LinvilleGorge

Sometimes trading a great player is the right decision for the organization. Like the Lions and Stafford. Stafford had been in Detroit putting up good numbers for years and they just couldn't figure it out and with him aging they made the right call that they probably weren't gonna figure it out before he went on the decline and decided to move him for a huge bounty. It obviously paid off for the Rams but the Lions have also had four winning seasons in a row now. It hurts to move a franchise player but sometimes it's the right move for the overall organization.

The Ferrari wanted out of our demolition derby though. That's the other big factor.

Everyone knows this is between Stafford and Maye.

Not playing him down the stretch in lost seasons when he was coming off injury was also honestly the right move.

Trading him was honestly the right move. We needed draft assets to build around at that point much more than we needed a huge money RB that had missed a bunch of games the previous two seasons. That we did a ton of terrible drafting for years on end is totally different conversation.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind rolling the dice on him on day three. No doubting his talent. He's not a guy you want to play early on in his career but those guys go in the 1st round.

Oh, you get past DJ and it gets depressing in terms of our franchise history at WR. We've literally only had three legit long-term WRs in the history if the franchise. I mean, a RB who only played five seasons and missed a ton of games over those five seasons sits at #6 on our all-time receiving list. LOL

Yep, DJ was a good starting WR. He's still our #3 all-time leading WR and will be for awhile to come. Hope to see T-Mac eclipse that but even if he's killing it it'll take a few years.

I think Saleh could be a good fit for the Titans if he brings in a stud of an OC to help develop Ward. Harbaugh should be a big upgrade for the Giants. Hafley is the big head scratcher IMO. He went 22-26 at Boston College over four years maxing out at 7 wins. His GB defense this year was a little above average after trading for a premier pass rusher. Just nothing in his resume looks like a guy who would've gotten serious NFL HC consideration this hiring cycle.

Hos production by snap count and targets isn't bad. They must REALLY be tired of dealing with his knuckleheaded behavior which is saying something for an organization that put up with Stephon Diggs for four years.

Yeah, your team had five turnovers (Allen had four) and yet you still went to OT and were a very controversial call away from winning. I just don't see how you up and fire your coach over that. Just seems like a very knee jerk response to an unfortunate outcome that really didn't have anything to do with coaching decisions.

Good on Beane for that. Maybe the owner is just a mouth breathing moron. lol

I'm of the opinion that beggars can't be choosers. If you need a QB, you have to strike when you think the opportunity is there whether the roster is "ready" or not. If the opportunity isn't there, then keep building up the rest of the roster and try to find a decent stopgap. But if you're telling me if you're in a situation where you need a QB and you like an available QB and you pass on him because you don't think the roster is ready for it then I'm gonna tell you that you're dumber than rocks.

I mean, how many times have they benched him and otherwise punished him and at this point clearly stating that it's for stuff like this? It's not exactly "leaking" anything.

The issue isn't on the field, it's off. Evidently the guy just absolutely cannot show up for meetings on time and is probably having other types of maturity/dedication type issues as well.

I think everyone kinda knew that ship had sailed at this point. But yeah... actively poo talking a player currently on the roster in a presser basically insinuating that the pick played a role in the coach being fired not a great look. LOL

Seems like there was gonna be a scapegoat and McD lost the power struggle to Beane. Kinda makes me think Beane might be a snake little bitch too. I doubt the owner cooked up that story on his own. Beane sold him on the idea that he was accommodating the staff with that pick.

Pretty wild watching the Bills owner sit in a presser and just absolutely throw McD and the coaching staff under the bus on the Keon Coleman pick to defend Beane. Like dude... you know you still gotta go out and hire a coach, right? How are you feeling watching that if you're a top HC candidate on the market? The owner basically just signaled loud and clear who the chosen one is in the building.

I'm at the point where if I can get anything for XL in a trade I'm moving him. Even if it's a late round conditional pick. I like the guy and was rooting for him but on terms of football getting him off the roster would be addition by subtraction. I like T-Mac and Coker on the outside, now just find a decent slot. The good thing about finding Coker as a UDFA in that class is that it takes some of the sting off of the XL bust pick if Coker essentially becomes what we were hoping for out of XL.

He's an odd looking dude. Looks like his family tree resembles a telephone pole. LOL

I wonder how they're defining "screens" because I see a lot more passes that I'd call screens in today's NFL than those low percentages.

Temu Sam Darnold. Put yourself in a situation where you have to ask him to go win the game and you've already lost.

Speaking of Love and those final wins over K, Caleb Love is a feature of two of my all-time favorite UNC basketball photos From the final game in Cameron: From the Final Four win: Love struggled with consistency (a recurring theme under Hubert Davis) but man, he had one helluva knack for being at his best in big games and big moments.

It's gonna be interesting the impact this has around the college football world. I mean, for the worst program in power conference D1 football to hire a new coach and immediately win double digit games for the first time in program history then follow it up with an undefeated national championship run in year two... just wow. I don't think even the most delusional rosy outlook folks thought something like that was possible. These blue blood schools are gonna be looking at their programs like this program that has a historical record of only winning about 40% of their games just won a national title and is 27-2 over the past two years simply by hiring the right coach. Every other power conference team is gonna be looking at Indiana like "hey, that could be us if they can do it so can we." I think what Cignetti has done at Indiana has really ramped up the pressure and expectations across the board.

I mean, they should. That's what you're trying to hire - a guy who is going to produce results on the field. Don't get meatballed like old Hurndog. LOL