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thunderkyss said:
I felt the same way after Dan Campbell's first presser.
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I remember when posters LOL'ed at the Siriani hire.

Cohen made the Bucs offense one of the most explosive in the NFL in his 1st season as a coordinator. This man isn't some dumb meathead HC that some are making him out to be. Of course I dont expect him to be successful due to the Goldylocks effect.
 
JB said:
www.espn.com

Raiders owner: Gruden's 'head was chopped off'

Raiders owner Mark Davis said that adding Tom Brady as a minority owner brought a needed piece that has been missing from the organization since Jon Gruden resigned.
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JB said:
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Raiders owner: Gruden's 'head was chopped off'

Raiders owner Mark Davis said that adding Tom Brady as a minority owner brought a needed piece that has been missing from the organization since Jon Gruden resigned.
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Yeah, God'ell should either go to jail or let the name of the person who illegally released those emails, so said person could be put in jail.
 
steelbtexan said:
I remember when posters LOL'ed at the Siriani hire.

Cohen made the Bucs offense one of the most explosive in the NFL in his 1st season as a coordinator. This man isn't some dumb meathead HC that some are making him out to be. Of course I dont expect him to be successful due to the Goldylocks effect.
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For accuracy, it's Coen.
 
steelbtexan said:
I remember when posters LOL'ed at the Siriani hire.

Cohen made the Bucs offense one of the most explosive in the NFL in his 1st season as a coordinator. This man isn't some dumb meathead HC that some are making him out to be. Of course I dont expect him to be successful due to the Goldylocks effect.
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You gotta admit though, his "Duuuuval" holler was a bit light in the shorts.....Cringe worthy
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1883704122823864514

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The NFL is far behind just about any major sport in the world when it comes to using sports technological advancements. It's because it's not a priority for them. The money keeps flowing in, why spend it on apparently unnecessary things like full time refs, grass fields, chips in balls, etc. Who cares about the integrity of the game and player safety when suckers like us will be back next year, along with a bunch of new suckers...

In addition to those 2 things you mentioned, consider soccer's VAR technology to determine goals and offsides (offsides one is controversial among soccer fans, but I'm 100% on board), plus expensive technology to keep grass green in their indoor or otherwise unsuitable for growing grass stadiums.

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JB said:
Dumb gets ya everytime
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Eagles fan dies after fall from pole in celebration

Temple University freshman Tyler Sabapathy, who was 18, has died from injuries he suffered Sunday after falling from a light pole while celebrating with fans after the Eagles won the NFC championship.
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Youth killed that poor kid, because there's no way in hell my ass is making it up one of those poles even if I was in a stupid state of mind.

I look back at my youth sometimes and wonder how the hell did I survive.
 
paycheck71 said:
The NFL is far behind just about any major sport in the world when it comes to using sports technological advancements. It's because it's not a priority for them. The money keeps flowing in, why spend it on apparently unnecessary things like full time refs, grass fields, chips in balls, etc. Who cares about the integrity of the game and player safety when suckers like us will be back next year, along with a bunch of new suckers...

In addition to those 2 things you mentioned, consider soccer's VAR technology to determine goals and offsides (offsides one is controversial among soccer fans, but I'm 100% on board), plus expensive technology to keep grass green in their indoor or otherwise unsuitable for growing grass stadiums.

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It's harder to rig games with electronics making the final decisions.
 
steelbtexan said:
It's harder to rig games with electronics making the final decisions.
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I'm not ready to say "rigged." I know your opinion, and I'm fine with it. But when it comes to the "chefs," my mind is almost ready to buy into any conspiracy theory. Trying to be careful about it...

When it comes to the rest of the stuff that can make the league better, IMO it's just the greed and unwillingness to spend any money the owners deem "unnecessary" expenses.
 
Belichick unfiltered............

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Saying players win games, Bill Belichick jokes about renaming Lombardi Trophy for Tom Brady
By Mike Florio
Published January 29, 2025 07:49 PM

Patriots coach Bill Belichick is one of the greatest of all time. But he’s now shifting credit to the men who take the field.

“Players win games,” Belichick said on the latest episode of the Let’s Go! podcast, per quotes distributed by SiriusXM. “You can’t win games without good players. I don’t care who the coach is, it’s impossible. You can’t win without good players. You know, I found that out when I had [Lawrence] Taylor and [Carl] Banks and Harry Carson, Pepper Johnson, Jim Burt, Everson Walls, all those guys at the Giants. And same thing when we got good at Cleveland and then at New England. I mean, it’s [Tom] Brady, it’s [Willie] McGinest, it’s [Mike] Vrabel, it’s [Tedy] Bruschi, it’s Corey Dillon, it’s Randy Moss, Troy Brown, Lawyer Malloy, Ty Law, Rodney Harrison.

“Those are guys that won the games, man. I didn’t make any tackles. I didn’t make any kicks. That was [Adam] Vinatieri that made that kick in four inches of snow. You gotta have good players and as a coach, you want to give your players a chance to win. You wanna put them in a position where if they go out there and play well, they’ll have a chance to win. That’s what Coach Parcells taught me, is there’s always a way to win. You just gotta figure out what it is, and you have to give the players a chance.”

But that’s where the coaching comes in. Finding out how to give the players the best chance to win, one game at a time.

