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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. This unserious point always gets made while ignoring the stark examples we have in other leagues that prove it's bs. We don't hear serious complaints about issues like this in the NBA because there is a prevailing sense among all participants that the process for hiring coaches is mostly fair. I'm 45 years old and I can't remember the fairness of hiring coaches in the NBA ever being an issue among serious people. Conversely in the NFL, a league where many families have held ownership of the teams for multiple decades, not only have issues with hiring minorities been a problem, but it is also a league where nepotism seemingly runs rampant and thus the issue of fairness in the hiring process has always been held in question.
  2. Have you been paying attention at all? All the rumored innuendo about Flores being difficult to work with to him wanting DeSean Watson over Tua are in question following the context his allegations give to those rumors. If the story about him not wanting to meet with that quarterback are true then the entire storyline concerning him wanting Watson over Tua could very well be the exact opposite. And this nonsense about him only beating bad teams is rubbish. This is the NFL there are no gimmies in the league. Buffalo lost to Jacksonville. The Jets beat the Titans and the Bengals this year. Strength of schedule or whatever you're trying to allude to is meaningless when you're talking about the NFL. In addition to that you cant even show me data detailing how his wins are comparatively less impressive than any other team in the NFL over that period time. It's a nonsensical point. Furthermore, if we're to believe Flores, he ostensibly achieved the record you're discrediting against the organization's wishes and attempts to make it even worse.
  3. I agree about Disu. I initially hesitated to say anything about my desire for Bryson Williams especially with Disu having another year or 2 to play beyond this year. We clearly haven't seen the best of him yet. Having said that, I didn't know anything about Williams until big 12 play and to say I'm impressed would be an understatement. Dude is much more talented and polished than I imagined. And his athleticism allows him to maximize his skills unlike Mitchell whose game, while polished, is limited by his lackluster athleticism.
  4. Yeah substituting Hamm onto the roster for Bishop would've been extremely beneficial. Shit while we're dreaming, Bryson Williams & Hamm in place of Disu and Bishop makes for a dominant defense and super athletic team.
  5. Cincinnati notoriously didn't even have a scouting department when Lewis got there. Mike Brown is well known as the cheapest and worst owner in the NFL. He took over ownership after his Dad passed in 1991 which commenced the beginning of the organizations struggled. They were absolute garbage Lewis got there. So yeah Marvin Lewis got 16 years, because he essentially built that organization from the ground up.
  6. 1st time the Dolphins have had back to back winning seasons since 2003. More than likely Flores was only hired in the first place to lose as evidenced by the owner asking him to do just that. Much like David Culley, Flores was hired to bridge the organization to the next guy while the Dolphins gathered top tier draft assets before they hired their real coach.
  7. Those receipts seems to be growing.
  8. He probably was a few years ago, back when Allen was completing passes at a 53% rate and throwing more INTs than TDs, but he called Allen a god the other day so I'm guessing he changed his mind as Allen improved. New data often results in new conclusions.
  9. You may be in possession of some of the necessities... according to them.
  10. Now add in further context that at least 30% of the league's coaches and coordinators are related to other NFL brethren either by blood or by marriage then the notion that it's a pure meritocracy falls flat on its face.
  11. I dont know, I'm guessing he has a better read of his prospects than you.
  12. Obviously we don't know Flores motivation beyond what he says, but his going scorched earth like this leads me to believe he didn't believe that he was ever going to work in the league again regardless of whether he filed a law suit.
  13. The suit came as a function of his acknowledgement that his career was over. He probably figured his unwillingness to tank or serve Ross' bidding is the primary reason he wont get hired again. After that might as well go scorched earth and pull the cover off for black coaches behind him.
  14. After reading parts of the lawsuit it makes it sound like this may have been made up bullshit that stemmed from him not being willing to tank games or meet with Tom Brady when he was a free agent. Looks like he and the GM got a long fairly well, but Ross was mad he wouldnt tank games..
