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Yes you did misquote me. Your quote of my post said “average WR” my post said “average 1WR.” Big difference. And I’m not making an argument that he’s a #2 at all so I don’t know what you’re talking about. Gotta lay off the bottle my man

7th in the league in sacks isn't a great player? Gotta pay to keep talent, all the best teams do it too

Why did you misquote me Scot? I explicitly wrote "average 1WR." And I completely stand by it. His YAC is great, other areas of his game lack a bit compared to true elite wideouts. I'm completely happy with him as our #1, he is fine in that role. But he's just an average #1. Here's a non-comprehensive list of guys who are easily better than him: Justin Jefferson, Cooper Kupp, JaMarr Chase, Tyreek Hill, Davante Adams, Stefon Diggs, DeAndre Hopkins, AJ Brown, Mike Evans, CeeDee Lamb, Jaylen Waddle. Give or take a few that puts him right smack dab in the middle of average for a #1WR if you assume there are somewhere between 20-32 #1 WRs (not every team has a legit #1). See my above response to Scot

why not? it's really not an absurd amount for a top tier head coach. Hell, that's what DJ Moore makes. I like DJ but as an average 1WR he is nowhere near as valuable to a team as an elite head coach. It's frankly ridiculous to me that coach salaries aren't included in the salary cap and treated similar to players. Anyone contributing directly to success on the field should be under the salary cap umbrella (including assistant coaches, GM, etc.). Would make the league more competitive and interesting. And you'd potentially see more movement of head coaches just like movement of players. Instead the pats get to pay Belichick some unknown salary (that could easily be like $30M) while other teams in smaller markets can't pay whoever they have at HC anywhere near that. But I digress.

Damn if this is all true, Zac Taylor is the fuging man. Well either way he handled it well but if he's the one who initiated the not forcing the players to go back out there then major kudos to him.

You're never going to please everyone but if I'm the Chiefs I'd be rubbed the wrong way by losing the 1 seed on a coin flip if Buffalo won it, considering they were down 7-3, Bengals had the ball and it was in Cincy.

Krapernick, Alex Smith

fine with me, Scott hasn't shown enough to be kept if it gets in the way of nabbing Harbaugh.

I would agree if he was put in any position to succeed in his NFL career so far. He hasn't been. Coaching has been terrible. QB play has been terrible. OL play before this year was terrible and this year better in the run game. Give him good coaching and a good QB and see how he does before writing him off.

Great to see, don't fug this up Tepper

Mainly on the reports last night of them doing CPR for like 8 minutes, suggesting a significant period of time with a lack of oxygen to the brain. pure speculation though, I have no idea really. Hoping for the best.

I don't like making it a tie, the Bengals were winning so if you're counting any of the game so far it wasn't tied. I'd say just cancel it and take it off their records and for playoff seeding go by win %.

Odds are it won't be this simple. My guess is he survives but with significant brain damage possibly even to the point that he is in a vegetative state. That won't resolve itself to "he lived" or "he died" from the incident quickly enough to deal with the schedule based on that binary choice. Completely hoping for a medical miracle that yes the first responders made possible, and he not only survives but completely recovers and can live a full normal healthy life. But the situation is very grim right now...

The Chiefs situation is likely a bit more unique/complicated than that article (and Veach himself) suggests. https://arrowheadaddict.com/2017/05/12/andy-reid-final-control-53-man-roster-john-dorsey-chiefs/ Reid was reported to have final say before Veach was promoted to GM, and it's well known he had it in Philly. Did he really give it up to give it to Veach or is it a "in reality this will never become an issue because these 2 guys work so well together?" My guess is the latter but who knows.

100 friggin percent. Horn is a stud lockdown corner and Jackson is underrated here, a rock solid #2 and complement to Horn. This game came down to Mike Evans burning our practice squad CBs who were only playing due to injuries, it's a bummer but injuries are part of the game and we still could/should've been able to win. But our collective roster, coaching staff is not there yet

He has final say over the roster, he trusts Veach to do that work but he has final say and ultimate control.

Yeah agreed and that would be the case with Harbaugh too, it would just be him having final roster say, which I have no issues with.

pretty sure Carroll has final say over the roster, that's really all that matters in terms of having control https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawksrsquo-pete-carroll-now-a-super-bowl-coach-reflects-on-time-with-jets/ relevant quote from the article:

He's absolutely a tool and a douche but he's not pure scum cheater like Belichick, Payton and outside of significant issues like that (or off field) all I care about is winning, which Harbaugh does. We've had a "family" culture our entire history, how has it worked out? I'd much rather have a coach who pisses off some of his players while we win than a coach like Wilks who every single player loves but we are mediocre. To win in this league you have to make incredibly difficult decisions, and that is going to piss some people off and rub people the wrong way.

Some of the best coaches in the entire league have been full control guys -- Belichick, Reid, Carroll... The issue wasn't giving a coach full control, it was who we gave it to. Harbaugh already has a proven track record of significant NFL success, I would have zero hesitations giving him whatever he wanted and letting him run things.

Agreed this is a no brainer, just pay the man. Tepper's gonna fug it up though, he always does.

I think it was them initially, definitely looked like it when Taylor went to talk to McD just after the refs were signaling for the game to restart and players started warming up. I'm sure the final call to officially suspend/postpone came from Goodell though.

sounds like he has a pulse but not breathing on his own. extremely troubling

I don't have sound on this game, did they cancel it? saw the hit, so difficult to watch him fall over like that and scary as hell. hope like hell he pulls through

literally couldn't care less about him, he's irrelevant. washed up scrub squeezing every last second of the spotlight as he can being a massive narcissist. Cowboys will absolutely destroy this Bucs team. No one will be able to block Parsons