100%. Watson pushed hard to get out of Houston to play for Flores. Houston hires Flores and everyone is happy. Watson comes back to play (maybe after serving a suspension) and Flores gets the QB he wanted.
Totally agree. I also think the Texans shouldn’t have hired him in the first place.
I'm with you on this. Culley made some questionable in-game decisions -- including choosing to punt in the Patriots game -- but the Texans had little talent, an albatross on the roster and no expectations, and he got them to play hard.
This is just like the Cubs firing Rick Renteria to hire Joe Maddon (without the bad race optics).
You would think so given the amount of time they spent together in New England, but you never know.
View: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1481744255156723716
I'd like to think Mayo is smarter than a relatively lateral move and leaving the Patriots and joining the dumpster fire Texans. But maybe he really wants the actual title of DC
Wonder if it came to that whether Bill would give him the title and move Steve to something else to continue his coaching education. The benefit of Mayo if I’m the Texans is a relatively clean slate. The risk of course is the same.
and people wonder why guys salivate at getting 1 of 32 jobs... it's a bit of a golden parachute... it's not as big as difference now that Coordinator jobs get paid a ton more, but it's still a significant jump in money.
If Tommy Lasorda wasn’t Piazza’s Godfather the kid wouldn’t even have been drafted that high. Great story about how he had to tryout a month after the draft to be offered a contract and the Dodgers wouldn’t pay for him to get there.
He and Belichick have a good relationship. He could make sense in a consultant-type role, especially if Eliot Wolf (or someone else in personnel) winds up going somewhere.
Well he just threw his players under the bus during the postgame press conference.
Someone should tell the Bengals
I get that Elliott is using his status as a former Michigan teammate of Harbaugh to imply that he has inside information. The fact that he named the Giants as a possible landing spot tells me that he does not.
Kliff Kingsbury has had Baker Mayfield, Patrick Mahomes, Kyler Murray, and won absolutely nothing of substance.
Part of that is Kliff, part is the GM... that roster is very old and very shallow. They've basically whiffed on a ton of drafts, let guys go who are good, and generally really mismanaged their roster. Yet got EOTY buzz early for one trade for a C and signing Watt (done by letting one of their few good young defenders go).
Agree 100%. Most of the names they have are either old or signed short term deals. They went all in to try and maximize the Murray contract, which is fine, but they’re going to have Kyler and a rebuild on their hands in 2-3 years.
They built that team as if Kyler was a seasoned QB they had to go all in with. It never made much sense.
While the "new" news is Feldman reporting on anxieties among the staff at Michigan, this is essentially a rehash of the story he wrote three weeks ago that started all the buzz, right down to the fact that he's using the same sources - which is to say that it quotes anonymous insiders who aren't really insiders. Which is why I just don't give it too much credence beyond noting that Feldman is doubling down on his earlier prediction.
My own guess is that Harbaugh won't ever go into another NFL situation where his fate is determined by the whims of a senior executive like Trent Baalke. I'll admit that I don't know what that necessarily means, but Davis firing his GM before deciding on the coaching situation gives him the ability to create a situation which is ideal for Harbaugh. (I don't know if that's good or bad for the Raiders.) Which is why I'm concerned that Harbaugh might actually make the move.
I think he is, but I don't think it applies here. The guy who was not a supporter of Harbaugh at Michigan is the President who just got canned. Warde Manuel (AD) is his friend and ally and he's not going to dick him over out of spite.
I think if he truly wants a second act in the NFL, this is his time. He’s 58, and can have a solid 10-12 year run somewhere. Part of the calculus is he knows he likely reached his ceiling at UM and the odds of a national championship outside the SEC moving forward are very scant. We’ll know soon.
