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Holy gently caress. drat, I'm tempted to subscribe to McGinn's website just to get his thoughts on what they should do next. I knew Capers was out but didn't see Ted stepping down. I'm guessing Elliot Wolf for GM, some kind of title change + raise for Russ Ball and Brian Gutekunst (with Alonzo Highsmith taking Wolf's old spot), McCarthy stays as head coach and gets a two-year extension, and someone out of Winston Moss/Darren Perry/Mike Trgovac/Joe Whitt Jr. becomes defensive coordinator.
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I think Brian will get it. I just don't see Wolf being ready yet for running a whole department.
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Big Beef City posted:They fired him Weird! I felt like our defensive line was our only good unit on that side of the ball this year.
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I'm glad that I lived to witness the demise of the Ted Thompson, Super Genius narrative.
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In other news, Mark Murphy was hospitalized today after apparently reading a five year backlog of McGinn articles and CHTV blog comments over the weekend
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Shangri-Law School posted:I'm glad that I lived to witness the demise of the Ted Thompson, Super Genius narrative. I'll take 2 decades of success. It's ok.
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Ted drafted a lot of good players. Just not so much lately.
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Hand Row posted:I think Brian will get it. I just don't see Wolf being ready yet for running a whole department. Eliot Wolf's history: quote:As executive: What more experience do you think Wolf needs before he can "run a whole department"? Gutekunst is the current director of player personnel and has been for two years now -- prior to that he was director of college scouting for four years.
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Good Will Hrunting posted:Ted drafted a lot of good players. Just not so much lately. Notice how the secondary stinks, yet two guys TT drafted who were just ok left and became Pro Bowlers? Capers was really bad.
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I thought Wolf was still like 30. I am getting old.
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Hand Row posted:Notice how the secondary stinks, yet two guys TT drafted who were just ok left and became Pro Bowlers? Capers was really bad. TT drafted Aaron Rodgers and Nick Collins in 1 draft that's magic baby
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Hand Row posted:Notice how the secondary stinks, yet two guys TT drafted who were just ok left and became Pro Bowlers? Capers was really bad. The Hayward saga was the most frustrating thing ever. He was amazeballs his rookie year then kind of meh for the next three years, then we let him walk and he's fantastic again. I think he led the league in picks and was named an all-pro last year. Way to use talent, Dom.
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*throws brick through Bob Quinn's office window* DRAFT AN EDGE RUSHER AND THEN DRAFT NICK CHUBB YOU IMBECILE
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i think bob quinn should hire a bunch of patriots coaches and draft some rutgers players
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nerve posted:draft some rutgers players Gotta draft some GRIT
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Man for people in the GB radio market,107.5 is gonna be something to listen to tomorrow....
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cage-free egghead posted:https://youtu.be/e-UnAHa9QS0?t=202 It's weird watching the 08 Vikings. You forget just how dominant Peterson was and Chester Taylor was a really strong all-around back. I was excited about the Bernard Berrian signing, he had a couple long TDs (another one against AZ I think), but he was never the deep threat that he was supposed to be. I forgot that Bobby Wade was ever on the Vikings, not a good sign when your WR corp is made up of ex-Bears. They had a pretty good defense that year. The DL of Jared Allen, Pat and Kevin Williams, and Brian Robison was great. The back 7 had some good players like Chad Greenway, Antoine Winfield, Darren Sharper*, and Madieu Williams, but was incomplete. The line would swarm, but they could get beat on runs to the outside and give up big plays in the passing game. They made up for it some by forcing turnovers (especially fumbles if IIRC), but we've never been able to have a strong DL and secondary until Zimmer. Just a completely different beast, but it could be fun to compare their 2008 DL to the 2017 DL. *It is still weird how Darren Sharper went from being viewed as a high character guy to turning out to be a psychopath.
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Aniki posted:It's weird watching the 08 Vikings. It's weird watching Jim Kleinsasser catching a (nearly) TD pass
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I think the new Packers GM will be an internal one. I doubt they extended their players in the past week, if they were close to moving TT aside.
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 my gif and that fantastic Lost Ark one.One last post before it's lost in time, like tears in the rain. 
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Neat article from Calvin Johnson on what he's been up to in retirement. Yea this was a nice read.
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Pops Mgee posted:I hate the lions, but these stupid gifs make me laugh every time. the best part of the Holy Grail one is omnipotent Jim Caldwell following LIONS BITCH before it loops back to the start. Never fails to crack me up
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the lions absolutely can gently caress up this coaching change and since they're the lions i am firmly convinced they will, but i am also fairly certain if they stuck with caldwell they'd have been perpetually in the 7-9/9-7 range where they will never get a good draft pick or make the playoffs. i dont really see a scenario where this caldwell lions team ever becomes a consistent playoff team. there's at least hope now (lmao)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc6FdXd6ZD8 Brett Hundley should probably stick to fighting games.
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https://instagram.com/p/BddyqKKD4j4/ I'm not too much of a fan of how he's doing this 2 weeks after that match but honestly I like the swagger and confidence Randall has been displaying ever since he came back from that Bears benching. That's really key to have for a corner who's going to be assigned to the #1 receivers. I hope he can stick with that confidence instead of spiking up and down.
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I still miss your long halftime analysis of Vikings games that you would post in GDTs. One of the things that made me start reading TFF threads. What are the chances you'll start posting those again?
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rabidsquid posted:the lions absolutely can gently caress up this coaching change and since they're the lions i am firmly convinced they will, but i am also fairly certain if they stuck with caldwell they'd have been perpetually in the 7-9/9-7 range where they will never get a good draft pick or make the playoffs. i dont really see a scenario where this caldwell lions team ever becomes a consistent playoff team. there's at least hope now (lmao) Someone in another thread likened Caldwell staying on in Detroit to Marv Lewis in Cincy- a lot of time hovering at or just above .500 but no significant success (though Marv has managed to win a number of division titles, which Detroit obviously hasn't done), so you never know if you should move on or not.
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If Caldwell fixed some of his problems (how he seems to have terrible running games wherever he goes, the terribly slow starts the Lions had under him), then the Lions could've consistently been a double digit win team under him, but really, this was the year to figure that poo poo out and he didn't. They had a pretty loving cushy schedule this year but they still played down to opponents worse than them a LOT. Failing to get 10 wins out of this schedule is pretty bad no matter how you slice it. Also if they weren't getting turnovers, the defense was kind of godawful. I dunno how much times this year they needed Slay or Quin to just pull a huge play right out of their rear end to avoid disaster, but it sure did feel like a lot.
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Xeras posted:I am really afraid the Packers will name Russ Ball GM after Murphy's comments. Why?
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If you read Murphy's comments themselves I think you'll find they don't point to Russ Ball anything like as strongly as Mike FLorio says they do in that article (where he also mentions every other name linked to the opening by anyone so that he can say "called it!" no matter who gets the job)
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C-Euro posted:Someone in another thread likened Caldwell staying on in Detroit to Marv Lewis in Cincy- a lot of time hovering at or just above .500 but no significant success (though Marv has managed to win a number of division titles, which Detroit obviously hasn't done), so you never know if you should move on or not. i just hope that whoever the next coach is will do something about the predictable play calling. if i never have to see a run out of a formation they have no passing plays out of it will be too soon.
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