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Yeah, but UFC essentially took boxing out didn’t? And UFC uses essentially the same PPV format boxing did.

We already gave in to them putting them on ESPN. Then on NFLN. Then on Amazon. Now it’s Peacock. Football fans gave in a long time ago. Next will be Apple I guess. They probably will do it just to prevent others from getting easy action to their services they want to put out of business.

This was a big year and step. In terms of going to the streamers. Amazon Prime got TNF And in the same year they move a playoff game to a service. It’s going to get worse and probably quick. Then the streaming services are going to reconsider how quick people can cancel. Probably goes from a month to locked into a quarter or some bullshit

Maybe. Gets tough. Maybe a lot of it is he has CJ Stroud to work with.

I hope Tepper has this game on and I hope there are people around him. So he feels like the dope he is….even if they don’t say anything. He knows.

Yeah, but it’s a thousand different things. Texans OL wouldn’t look as good running our same predictable O. Or if the QB wasn’t getting the ball when he was supposed to. Bryce nor the play callers helped that OL this year.

The short plays work better when a defense can’t fixate on it every down

Stroud has proven he deals with the pocket breaking down much better than Bryce.

Everyone took it when they went to Amazon all year. Only a matter of time before everyone buys a random game to force you to buy their service (and forget to cancel it)

Houston worse, Panthers better Frank wouldn’t have had to neuter his plays for CJ. Which we know because of Dalton

We could get Vinny T off the couch again and he still probably got a better gun

First quarter of his first playoffs game vs the best D in the NFL…..and that’s the equivalent of 3 quarters vs a bad team of production for Bryce.

PJ Walker got a better highlight reel.

All those best recruiters were able to point at Nick Saban… Bama about to be present day Auburn. Just another SEC team.

That’s sort of depressing. it’s a bunch of random plays that didn’t go poorly

Ain’t happening. Dabo isn’t a fit there. Not for him or for Bama. it’s just a media taking the easy storyline.

I mean, if you just went pure resume it’s Dabo and then Kirby. I actually think this is a transitional window. So it was Saban, Dabo , Kirby. I think you have a new list that emerges in this NIL era because it’s a different game at this point. Coaches like Saban and Dabo aren’t going to thrive anymore. They are true program builders. Dependent on guys coming in, buying in and developing. NIL is just going to be about renting pieces year to year and musical chairs.

I think the consensus simply shifted to Bryce when it started being clear that's what they were going to do. OP has a link to the month prior and it leaned CJ Stroud. The whole I want CJ Stroud but I'll settle for any QB since we suck so bad vibe.

the Bills took off and went I think 7-1 after Joe Brady took over as OC and went from likely not making the playoffs to the #2 seed. The one L was in OT. meanwhile in Panther land...we finished the year w/ back to back zeros on O.

The whole overpromotion thing gets a lot of people. Lot of people climb out of roles they are great in and into ones they stink at.

major truth. The amount of good humans that have been horrific bosses/managers in my life is a LONG list.

mortgaging your future is never a good idea in the NFL because the bust rate is so comically high for even the top prospects. We chose to go the old vet route. It wasn't the only option. Right now we could of been coming off a season with Fields, DJ, CMC and a host of other players that we acquired with picks we never traded away for useless players. We would be better and more entertaining. We also weren't forced into mortgaging our future for BY and destined to for a bad backup. One of the reason our offense has been so pathetic.....is Joe Brady was better than every playcaller after him. And Joe Brady was a newb and not even good. It's why Baker immediately looked better with the Rams than here in the same year. And a lot better in Tampa now. That's your red flag. It points to the people in Carolina that don't suit up and play. The players don't matter as much when the white shirts and coaches in Carolina put everyone in position to fail.

Matt Rhule was your standard run of the mill college hype and they rarely actually get hired the first time the PR machines start up on one.... and Frank Reich just got fired from Indy months prior. Neither were no brainer calls that any owner would have also made. and it is largely reported that Tepper green lighted mortgaging our future to go up to that #1 spot. Which also isn't standard owner behavior. Those are rare occurrences.

not technically, Tepper isn't hiring the best that money can buy ....he is hiring the best he can get. Which is an unknown given each year he has made the jobs less and less attractive. I mean, it's already reported they weren't taking the stereotypical route on the interviews.....out of fear they would be rejected that way and look bad.