(08-24-2017, 09:00 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: If coaches were forced to start Blake then why is Henne starting now? I know you want to believe stupidity like that, but clearly it's not the case.

How does this rumor live on the same world as the trying to trade for McCarran world?

Don't rain on Debbie's parade.  These "rumors" are spank material for him.  If anyone says anything positive about the team, Debbie Downer loses all sense of purpose.

It was widely reported that Coughlin wasn't a fan of Bortles (more rumors).  Coughlin is the one who hired the head coach.  I doubt he put any kind of mandate on any candidate to start Bortles, especially now that you've got Bortles on the bench, and the team has been attached to looking with some interest at a QB like McCarron to see if a deal could be made to trade for him.

Had there truly been a situation where the team was "forcing head coaching candidates to start Bortles", that would have been far more widely reported than just some hack on twitter who Debbie Downer follows.  The team made it clear that there were no mandates for candidates other than getting this team back on the winning track regardless of what they needed to do to accomplish that.

Any tweet that starts with "@RyanOhalloran told me..." should be taken with a grain of salt.

As far as Tom and Doug using this benching as a way of distancing themselves from Caldwell, that's just silly.  Any distancing that occurred happened the day Tom was hired to be Dave's boss.  The decisions happening inside that stadium related to football all run through Coughlin, not Caldwell, and I'm pretty sure Tom couldn't care less about what Dave thinks about the moves he's making.  He has a mandate, and he answers directly to the owner.

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