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Lamar Jackson is a dynamic player that you have to game plan for. He also won an MVP. My concern with him is that he is a smaller body type and takes a lot of hits running the ball. But still, he is electric and deserves to be paid. Lamar is special and unique. Baker is just a guy. There's nothing at all that is special about him. "He's tough" I guess, but lots of guys are tough. It's the NFL. Baker's not a bust, but he's also nothing special. Very Alex Smith-like in that you could do some winning with him in the right spot, but his attitude needs to improve IMO. Baker thinks he's a gunslinger but he is really suited to be a checkdown, game manager who hands the ball off and doesn't get his team beat. Can he handle that? The game "going through your RB" is not why you draft a QB #1 overall, so he's a tremendous disappointment in that respect. But he's serviceable enough to get you to the divisional round and lose to the Bills, Chiefs, Ravens, or Bengals over the next handful of years. Sucks to be a Browns fan watching Burrow and knowing THAT is what a #1 overall pick QB looks like. Baker is the 3rd best QB in his own division, and that's only because Big Ben looked 73 years old the past 2 seasons and can't play anymore.

Well, the Chicago job technically isn't open, so it would be bad form to contact Frazier about it. BUT theoretically would Dungy, Riddick and Frazier be POSSIBLY interested in teaming up somewhere possibly maybe is a different case from "being contacted about a HC job."

Cincy should rest their starters. There's no reason to risk injury, and Burrow did tweak his knee a little last game, although it sounds minor. Having these guys test positive now is a huge plus, because they're good for the playoffs (90 day testing holiday).

I can see how coaching college would be amazing on a winning program. Colleges are fun places, you're a huge star on campus and around town, and you win bowl games and national titles. College coaches make some pretty good money too, and have total control over the roster and typically huge talent advantages most weeks. But still, somewhere in that competitive side of you I would think there would be a "yeah but" because you're not doing it on the biggest stage. I think most coaches are interchangeable for the most part, aside from the truly great ones, who are great because they connect to people and can TEACH what they know to others. Coaching IS teaching, and vice versa. That's why guys like Urban Meyer, who got by on just having superior talent, fail in the NFL once they actually need to communicate with players and work with them. You can be the smartest coach on Earth, but if you can't teach your system in a way that players can understand (or feel that doing so is "beneath you") and execute none of that matters.

I'm not a fan of this 17th game, although I thought I would be. This feels like a preseason finale. Actually, the entire Week 18 slate of games, except for a couple, is pretty pointless feeling. Not at all what the NFL intended. There's hardly any drama to this week's games, and they went all out with Saturday and Sunday doubleheaders expecting a bunch of high stakes games. I think it's because the NFC is a steaming pile of dog doo except for a few great teams, which makes for a ton of gross games that mean nothing. Who could have foreseen that with 7 playoff teams per conference AND an extra game that pretty much everything is already settled before week 18 even kicks off? It's really down to 1 spot per conference open and 71 improbable things need to happen to even change anything.

He woke up feeling dangerous. It happens. The real question is why these guys get up so early, even when they have night games. That just seems counterproductive.

Pay the man! Diggs is worth every penny of whatever extension he signs here. Then you let Sanders walk, keep Beasley 1 more year, develop Davis more, and draft another WR.

I'm all for it becoming a tremendous distraction for the Bucs. ANYTHING but a Buccaneers Super Bowl. I just want to relax and enjoy, and as soon as they're out of the tournament it just becomes fun, instead of "yeah but this team needs to win because they have a better chance of beating them..."

I think Dungy coming to town as part of the deal makes it more exciting for the average fan though.

Saturday night's alright for fighting, get a belly full of beer

you can always work the salary cap... Saints always have like -$75 million in space and still sign people and hand out insane contract extensions like the one for Hill

Dungy is a great team builder and leader of men. He built Gruden a SB team in Tampa. Riddick I don't know much about, but I would guess Dungy would see this a mentoring and development opportunity for him. Frazier is a great defensive coach with great people skills, and I would think he's learned a thing or two in the past bunch of years. He would need a strong OC I think. Bears could do a lot worse, and it would instantly give them credibility and get the fans excited. They have a lot of great pieces on D right now, and a young QB they need to build around and develop.

Good news! the Bills are such a part of the identity of Buffalo and WNY and provide entertainment and quality of life benefits to an entire region of the state

I always want to care about spring football but even us fanatics need a little break from the game after the SB

Frazier has also probably learned a lot since his last HC position. He's well respected by players and a very good defensive coach. Pair him with an up and coming OC and the Bears could be a really good team.

Normally I would agree, but you don't have a plan (and this is all assuming the report is true and going down that road) to bring in Dungy and Riddick and Frazier and mess around. If you set this up behind the scenes then these guys are a package deal and probably only agree to do it as a group. Before anything truly happened all 3 would be on board. Dungy would probably only do it with his #1 pick of GM and HC. They don't come, he doesn't come. You see if this is a viable option first. If it is, the process is over and you call a presser. Why would you screw around interviewing a bunch of Bengals, Packers and Rams coaches? If it isn't THEN you interview from scratch and understand that none of the above is happening.

All the options are awful, and sound like the create a team options in Madden.

Well, I guess they would technically interview him but there wouldn't need to be a long process where they bring in a bunch of candidates IF there is already a plan in place. My point was that if all these guys know each other and want to do this, then an interview in the formal sense is fairly pointless. Frazier's career is the interview, and if the fit is right for all involved it's just a waste of time to bring in whoever serves coffee to Sean McVay and whoever is an assistant with the Bengals just for appearances or whatever.

The advantage for Chicago is that if this is the direction they want to go they can just make the hires without a long interview process. They could fire Nagy and announce these hires the next day.

Dungy, Riddick and Frazier is a really nice setup for the Bears, and I would happily root for their success, except when they play us, of course! But it would be cool to see Chicago good again, just because they are a classic franchise. Also, Frazier and Dungy are amazing people who are easy to root for. With Rodgers inexplicably trying to get off that loaded roster in Green Bay, it could be their division for the taking.

Refs are keeping the Browns alive on this drive

Dumb timeout... If you save all 3 and score you probably see the ball with a shot to win

I 100% expect it.

He still hasn't officially been cut. Maybe Brady got to someone

MNF playoff game will be Dallas vs whoever, almost 100% certainly