NFL offseason thread

Might seem like a short leash to some, but meh - Pederson hasn't been so impressive since losing Reich, and seeing Wentz go from MVP candidate to DFA candidate should be enough to get any non-winning coach fired. Ripping the band-aid off now seems better than muddling through another 4-12 to 8-8 season with him.

 

So there's a small window in which McCarthy is not the worst coach in the division. Actually, scratch that. I'd prefer the variable.

 

Maybe the decision of week 17 was so toxic that he couldn't stay.
Not that I don't think Pederson went Broken Arrow on his Sudfeld move. I am sure it was an organizational decision.

But Pederson is going to take the fall.

 

Even the execution of that was confusing to me. Why play Hurts, a rookie QB, and then bench him for your 27-year-old, third string QB? Either play Hurts the whole game, or Sudfeld the whole game if you want to lose, with some B.S. excuse like "not wanting to risk the health of Hurts in a game that doesn't mean anything." Instead, he did some weird middle ground thing that riled everyone up way more.

 

I guess the idea was something along the lines of, "Well, we've had a couple of games to get a look at Hurts to see if he could be the future, and we want to get him as many snaps as we can. But we want to get Sudfeld out there for a quarter to see whether he's worth keeping around as a backup or if we're in the market for a solid No. 2." And to the Eagles that game meant zero, so whoever made the decision must have figured why not?

 

End of the day I think Wentz's problems had more to do with Wentz than Pederson. If the fact of him not endearing himself to teammates is close to true I doubt him being painted as the "owner's boy" will help.

That being said Pederson pissed off his locker room in Week 17 and that was a mistake that would be hard to overcome.

 

Hasn’t Sudfeld been on the roster for like three years? I’d say the Eagles were pretty well acquainted with what a shitty player he is. Hurts was keeping the game too close and they wanted to ensure the loss, plain and simple.

 

Is Pederson an appealing HC candidate or is the bloom off the rose? It really seemed to unravel in a hurry in Philly.

 

I don't feel like he'll be waiting long for the next opportunity.

 

I'd take him. He won a Lombardi Trophy and he did so against the Patriots. Who besides Tom Coughlin can say that over the last 20 years?

IMO, he projects well - aside from the Sudfeld fallout - and he has proven he can get it done.

For Jeff Lurie to make Doug Pederson pay with his job while Howie Roseman keeps his is puzzling. Do you think Pederson pushed to draft Jalen Hurts? And don't we all know that the Eagles could have used help elsewhere on the roster when Roseman decided on Hurts in the draft?

 

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