Mr. Scot

Interesting detail...

This is a front office position

In his latest mailbag (Link) From Pete Crespo (@Petedelaware1): Who will have the best start of the new coaches hired this cycle? Who has the biggest challenge ahead of them? Pete, this should be relatively simple, since there are only five new head coaches. To the first one—I’ll go a little off the board and say Frank Reich in Carolina. The Panthers finished last year 6–6, and there are potential cornerstones in Ickey Ekwonu, DJ Moore, Brian Burns, Jaycee Horn and Jeremy Chinn. There’s a physical identity to the team that Steve Wilks worked to cultivate in his 12-game run as interim coach. If you can find an answer at quarterback—and there are answers out there—that quarterback should benefit from working with Reich. And the division looks very winnable (as opposed to what, say, Denver is facing). As for the group that’s facing the biggest challenge, I’d say it’s probably Gannon in Arizona. Kyler Murray is coming off ACL surgery and will likely miss (at least) the whole offseason with a new system being installed. The roster has gotten old in a lot of places and already has taken two retirement hits, with JJ Watt and A.J. Green deciding to walk away. So where you can see the Panthers, Broncos, Colts and even Texans making a leap in Year 1, it looks like Gannon and Ossenfort have longer builds facing them.

They did go after Watson

Payton looking at Richard was expected...

In other words, he's not an option.

The guy at the top of that food chain prefers the draft and develop route.

The Packers have stated they won't trade him to an NFC team. Rodgers isn't an option.

You can't just throw money at it either. It's more important to be smart than bold.

Thanks again, dude Edit: I don't know if you're a dude

If they give him the kind of contract he's asking for, do you think that's going to make them more able to surround him with weapons?

The infamous incident where people tuned in for Georgia Championship Wrestling and instead got the WWF? Saw it live

Ain't that the truth Maybe I should have said I don't want us to be a dumb team again.

Lady Cowboy Fan is I'm one by association these days, but I did grow up watching WCW and (then) WWF. Hell I remember watching Gordon Solie commentate Georgia Championship Wrestling on WTBS

One of Rhule's guys gets a job...

Two good rules of thumb in football: 1) Pay attention to what smart teams do and learn from their ideas. 2) Pay attention to what dumb teams do and learn from their mistakes The Ravens are a smart team. If they don't want to pay Jackson the kind of money he's asking for, I'd want to know why. The Browns and Broncos are dumb teams. They both traded away high draft picks and huge money for someone else's "franchise quarterback" and now are regretting it. I don't want us to be a dumb team.

Yeah that's...not a smart move. Honestly, that gives me pause as well.

The biggest problem he's got is he scouts quarterbacks via highlight reels and thud assumes the guy he sees making the most highlights on Sportscenter is the best quarterback and we're guaranteed to win it all if we just get that magical guy. He doesn't know enough about football to truly scout the position.

No way in hell would I pay the kind of guaranteed money he's asking for a guy that's missed as many games as he has the last few seasons.

If A player is really that good and someone lets them go, a smart team is going to ask "Why?". I know some will just say "money" (as if that alone is an answer) but then it behooves you to ask why that team didn't think they were worth the money. And if they're a smart team (which the Ravens are) It should give you pause.

It is It's kind of funny that the Panthers are keeping us in suspense with regard to the position everyone most wants to hear about

I'd love to have our old buddy Brentson Buckner back as DL coach, but that's not likely.

I'm not letting him in