Mr. Scot

It's possible. Stroud I could see. Richardson I could definitely see. Young, not so much.

I have a hard time imagining this.

Virtual interviews we're being done with guys that were still in the playoffs. Johnson and the Lions were out so they could bring him in if they wanted. The story fits in with what Johnson himself said last year though. People forget he turned down all head coaching interviews after his first one, not just us.

I think It's probable that Wilks would have wanted to go after a free agent QB because he's a defensive coach. Defensive coaches frequently aren't big fans of having to try and develop a rookie. They lean on their defense to win games and ask quarterbacks to just simply do enough and not screw things up. It's also possible that if they did insist on a rookie, he might have wanted a guy like Richardson over a guy like Bryce. And of course he could have just stuck with Sam Darnold.

Johnson never interviewed with us, but he did interview with another team before us. May have been that his interview with that team went badly. It's a plausible story.

As to the premise, there are perpetual losers out there. Do you think their owners like losing? Hating to lose doesn't guarantee jack sh-t. Tepper's problem is not that he doesn't want to win. It's that he has no clue whatsoever how. Unless he removes himself from the football operation completely, we're basically just running on a hamster wheel.

Someone mentioned this yesterday... That's extremely petty, frankly childish...

Fair assessment...

Yet more...

Would Wilks have been on board with drafting Young, though?

Fixed Lombardi and others talked about just how poor a fit their personalities were with each other.

Bill the head coach isn't really that good anymore either.

I tend to listen to these sort of things while I'm doing something else

My take also

Patience without wisdom is kinda worthless. If you don't know when to be patient and when not to, it doesn't matter. And as far as wisdom, it's pretty clear that in the football realm, Tepper doesn't have it.

Pertinent exchange: "Does he realize he's the problem?" "No."

Forgot about that. Yeah, he was.

New York Post reporter...

Which is why some recent draft picks wound up cut. They weren't necessarily bad, they just didn't fit the new scheme.

Well, this is new. David Tepper is now getting heavy criticism from...The Guardian? Apparently our situation is so bad even people in Great Britain know about it

More from today... At this point, it feels like if we quoted every tweet ripping Tepper's performance in today's presser, this thread would top a thousand posts.

Did it suddenly get entertaining again? OP asked to let this go.

My biggest complaint about Jerry Richardson was always that he trusted the wrong people (Marty Hurney, in particular). It's a similar issue with David Tepper, but almost like he doesn't know who to trust. Odd given that he was around some great football minds in Pittsburgh.

Don't worry It's an interesting topic, honestly. A lot of stuff has come out since the firing (as tends to happen) that's beginning to help explain things we'd seen prior to this point.