Uh, both teams have a 10-7 record and a wildcard playoff spot.
Kinda funny though: Iâm a Seahawks fan dating a Broncos fan so weâre both quite familiar with Russell Wilson.
BF has moments of incredulity: why couldnât he play like that for us?!?!
Whereas Russell Wilsonâs Super Bowl ring came during his Seahawks years so Iâm a bit more stoic. But Iâm also a Bengals fan, so if he had to find another team on which to be successful⌠why the freaking Steelers?!?!
I bear him no ill will though. But, since the Bengals and Seahawks are both eliminated⌠go Broncos!!!
It kind of bugs me how much people shit on McCarthy. Heâs certainly not perfect, but heâs won 12 games and top 10 offense every year Dak hasnât been injured. Won 7 games with Cooper Rush. And did it with Jerry as his GM.
People seem fine to wave away regular season due to Injury for coaches like Shanahan. But with McCarthy itâs his fault.
McCarthyâs been just as bad in the playoffs lately as John Harbaugh or Mike Tomlin but theyâre still regarded as good coaches while McCarthy sucks.
Bearâs could (and probably will) do a lot worse than McCarthy. They donât seem to have the organizational competence to develop a good coordinator into a good head coach.
Cowboys said no
They can only block it for a week unless they extend him.
Not sure if this is just a negotiating tacticâŚor Jerry being petty.
Be honest here. The defense carried the Cowboys on a lot of those wins.
Organizationally McCarthy is very good. But his offense doesnât work for any QB not of All-Pro level. Almost no motion, limited misdirection, and god help you if youâre not on time. He doesnât scheme up anything easy. Just tells the receivers to go win 1-on-1 and the QB to make the right read with not much help. Heâs not going to make a team perform better than its talent level.
Offensive EPA per play for Dallas was #7 in 2021, #10 in 2022 and #2 in 2023.
Thatâs pretty much as good as anyone over a 3 year period.
I donât really see Dallas a team stacked with talent either.
And the second either Dac or CD went down the offense basically stopped.
I will grant you that losing a starting QB hurts any team. But you should be able to scheme open more than just your all-pro #1 and screens/passes to the flat.
this seems to fairly note the things he has been good at. he seems to have a meltdown of confusion in important moments of games. the cutaway shot to a befuddled looking dude with an IHOP menu on the sideline is practically a stock event in such games. so really, he is a good coach but isnât exciting or invigorating IMO (unless your team is sub-terrible and then the competence is a plus).
tomlin also seems to have moments of mismanagement. but i am super impressed with how his teams seem to play for him. and even when he has world class/HOF level crazy people (AB and pickens) it doesnât seem to infect the program.
john harbaugh has made gaffes too (his annual âabandon the running game that got us hereâ event is scheduled, like always, for a playoff game). but his teams are always really competitive.
no coach is perfect. mccarthy is not at all exciting to me. high floor but ceiling is like 2 inches above that floor. if thatâs what you want then great. you 100% could do worse and 3 teams will.
Canât he just call in with a fake cough and sneezing to take a sick day so that he can attend the interview? Thatâs how itâs normally done, according to my friend.
These billionaires are a close-knit group. You can get away with that in the Actuarial World, though I once had someone rat me out to my boss.
:yikes: #jerkmove
Yup. My boss asked, disappointedly, âWhy are you looking?â (It was less than a year after I was hired, but the company was in very bad shape, and a few years after I left, it went under.) I told him why. I had a list of requests that were not getting met. In one, I told him that we were in business in a few states that were losing money and we were never going to turn them around (he admitted so when I asked him). His reply was that we had people working in those states and we just couldnât put them out of work. Shit company. I started looking about two weeks after I started. Took me two years. Regretted the move there, but my career had stalled where I was.
BTW, this reminds me:
I lived in Philadelphia in 1980 and the Phillies won the World Series.
I lived in Cincinnati in 1990 and the Reds won the World Series.
I lived in Seattle in 2000 and got very excited when the Mariners made the postseason, but alasâŚ
(Maybe itâs only National League teams that works on?!?!)
Thank you for entertaining us, Frank.
at some point, the cycle of full awareness of CTE as a consequence has filtered down - and everyone playing will have known the risk coming in. we are close to that point in time, right? first evidence published in 2005. NFL admits in 2016 or so (per google).
not saying itâs a great outcome, but players playing now KNOW that risk
was thinking of the week 18 tanking (and how NE fouled it up).
for full tank purposes, is there any drawback for the eliminated team to put everyone with injury designation on IR and promote practice squad to active? treat it like pre-season evaluation of talent in close to real environment. why wouldnât that be worth doing?
You would think that players entering the league now do so with a better understanding of CTE, but $$$$$$ tends to get you to not look at all the data when the consequences may be years or decades down the road.
A few players have walked away due to risks (Chris Borland comes to mind) but not a lot. Though itâs possible there are quite a few who never took up football because of the risks.
One would hope.
Do parents today KNOW that risk and yet allow their kids to play American Rules Football? Thatâs some shit parenting right there (IMO). Times tens of millions over, say, 100 years, and here we are today.