Seattle is cleaning house on the coaching front:
Dave Softy Mahler @Softykjr
Here’s what I’m hearing: Not just Bevell. Per sources: Kris Richard also out as DC, QB’s coach Carl Smith leaving as well.
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Seattle is cleaning house on the coaching front:
Dave Softy Mahler @Softykjr
Here’s what I’m hearing: Not just Bevell. Per sources: Kris Richard also out as DC, QB’s coach Carl Smith leaving as well.
Carroll is such a backstabber, making scapegoats of his assistant coaches. I've lost what little respect I had for him.
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Seahawks dumped Tom Cable, who was less popular in Seattle than James Campen during the worst of the O line years.
Mina Kimes @minakimes
seahawks twitter looks like the ewok celebration scene right now
To take everyone's temperature, do you understand the mindset of a man who feels the need to pose like this for a picture? He looks like a Brand more than a coach. And that will be why this will fail.
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Mularkey got fired for losing to the Patriots, after being told he was getting an extension for beating the Chiefs.
Ian Rapoport @RapSheet
#Titans GM Jon Robinson and CEO Steve Underwood told coach Mike Mularkey before the game and told him they were extended him and he was their guy. They said they'd get it done after the game. Now this.
This is the one situation I can understand the coach trying to sabotage the admin side. When they are lying bastards.
Who the hell is that next to him? Nice haircut
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Regarding Gruden: I make those faces all the time and no one pays me squat. Can't turn down 100 million to grimace on the sidelines (I guess it's not known how much is guaranteed...). But seriously, who thinks Chucky will return to 16 hour days, 7 days a week after the relative sinecure of the warm broadcast booth.
Tom Cable has a good rep as an O line coach. He had little to work with the last two seasons. SEA is getting old on the D side of the ball, and if you can stop their running game they struggle. Cable and Bevell will get jobs.
Can't agree. Cable was universally loathed for doing nothing with the o line and the run game in Seattle for years. This year he had:
During Tom Cable's tenure in Seattle (2011-17), the #Seahawks drafted 4 OL in Rounds 1-2:
T James Carpenter
T Justin Britt
T Germain Ifedi
C Ethan Pocic
Emphasizing @RaidersAnalysis' point, none of the above OL have met expectations in the NFL.
In addition:
Doug Farrar @BR_DougFarrar
And these weren't players handed to Cable by the front office. Increasingly, Cable was the one making the calls on o-line personnel. He had all the advantages, and he still blew it.
Titans hire Texans DC Mike Vrabel as their new head coach.
Karma is a BITCH !
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Tennessee is screwed.
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The #Vikings will have to replace OC Pat Shurmur when he takes over the #Giants. Two key names they'll consider: Former #Broncos OC Mike McCoy & former #Giants coach Ben McAdoo. Both are in the mix for other jobs, too.
Its's official: Giants hire Vikings OC Pat Shurmur as head coach.
Cardinals hire Panthers DC Steve Wilks as head coach
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They are already better run than the NFL.
So what is Mike McCarthy missing that he could acquire to make himself a better coach, as he is an already very good one?
The ability to adjust on the fly: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...cid=538twitter
FiveThirtyEight @FiveThirtyEight
Instead of forcing Foles to play like Wentz, Philly changed what it asked of its QB and receivers.
McCarthy did do some of this with Hundley, there were a lot of WR screens, but when dropping back it looked like TD then check down but with a QB who could not buy time effectively.
This is only partly true. The reason Philly carved up Minnesota was that Foles made all the throws, including deep passes. Hundley only did that on a few passes, and mostly in the Pittsburgh game.I don't think the buying time was so much the problem as lack of accuracy. I'm not including the final two games.
I'm not sure expecting him to beat Minnesota is the correct standard, although those games were closer than they had any right to be score wise.
No doubt he was inaccurate, but as always there are distances somewhere between a WR screen 2 yards behind the LOS and a 25 yard throw down the seam. Hundley did seem OK throwing to the intermediate middle. But his inability to get set in the pocket after he noticed the pass rush helped his inaccuracy.
I meant I wasn't counting the last two games against Hundley (or at all) because they were clearly handled differently due to the playoff picture. Can't draw an accurate picture of Hundley from those games.
I think he was both inaccurate 10-20 yards downfield and had trouble finding the open (open for GB) receivers.
But the larger point is that I don't see him having the same ability as Foles (best to best) so that modifying the game plan to fit Hundley just doesn't leave enough options to beat decent teams. more importantly, whatever adjustment Philly made, Foles still made all the throws. From my recollection of the game, they did run their short offense to perfection, but I think it would have bogged down with a lesser performance from Foles - and that Foles performance was far better than anything Hundley could muster this year.
Chiefs trading Alex Smith to Redskins. Where does Kirk Cousins end up?
SportsCenter @SportsCenter
Alex Smith has agreed in principle to a 4-year, $94 million extension, $71 million guaranteed with the Redskins. (via @mortreport and @AdamSchefter)
Rodgers is going to get either an entire SE Asia country's GNP OR the more reasonable deal with the entire thing guaranteed.
Next stop, no punting at all. Analytics firm in the NFL business.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/s...-bowl-lii.html
Quote:
Edj’s data indicates that the rest of the league treats fourth-down calls as a novelty, going for it mainly toward the latter stages of a game out of desperation, but the Eagles have shown unrivaled aggressiveness. Not so much in their frequency of attempts (26, second in the league to Green Bay’s 28) or their success (65.4 percent conversion rate, third behind New Orleans and Jacksonville), but in their timing. Of their 26 attempts, 11 came before halftime.
^^^
"When you have a lockdown defense like the Packers, that leads the league in 3-and-outs, there's no reason not to increase the 4th down attempts!"
"When you have a terrible defense like the Packers, who never stops anyone, and a QB who is in total command of your offense, you'd be crazy not to go for it on more fourth and shorts"
The question is, is Alex Smith a better QB than Cousins? I'd say yes. They probably would have had to pay Cousins about the same money.
I'd guess the most likely spot for Cousins to end up is Kansas City. I doubt they want to play with Mahomes and/or a first round draft pick starting.
tex, have someone bump into you. Your brain's needle is stuck in a groove.
The cap can always be cooked, but the Chiefs are gonna have to do alotta cooking to fit Captain Kirk and his titanic contract under their cap. Thanks to Dorsey, KC is in the dreaded cap hell. That's why they're getting rid of A-Smith, the epitome of game manager.
Don't be surprised to see Dorsey overpay Captain Kirk. Rand's a Star Trek fan, as well as a closeted Browns fan, so he'd be jolly. :)
I'm going with Denver. They are an absolute mess at QB. I don't think he'd want to go to the Jets or Cleveland, because why bother? MN I think is going to go with Keenum or Bridgewater. So that leaves Denver as the team with the biggest QB team where it can be turned around in a hurry. They don't have the cap space that the others do, but I think they would make the contract work.