  15. Prior to this year the Dolphins hadn't had back to back winning season in 20 years.
  16. @'stache The problem with the Cowboys isn't necessarily that they are poorly run. In fact, they've been fairly successful during the REGULAR SEASON over the last 20 years. I believe the stat is that they are the 8th winningest franchise during the regular season since Parcels took over for Campo (of course they're the only team within the top 10 over that span of time to not make a Super Bowl, much less a conference championship). No, what's wrong with the Cowboys has more to do with how Jerry's influence changes how head coaches deal with the team personnel. Be it certain players getting playing time over others due to being more marketable (ie Zeke, Jaylon Smith, and maybe even Witten at the end of his career), or the way Jerry's presence and relationship with the players limits a coach's ability to instill discipline or to be the final word of authority over the team. Even the way being a member of this team impacts the manner in which a player sees himself (ie Ceedee Lamb behaving as a star the moment he put on the uniform). There was a recent podcast interview I saw with Michael Irvin and the guy on the podcast asked Irvin what it was like for him when he arrived in Dallas. The interviewer had just asked the same question of Micah Parson and was clearly asking from the standpoint that Dallas Cowboys were always perceived as stars from the moment they arrived in Dallas. Michael shocked him with his answer when he reminded him that they Dallas Cowboys weren't treated in that manner in 1988 and none of the benefits now attributed to just being a Dallas Cowboy arrived until AFTER they won a Super Bowl. It's difficult to put a finger exactly on the specific way that Jerry's management style does to limit the team's performance, but it's clear that it does.
  17. And those other years all consist of Jim Boeheim at Syracuse.
  18. I totally got where you were coming from and agree with you given a more perfect world. My comments were directed towards the difference in societal response to the 2 situations. I just used your post to get on my soap box.
  19. That's true of Biden and perhaps maybe even Obama, but I doubt it would've happened with Clinton. Repubs hadn't gone full scorched earth at that point yet.
  20. We were at no risk of Ted Cruz giving an interview discussing Trump's need to widen the search beyond women. Nor would anyone have objected on these grounds had Clinton, Biden, or Obama done the same thing in announcing a woman would be the choice.
  21. I wasn't necessarily speaking to you specifically. It was more or less directed towards the fact that it was never made an issue in the prior cases, because there's no momentum within society to make an issue of someone saying the "next pick will be a woman." Outside of the initial announcement I doubt there were follow up articles drumming up disdain about the fact that Reagan or Trump weren't widening their search beyond women. There simply isn't an audience for that.
  22. You don't recall it because this country doesn't have the same collective reflex to be appalled by it in the same manner that we do when it's done with black people. There's something pathological in this regard with respect to black people. I don't know if it's a collective guilt or what, but from my eyes it's similar to when something traumatic happens within a family unit and the issue gets buried under a rug for years and is never discussed or resolved until something brings it to the surface years later.
  23. Zeke receiving a 2nd contract was all but guaranteed the moment we took him with our highest pick since Troy Aikman. The mistake was drafting him in the first place. A right minded team doesn't draft a player at the #4 spot unless they plan and hope on that player being on the team beyond his rookie contract. Our Oline was so dominant that 1-legged Darren McFadden ran for 1100 yards the year before we drafted Zeke. There would've been plenty of opportunities to draft an RB later on in the draft.
  24. This is a bit off topic but has there ever been a QB in the history of football to improve as much as Josh Allen has over the last 3 years? Dude went from a 56% career mark in college to an atrocious 53% completion percentage with 10 TDs vs 12 INTs his rookie year and a 59% comp % his 2nd year in the league, In 2020 he came out of nowhere to set the world on fire with 37 TDs against 10 INTs at a whopping nearly 70% completion percentage. His improvement is truly miraculous. Allen's collective physical traits with the combination of arm, size, and athleticism are completely unmatched by any other QB in the league. Even in the loss to the Chiefs his best was better than Patrick Mahomes. I don't understand why Chicago and Miami didn't march directly to Daboll's front the door with a ridiculous offer at their first opportunity. I mainly bring this up to offer that we give a slight bit of pause to the possibility of Daboll doing the same thing with Jones in New York. Say what you want, but Daniel Jones is an A1 athlete. And at 6'5", with a strong arm, the possibility that Daboll might work his magic with him is slighlyt above the 0% that most people on here want to give him. Kadarius Toney, Saquon Barkley, and the possibility of some quality draft picks and free agent pick ups doesnt look that far off from what Allen was working with in Buffalo prior to Diggs getting there. People forget, but Jones looked pretty good the first 4 or 5 games of this past season prior to his injury.
  25. Of course they will. They can always play to this country's pathological antipathy towards black people. All the while displaying a collective amnesia for anything that happened 10 seconds before hand. Trump on Supreme Court nominee: 'It will be a woman' https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-vacant-seat-fill/index.html (CNN)President Donald Trump said Saturday evening that he will choose a candidate to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat next week and his candidate will be a woman. "I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman," Trump said during a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Trump told rallygoers that Ginsburg's "landmark rulings, fierce devotion to justice and her courageous battle against cancer inspire all Americans," offering prayers to the justice's family. The President also noted her friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, saying it's "a powerful reminder we can disagree on fundamental issues, while treating each other with decency, dignity and respect."
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