Mr. Scot

Chris Tabor's explanation today seemed to be that they felt Young having essentially two quarterback coaches (Josh McCown and passing game coordinator Parks Frazier) was too much. Thus, they parted ways with McCown, which I'm going to guess is a Jim Caldwell decision. He'd have some connection with Frazier from the past I believe. If he said anything about Duce Staley though, I missed it. Might have to go back and listen again

It's kind of twofold... Reich not wanting to incorporate something that might help his quarterback is consistent with his asking offensive line personnel to run a blocking scheme that doesn't fit their skill set. Both are baffling decisions coming from someone who stated up front that he wanted to build the system around the players, not vice versa. It sounds like in reality the system was king. That's just not a good way to operate. On the flipside, I'm also not a fan of personnel people interfering in coaching matters, especially if it comes down from the top. Dianna Russini has consistently conflated Tepper and the front office in her recent reporting, which gives me the impression Scott Fitterer might be safe. If he's serving as a "trickle down" for Tepper's ideas though, that's not good.

Bozeman is having to adjust for having one, and frequently two, poor guards beside him. Ickey would be better as a guard for the very simple reason that he would have blockers on either side of him rather than having to go wide, something that isn't his strength. The Saints protected Drew Brees well by having three very solid interior blockers rather than just good tackles. That's extremely important for a shorter quarterback like we have.

Disagree completely. They asked very good questions. They got poor answers.

Yeah, I think that's a reach. This presser didn't really give me any sort of vibe on what they plan to do with the front office.

You're not getting it, dude. How you feel about their feelings doesn't really matter. What does is that they have other options and would rather play somewhere else. The gist of that is not that they're crybabies, it's that The owner is running a sh-tty organization. The people hurt most by that? Us

Not surprised because the original story around draft time was that they had conviction on two quarterbacks. That they made a decision to trade to second overall knowing Young would go first means that of the two, they had decided to go with Stroud. Then Houston backed out and it all changed.

What he said was fairly mangled and not at all forthright, also somewhat self-contradictory. It genuinely felt like he was trying to manufacture an answer rather than just give one.

That's a very realistic scenario.

Sure as hell is in football. Jeremy Fowler explained that some. He said Tepper expects football people to be instantly and always right in their decisions like he would expect a hedge fund manager to be. He doesn't get it

He didn't. And to be clear, Joe Person posed the question to him clearly and directly.

Yeah, the offensive line is not in any way devoid of talent. It's just being misused.

Chris Tabor was much more forthright, though he did the client to answer some questions about specifics. One thing I got from eading between the lines was that the reason they fired Josh McCown Is so that Young has only one actual "quarterback coach" rather than a QB coach and a "passing game coordinator".

They alluded to him early on

Not twisting. He pretty clearly fumbles around trying not to say anything to give up info. It would have been extremely easy to just say "no, that isn't what happened" but he didn't, or couldn't.

He also admitted the original plan was to go to pick #2 and take CJ Stroud.

Pretty much, yeah. You can watch the video later.

Didn't exactly deny that Reich wanted Stroud over Young, just denied that he was directly involved until the end.

"Thank you very much, Dave" For what, exactly?

He's being asked the right questions. He's just making a Herculean effort to duck them and divert attention.

He's basically trying to talk about anything but the actual issues.

Seriously playing the "poor kid from Pittsburgh" card

I think he's quoting Tony Soprano

"My reputation away from this game is extreme patience." What?!

Person pretty much hit the important points with his first question. Tepper's responses are bullsh-t.