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If the Steelers season ends in disappointment as they usually do, I'm wondering if this is finally the time they cut the chord on Tomlin. Really too late at this point, he's wasted several years of the best talent in the league. But maybe a real coach can squeeze one more run out of them.

I've always wanted to see McDaniels get another shot and assumed he learned some lessons from his first failure, so would be a really good HC candidate. He's been on my list of guys I'd like toes the Skins consider. But I have two thoughts on him after this debacle: 1. He screwed over the Colts, no other way to put it. Apparently their second choice for the job was Mike Vrabel, but they let him go to Tennessee because McDaniels had promised them he was taking it. Lord knows if their 3rd or 4th choices are still available. But whoever they eventually hire will have a greatly diminished set of assistants to pick from, since many of them have been hired by now and whoever is going to be coaching the Colts hasn't gotten started in building a staff, apart from the 3 guys McDaniels wanted, who are already under contract. And the odds that they are great fits for the new guy are remote. Meanwhile, those assistants have left their old jobs, committed to a new place and franchise, all to work with McDaniels. And there are likely other guys McDaniels was talking t about jobs there who have been waiting for that to become official who are now scrambling. It's so hard for me to imagine having the lack of personal integrity to leave this trail of destruction in my path. An entire organization, as well as several people he is presumably friends with, are all screwed over here. And why are they screwed? Because they took McDaniels at his word. I just can't imagine being able to live with having people so damaged because they made the mistake of believing me when I promised them something. If I were him, no matter if I decided I didn't want to go to Indy and no matter what the Patriots offered (I honestly wouldn't have even listened to their offer at that point), I would stick to my word. People made consequential decisions based on my word, and I'd want to live up to that regardless. 2. There is a good deal of talk on Boston radio these days about whether McDaniels has the balls to be a good Head Coach. This is like 4 offseason in a row that he's been pursued fro HC gigs and he's either backed out during the interview process or flat backed out of a job. The people here are tarting to wonder if they really want their next head guy to be someone who appears too scared to crawl out form Belichick's nest and forge his own path.

There were at least two obvious PIs on the Pats on 3rd downs that weren't called. The one on Ramsey later I lean towards being the right call, but sometimes they don't call that because he's going for the ball and the contact probably didn't determine the outcome of the play. Still, 3 of those 4 should have gone for Jax. If 2 of them go their way, they probably win. Pretty good chance if one of the 4 dos their way they win. But of course, all 4 are called for the Patriots. The worst, though, because of how it happened was the Jack fumble recovery. An official, who was ruling on the field that it WAS a fumble and it WAS recovered by Jack, blew the play dead AFTER Jack had gotten up and run several yards. Maybe it's how they train officials that's the problem, I don't know. But that is the kind of thing that drives me nuts. He could have let the play go, let him scored and then reviewed it. If he was shown to be down, no foul, if not he gets the TD. But by deciding to blow it dead, he negates even the possibility that justice is served in half the outcomes of the review. Again, it's one thing if he didn't see the fumble or thought it came out after Lewis was down, but he didn't. He saw the fumble, saw Jack recover it and just decided to make sure Jack doesn't have the opportunity to score. So infuriating.

If Luck is healthy, McDaniels is gonna excel in Indy. The AFC South may be well on it's way to being the best division in football.

Eh. In 13, Manning carried Fox's mediocre defense to the Super Bowl. Two years later, with mostly the same players, the defense, under Wade Philips, carried Denver to a title. I don't really see "John Fox is a defensive genius" as the takeaway from that.

Yeah, but they should really be giving up a 1st round pick to steal away such a great coach. Shhh... don't tell them.

Not surprisingly, Pagano is out in Indy.

They're called The Team That Beat the Wizards.

Doesn't work for me either. Just tells me flash is out of date. And if I even try to close that message, it opens up about 10 MacKeeper malware tabs.

I wasn't really looking for a lecture, I was looking for a way to watch the game.

