Mr. Scot

Champ Kelly is speculated as likely to end up keeping the Raiders job full time.

This was the logic Dianna Russini and others said might lead Tepper to keep Fitterer as GM. His issues were only with the offensive side. That was before the "Hunger Games" stuff came out.

He's trying to stick around long enough to get the all time wins record over Don Shula. A rebuilding team is not the place to do that.

All of my feelings about Tepper are related to football decisions. And because of that, none of them are good feelings.

FYI: Rumor from Jeremy Fowler today that Tepper may wait until the head coaching hire process is done before doing anything with the GM. Apparently also some talk of Dan Quinn as a head coaching possibility.

I still think the best choice right now is to separate him from the team completely. Otherwise you risk a toxic environment, or at the very least the appearance of one. But If that's not going to happen, then at the very least you have to move him to a different role that doesn't involve roster decisions.

Pretty sure Belichick ends up with the Commanders. Either way, Bill the coach is done. Bill the GM sucks. Bill the whatever else probably doesn't exist anymore, so...

It'd be a red flag for me too If he were to transition into this other role, unsure whether he'd take part in a coaching or GM search.

Being over other departments from field management to ticket sales to travel and logistics to stadium maintenance to whatever. Most team GMs handle everything even remotely football related.

Will be interesting to see, for sure.

There is now. It's pretty generic.

If Tepper chooses to go that route, it won't matter who gets hired. If he wants to get a good candidate at GM or head coach, he's gonna need to promise non-interference.

I'll repeat what I posted in the other thread (actually appropriate to this discussion)... Former Huddler Casillas (who has a couple of inside sources with the team) has a theory on one possibility. He thinks Fitterer could be "promoted" (so to speak) to a job where he continues all of the general administrative duties of the GM job, but would have no role in personnel decisions. Don't know how realistic it is, but I'd say it's possible.

Halaby is mentioned in the article. So is Catherine Raiche, along with another female candidate in NFL exec Dawn Aponte. Other names the article mentions: - Bucs Assistant GM John Spytek - Seahawks Assistant GM Nolan Teasley - Chiefs VP of Football Operations Brandt Tilis - Giants Assistant GM Brandon Brown Listed but not profiled... Chad Brinker (Titans) Eliot Wolf (Patriots) Trey Brown (Bengals) Harley (Saints) Malik Boyd (Bills) They also added this: The wild card is Cowboys VP of player personnel Will McClay. He would be one of the hotter targets if he sought his own shop. Some rumblings of that occurring exist, but the Joneses are fond of the 21-year front-office veteran, and would they allow Washington to poach its personnel ace? McClay would be my top choice, but his availability is a big question.

I wanted to see he and Reich have a chance to build together. That went out the window when Reich was fired. But then the Hunger Games article showed it wouldn't have worked anyway, so... c'est la vie. Now, do you plan to keep pushing a personal discussion and agenda or would you like to try and discuss the actual topic?

No argument. Brown could go back to RB Coach, though I think It'd be funny as hell if Johnson brought Staley back.

That's pretty close to what they fined Bud Adams for a middle finger salute in 2009. I was expecting higher "inflation" (maybe I'm the range of a million) but I guess not.

I've said it repeatedly since the "Hunger Games" story came out. But I guess that doesn't your narrative, so...

Understood, though I think Tepper is more to blame for that than Fowler. Truth be told though, it's consistent with stuff from other sources. As to Teppers influence, I don't think he directly made any decisions, but I do believe he might have influenced some of them. Numerous sources have suggested that he influenced the Young pick. Now, that could have included backing Fitterer if there was a difference of opinion between he and Reich. That'd still be meddling, even if it was a less direct form. All that said, I don't think any of it matters. You can't keep a guy who undermined your last head coach. if this idea does turn out to be what he wants to do, it'd be pretty tricky to pull off

And the fact that you'd rather talk about me than actual football stuff tells me a lot But then, your usual MO is to sh-t up other people's topic while never saying much of anything yourself, so...

I mean, not that you'd ever deliberately misrepresent what someone who's debating you is saying or anything, but...

Yeah, he does. He's made admissions in the past which show he is extremely aware of how he's perceived.

Bailey reportedly said Tepper was acting like "a drunk stripper" when he threw the water at the crowd.

There doesn't have to be any pressure for that to happen.

Yeah...no