NFL offseason thread

It says something when a player that's been the face of a franchise wants to leave a team with a legitimate top 5 game-changing talent at Quarterback because he doesn't think they will be able to compete.

That's a mammoth-sized vote of no confidence in every move that's been made in the past several weeks.

 

9x Pro Bowl, 5x All-Pro and 2010s All Decade team member. He's not going to be without merit.

 

He is borderline and I don't think he makes it. It's a relative short career -- nine full seasons and another year with one game because of injury.
He's got some good bulletpoints -- two first team all-pros and three second-teams, he's on the all-decade team for the 2010s and he made the Pro Bowl every year except the one-game season.

But the voters have been super stingy with centers. If the outcry for centers comes like it has for safeties recently, I could see it well down the road.

 

Looking at those credentials without a name, I would say that person was a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

 

Interesting reading about all of the coaching staff hires this last month, whether coaches have to "re-stock" their staffs after being raided, or hire replacements for coaches they canned, or new coaches starting from scratch.
One thing I've noticed is a growing number of "running-game" and "passing-game" coordinators - is this just a way to give a fancier title to a QB, RB or OL coach while keeping an OC? A way to keep that person from leaving for another gig or is it preferable to just having an OC and position coaches?

 

The proliferation of titles is traditionally not a good sign for an organization, sociologically speaking.

 

Urban Meyer just discovered he ain’t in Gainesville anymore.

Doyle resigns from Jags position amid backlash

 

If he were any worse at judging character he’d be a Republican in the US Senate.

 

There's still time.

 

Who could have predicted that?

 

Meyer was adamant on the zoom call announcing the coaching staff that he, GM Trent Baalke and owner Shad Khan "vetted" Doyle. Then said they wouldn't have interviewed him if they thought he was racist and none of that will be tolerated in their building. Then in the statement, Meyer said they "should have given greater consideration to how his appointment may have affected all concerned." In other words, "all concerned," are the players, and since the Jaguars were the first pro sports team last summer to stage its own protest march, I imagine "all concerned" gave him an earful about hiring this asshole. Urban had his welcome to the NFL moment here: coaches don't run the show. At least, they aren't the dictators with total control that they are in college. Next up: Urban is introduced to the CBA.

 

Badly-run franchise continues to be run badly. Film at 11.