Mr. Scot

Yeah, if we're talking about the Cowboys of the 90s, I'd figure more cocaine than alcohol. Heck, back even earlier, I'm pretty sure Hollywood Henderson went to some games high as a kite.

Read the same in some of the PFT comments.

I'm guessing you missed the sarcasm here

Sorry...what?

Jon Kitna says he once saw a teammate drunk during a game "There were some things that were hard to believe (with the Bengals). There was a time that I played a game with a guy that was drunk in the huddle," Kitna said...I'm not sure if the staff knew. But I think the guy was like - that was kind of his normal. I mean he was drunk and had close to 200 yards receiving now. So, it was crazy." PFT adds a little context. Kitna didn’t name names, but the circumstances make it not impossible to identify the possibilities. Given that Kitna played for the Bengals from 2001 through 2005, it’s not difficult to identify which receivers “had close to 200 yards receiving” in a game during that five-year stretch. We’ve done the research and compiled a list of players that it could have been. Three had games of more than 150 receiving yards during Kitna’s time with the team. One had games of 189, 161, and 152. One had 171. Another had 152. Kitna didn’t name names, so we won’t, either. There are so few that it could be that the ones who it isn’t should be upset that Kitna has defined the possibilities so narrowly.

Everyone being contrary about other people being contrary, it's almost like...contraception! Wait...

And speaking of the Lions, GM and head coach both there despite their recent trade for Jared Goff. Could also be looking at LT though.

Yeah, that's him. He's had a decent coaching career, mostly as a receivers coach but the Saints just recently switched him to quarterback coach after theirs defected to Detroit.

Interesting. My understanding is that this year, three people is the maximum allowed at pro days for any given team.

Per his own words, Luke retired for health reasons. Kinda hard to imagine a guy who did that turning around and doing something like this.

Gotta figure they'll be there when Fields and Wilson are working out too. It is kind of a big deal.

Rhule and Fitterer will both be in attendance at his pro day tomorrow.

I think at this point there are people who would take news of David Tepper asking "What's on TV" as a subtle sign that we're trading for Deshaun Watson. As before, maybe we will, maybe we won't, but either way the entire universe isn't necessarily crying out with clues.

They do exist. (or at least trolls pretending to be them do) Point being though that we've repeatedly shot down completion percentage as a valid measure when it was used to support the notion that Bridgewater was a good quarterback. Using it as a standard now is antithetical to that.

I remember when people made a big deal out of Dave Gettleman pausing seven seconds to answer a question about Cam Newton. The pause didn't really mean anything but it became a huge deal as if it did. That's one of many reasons why I don't necessarily think those two words negate an entire several sentences of "we're not trading him", "we're committed to him" and "he's a Texan". This could all just be a pretty big example of reading into it what you want to see. Throw in that with media types, overanalysis these days is the rule rather the exception. Yet even so, not all analysts are treating this as if it means anything. Bottom Line: it's possible this means something, but also possible it doesn't. The case that it does isn't really strong enough to convince me to treat this as breaking news. Maybe Watson gets traded. Maybe he doesn't. Same as yesterday...

From what I've read, he does seem to be interested in a long-term deal. Just a matter of agreeing on the specifics. It's not like what we heard about Bradberry.

If you're making that a major criteria, you're leaving yourself wide open to Teddy Bridgewater fans.

I have no idea what's going to happen. I know a lot of things that could happen, but who knows what will? That said, even if I had a firm guarantee as to what I believed and it all came true, being right is only fun when you're right about something good. If I predicted we were going to be the worst team in the league next year and it came true, it wouldn't make watching us be terrible suck any less. I want to see us make good decisions and win. Whether or not those decisions are what I think they will be or that I want them to be isn't really that important. If being right on a message board is more important to someone than watching the team win, I don't really know what to tell them.

And we'd have been quickly eliminated once we got there. That, plus what offensive line we did have is mostly not being retained.

We've dumped I think four people from the operation since Fitterer took over. But while some of them were on the football operations side, none of them have really been personnel people.

Is replacing Bridgewater alone enough to make this a contending franchise?

Panther fans being sad isn't fun to watch.

From the article... expected to show interest.

You don't want my top offer. Suffice it to say it'd be nowhere near the kind of craziness some have been proposing. I've tried looking at it from the flipside though. If I were a team that was being asked to trade another team my 25 year old franchise quarterback, what would I be asking? My first answer would probably be the same as the Texans. "Hell no, I'm not trading him!" But if it came down to the point that I had to, what I'd be asking in return would likely be something that would make God himself step back and take a deep breath.

To be clear, it's not like Rhule was asked a real question about Watson. David Newton clumsily worded a question to shoehorn in a mention of Watson as part of what he was asking. Rhule didn't bite on it. That was followed later on by the lady reporter taking a funny dig at Newton.