NoSaint

yea but in the thousands of posters you can’t latch onto the Mario for Skelton as serious of the top handful of candidates… I don’t think we collapse with Ben Johnson, Mike vrabel or Liam coen off last years list mike Macdonald or Jim harbaugh the year prior? I’d venture even a guy like Dave canales is at worst .500 with us this year sean payton or Shane Steichen? Kevin oconnel? Mike McDaniel? excluding Nate Hackett, who I’d argue was a terribly unreasonable hire, almost any offensive head coach the last 4 seasons is probably in the ballpark of where we finished as long as Josh is healthy I don’t love coen but coen plus the rams brainchild is at least interesting even if potentially a bit volatile I think my overall point is that when you really attack names to it, and not just the great unknown - it really gets a lot less worrisome of what could happen

I may be overstepping but I don’t think gruden is the guy folks are clamoring for as hiring a reasonable selection. The dudes coach 3-4 out of the last 15+ years? I think the fact that you went straight to gruden and Rex may be PTSD from the darker days.

At the start I chalked some of the behind the scenes rumors to Michael Thomas being terrible to work with - as cooks had no such reputation it’s still wild that we haven’t heard more stories/off hand comments from reporters or past teammates though.

if a missed coaching hire drops that to 22nd, but a successful one has a Lombardi… you take that chance every single time, right? How low do you see the floor being if you hire someone generally considered to be a reasonable candidate?

and I’ll keep adding… the risk of making the move is also pretty minor. Odds are even a miss is a relatively middle of the pack guy with little drop off.

I don’t know if you realize this but amongst the millions of fans, not all agree on strategy

I think that’s about the most succinct way to put our situation

it’s almost as if talent matters

meh, the rule isn’t a catchable ball - the refs have to bake in route mixups or just bad passes…. You have to be pretty obvious most of the time

in the vicinity of a guy

you can bobble it for 30 yards and 14 football moves and through hitting the ground but at some point in there you have to hold control; even if you were touching it for several seconds

agreed. At the end it leeks out without him establishing control ever… even if it took a long time to hit the ground

it’s because of the timing of the push

you say this until you find out a team is doing a favor to get a player you want to the chiefs or pats

because they could still claim him and let him sit out unpaid