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  1. mauf

    NFL Divisional Weekend Game Thread

    Two potential weather games Sunday: 3-4 inches of snow forecasted in Philly, mostly falling during the game. 16 degrees is the forecasted game time temperature in Buffalo.
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    Bob Uecker dead at 90

    Thought this was funny. View: https://twitter.com/JLucroy20/status/1880063138873118870
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    Red Sox Acquire C Blake Sabol from SFG for IFA $$ (Chase Shugart DFA'd)

    This won’t be the last acquisition for which we’ll need to clear a 40-man spot (at least I hope not), so Shugart was gone regardless. I wish Breslow had signed a veteran catcher to split time with Wong, with Narvaez riding the shuttle. But that ship sailed a while ago — I don’t think any of the...
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    I figured that was a down-to-the-studs rebuild where they’d grab a QB in the draft, but I could obviously be wrong.
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    From what I’m seeing and what Aikman is saying, a lot of it’s the D, but you can’t take 6 sacks in an half and you absolutely can’t throw that terrible pick. The pick forced them into the risky GFI at midfield where Darnold … got sacked. The Vikings are still in this with a little game...
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    You don’t often see someone lose as much money in just 8 days as Sam Darnold has.
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    I thought it was a wash until Lattimore bear-hugged Evans as he was turned around and trying to make a play on the ball. It sucks because I don’t think Evans gets that ball if Lattimore simply does his job, but you have to call that.
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    My wife’s cousin, who is not a fan of the sport, has a hilarious shtick where she talks about how every team should hire someone who never played football, and is therefore presumably not brain damaged, to make clock-management decisions.
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    When I was a kid, it seemed like every ad on the NFL games was for beer or pickup trucks. Now, they’re running ads for a prescription medication that treats hot flashes. Say what you will about Roger Goodell — the popularity of the league has grown on his watch.
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    I know halftime adjustments aren’t really a thing, but maybe the 15-minute break gives the Packers a chance to reset. They are amazingly not out of this, but they obviously need to play better.
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    NFL Wild Card Weekend Game Thread

    Bills should be running clock and trying to shorten the game at this point. No idea why Allen called for the snap with 18 seconds on the play clock, then threw the ball away.
  12. mauf

    The HC Search

    Re-establishing competence is a necessary first step towards returning to contention. Vrabel has demonstrated that he can do that. If you hire him, then decide four years from now he isn’t the guy to lead you to the promised land, that’s a bad result, but not as bad as you could get with a...
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    The HC Search

    I lean toward Johnson over Vrabel, so I certainly didn’t mean to suggest he’s comparable to Mayo. (That said, your reading of my post is fair; it was inarticulate on my part.) I only meant to make the point you did here — Johnson hasn’t been a head coach, so there’s a non-zero chance he totally...
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    The HC Search

    My guess is that there will be leaks when reference checks begin, and we’ll have guys like Schefter, et al., reporting with higher confidence that Vrabel (or Johnson) is the Pats’ guy a day or two ahead of the formal announcement. This is why you don’t run a weeks-long search. The Jets job is...
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    The HC Search

    There’s no floor on team performance, but Vrabel has demonstrated that he’s a competent head coach; Johnson hasn’t. The “floor” for Johnson is Jerod Mayo 2.0; the floor for Vrabel is higher than that. Shouldn’t be a major consideration, but could be a tiebreaker if you’re undecided between the two.
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    The HC Search

    If Drake Maye ends up being no better than Ryan Tannehill we’d probably be ok with those results. I’m more concerned about the way Vrabel’s tenure ended than the results he got prior to his final year there.
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    The HC Search

    I think you’re conflating Kraft refusing to give Parcells total control with Kraft meddling. If Kraft was personally directing personnel decisions, that’s meddling. If he was defending the GM’s authority against the head coach, that might have been a bad idea, but it’s not meddling.
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    The HC Search

    It’s not a terrible slate for the Jags. Moore and Brady each have a chance to be the hotshot coordinator in a year or two that Johnson is now; the Jags aren’t going to get Johnson, so maybe they should gamble on one of those guys rather than hiring a retread. But I don’t see any names on that...
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    The HC Search

    As a general matter, I think it makes more sense to select a small number of finalists for a role and conduct in-depth interviews with each of them than to do in-depth interviews with 8-10 people. The latter approach invites subjectivity — presumably, there are a small number of candidates in...
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    The HC Search

    I think we disagree as to the value of bringing in a few candidates for interviews whom ownership has no intention of hiring, or whom they realize they probably won’t get. I mean, not to suggest the Jaguars are a model franchise, but how many of these guys are really in the mix for that job...
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