Mr. Scot

Here we go...

Best wishes

He's been characterized in the past as a potential Jerry Jones type because of his personality and the way he ran his business. It hasn't really manifested that way though. Some here speculated that the failure of Rhule might prod him to take on a more activist role, but that hasn't happened either. We had a crowd that believed he'd fire Fitterer and bring in "his own" GM (not that It ever really made sense) but instead it sounds like Fitterer is now more trusted than ever. Tepper's mistakes stoked the flame of people's fears over what he could be, and that's a pretty natural human reaction. But thankfully, at least so far none of those fears have really proven valid.

I'd be willing to bet some of the beat writers know more about what all went on than they've publicly said. Would love to see a full-on tell-all from those years but that isn't likely to happen.

I thought it was dropped last year. Not sure...

I was told by someone with knowledge of the situation that we were using the Appaloosa Method and Tepper was secretly manipulating everything from behind the scenes Seriously though... There have definitely been problems, most of which stemmed from temper putting his trust in the wrong people (specifically Hurney, then Rhule). That plus his own admission that he came into the league thinking he was going to show everybody how it was done. The good thing is he's learned from his mistakes.

Hence the deadpan face smiley

Short Answer: No

The most important thing about the draft is of course how it affects The Huddle

Could be. Haven't seen anything else on it either way...

I might pay $20,000 just to hear him shut up

Understood I don't have strong feelings about it one way or the other. I just didn't know we were using it.

Anish knows us

You reminded me of this... When he's talking about how some other coaches "just want want want", you can see a small grin form on his face and hear a little chuckle in his voice. The reporters know who he's talking about, and he knows that they know who he's talking about. It's a very "inside joke" type moment.

Heh

The NFL no longer administers this test at the Combine. But apparently some teams do, and one of them is us.

I might do that the next time I have an extra $20,000 or so lying around

A lot of us probably would... ...and we'd likely screw it up just as badly as Tepper (or even worse)

Could have used the Jim Mora "You think you know, but you don't know" clip there.

It's called reading. You should try it Teams are pretty much always very loose with information after the draft. And hell, why shouldn't they be? It's done. Smokescreens and all the other bullsh-t don't matter after the picks have been made.

Can't find anything on what time

No you don't.

Eeehhh, no. We don't actually know that at all.

Shortly after that year's draft, Lynch told Albert Breer about how he and Shanahan had made an agreement between them to not make a final choice up to a certain time. When the day came, Shanahan went up to Lynch and said something along the lines of "So are you ready to draft Trey?" Lynch's response was "Are you f--king with me?" because he'd come to the same conclusion. Let's just say I believe Albert Breer both has better contacts and is far less full of bullsh-t than you so yeah, I believe him

I wouldn't bet on us ever getting it but I would love to get a long, thorough look behind the scenes of Rhule's tenure. Gotta believe there's some wild stories to be told