Mr. Scot

Don't necessarily think he could have. I was talking about what he'd have wanted.

Neither Reich nor Brown did that consistently. I've grown to believe that Brown may not have been ready to be an OC. That doesn't excuse Reich, mind you.

GameDay roster management and mismatched schemes / personnel were my two biggest peeves with Reich

Kaye adds this...

Meanwhile in New England...

Also... Wonder if we'd be interested.

Technically most of our line would have signalled that preseason

I know Florio said it but he's not the only one. Pretty sure Breer said something to that effect also.

Brown himself said he wrote the playbook "from the ground up" before the season ever started. Why would he lie? Now, was it influenced? Yes. Brown listed both Reich and McVay as influences on what he wrote, though Reich's likely would have been greater. As far as specifics, my guess would be the lack of pre-snap motion would have been Reich's preference. Likewise, the heavy use of shotgun and certain personnel groupings. On the flipside, as I recall some analysts didn't see many of the mesh concepts and triangle read patterns that were common for Reich before.

I'm not a fan of either option...

Panthers schedule interview with Ben Johnson This would have been the first interview.

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