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Frank Reich has never done it any other way. It’s stil primarily a Frank issue. He hasn’t had the talent to make it work before. He doesn’t change.

that's what gambling and daily fantasy football is for. I'm going heavy w/ Tony Pollard. This is his get right week.

it's hard to believe there isn't some legit turmoil/problems behind the scenes. Too many actions in a small window that don't make sense. Frank handing the playcalling to Brown never really made sense. At least how he explained it didn't. Frank claimed he somehow got the O in a good place and this was the plan. and now taking it away doesn't really make sense. Brown has never even called a legit preseason game. He was going to have bumps and have to learn. And you somehow managed to win one of those games. With a game winning drive. I mean, they sucked. But they sucked before. I think Frank has had a lot of unpleasant conversations. I think Tepper has zero patience. And Tepper saw last year here and around the league this year like with the Raiders, that sometimes, it's just your head coach, and you can change that pretty easy. Problem is a finding a long term solution. Maybe Tepper needs to start smaller. Find someone that is just decent and respectable that can handle what you got. We are back to frankly need a Rivera/Fox type. We need someone to right this pooshow to just being a .500ish middle of the back org.

I'll go the 2000 era Lions. That's what I consider us. A do nothing team that lives in the top 10 pick world for a decade.

The HC is a DC. So the O gets to be the O. They hired a young guy from the Kyle Shanahan tree that was their passing coordinator. So yeah, in the year 2023, that seems like a MUCH smarter direction/coaching for an O than our plan of hiring the fired Frank Reich. and the Matt Rhule 2020 (with CMC hurt) offense was clearly better than what we are doing in 2023. That unit actually got some overachieving praise. It wasn't good but their was good within it. Heck, even the Matt Rhule 2021 O when we had to fire Joe Brady...was still performing better than us today. I think Houston probably does have better offensive coaching. It's 2023.

Buying the Panthers was about diversifying and growing his wealth. Simple as that. Good or bad team, recent history has shown it has no impact. How the actual football team does? Well, that is the toy aspect of it all. And the Teppers IMO haven't hidden that. And you can look at his wife for the most glaring example of it all. A couple crash courses and she is involved in operations, scouting and coaching lol.

Thomas Brown about to be done even dirtier IMO. It's all setting up for him to be the scapegoat IMO. Well, if I had a good OC I wouldn't have to be doing so much. Thomas wasn't ready. I just showed you Mr. Tepper. He couldn't make my horrific offense better. Same thing happened last year. Frank threw his non-playcalling under the bus first. Only twist this time is Frank let Thomas call a couple games (which I don't think was ever the actual plan in 2023). #All Star Staff seems to already be entering scapegoat season. So the question is simply when Bryce and the O continue to be what they are now that Frank is back in the saddle......where do they ultmiately point the finger. Because that is always the game in the NFL. They all do it. Every single HC enters those moments at some point. I actually think Campen is first up. I think Frank starts there. But after that, I think Frank fully demotes Brown out of OC. We see Jim Caldwell. Because Christmas season and scapegoat season are both about to arrive. And that's when bodies go under the bus. It never fails. Someone has to be at fault. That's how the NFL functions.

Go back to when he was fired in SD….its all the same. One constant.

Frank Reich has already done tremendous damage to Thomas Browns' stock. That's the reality. Bet you that all star staff sees that reality. He set him up to fail. He wasn't brought in to call plays. He didn't let him get play calling reps coming into the season. He is basically a rookie himself. He gave him the keys of one of the worst offenses in the entire NFL (totally not because he was getting heat from his boss).....and then stripped him of the duties after 3 games (that featured our only win).

and Doug Pederson was the one who actually ran the Eagles O. Frank was Thomas Brown. He wasn't calling and running that O. Of course, he was Thomas Brown in Philly....because he had just gotten fired for his horrific O in San Deigo. I have been preaching it for some time. Look at the end of Frank's run in SD and Indy. It's all the same issues. The issue is Frank. It's his O. And his inability to adjust when he doesn't have the talent. And when his weaknesses shows he just doubles down. More shotgun. More run game implosion. More predictable passing.

Frank Reich didn’t even let Thomas Brown call a preseason game. Frank let him come on late when the future insurance salesman were on the field. Dumb management on his part. A green OC is like a rookie QB. They need reps. They need time to grow and learn. But that’s also one of many reasons I don’t think Frank wanted to turn playcalling over when he did. His reasoning was always bologna. Which he sort of concedes in reality. Think that is/was Tepper pressure. And that is when Frank was also conceding a hands on owner was displeased and in his ear. so it didn’t work. Now Frank gets to say, see it wasn’t me being bad. A green OC who never even called a preseason game was worse in a tiny sample size. It’s a clown show.

generally speaking. and QB is the kingmaker. but I mean, some coaches are clearly better than others. And you generally can see how good a coach is in bad times too. Can they overachieve? Or do they make a bad roster look even worse. I think Frank is a guy that doesn't make people look better.

McD isn’t Rhule though. So they probably will practice the red zone and actually punching it in.

Remember when the owner bragged about how all the money could/would go to the defense because we drafted a point guard at QB lol….

I mean I think Brown easily could get fired. Frank fired his non-playcalling OC in Indy last year too. But it’s Frank. Frank’s the problem. normally that would be the move. I just don’t think it works for Frank. Generally when people pull the scapegoat move they weren’t just canned themselves for the same repeating problems. Frank’s got to change the trend this season IMO with his O

Thomas Brown doesn’t actually work though as a scapegoat for Frank….because Frank was just fired a year ago for this exact same stuff.

Tepper inherited an old school traditional textbook HC -his first hire was a 180 on that. Risky and bold. The collegiate HC hire - then he course corrected to the extreme post Rhule. He went 180 again but brought in even older and more traditional types. So….I’ll just repeat the pattern. Another 180. Which I don’t think is wrong. The idea behind Matt Rhule was correct. Rhule just wasn’t it. I don’t know who it will be. I predict young. And unlike Rhule, NFL chops and inventive.

Tepper might could hire a drunk huddler for the night to call the picks on draft day and it yield just as good of results as Fitt

He’d make the top 5 list of shortest stints with a team. and in fairness, our offensive HC isn’t getting yelled at for losing. We can handle losing. Tepper is in his ass because he is making Matt Rhule look like a creative and offensive guru. Frank is flat out doing a horrible job.

Mingo needs to go to the bench. Can’t believe Thomas Brown said Mingo is too good give ISM a rep. Mingo has run some horrific routes this year. The type that should get him yanked out of a game.

We got a chump who teams have been ripping off to date in trades. If I was even considering trading a high value guy I would call Fitt.

Higgins probably cost you around a first round pick. we got a bad GM going all in on Frank Reich at what likely is near the end of his own tenure.

It would potentially stop Frank from fully ruining Bryce. I suspect 8 more games of the same is going to be bad for Bryce. you could put the D or ST coach in charge and pull a Wilks move offensively . Maybe even sit Bryce a week or two as you transition. Say you don’t want to throw too much on Bryce with a sudden change in O and he can work on snaps under C. Which he should learn anyway. Probably end up winning a couple games down the stretch like last year.

So we can go from being the worst O in the NFL….back to being the worst O in the NFL.

KC still as an abundance of speed at least. They might not be great WRs but you got Mahomes and speed everywhere….that prohibits teams from overplaying Kelce. Defenses are still terrified of the deep ball.