Mr. Scot

Ownership. Richardson believed in Hurney. Hell, he even fired a guy with a much better record so he could bring him back. Tepper waited too long to fire Hurney then forced his next hire to work under Rhule.

Hurney was here a lot longer and did over a decade worth of damage. I'd add that hitting on first rounders is a lot easier when the sh-tty roster you built last year keeps getting you high draft picks. He also had no accountability. It was well known that he was GM for life as long as Richardson was in charge. If not for the jeans day scandal he'd likely have been here right up till Richardson passed. One of the biggest things you have to remember though is he was a big part of why we ended up with Matt Rhule. The immense damage Rhule did is partially Hurney's fault, and that tips the scales for me.

That's kinda the thing.

Roster wise, a lot of folks think only the offense needs work.

There's definitely evidence. Reich didn't want to coach him on footwork until this coming offseason. And there were some who reportedly thought Reich was babying him (sounded kinda like a Pete Carroll - Russell Wilson type situation). I've said elsewhere I think Reich would have preferred not to have started him until next year. We've heard he wanted Derek Carr for this year.

Nah, it's still funny. That said, Hurney didn't sabotage his own head coach,.so there's that.

Yeah, not so sure of that these days.

I don't mind Suleiman. I'd also like to keep Adrian Wilson around.

One possible clue in the other direction... Darin Gantt's latest "Ask the Old Guy" article mentions the take that the defense and special teams part of the roster looks fine as opposed to the offense. This is the take previously that, along with some of what Dianna Russini said, made me think Tepper could use this as a reason to keep Scott Fitterer around. Personnel evaluation aside, I don't think you can do that because of what happened with Reich. But Tepper might not agree...

That's a real possibility, but not with Nicole (the lady assistant GM from the Browns).

Not uncommon for new GMs to fire staff immediately after the draft and start restocking

You're not gonna get that before the next draft though. What you see this April will be the result of the current staff's draft evaluations, even if it's under a different GM.

Is that real?

This is valid. People complained about our GM not having good interpersonal skills. Now we want Steve Smith?

Kurt Warner's response to the game manager thing is a pretty good one...

The current version of Bill Belichick? The guy who believed that Joe judge could coach quarterbacks and Matt Patricia could be an offensive coordinator? No, I don't think that version is what we need. Even if he were an upgrade over what we have, it's still just an upgrade to mediocrity.

Don't care about extreme. What we need most is "smart". I'd add that Belichick minus prime Tom Brady is nothing special.

Gunslinger types (like Newton was) probably have the greatest tendency to be streaky.

I don't think I'd put Prescott in that category, maybe not Goff either. Purdy and Tua are debatable but I could see it.

Methinks thou hast missed the point

And here's your hot take of the day courtesy of an old friend of ours...

About the same as those guys. Putting it another way: Matt Rhule's coaching tree has as many Super Bowl wins as Bill Belichick's.

And in Miami...

Meanwhile, Will Levis...