No, you don't fire the guy for 1 bad pick, unless you tell him, or expect him to understand, that we're done with out-of-left-field, not-the-consensus picks. In Bill we don't trust, who TF did you say you were? The guy who invented Law and Order*?
Sirrously... I don't think you get slammed for...
At this point on the calendar, unless we get a Tax forum, the whole place is the Draft Forum. Time eventually wins every battle.
On a related nonsensical point, I can't believe there is the "next level down" prospect named Joe Alt. I can't believe there's anybody named Joe Alt. Oh please, draft...
We could merge a lot of threads by creating a character called Draker Mayefield. Just sayin'.
(All kidding aside, there's no other point here, just the kidding. As you were.)
If we could believe counterfactuals Frank Frink would have been shot in the head by Joe Blake and/or America would have won the war. Sorry, I've been rewatching "The Man in the High Castle" because I'm nostalgic from when a Nazi takeover of America was fanciful fiction. Point is, and this goes...
I mean, me too. Heck, I want that at every pick, right?
But "want" isn't the metric that makes sense, it's "what usually happens plus some margin that means you demand excellence."
After 1 year? Pro Bowl good. (And that's a ridiculously high bar)
Oh wait that didn't help.
What if you whiff...
Starting with number 1 here, so many things BB brought to the game made the "old way" look stupid as surely as grunge killed 80s hair bands.
- Was it just the fact of Lawrence Taylor or his coaching of Lawrence Taylor, or both, that caused the Left Tackle to become the must-have prestige...
He has more than earned his shot, assuming a medium-short leash. As in, if he suddenly sucks, it's fielder's choice to yank him in favor of Malik or Jones... it wouldn't be a categorical blunder. But right now, he has earned the shot... his starts to lose!
Curiouser and curiouser.
Here's what really went down.
The FBI had a black hat lab engineer a virus in 2019 whose main purpose was to guarantee a physical, psychological, and mental meltdown after the loss of a perceived man of destiny, paid for by Roger Goodell, through his contact who wrote...
I really should have phrased it, "will NE just break QBs." If you read the rest of my post, that's the idea. I.e., given - and it does have to be given, it's not proven - given that NE broke Jones, is it possible that there are expectations on a NE QB that it's not realistic to expect. For...
I think there's a lingering question as to whether there are so many moving parts you have to ask, post-Brady, does New England just break QBs?
WITH Brady, NE was infinitely malleable - no experiment was beyond their ability. You have to wonder whether that same virtue just became a vice because...
It's certainly refreshing, for now, to see Zappe having success, which generally he has done when called upon.
Many of us saw the success Mac had his rookie year, saw the coaching weirdness last year and gave him a pass, then hoped against hope this season. Enough variables have been addressed...
The advantage of having seen this season is indeed formidable :D. And you've done a good job summing up the sunk costs fallacy, although I'm not sure anybody was advocating, for example, rewarding a poor 2023 with a high-value multi-year deal. You would want him to succeed so that you're not...
So here's where we are.
- BB has his future locked up, with a long-term extension signed this off season. I am sure he CAN be fired, but it's built for "fire Belichick" to be a chant for fans not an actual strategy or solution.
- Supposedly BB and the Pats are super-loose in Germany right now...
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