Tepper on Teddy

[CarolinaNCSU]

The entire Teddy Bridgewater era is/was/will be a debacle unless he's one hell of an overpaid mentor next year. Ryan Fitzpatrick costs 5 million a year, Teddy at 20 is just dumb and a number that's a clear sign he was never believed to be the solution.  Hell, he was average at best on a loaded Saints roster, we expected him to turn into a SB QB here during a rebuild? 

So then...why was he signed in the first place, Tepper?  To have a mediocre year?  To knock us out of the Trevor Lawrence sweepstakes?  Last ditch effort by Hurney to save his job?  Incentive to convince Brady to come here and let his system shine with a QB who "knew" it?  None of the Teddy Two-Gloves era makes a bit of damn sense.  Again, he was an average QB on the Saints. A system he knew, with a top coach/play-caller, a great OL, weapons, and great defense/ST.  For the life of me, I will never understand the line of thinking that he was going to come here and magically be a Top 10 QB. 

[SizzleBuzz]

11 hours ago, KSpan said:

I do appreciate the perspective and transparency, but I would be concerned if this type of comment was made publicly and it wasn't a shared sentiment among the owner, GM, and all parties involved.

Only one opinion matters....

[KSpan]

6 hours ago, SizzleBuzz said:

Only one opinion matters....

Yeah, no. Jerry Jones and Daniel Snyder are perfect examples of why that's not a good approach, at least with respect to direct football matters.

[SOJA]

That is 100% the correct take to have on a QB

[Mage]

1 hour ago, KSpan said:

Yeah, no. Jerry Jones and Daniel Snyder are perfect examples of why that's not a good approach, at least with respect to direct football matters.

This literally isn't the same thing.  Jones and Snyder have historically had HUGE input on the moves their team makes.

Tepper is just talking about one facet of the team he owns.  But there is no evidence whatsoever that he is directly impacting the decisions his coaches and front office can make (at least to the extent of who we draft, who we sign, etc.).  There is no reason to compare this to Snyder/Jones.

[KSpan]

44 minutes ago, Mage said:

This literally isn't the same thing.  Jones and Snyder have historically had HUGE input on the moves their team makes.

Tepper is just talking about one facet of the team he owns.  But there is no evidence whatsoever that he is directly impacting the decisions his coaches and front office can make (at least to the extent of who we draft, who we sign, etc.).  There is no reason to compare this to Snyder/Jones.

I agree. It's the post I responded to that seems to be insinuating that Tepper is striving for that level of input.

[top dawg]

After reading a tad more here, Ihttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox46.com/sports/youre-evaluating-every-year-tepper-doesnt-give-the-biggest-endorsement-to-bridgewater/amp/, I have no hesitation in saying that Teddy is on borrowed time.

“I think when you get to quarterbacks and NFL in general, you always want to try to figure out, do you have the best that’s in the position of this right now?” Tepper said when asked about his satisfaction with Bridgewater. “And that’s constant evaluation and re-evaluation of that. And that’s what we’ll constantly go through.”

 

“It’s an ongoing process and it’s a question of who can be that guy that can help you win. That’s the most important position on the field,” Tepper said. “Unless you have that guy for sure that gets you to playoffs and Super Bowls, you have to keep reevaluating that because that’s the only thing that matters is Super Bowls. And until you have that guy, you’re evaluating, evaluating, evaluating every year.”

Teddy is toast!

 

[jdr6000]

Like I said, it’s going to hurt your all’s feelings when Teddy ends up being the QB next year and the year after that and the year after that.

[TheSpecialJuan]

We don't even have a playoff caliber roster right now so might as well stick with Teddy for another year and build around him. 

[top dawg]

Teddy is toast!

[TheMostInterestingMan]

So this place likes Tepper again? Cause two weeks ago people here were trying to tell me he was an incompetent moron who knows nothing about football and was meddling too much in the team.

For the record, I have always been a fan of Tepper. From everyone shouting “tear it down! Fire them all!” The whole macho I run a business, I know what I’m doing crowd sure was convinced he was an idiot. 
 

