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I'd say that keeping Tabor and Campen is evidence that collaboration in building the staff actually works...

They have the more complete team, and it's probably the best in the NFL this season. They have a better running game, probably better receivers, a better O-line, a better D-line, and likely the best cornerback duo in football. I really don't see why you can't see a path to them winning. I can see it clearly.

The play was supposed to be stopped when the ref ran onto the field waving his hands. You're referring to the errors that led up to that. That's not what I was referring to. poo happens in NFL games. The refs aren't perfect. Regardless of the errors that led to the play, if you're suggesting that they should have compounded the error by allowing a play that was officially stopped, I do not agree. You replay the down and let the chips fall where they may. That's the only credible way to do it.

Personally, I am of the opinion that the building of staff should be a collaborative effort. I don't trust Reich enough to make those kinds of decisions. I'm not in love with his Gus Bradley affinity at all, and I don't blame Tepper for wanting to give Manuel a shot. I would hope that Fitterer is giving valuable input as well.

Perhaps. All I can tell you is that I saw Chiefs players bring held on lots of plays also.

Honestly, he probably doesn't need to call plays. Once Indy began failing this past season, they scapegoated OC Marcus Brady when Reich was actually the play caller.

I just think some of you are Mahomes haters. That, and/or Burrow lovers. Joe Montana is the original Joe Cool. There is no other. Burrow will get other opportunities. Didn't you hear him? The window will be open his entire career. And for the conspiracy theorists, Mahomes will lose in the Super Bowl. The Eagles are the most complete team in football.

We see "bad calls" or "no-calls" in the NFL every week. Those games didn't get any special treatment. Goof grief!

Good. Don't want. He doesn't get cute at times; some of the play calling is downright ugly. On FB, I've had to listen to my wife's cousin cry and whine about Moore's calling all season. Even though he's a Cowboy fan, he had valid points all season long.

The rules are clear. The actual circumstances that led to the rules being enforced were obvious and clear and clear as well. Both those instances were textbook examples of the correct calls being made. End of story. End of some fake controversy. Chiefs vs. Eagles. Move on!

Meh. Wasn't the best called game, but wasn't the worst. The play do-over was absolutely the correct call, as the referee stopped it.

Nah, man. He pushed him when momentum was aleady taking him out.

Every year it's the same thing here: people go back and forth about drafting a QB, even the obvious projects, in the first round, and then we go on to draft the BPA in fitting with our board. I doubt that it will be any different this year. We had our pick of tackles last year. I could easily see us taking the best of the CBs or WRs this year, if the draft falls that way. But in the end, who knows? Especially right now.

Honestly, I think the game was more about the Dawgs fuging up om defense than Stroud, but we'll see. I don't think that serious NFL types will look at one game as determinative in their decision making.

Your allegiance to what's akin to the Kelly blue book is...something. The trade value of Stroud and anyone else is NOT determined by the draft trade chart, it's determined by people and teams---the market. Strict adherence to a chart does not exist.

Perhaps for the analytically challenged, or those that just don't give a damn and will take any and every opportunity to spotlight that there is a legitimate problem with institutional racism in the NFL and society at large. For me personally, I think there is a gargantuan, long-lived problem in America---and at times I feel somewhat helpless to do anything about it, even talk about it---but I don't think that it's necessarily a good thing to label every perceptibly questionable decision as a racist one. There is enough evidence to point to, in my opinion, even within the NFL, on a macro level to show that institutional racism is alive and well, and that people aren't doing (and aren't willing to do) anything of substance to address it, but just because Reich was 3-5 and Wilks was 6-6 this season and we hired Reich isn't one of them in my opinion.

I almost guarantee we will here some version of this during his first presser. "We will be a multiple attack, up-tempo offense. We will be aggressive. What I mean by multiple is that we will use multiple personnel groups in multiple formations to be able to run the same plays over and over again, to disguise it so that team won’t know what we’re doing. We will keep them off-balance with run and pass. We will change up the tempo. There will be a strong element of no huddle offense to the [the team's] offense. The analogy that I like to use is the analogy of a boxer. When you step into a boxing ring you want to impose your will on your opponent and as an offensive team and as a team in general we want to impose our will on the opponent. So as an offense, to impose your will means you run it when you want to run it and when you have to run it and you throw it when you want to throw it. We speed it up when we feel we’ve got somebody on the ropes and we can put them down for the count and you slow it down sometimes when necessary. That’s the analogy, that’s what it will be, and we will build the players around that kind of scheme." --Frank Reich, Colts' presser, 2018

But Skip just piled on instead of giving counterpoints. I just doubt that any of these guys actually watched and analyzed the games, much less the general situation.

They certainly didn't help. I even kind of gave him a pass on the Bengals disaster as he was still getting his feet wet and making the transition (or that's at least how I rationalized it after trying to give him some grace). The Steelers game was where I decided that Wilks just could not out-coach the best in the game. Tomlin beat his ass with his own billy club and took his lunch money.

I just don't feel that all these talking heads actually watched our games. There is a problem, and that problem produces a nebulous picture, but I'm not so sure that the problem applies in this particular instance. But, I guess that is kind of the point. Wilks' situation here was almost a fait accompli from the beginning. Key asked what more could Wilks have done. How about beat the Bucs?

Yeah, I'm not overly excited about him or Fangio to be honest. I'd rather go for a young defensive mind.

Go root for the Ravens.

It's just hard to say. Rhule was so awful. That first season gave me a little hope that maybe he was the kind of coach who could turn lemons into lemonade, then after that it was pretty much all unsweetened, tart lemon juice.