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And how it fits with the idea that Payton wants full control. Ossenfort is going to be okay with that?

Only as an FA with a restructured contract. I'm not giving up draft picks or paying him 40M / year.

That was really good. We'll probably hear some of those concepts and core values on Tuesday during his presser.

Someone on that segment suggested we trade for Matt Ryan. Oh, hell naw!

I could see Panthers-Colts being an early TNF game.

DE Yannick Ngakoue (27) - would be awesome to pair with Burns, but might be too expensive since we are gonna have pay Burns a truckload of money. RB Deon Jackson (23) - thought he played well towards the end of the season, at least well enough to have been on the fantasy waiver wire radar. Could be a good addition to the RB room. WR Paris Campbell (25) - would love to pair him with DJ. Not familiar with the rest DE Tyquan Lewis (27) DE Ben Banogu (27) DE Khalid Kareem (24) DT Chris Williams (24) DT Byron Cowart (26) LB E.J. Speed (27) LB Bobby Okereke (26) FS Rodney McLeod (32) SS Armani Watts (26) CB Tony Brown (27) G Matt Pryor (28) T Dennis Kelly (33) RB Jake Funk (25) WR Austin Dulin (25) P Matt Haack (28) K Chase McLaughlin (26)

Colts fan on Twitter [discussing Reich]:

I mean, if you're going down that road, the choice HAS to be:

Not related to the coaching search. This should be in its own thread.

Every previous time a division has been won by a sub-.500 team (and Tampa finished 8-9), the following season the division winner had at least 10 wins. It's a tiny sample size, but thus far, it's been consistent. That trend doesn't support assuming 9-8 will win the division. Example: Here's the last three years of NFC East champions: 2020 - 7-9 2021 - 12-4 2022 - 14-2

As a HUGE Star Wars fan, I would pie the OP 1000 times if I could.

I'm not so sure. Some coaches just know how to maximize their talent. I thought there was no way Tomlin was posting a winning record this year with that roster, but he did

"Saints HC openings?" That's gotta be a typo?

This would be my interview question for Reich: In 2021, all you had to do was beat a 2-14 Jacksonville team in the final week of the season to make playoffs. Your team lost 26-11 in a game that was never in doubt. Can you explain what happened there? Why was your team not prepared to execute that day?

Can we please leave the rookie QB talk out of this thread and keep it to the coaching search?

Reich feels like the compromise between Steichen and Wilks. Head coach experience, but offensive minded.

Wait, you're not actually comparing Steve Wilks (which is who Growl was alluding to) to Andy Reid?

Allbright seems to think we're out of the Payton sweepstakes (FWIW)

If Payton is demanding full control, I can't understand why he'd even do the interview with Arizona. They just hired their GM like last week.

Imagine looking at the Broncos offense and saying "yeah, we want a part of that."