ladypanther

Not fair. McCarthy said that play did not go as planned.

Would not want her to be upset with you.

Hoping he is still here because his flight back to Dallas got cancelled.

Well, I for one am glad Tepper is not impulsively jumping on the shiny new toy, the most media hyped guy. If he hires Reich I will be impressed...at least in his process this time. Is Reich the answer? Don't know. He is not the sexy hire. He has had some success and as others have said is well connected and has an eye for quality assistants. At this point, I am not in love with any of the candidates. I just hope Tepper does select the coach that the decision team is behind. Does not look like he is going off the rails this time like Irsay. (Glad I am not a Colts fan.)

Just a little earlier today read that Quinn was the leader in Denver. It is crazy everywhere.

Was reading the same thing about Denver. They are wary of hiring a coordinator as a 1st time HC as they have failed 3 times in a row trying that.

There seems to be predictions about everything and anything right now. Plus who knows how much false info is being thrown out there.

Yea...a 2 year contract? Hmmmm...what coach will be available at that time without having to pay his former team compensation? Not happening.

Tepper: OK, Wilks, we could not find anyone we really liked (who would come here) so we are giving you 1 (or 2 years) because we are hoping that someone we like better will be available later on. Wilkes: No thank you. How are you going to attract good assistant coaches or even free agents in a situation like that even if he did accept? Not a good plan.

That was the original MNF model IIRC. They made it work. I just don't think Brady's ego can handle it...especially as good as Greg is. Also wonder if Greg would go for it. Fox would be crazy to mess with something working well.

They've got to do 2nd interviews now. Going to be a while.

Don't think Wilks is taking a 1 yr contract. He was a 1 yr "bridge" before. Not fair to him or any HC.

Ryans turned us down.

Meanwhile...Romo getting some criticism: https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/tony-romos-bengals-bills-call-is-getting-torched-by-nfl-fans/ Some football fans are ready to hit the mute button on Tony Romo’s commentary. Romo is getting roasted over his analysis during CBS’s broadcast of the Bills-Bengals AFC Divisional Round game on Sunday. The former Cowboys quarterback, who called the game with Jim Nantz, sounded hesitant about plays and filled in awkward gaps with silent pauses, grunt noises and other gestures during the broadcast. One viral moment included Romo describing the Bills’ quarterback sneak strategy as “a little tush push” after wideout Gabe Davis used both hands to push Josh Allen’s backside forward. “Tony Romo is the college kid who didn’t crack a book all semester but his sure-fire oral exam strategy is to smother the professor with enthusiasm, charm, bluster and every possible answer,” When Nantz asked him about Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ high-ankle sprain he sustained in Saturday’s Divisional Round win over the Jaguars, Romo stood in silence for a few seconds and looked like he was chewing something. At one point, when Josh Allen failed to connect with receiver Stefon Diggs in the end zone, Romo said, “It’s a perfectly thrown ball, but it’s a little wide.” In response to his commentary, Awful Announcing tweeted: “Tony Romo, expanding the meaning of ‘perfectly.'” ...... “TV’s should be required to have a ‘mute Tony Romo’ button on all remotes. This guy is exhausting.” “This is an issue, it’s kind of gibberish,” Marchand said. “They’re not on the same, it sounds like they’re doing two different broadcasts. [Romo] interrupts Nantz… when Nantz is trying to make his final call at the end of the game… The biggest issue is that they’re not together.”

1) Would Jerry give him FULL control and 2) How many minority candidates will be will to interview if it is a done deal?

In fairness, who knew that Tepper would activate enough brain cells to turn down a horrendous guaranteed contract.

A 3 person booth would be terrible. Brady could not tolerate Greg being better than him.

You are not suggesting Payton is playing dirty???!!!!

That's bad....lol

Posted this in the other thread.

Have no idea. He has years of experience. That is what the interviews and the research done by the football guys is for.

