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It's way too early to pretend to know for certain. The combine will raise lots of questions and answer other ones. Young needs an official measurements but it does not look good on what could have been the best QB by far in this draft. Missing on Young and Stroud may be a blessing for us. A DE and then trade up Richardson is the best case scenario from me right now. Not a tanker so I really don't feel to need to go out on a limb for any of these guys yet. First they all need to finish their practice careers without getting injured.

I don't think offers like that come around often so I have already lowed my expectations a ton if we do end up shipping him off under the new management. He isn't worth a top deal. He is a good player but not a great player. It's going to be interesting to see what they offer him. I'm still hoping for a trade but for a lot less.

Or with our 1st on a better player and have enough to trade up for a QB. Or trade both those future first for an established player who is better than Burns on a contract with another team eating some salary. Saying Burns isn't replaceable is complete BS. It's is just a matter of the people doing this being good enough to not make a terrible decisions. It's not moot, we could still trade him and may need to...just for a lot less in all likelihood.

And their 1st the next 2 years. Such a stupid decision to not make that trade.

It is a huge concern. Wilks is absolutely the wrong HC hire for many reasons including his staffing. As far as I am concered I think his coaching tree is a dead end. Nothing guarantees success with anyone we bring in but we have seen this and if they are going to hire Wilks just being Ron back for the maximum does of mediocrity. From the worst to just not good enough. Yay

It's fine, nothing to see here...

Coaching staff, not just HC, then QB. Tanking is a really bad idea but I also don't think trading players for draft picks is tanking, it's just a complete rebuild.

3-7 after going from Urban to the HC that got caught tanking...Also a job that Leftwhich (regardless of what you think of him) withdrew from. It's not a myth.

Because he isn't as good as the guy he replaced. At least not yet.

That is a little simplistic. These guys are all about the competitiveness so letting them take a shot and keeping it until they lose it is the more likely and appropriate approach IMO. Yours is fair from a logical approach but it would also undermine good play and them actually earning anything this year.

I think so or it's what I am expecting to see which is why I was like WTF feels the need to rush it after Baker's performance and PJ injured? If it's not the next game then it would be the one after would also be my guess. Unfortunately the season doesn't end soon so there is way too many games left for everyone to get a turn or two.

That would be pretty damn funny but even at his best he is just not good enough to pull off perfection, none of them are. Everyone should get a chance, it's just not that hard. Audition and evaluate. Anyone not doing that needs to just be fired now because they are getting in the way of the only purpose of the rest of this season. The timing just has me curious. It's a dumb call until Monday IMO because Baker already earned this start with PJ out from his backup performance. Monday is the likely point I expected to hear about Sam getting his chance soon anyways, that's if he isn't subbed in on Sunday before then.

That would be at best a really late round comp pick that would likely not go anywhere with a new staff coming in and brining a few outside guys to remake the team as they desire. I can't imagine either one signing a substantial contract at this point. A short prove it deal that is easy to get out of? Sure but nothing major.

Not bothered just curious on such weird timing since we can't do anything but play them all until the end of the year anyways.

Not at all unfortunately. Seems toxic in the NFL. I get coaching trees and connections matter but any tree will dry up so those guys need to get more comfortable branching out more often.

Unless Friterer has to prove Sam isn't a massive bust then he is best to pretend that was Rhule thing and just do business as normal so next man up. It just sounds like there is more going on behind the scenes then we know. I sure hope so because if any of those people are getting comfy at this point just sounds like we are better off without them next year.

I get the fans, they want their guy to be the one to win the spot. I don't know why they still have a guy after what we have all seen but whatever, SSDD. Coming from within the organization is concerning to me. Coaches friction or front office people that are tied to personel moves? Wilks was critical of Snow and that worked real well for him so are other people doing the same now? Having an internal knife fight isn't going to make the mess smaller to clean up at the end of the year. This is just an odd week to throw out a 'Don't forget about Sam' message whenBaker is getting his after subbing in well as a backup...what we both agree we should be evaluating these 3 on the rest of the year.

I have zero belief he will look good but why wouldn't we given the situation? It is the only thing we can do the rest of the year unless one can make a case to keep the gig until January. It is still a weird time for people in house to start pounding the table for Sam to have another chance given that Baker is about to have his this week and we could still end up seeing Sam anyways. The stress of the situation is getting to a lot of people and not just around this place.

I forgot about Dodds and Peters' promotion. It does happen. I have never been a fan of the professional mercenary mentality. Where and with whom are questions I always take a long look at in life. Seems ro not bother other people tho.

I'm thankful for Horns play and just hope for the best on his availability which is my only issue at this point. The rest can be summed up with the fact that if we traded Horn for Fields we would have to add a lot more to make it happen. But whatever, maybe somebody learned something or maybe we will have new somebodys that want to win and not just collect talented players. QB is #1 and it's a big gap to every other position.

Any given Sunday is a real thing. I'm not sure this QB change will get a couple of games before hitting a wall. The film of Baker earlier this year is too fresh even with playcalling changes. Run, lots of playaction and pray it's not a shootout.

He looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy's dad who forced himself on a freshly popped roll of biscuts resulting in that tragic but delicious little demon that giggles when you finger him in his belly.

I just don't get why anyone wouldn't expect to see him sooner than later now that he is healthy so why be vocal about it before Baker gets his shot this week? We could end up seeing both in this game so why make any noise about Sam for another week? Part of me hopes its McAdoo but to be fair that is the chaotic neutral part of me not wanting most of this staff around past game 17.

People that should not be here employed when we draft a new QB that is who. Just rotate the garbage and make it through the year. These are probably the same people that said Sam was basically a rookie last year lol.