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The "everything is fine" crowd can point to the record but to me that shows there is talent here that is winning despite mediocre coaching, mostly on offense

I like Cooks speed and power

We're going to be stuck with Dorsey because we win enough to keep him employed He's the offensive version of Brandon Staley. Gets 75% out of his roster

WTF

Ok time to answer!

I am starting to really worry about where he is mentally. He just seems miserable. Even after the win last week he couldn't even pretend to be happy for 30 seconds in the on field interview.

I just want to see our offense move the damn ball. Everything seems so hard

I just don't get it

Looked like the Pats stadium scoreboard said 6-3 as Josh was walking out

I just want to see the offense look good. Defense will be fine

Good hold there

There's literally no upside to "a stake" which will mean nothing. Lots of fans own a stake in the Green Bay Packers too. The whole thing is a logistical nightmare and it isn't going to happen. He'll just have to be happy making hundreds of millions of dollars. There's always the United Football League. Oh wait, I forgot that he can stay in college and make a couple million bucks. For a year. That'll show the NFL!

He will just end up getting tons of $ instead. The top QBs now are making 50 million per year, so 15 years in that's 3/4 of a billion and it will only go up. It's not like a 2% or 5% stake means anything decision wise anyway. If the team is inept it's not like that would protect him in any way.

I would say good.... to quite good

pretty nice looking weekend of matchups overall!

Let's rest Oliver up and get him ready for the stretch run

A closer than it should be game but we'll win. Bills 21 Patriots* 17

Part of me wonders if Bill is trying to get fired so he can go somewhere else that might have a better QB position, either already there or a top pick in the draft. I mean, putting Matt Patricia as OC but not naming him the actual OC was a mind boggling WTF decision that probably obliterated any chance Mac Jones had of progressing after a fairly promising rookie season. That's like the Bills firing Dorsey, naming Dick Jauron an "offensive coach" but not OC but he'll call the plays, or won't. Maybe. We're not talking about it, except to say Dick Jauron will work with Josh Allen and the offense and someone will call plays. Allegedly. IMO that was Bill trying to get fired last year so he'd be free to go wherever he wants and not be limited by having to be traded where NE would control his destiny and suck draft capital away from his new team. If he tries to force his way out then NE will do the whole "we won't trade you anywhere you can hurt us" routine.

As we saw in that Pro Bowl flag football game, defense takes time to adjust but once it does they actually played some pretty good D. Get ready for a 50 year old Tommy Brady QBing Team USA!

The big difference though is LIV is just a handful of golfers. Football you need huge rosters, practice facilities, stadiums, coaching staffs, support staffs, training staffs, coaches, referees... By the time you get to practice squads and full rosters you would need 350 (ish) players just to field 6 teams, which is a tiny league. Way different from tossing gazillions of $ at a handful of big names like what happened with golf. The courses already exist and it's an individual sport for the most part. Football is enormously expensive in terms of overhead, and you need a ton of players to make it work, which is why a lot of smaller schools don't have it.

After watching the computer nerd coach hug McDermott postgame for like 30 seconds and tell him how much he respected him then seeing 2 guys who worked closely together for years barely acknowledge each other it's pretty clear there's no love lost. Whose to say that Daboll wasn't the one in the wrong with whatever happened though? Maybe he acted unprofessionally and McDermott didn't/doesn't appreciate it.

The more I think of this and the more you see "I'd take him off my board!" the more I wonder if that's the strategy. The talking heads in the media act like "falling down the board" is a bad thing, when in reality you drop a few spots and end up on a team like Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Denver with Sean Payton, NE with a long history, rich owner, and lots of $$ who just had down years... Maybe that's the plan. OR create enough true doubt in the Chicagos of the world that they will trade out of the pick. Right now Chicago has the #1 and #2 picks. What if they hired a real coaching staff, picked their QB at #1 and traded #2 for an insane amount of capital?

who is going to pay the players in this new league? If this was something they wanted to do they could try to go to a league that already exists like the XFL and make $50,000. And if they are under contract with an NFL team things would be dicey legally to say the least. This was already done in the past with the USFL. Jim Kelly, Steve Young, lots of big names played there for a bit but not many % wise and the NFL did just fine. The idea that the top players would all decide to leave the NFL and take a massive paycut so that some unproven rookie can get part ownership of an NFL team (but they're leaving?) is just goofy. What would happen IF a bunch of big name guys left is other NFL players would see opportunity for starting jobs and more $$ in the big league. You think Mahomes is walking away from a half billion dollars to make peanuts in some spring league? There is 0% chance any player is getting part ownership of a team, especially an unproven rookie. He will get tens of millions of dollars per year though, mostly guaranteed.

Too many low % throws

Some nice games this weekend