As I have pointed out since he got here, he needed time first to evaluate what he had. Then rather than rushing in, he wanted to start looking at the guys he wanted. Rather than foring Rivera day one, he let him play almost a season out and when it was clear he wasn’t his guy he went and got Rhule.

Hurney had an extended time here but it was always assumed that Tep wanted to wait on a particularly candidate or two that he really wanted. Seems now is the time to go get that guy.

Some of you on here have absolutely no patience man. Tepper, imo, has done a great job setting the foundation for this team going forward. Rhule looks like a great coach and if rumors are true, the supposed GM candidates look like huge upgrades over what we have had. 
 

But carry on. Continue celebrating the guy you hated a couple weeks ago lol 

[TLGPanthersFan]

1 hour ago, jdr6000 said:

Like I said, it’s going to hurt your all’s feelings when Teddy ends up being the QB next year and the year after that and the year after that.

Lol, not gonna happen. If Teddy is still here then this FO is stupid and content with mediocrity. It is obvious Bridgey is a problem on offense. 

[KSpan]

11 minutes ago, TheMostInterestingMan said:

So this place likes Tepper again? Cause two weeks ago people here were trying to tell me he was an incompetent moron who knows nothing about football and was meddling too much in the team.

For the record, I have always been a fan of Tepper. From everyone shouting “tear it down! Fire them all!” The whole macho I run a business, I know what I’m doing crowd sure was convinced he was an idiot. 
 

As I have pointed out since he got here, he needed time first to evaluate what he had. Then rather than rushing in, he wanted to start looking at the guys he wanted. Rather than foring Rivera day one, he let him play almost a season out and when it was clear he wasn’t his guy he went and got Rhule.

Hurney had an extended time here but it was always assumed that Tep wanted to wait on a particularly candidate or two that he really wanted. Seems now is the time to go get that guy.

Some of you on here have absolutely no patience man. Tepper, imo, has done a great job setting the foundation for this team going forward. Rhule looks like a great coach and if rumors are true, the supposed GM candidates look like huge upgrades over what we have had. 
 

But carry on. Continue celebrating the guy you hated a couple weeks ago lol 

For me I assume that Tepper did significant diligence before purchasing, including watching film of the team and evaluating the history of both players and the staff. I don't have much of an opinion on Tepper beyond feeling strongly that he screwed up by keeping Ron for 2019, and not so much hindsight but more that I have no idea why he saw 2018 firsthand after (I'm assuming) already reviewing 7 prior years worth of performance and thought anything would be different. If he hadn't reviewed those years then that's an even bigger flag.

I will say that I hope that this talk of Tepper meddling in day-to-day football business is just speculative nonsense. There is no example where that had turned out well.

[TheMostInterestingMan]

21 minutes ago, KSpan said:

For me I assume that Tepper did significant diligence before purchasing, including watching film of the team and evaluating the history of both players and the staff. I don't have much of an opinion on Tepper beyond feeling strongly that he screwed up by keeping Ron for 2019, and not so much hindsight but more that I have no idea why he saw 2018 firsthand after (I'm assuming) already reviewing 7 prior years worth of performance and thought anything would be different. If he hadn't reviewed those years then that's an even bigger flag.

I will say that I hope that this talk of Tepper meddling in day-to-day football business is just speculative nonsense. There is no example where that had turned out well.

What actual evidence is there really of him meddling? I haven’t seen that yet. 
 

And again, watching the games before coming over here is different than getting to personally know the staff and the players and also just because you have evaluated from the outside doesn’t mean you’ve been able to observe the team culture or assess potentially new staff to come in just yet.

It’s all armchair GMs saying this stuff. “If Tepper had watched the team before he came here then why did he keep Ron?”

Well maybe because before injuries took out our MVP, Ron went 15-1. Maybe that’s worth evaluating for yourself before you walk in and can the guy. Maybe actually getting to know the staff and discussing their plans is different from watching them team on TV and deciding you know how to fix everything based on just that...