This probably on McCarthy (from the same article): Why was the punt team not ready? Or, why not go for it? On third and 10, Prescott was sacked with 2:45 on the clock. Dallas was down seven points, yet for some reason, it took McCarthy 10 seconds to motion the offense off the field with all of the urgency of a DMV employee who hates his job. That hesitation on punting or going for it (and he should have gone for it) was costly, and judging by the time it took to switch units, it doesn’t seem like anything was communicated to players before the third down play. The punt unit was finally in position by 2:20, and took another eight seconds to get the snap off at 2:12 (The Niners were also slow in organizing their players for the punt, which meant it took even longer for the officials to allow Dallas to punt). The Niners fair caught the punt at 2:05. That’s 40 seconds to complete a punt in a situation when Dallas needed to preserve as much time as possible, what NFL teams call a quick punt scenario. After asking a few people around the league today, I’ve learned that an offense and special teams that regularly practice these quick punt situations would aim to do this exchange in the mid-20-second range, and the best teams could do it in as quick as 22 seconds. At best, the Cowboys wasted 10 seconds on indecision and poor organization and at worst, 15 seconds, and if you figure five seconds per play, that’s at least two more offensive plays.

He has coached offense before. Depends on his plan for offensive coaching. Apparently he is impressive.

SI thinks so too: https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/01/23/greg-olsen-fox-nfl-playoffs-tom-brady 1. “Fine. Bench me. But I’m gonna make it hard as s--- for you to bench me.” That was Fox NFL analyst Greg Olsen on the SI Media Podcast just over a month ago when talking about the prospect of Tom Brady replacing him in the booth whenever the legendary quarterback retires. After two weeks of the NFL playoffs, Olsen is clearly going to make it “hard as s---” for Fox to bench him. Even though we’re working with a small sample of games, Olsen has had an outstanding postseason and has set himself up to win over even more viewers thanks to Fox’s airing this year’s Super Bowl. Olsen really showed his chops in the last three minutes of the Niners’ win against the Cowboys on Sunday. Most analysts flop late in games, because they don’t understand clock management and timeout strategy. Olsen, meanwhile, couldn’t have been more on top of it all. As the Cowboys made their final drive of the game, Olsen pointed out, after a completion near midfield, that even though Dallas tight end Dalton Schultz went out of bounds the clock didn’t stop, because he wasn’t moving forward when he hit the sideline. Olsen also took Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy and the Dallas players to task for not hustling more before a late punt to save time on the clock. And in his finest moment, Olsen pointed out that McCarthy needed to call his timeouts before, not after the two-minute warning–a coaching tactic that most NFL analysts (and coaches) get wrong. Whether someone enjoys a broadcaster is completely subjective. My two main criteria for anyone in the booth is (1) Don’t annoy me; (2) get strategy right. Olsen is two for two. He’s also just a very easy listen. He doesn’t overspeak, he doesn’t try to act like the audience is stupid and he’s a football genius and he’s not afraid to criticize players and coaches. Here’s the wild thing about Olsen: He’s been doing this for only two seasons. Tony Romo has been a lead analyst for six seasons. Cris Collinsworth has been a lead analyst for 20 years and Troy Aikman has been a lead analyst for 21 seasons. Olsen is already very, very good, and he’s only going to get better. This is where the Brady conundrum comes into play. If the GOAT decides he’s done with football, he has a $375 million contract with Fox that calls for him to become its No. 1 analyst. Will Olsen’s emergence force Fox to go with a three-person booth? Could Fox put Brady in studio and make him part of Fox NFL Sunday? I think at this point, Fox would have to have Brady join Burkhardt and Olsen. If Fox demoted Olsen, who is becoming a fan favorite, for Brady, the network would set up Brady to face a major backlash. It’s hard to imagine at this point, especially if he has a great Super Bowl, that Fox could pull Olsen from the A crew.

It seems that Kraft forced BB to make the change. What he did last year was head coaching malpractice. Especially with a young developing QB.