As the OP noted, that roster was f-ing loaded at RB and TE. If you had Frank Gore, Willis McGahee, Clinton Portis, Najeh Davenport, Jeremy Shockey, and Kellen Winslow Jr. on a single college roster, you'd run 12 personnel too.
I'm sure that all of this is nothing new. As someone mentioned above, Frazer interviewed with the NYG after Daboll too. But because Flores realized that he's not getting another HC job because of all the stuff that Ross and the Dolphins' GM is spreading around the league about him being difficult to work with, he decided to torch all the bridges to get one final NFL payday before going to college. That's my speculation.
If this is true, it's a byproduct of Sean McVey and Zac Taylor meeting in the SB. All teams will want an offensive assistant under 40. Zac Taylor's highest position before being handed the reins of the Cincinnati Bengals was QB coach.
I don't think that he can do that unless Tampa releases him because he's still under contract with them for next year. Otherwise players would "retire" to get out a bad situations all the time.
It goes beyond that. They don't have any separate facilities. They have the stadium, which is owned by the county, and a grass field next to the stadium. They practice in the stadium almost exclusively. So the team owns nothing. This is because Mike Brown has no source of income besides the team. Mike brown never spends to the cap because he doesn't have the money. They've caught lightning in a bottle and they had better win now because they won't be able to pay all those guys after their rookie contracts are up.
Just went over to a Ravens board. A lot of their fans want Roman fired and Martin to replace him. I want Dorsey just for continuity, but Tee Martin will be an OC in the this league soon so interviewing him is probably a good step.
The Bengals had already won the division at that point. If the Bills had lost and the Pats won in Miami, the Pats would won the division.
Joe Burrow was limping around at the end of that week 17 game against the Chiefs. Playing him in a meaningless game was have been reckless.
What the Bengals were trying to avoid was not the Pats, but rather the Colts. If week 18 had gone according to plan, the Colts would have been the 6 seed and played the 3 seed on the road.