there is any way around that that isn’t shady and doesn’t come with the possibility of penalties if the NFL found out. He’s under contract with the Saints until he isn’t. While I would think that the Lions or whoever adding him as a consultant should cost less than the Cowboys or whoever hiring him as HC, I don’t know if there is anything (except knowledge that gaining something is better than nothing) to stop the Saints from asking for whatever their heart desires. I agree that it’s worth Campbell picking up the phone and talking to his old friend at the very least, even if he knows the answer before it starts ringing.

If Glenn is hired by the Saints (or anyone), I believe we would receive a 3rd round comp pick in 2022 and 2023. Would make losing him a little easier, though I would still like to keep him.

Flip the script, Payton to Detroit as the next OC. Book it! 😄

A 3rd round pick for not re-signing Kenny Golladay seems like highway robbery right about now.

I could get behind this also. Probably not a full 15 minutes for the “5th quarter”, but 10 could do before going to sudden death. 10-20 years ago, I could agree with the “just play defense” argument in support of the current OT rule. With the evolving nature of the sport though, that’s just so much easier said than done, especially after a 60-minute game. These aren’t our grandfather’s “3 yards and a cloud of dust” Steelers/Ravens 13-9 barnburners anymore. With guys like Allen and Mahomes, the NFL is moving rapidly towards high-octane pass-first offenses led by some of the best athletes on Earth, who can put up 80-some combined points. I won’t be convinced that Josh Allen wouldn’t have done the same thing Mahomes did in OT had he won the toss. I don’t think it takes away from what the Chiefs did, but I think it’s a shame to see the Bills year end that way.

An OT rule change I heard on 97.1 this morning that I don’t hate is just making OT the practical 5th quarter. Whoever has the ball to end the 4th quarter keeps it and you flip the field like you would between the 1st and 2nd or 3rd and 4th. Make it more of a quarter change than a halftime. No more coin flip.

You can fair catch a squib while it’s in the air, it’s just not technically a fair catch after it bounces. NFL Rule 10 Section 2 Article 3: (a) If a player of the receiving team makes a valid fair-catch signal, and the ball is not touched by a player of the kicking team, the following apply: (2) If he recovers the ball after it strikes the ground, it is dead immediately, but it is not a fair catch. It would accomplish the goal (not having time come off the clock), but you have to be sure-handed because the defense can pop you, you don’t have fair catch protections on the bounce.

Expectations exceeded.

I hope they finally change the OT rules after this one. As great as that game was, it ultimately was decided by the OT coin toss. I don’t want exactly what college does, but both Mahomes and Allen should have been able to touch the ball in OT. At least make the Bills respond and make a decision whether to kick the extra point or go for two and the win.

That throw was the reason the Rams acquired Stafford.

Wow!