The Official other Teams and General NFL News (includes) Management and Coaching moves.

[mraynrand]

Losses - signings is generally the operating principle.

But the question is what happens to a signed player who is released mid-season.

There got to be a cutoff for minimum games/plays, no? Traveling. Not gonna look it up

[pbmax]

There got to be a cutoff for minimum games/plays, no? Traveling. Not gonna look it up

I'm not either. Just going to rant about the Bears trying to be smart after being dumb.

[Zool]

I believe it’s 8 games served. If the Bears cut the RB they signed before tomorrow, they would gain some on the comp side.

[red]

I'm not either. Just going to rant about the Bears trying to be smart after being dumb.

i think this is the second time in about a week i've heard of a team doing this, so it must be a thing

unless i just heard about this story twice

[mraynrand]

Can Packers cut Gary and get their #12 pick back?

[pbmax]

Can Packers cut Gary and get their #12 pick back?

Hasn't worked since Ryan Leaf.

[Joemailman]

Can Packers cut Gary and get their #12 pick back?

No because Packers have gone from 2 losing seasons to 7-2 with #Baconator.

[pbmax]

No because Packers have gone from 2 losing seasons to 7-2 with #Baconator.

I knew Ted was on to something.

[pbmax]

Browns may already have hired Mike McCarthy.





Browns analytics department suggested Vikings OC: https://t.co/5m2t6fgDJl?amp=1

[pbmax]

Rand might know more, but that article is a great example of how the football operations department (outside of analytics) can absorb a piece of information (Kitchens worked well with Mayfield) and then screw it up.

I am sure there was a swell of support for Kitchens inside and outside Browns Berea offices. If you wanted to increase pressure on yourself, you dump Freddie and hire someone else.

So they hire Freddie but allow the QB coach to walk (in hindsight everyone is suggesting this guy was responsible for the improvement all along). And if I am not mistaken, instead of rolling with the old playbook, they installed a different one.

Smooth. All for a guy who had never been a coordinator.

[pbmax]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-originally-tried-to-send-reshad-jones-to-steelers-before-agreeing-to-minkah-fitzpatrick-trade/

Dolphins traded Minkah Fitzpatrick to the Steelers. And it seems to have been all about the role own defense. And it seems to have worked out for both teams. Flores wanted him in the Patrick Chung role, close to the box.

In the case of MF or Josh Jones or Steelers version of Morgan Burnett, they didn't want to be in the box safeties. They wanted to be the FS or the robber, jumping routes and making plays on the ball. At least, I suspect that was the case with Jones, he never really clarified other than a general complaint about his use.

Kinda wonder if that played a role in Burnett leaving GB too.

Flores is a long way from succeeding, but Belichick won't keep a player who won't fill the role. Greg Popovich wouldn't do it in San Antonio with the Spurs.

I am on record that you need to keep talent on hand and that means playing the talent in a way that utilizes their best attributes. But I suspect that also means if the player is unwilling, you also have to move on.

Still think in retrospect they should have kept Hyde and Hayward.

[pbmax]

Remember some guys! Wendell Davis? David Little? Its the 89 Steelers-Bears game opening plays.

https://twitter.com/steelcitystar/status/1193318602310471681

[Joemailman]

Remember some guys! Wendell Davis? David Little? Its the 89 Steelers-Bears game opening plays.

https://twitter.com/steelcitystar/st...18602310471681

I cringe when I hear the name Wendell Davis. In 1993 he simultaneously tore the patellar tendons in both knees when his cleats stuck in that terrible artificial turf in Philadelphia. I know he considered filing a lawsuit. Not sure if he went through with it. If not, he should have.

[Patler]

I believe it’s 8 games served. If the Bears cut the RB they signed before tomorrow, they would gain some on the comp side.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I know years back that was not the case. A small (very small) component of the compensation calculation was actual performance, so cutting a player might change compensation by a round, or position in a round, but not a lot. I'm not surprised if that has changed.

I wonder if this also changes the compensation calculation for the team that "lost" the player as a free agent. Is he considered like a player who doesn't sign a free agent contract?

I wonder what the impact would be if a signed free agent misses his first year on IR?

[mraynrand]

Flores is a long way from succeeding, but Belichick won't keep a player who won't fill the role. Greg Popovich wouldn't do it in San Antonio with the Spurs.

If Belichick were in Cleveland again the first guy he would trade would be Haslem.