Belichick wasn’t finished. Here’s the rest of the exchange.

“We idolize these great coaches,” host Jim Gray said. “We say, ‘If we only had this great coach, we would be winning, we would be holding the trophy on the top step of the victory platform.’ Why would you say this [the sentiment that players win games] isn’t shared more often?”

“I don’t know but I’ve never said anything but that,” Belichick said.

“No, I understand that,” Gray responded. “I’m just saying they didn’t name it the Starr Trophy, it’s named the Lombardi Trophy.”

“Maybe they should name it the Brady Trophy,” Belichick said. “He won seven of them.”

While it’s clickbaity to sell Belichick’s words as made in any way other than jest, he’s not seriously suggesting that Vince Lombardi’s name should be stripped from the Super Bowl trophy and replaced with Brady’s. Belichick was just making his point.

The real question is this: What’s Belichick’s angle in making the case publicly that it’s about players not coaches?
Is he staking out an advance excuse in the event North Carolina stinks this year? After all, if the players can’t play, it’s hard to
blame the coach.

Or is Belichick thinking ahead to a possible NFL return, assuming anyone will hire him. Good teams with good players rarely have vacancies. For most of the teams that will be hiring, they’ll be hiring because the team wasn’t and isn’t good. In New England, Belichick had a 5-11 in 2000 before stumbling into Brady. Then, after Brady left (with Belichick incorrectly believing the tank was empty), things went sideways for Belichick.

Given that Belichick is always playing chess when everyone else is playing checkers, he’s sending a message here. And the message might be this: “Lower your expectations for me this year at North Carolina, and next year if I’m back in the NFL.”
 
Dean Blandino’s brother is “convinced” the league is rigged — and that Dean signed an NDA
By Mike Florio
Published January 30, 2025 11:16 AM

Perception is reality. And the reality is that, when it comes to the Chiefs, the NFL has a perception problem.

In post-truth America, people believe what they choose to believe. The harder anyone tries to change their minds, the deeper they dig in their heels.

It’s become a major talking point in recent weeks, given that the Chiefs have won a pair of playoff games that included questionable calls that went their way. Against the Texans in the divisional round, it was a pair of flags thrown for hits on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. (Neither hit drew a fine from the league office.) Against the Bills, it was the critical fourth-down spot, fueled by a no-tech system that had two different spots by two different officials and the one favoring the

Chiefs becoming the one that was adopted.

Chiefs fans balk at the effort to apply asterisks to their accomplishments. Others continue to insist the fix is in.

Here’s how bad it’s gotten. Fox rules analyst and former NFL senior V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino — the man for whom the current replay system was designed and developed — has an immediate family member who is among the tinfoil-hat crowd.

“My brother who is convinced that the league is rigged, that is convinced that I signed an NDA . . . when I left the league office that I cannot tell anybody that it’s rigged,” Blandino said in an appearance on SiriusXM Mad Dog Sports Radio. “We grew up in the same household, by the way. I said, ‘Listen, there’s no conspiracy. The officials — there’s too many variables, there’s too much going on. To me, it’s the hardest sport. When you think about football, with seven different officials, to say, ‘OK, I’m gonna rig this game’ or ‘the game is rigged from the league office down.’ The officials are just trying to get it right.”
And he’s right. When in doubt, incompetence supersedes conspiracy. And the league isn’t nearly competent enough to launch, maintain, and conceal a conspiracy.

That doesn’t stop people, including Blandino’s brother, from believing otherwise. And that belief is fueled by preventable mistakes, outdated methods, and a complete lack of transparency when it’s time to venture behind the curtain and make critical decisions.

In Blandino’s role with the UFL, transparency has been embraced in the replay function. Opening the windows to the football-watching world helps folks see the sausage-making process. To understand why decisions are made. And to not let their minds wander toward fanciful notions that somebody is trying to engineer outcomes.

For the NFL, it’s a combination of factors — not the least of which is the lack of full-time officials. Throw in the ongoing proliferation of legalized gambling, and the void of information from the league becomes the Petri dish in which the primordial ooze is batshit-craziness

Remember what Commissioner Roger Goodell said in 2012, when the NFL still hated the legalization of gambling? “If gambling is permitted freely on sporting events, normal incidents of the game such as bad snaps, dropped passes, turnovers, penalties, and play calling inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust, and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing,” Goodell said.

Although the league, when faced with those words a year ago, downplayed any uptick in speculation, distrust, and accusations of game-fixing more than five years into the Wild West of BET! BET! BET!, it has more recently reached a fever pitch as it relates to the Chiefs.

But there’s a way to fix it. Let the sunshine in. Embrace technology. And spend the money to make all officials full-time employees who don’t spend all of football season working two jobs and getting little if any time to rest, recover, and recharge.

Until the league takes action, the atmosphere exists for people to believe officials are steered toward certain outcomes. And, in turn, people like Blandino’s brothers believe it.

The league can choose to shrug it off as kooky talk. Or it can do what’s needed to be done to uncook the kookiness.
 
IDEXAN said:
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Many, many people fully recover from all kinds of cardiovascular events, including strokes.
What are Kubiak's " underlying health concers" ?
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Complex migraine. And death from the stress.

You got to listen to your body. If you are having strokes and migraines due to a job than maybe you need to stay retired from said job.

Stay retired Kubiak.
 
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