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I was surprised to see any of them, tbh. But there are quite a few times that teams in front of us went after defense, which makes sense because this draft looks really good there.

I've been doing a ton of mock simulations on different places and I've been surprised at how often one of the top three, Young, Stroud, and Levis falls to us. I mean it's no good indicator of what we'll be facing in the draft, but that scenario is still popping up more than I thought it would

Wilks is much more sane than Singletary. I'm not going to put them into the same category. I don't think it's fair to Wilks. He may not be the best HC that we could hire, but he's better than Singletary. And it wouldn't be him developing a QB, though he'd be responsible for it. It would be the job of the OC and the hope is that whoever is the OC would be qualified to develop whoever the QB is. That said, his OC hire is where I have the biggest issue. I just don't trust him to make a stellar hire there.

A) you tend to be a prick 2) I'm always proud of a team that doesn't quit.

I don't know what to think. I love how he turned around the psyche of this team and I think he's got the ability to keep players charged up and fighting. Had he started the year as HC, we would have had a comfortable seat in the playoffs and that's even taking into consideration the QB merry-go-round we've had. But that Steelers game and that bucs game makes me doubt he can take this team to the top.. of course if our two best cornerbacks aren't out we would have beat the bucs. Also, the history interim coaches have when given the full time gig hasn't been great. But I also don't think history determines the future. We write our own history. I'm just going to ride the fence on this one. I think we'd be ok either way. I'd give him an A on the season, not because of where he finished up, but because of the way he turned this team around after Rhule. I'd like to see what he does with a whole off-season.

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this should be the very first one anyone thinks of. i doubt anyone was expecting him to be all-pro and a few thought he would suck, but i think most thought that he would be at the very least serviceable and not just plain horrible, which he was. i mean who thought that we would be cutting him half way through the year. through training camp, i mean we thought we had found a fairly OK QB. talk about a disappointment. it doesn't matter what he's doing in LA. He wasn't doing anything close to that here. blame it on whoever or whatever you want, he was a huge disappointment here.

this may be what the NFL ultimately tries to say to avoid any potential lawsuits, but like @t96 said....if he hadn't gotten hit in the exact way/place/10th of a second....he would have been fine. the hit happening where/how/when it happened caused the heart attack. but like everyone else has been saying, it's a very freak situation that happens incredibly rarely and you couldn't replicate it if you tried. in all the millions of hits that have ever happened in the NFL, this is the only time it has ever resulted in commotio cortis. there was no reason to anticipate it and there's very little likelihood it will be seen again in any of our lifetimes.

bart scott should have kept that opinion to himself. anyone else with that opinion should as well. it's a crappy take, but then you think of the consequences of voicing that opinion when it really does no good whatsoever...it's really just not worth it.

the problem is that some team cultures just accept losing. that was the panthers culture when cam came into town. losing was just ok...no big deal. and that's what had become the case while rhule was here with those who bought into what rhule was doing, but there was apparently some holdover from the pre-rhule era, like shaq, who never gave that up. that puts his comments from a week or so back in context. wilks, in very short time, changed the culture from a care-free/hunger-free one to one that cares and is hungry again. he pretty much reset the clock. whatever direction we go next year, this team should be hungry next year and ready to fight. the damage done by rhule to the culture has been fixed. i'd be happy with a hire like harbaugh or maybe some offensive guru type because i think they could take us to the next level, but i also wouldn't be upset if wilks was given the job. i think this team with wilks would keep pushing forward and with him we would be a legit playoff team. we would have been this year if he started earlier.

i'll just say this. no way am i going to fault a guy who wants to prove himself worthy of a HC coaching job for trying to win games and actually doing it more than he lost. i'm not going to fault a team for trying to win and being upset when they don't, happy when they do, and trying hard to win the next one. all they see is today. all that matters is today. all that matters today is winning the day. i'm proud of the effort they all put in and i'm glad they didn't give up. that's what i want to see. a team that is satisfied with or hoping to lose is a team i want nothing to do with. screw a bigger picture. wilks didn't set the team back. he did what he was supposed to do...try to win games. tepper set this team back when he 1) didn't fire rivera soon enough 2) didn't fire hurney 3) hired rhule 4) didn't fire rhule soon enough.

1) it was a freak ACCIDENT. No one could have seen this coming. That collision happens very often. It's just part of the game. 2) I'm sure that Higgins is already feeling pretty bad about what happened and wouldn't be surprised if he's already feeling guilty....which he shouldn't be. Bart Scott is just running his mouth and he needs to stop it because poo like that only makes it worse, especially for people involved. He's entitled to his opinion but it is just that, an opinion and not every opinion needs to be shared. most of the time what is needed in tense situations is to realize the negative effect/damage that your damage can have and just keep your opinion to yourself. if your opinion isn't going to help towards a positive solution, you should probably keep your mouth shut.

its got to be $20mil a year., otherwise it's not really a real conversation.

no doubt tepper is still wanting to make a splash. harbaugh would do the trick.

the plan all along was to look at and interview other coaches. i'm more surprised that this kind of thing hasn't been done earlier. it's not like we've got a full time HC here. He's an interim. The job isn't his after this year.

very interesting...

some don't like harbaugh because they don't see him as a long term solution. to be honest, i don't either....but that doesn't matter to me if he can get us a championship, which i think he's quite capable of producing here (or at least giving us the best shot we've had). i wanted him before he went to san fran. i'd be ok with wilks and think that he'd have the team doing better next year than this year, but i also believe that harbaugh would probably be ahead of the rest of the coaching candidates we would have trying for the job.

I hate brady. I think I've hinted around at that in here. But he's the goat for a reason. When he's on, you can't stop him. Few have been able to. He's not on as much as he used to be, but he's shown several times this season that when it's clicking for him, he's still the goat. Sunday it was clicking at it was on and we were down a couple necessary parts from being able to hope to stop him. It was just a bad day to have it click on for him again.

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I hate him. I hate losing to him. I hate watching him win. He's the goat, but I hate him. Been a frickin thorn in my side for 20 years.

Please make it end.

Let's go cowboys.