BurgundyBooger

Like many aged-out reporters, he rested on his brief laurels, failed to establish new contacts and make new insider connections which the profession ruthlessly demands, and is embittered because he’s now on the outside looking in.

I believe it. It's the #1 job opening in the NFL.

Didn't he throw a 60-yarder on one knee?

That would reassure me of Peters' competency.

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Having worked for Snyder is like having the ultimate get out of jail free card for coaches. They can practically blame everything on Dan and the league would give them the benefit of the doubt. If I were Ron, I'd use the card to secure a top-flight coordinator position or a HC gig in college.

I don’t blame HC’s for wanting personnel control. Their success and failure depends on the make up of the roster. Plus it’s always the HC who gets the blame for a team’s poor performance since the HC is directly tied to the players and the action. Plus, aside from the owner, whose function and responsibilities can’t be assumed, the buck stops with the HC who has full control, and to them it’s important that the players know that.

Mostly agree. I will give Ron the small benefit of the doubt that he probably thought the organization's dysfunction was the result of poor team leadership in the conventional understanding of it, and that simply having personnel control would be sufficient in righting the boat, not fully appreciating that the franchise's corruption was not so simple or superficial. There were probably some pervert elements here he couldn't purge or control -- when the owner himself has historically been the problem and is the chief miscreant, one can just imagine the number of sycophants and corporate slimeballs he's accumulated over the 25 years that have fully entrenched themselves in the organization that Ron hadn't known about coming in. So yeah, he was in way over his head, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn from him down the road in some tell-all book that the magnitude of dysfunction in Washington was on the level beyond his understanding, experience, and ability to fix.

hear hear

I feel the people who actually matter (immediate relatives) could always move to where he plays. It’s not like he wouldn’t be able to afford bringing them there. But there are way more distractions and destructive elements potentially lurking for him here, IMO, and he needs every bit of focus to successfully develop and transition to the pros.

We won’t know what Chicago’s intentions are until the Fields factor is determined. That’s going to be the biggest giveaway.

The culture improved without his help with the purging of the previous owner, whom he refused to openly condemn and chose to support, and it’ll improve some more in a week.

This game upset me more than usual. I didn’t like seeing our players boast after making an inconsequential play when the game is out of hand. Like, great goal-line stop but you’re still trailing by 3 scores late in the 4th quarter. Get your ***es off the field. Then Sam Darnold essentially sacks himself after losing grip of the ball and our clowns get hyped like they brought down Mahomes and we won the game. This culture can’t change soon enough.

Sink or swim doesn’t work unless you have the proper safety nets in place. You start a rookie when you can properly protect him and until we have the pieces in place to do that, you don’t start a rookie qb.

If we draft a QB, we could have him sit a few years behind discount Russ who would come cheap since the Broncos will be paying most of his salary. Once we have the supporting pieces in place in a couple of years or three, a bruised and bloody Russ can limp aside for our fresh QB of the future to take over.

They’re reporting Robert Kraft will be on the sidelines next week to support BB in his final game:

Cowboys were gassed and Lions moved at will on the final drive. You can take the risk of stalling the momentum and resetting by allowing Dallas an opportunity to recuperate, potentially win the coin flip, and likely march down the field, which they had no problem doing in the last quarter against the Lions, or you can essentially end the game right then and there with a completion while they’re on their heels. It was the smart move.

IMO, there’s only two types of respect: the Belichick/Reid/Kyle level of respect that most owners would give up the farm and first-born to acquire, then there’s the “respect” where people just like you or know of you but wouldn’t give a drop of pi** for. Ron falls in the second category, and regardless of what Harris does in the next two weeks, I think the league and any HC/GM prospect can overcome their “respect” for Ron and completely be understanding of Harris’s predicament.

That makes sense. There's no need for the air quotes either, because even if we weren't slated for a high pick, it would be the smart thing to do considering the new front office and new regime will want to see as much tape of the backups in a real game before making any roster decision in the offseason (e.g., cuts, trades, extensions, etc). The only wrinkle here is that it's against Dallas. Ron will more than likely refuse initially as he might perceive that any victory - even a shallow one - against the Cowboys at home could restore some goodwill among the fanbase and add a parting bulletpoint on his resume before his imminent departure. Disagree on firing Ron. Harris and company will play it out, even if Ron decides not to go with it, feeling it isn't worth creating a controversy when the Cowboys are perfectly capable of beating this team in its full complementary even with Dallas's dismal road record.

Personally don't want Caleb. He's from here, which means too many distractions, IMO. Family, "family" (3rd cousin twice removed), friends, old high school chums, parasites who "knew" him back in the day. Get the QB who doesn't know anyone here and doesn't want to know anyone here aside from the players.

Hope they don't hold back: 49ers: 52 Snyder's Remnants: 10

Every day he's allowed to keep his job is a birthday gift, plus he gets a nice severance package.

I'm well aware of that. I didn't mean for us to dust off the 70s and 80s playbooks and operational manual. Fundamentals and core principles don't change, regardless of operational, technological, and cultural shifts. Leadership skills, including personal accountability, the ability to communicate to players and staff, humility (accepting changes and adapting), commitment, and sacrifice were hallmark attributes of the regimes responsible for the franchise's glory years. The formula to losing hasn't changed; the same applies to winning. People keep looking to other teams and businesses for the secret sauce or to ape their culture -- nothing Baltimore is doing is new; we've just been that inept for over 2 decades because the organization has been deprived of leadership based on sound core principles which the franchise had previously exemplified, and can be recaptured if new ownership makes the painstaking effort of looking at our history.

I rather we model ourselves after the team that won 3 titles in 10 years with 3 different quarterbacks than a team that won 2 in 30 years.

“Reportedly” modeling after Baltimore. In other words, tales from someone’s a**.