Why do all these sites tell me I need to update my flash player, and even after I do that and restart, it gives me the same message?

Seriously, the red zone play designs are just infuriating.

Overall, that's certainly a fair assessment. But hit year, he cost his team I believe 3 games with just mind-glowingly idiotic clock management decisions. I can't cry a lot of tears for coach getting fired after going 19-29 the last 3 years, 4 years without the playoffs and the comedy of errors he put forth this year. Though reese should really be going bye-bye with him.

What really deserves mention, again, is how any time during our recent history we've signed Free Agents, there is a quick "dumb Redskins, they're too moronic to realize signing players doesn't work" line from the media. But the Dolphins are umpteenth example of a different team going on a big spending spree and the same media collectively saying "brilliant!"

Almost regardless of what our coaching staff looks like or the system we would run, I would still take Caldwell as QB coach if he's available.

Kind of disagree. It's one thing if a coach has shown you something, but if not, two years is certainly enough time for a guy to show you he's not doing anything. The Jags kept Bradley for a third year in spite of their record because they liked how hard the team played and knew the record was due to the lack of talent. That's fine. But if we don't see anything from Gruden this year, you're gonna keep him around, just because? If he doesn't show me a lot more than what he has so far, it's time to move on.

I accepted some of the dumb trades, because I'm basing on the belief that I can deal Reed, Jackson and Morris and end up with an extra pick in each the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Then, a regular trade down in the 1st for a 2. So, I don't think it's out of the question that my plan would get us these picks. Your Picks: Round 1 Pick 12 (CLE): Ereck Flowers, OT, Miami (Fla.) ( Round 2 Pick 6: Carl Davis, DT/DE, Iowa © Round 2 Pick 8 (NYG): Laken Tomlinson, OG, Duke (D+) Round 2 Pick 11 (CLE): Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona State (A) Round 3 Pick 5: Cody Prewitt, FS, Ole Miss (A) Round 3 Pick 10 (NYG): Alex Carter, CB, Stanford (A-) Round 4 Pick 6: Devin Smith, WR, Ohio State (B+) Round 4 Pick 12 (CLE): Lynden Trail, DE/OLB, Norfolk State (B-) Round 5 Pick 5: Joey Mbu, DT, Houston (B-) Round 6 Pick 6: David Johnson, RB, Northern Iowa (A) Round 7 Pick 5: Bryce Hager, ILB, Baylor ©

No one can cope with injuries like that. They were the best team in the NFL with Palmer, decent with Stanton and are a bad football team right now with Lindley/Thomas. What they are is a team that's well put together overall. Obviously, that's what we (and every fan base) should desire.

Bruce, how things going off the field?

Gotta make it look like we're making changes.

If there is a "GM" named I suspect it will be in name only. And the only reason I think Has is actually in jeopardy is that, again, they have to find somebody to blame.

They won't try to sell that. They'll come up with some scapegoats to sacrifice. Then they will sell change, but if there is any real change I'll be pretty surprised.

Yeah, ideally if you're changing the front office you want to do it early, like with a couple of weeks left in the season, so they have time to get their people in place before the season ends. Then you can be interviewing coaching candidates with everyone else. Although teams have waited until after the season to hire new GMs too. Not that any of this is going to happen anyway.

Snyder is responsible for everything this organization does, since he is the man in charge. He hires people like Allen and so when they fail, it is ultimately on Snyder. And Snyder has done nothing but fail since he took over the team. There is no defense for his tenure. That said, I really have no interest in this game where people have to excuse everyone else's shortcomings by claiming that every mistake of theirs was actually Snyder's doing. I'd rather discuss the Redskins and the people involved with them rather than waste time in baseless theories.

I always thought a decent GM would do a version of what people have been advocating for RG3- stay in the background when the team is winning, leaving the coach and players to get the credit; when you lose, go out and absorb the blame. I kind of thought that PR would be the one part of the job Allen would be competent at.