(01-26-2022, 03:04 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(01-26-2022, 02:51 PM)Mikey Wrote: Who has said it's a done deal? Dilla's tweet said BL will be the next coach. Not that contracts have been signed, not that money's been agreed upon, but that the team is moving in that direction, and that's all.

For all we know, it could take a week to get everything done, especially if it includes working a severance deal with some people currently on the payroll, if'n you catch my drift.

If Shad and or Tony are dead-set on making BL the next coach, Dilla may not be wrong. But nowhere did he specify that anything was final, just eventual.

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...and scared all those players away. Messiah to some is pariah to others.

Did he?  I thought it came out that Ramsey's beef was with Caldwell.

Ramsey said that Caldwell did the talking, but I don't recall if he mentioned whether or not Coughlin was even in the room. Caldwell answered to Tom, so logic would either suppose that Dave was doing Tom's bidding, or Tom would have fired him for overstepping his authority if he didn't have Tom's blessing.

The NFLPA didn't say anything to FA while Dave was in charge.
Dave wasn't fining players for going to their own doctors.
If Dave was the problem, Tom sure tolerated a whole bunch of shenanigans and allowed the implosion to occur under his watch. That's not the decisive, assertive mastermind I've heard the legend of TC be told.

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(01-26-2022, 03:19 PM)D6 Wrote:

(01-26-2022, 02:40 PM)Mikey Wrote: As an Ohio grad, I don't see the problem with #2  
TIL, Marshall had fans

Two quick Ohio U tidbits:

1.  Jeff Risdon, one of favorite NFL / Draft writers and podcast hosts, is also an Ohio U grad.
2.  'Stand Up and Cheer' the Ohio U fight song, is also the fight song of the elementary school my late Mom attended 80 + years ago.


(1) Jeff Risdon on Twitter: "https://t.co/zUuSFD6YZL" / Twitter

If I coulda given you two recs for this, I woulda.

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