FuFuLamePoo

So much about the value of our job hinges on Tepper. But if you truly think he’s going to change his approach our job isn’t uniquely bad. You get to build a roster more or less from the ground up. For example, if the Eagles fire Sirianni good fuging luck to whoever inherits that team. An aging roster with ownership that expects immediate results.

https://x.com/jourdanrodrigue/status/1748392203972706662?s=46&t=xpgkpbdmCQHLrpIYBMrHOw Raheem Morris could be exactly what we need. I hope he gets a real shot at this.

I'm not taking Tepper's side or anything but I still can't believe we're acting like Reich was done dirty or something. He took a 7 win team and turned it into without a doubt the worst team in franchise history while also never showing any sort of emotion or desire to be here. Coaches get fired after one year all the time. Urban freaking Meyer won more games. Reich was a disaster and his dismissal was beyond warranted.

I hope the entire interview committee is telling all these prospective candidates that we're obviously giving Bryce all of 2024. But without improvement we can start looking for replacements as early as 2025. If we're pitching this job that it's Bryce or bust I'm staying far away. And I'm someone that hasn't been near as critical of Bryce as most of this board has, I still have hope for him. But we need to see improvement next year.

NE - Mayo LV - Pierce ATL - Bill LAC - Harbaugh It seems like at least four of these jobs have narrowed their focus to one candidate. Leaving us, Seattle, and Washington. I still think Ben Johnson and Mike Macdonald are the cream of the crop. We could have a real chance to get one. We'll see what happens in Philadelphia, but it feels like Sirianni is probably safe. Things have broken well for us.

There wasn’t much we don’t already know in there. He was basically just saying who we’ve interviewed and reiterated that we want Johnson. But I don’t think anyone has a clue what the pecking order is after him.

I realize some don't love it but I have zero issue with hiring the HC before the GM. Get two men on the same page with each other and let's start building this thing. I just don't understand the need to interview all these GM candidates if we want the HC first. Zero reason to rush this, could spend all the time focusing on the HC right now and then find the GM while letting the HC be a part of that process. Only thing I can think of is maybe while doing HC interviews we've gotten some intel from these candidates regarding the GM's they'd like to work with. That way we can knock some of the interviews out now and expedite the hiring process as soon as the HC is in the building.

One interesting snippet from the Graziano piece is that we want to get our head coach in place before the GM. I’m just not sure I understand the purpose in conducting all these GM interviews if that’s the case.

For the record I'd be fine with Callahan, but it doesn't seem like these people have any concrete evidence linking us to him it's just a pure guess.

That wouldn’t be bad

https://x.com/TomPelissero/status/1747088341219033426?s=20

I think there is definitely some truth to this.

There really could be three new openings (Steelers, Cowboys, Eagles) man that would be BRUTAL for us

https://x.com/rapsheet/status/1746975745799241881?s=46&t=xpgkpbdmCQHLrpIYBMrHOw

We’ve heard Kelly really impresses and seems like we’re high on Halaby also. I figure those are the leading candidates currently. But I do agree, if we like Kelly we’re going to have to roll because the expectation is he’s the leader for the Raiders job

I think it’s important to realize we can’t even meet face to face with anyone until January 21. And if they want to hire the HC before the GM we’re probably weeks away from getting any substantial news. Gonna have to be patient.

Which could be a good thing. I think the Reich hire always felt rushed last year. Part of me deep down wonders if we were so eager to make a hire that’s why we didn’t give Steichen a serious look and didn’t even bother to reach out to Gannon

Someone more educated than me could you answer this: what’s stopping any of these candidates from using their agent to put verbiage into any contract that specifies minimal owner involvement? We know this job is the worst for numerous reasons, one of them being David Tepper. If Tepper finds the guy he covets, why couldn’t said candidate say “listen I am not taking this job unless you agree to stay out of my business”? Could be the best thing to happen to us and also a super reasonable thing for any of these candidates to do. We don’t have much leverage here.

But considering all these openings we might have to accept our best option could be rolling the dice on someone a little bit.

At this point people only like mocking and laughing at our team so they make up scenarios that have a 0% chance of happening because I guess it makes them feel better or whatever. I have as good of a chance as Kellen Moore does of getting this job. If we strike out with all the candidates we’ve currently interviewed my guess is Evero is the fallback plan. Moore isn’t even sniffing an interview.

For sure. But these things can have a snowball effect. We were never going to hire Bill, but let's say the Cowboys do. We know the Falcons want him, now they have to pivot and their job is clearly more desirable than ours.

McCarthy is 100% gone which is brutal for us. Another team to compete with.

In the last 24 hours, reports that Sirianni could be gone with an L, Tomlin could take a hiatus after this season, and obviously some have speculated about McCarthy’s safety if the Cowboys flop in the playoffs. Any of these coming open would be brutal for us. Multiple coming open would especially sting.

Yeah even though we're likely missing out on Johnson there are so many other good candidates and we should land one of them. MacDonald is probably my favorite as of now (subtracting Johnson), but I also won't be complaining at all with Callahan, Smith, Canales, Morris, or Monken. Speaking of Monken, if any of you listen to The Roar they finally released an episode yesterday and they made a very convincing case for Monken. I'd be fine with him.

Just… what’s their plan? The entire top 3 are taking QB’s. Is Michael Penix their dream quarterback? Bo Nix?