NFL Week 4- The Adam Vinatieri Edition

At least from this NFL.com article, it mentions at the bottom that he was expected to be a top candidate for some open jobs. Again, at the time of his firing, I kind of thought the impression was that Miami's poor record wasn't entirely on him. Mike Tannenbaum got shitcanned / reassigned at the same time.

 

Not getting on you to show your work, man. I'm just bitter in life and incredulous that the team I support due to accident of birth hired that guy.

Yeah, I guess it makes sense coming from the league and its intelligentsia. After Mike Mayock's touting of Ryan Mallet in the 2014 preseason, anyone is a top candidate for something when coming from the NFL covering itself.

Not sure it matters, though. The ghost of Bill Walsh and a time-traveling Joe Montana couldn't help at this point.

 

At best, Gase seems like one of those guys who could be a good coordinator, but he should never be a head coach. Even that is generous. Not only does he not get along with many of his players, it seems like he doesn't even care to try. As you said, he is constantly trying to force personnel into his system instead of adapting to what he has on his team.

The best example I've seen of that was Mike Tomlin when he took over as the Steelers' head coach. He came in as a defensive guy, primarily the Tampa 2. People thought he was going to force the Steelers away from the 3-4. Instead, he kept Dick LeBeau on as defensive coordinator and continued to run the system that fit the personnel he inherited. In his second year, Pittsburgh won a Super Bowl, mostly on the strength of a dominant defense.

Gase doesn't have nearly that kind of talent with the Jets, but even if he did, he would have screwed it up.

 

Yeah, I mean, I feel icky "defending" Gase. But his time in Miami doesn't scream, "This was a fucking train wreck and he shouldn't be a head coach again!" Like, he won 10, 6 and 7 games. Plenty of coaches with that kind of mediocrity on their resume get second jobs. I doubt he's going to get a third chance without a long and successful stint as a coordinator again, though.

 

The NFL has to have some type of plan for when this happens.

Honestly, with this being totally 20/20, cut off the last two weeks of the schedule and leave it open. In those two weeks, COVID games get made up.

If you have, say, Steelers/Ravens or Falcons/Saints in those two weeks, bounce that game into the middle of the schedule and drop a non-conference game.

I know this is building a plane while you are flying, but I just don't see how squeezing in Pittsburgh/Tennessee on a Wednesday or Tuesday night is any better.

And this won't be the first time this happens.

 

The NFL should have announced a plan for just such a situation before the season began. Perhaps they have a plan, but wanted more flexibility than announcing it early would allow. Doing it this way, however, is a bad look. It makes it seem like some team might get screwed because the league couldn't get its act together before the season started.

 

In overtime, each team will be allowed to start possessions with a receiver 10 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage.

 

I am sure that there are hundreds of contingency plans on league office computers created back in March when nobody knew what was going to happen at all. My guess is they're being lifted out and scrutinized rather desperately right now. Much as I like to rag the league, they surely anticipated something like this would happen. Maybe the degenerate shithead owners didn't, but the league office did.

 

If the Titans can’t be in their facility until Saturday, can they practice elsewhere? If not, how can they play on Sunday?

 

The point is to have them away from each other

 

Makes sense. I still wonder why, if they can’t practice until Saturday, the league hasn’t announced a postponement.