Yup. I have zero interest in him and I just spent the past 4 months watching Cam short hop every other throw.Good for them, he was done there and getting him out of the building ahead of a veritable playoff game is a good thing. What a shithead.
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https://www.nfl.com/news/washington-football-team-releases-qb-dwayne-haskins
Particularly since Haskins was reportedly the owner's decisionWithout knowing any background or pre-draft history, how much of a screw-up do you have to be to get ditched by Washington less than two years after being chosen in the first round?
Rudolph vs. Garrett will be fun to watchTomlin announced that Big Ben (and possible others) is getting week 17 off. The Browns need to beat the Steelers to make the playoffs.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/12/29/ben-roethlisberger-wont-play-sunday-mason-rudolph-starts/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Koo grew up playing soccer, but one day in sixth grade, John Byon, a Korean American classmate, invited Koo to play football at recess. Byon told him to kick the ball to start off the game.
"I s--- you not, it was straight out of 'The Sandlot.' Straight out of a sports movie," Byon told me in 2017. "The ball just flew over the field we were playing in and over the fence. It was like, 'Oh my god. You have to play football.'"
"I didn't know what kicking was," Koo says. "My parents didn't know what football was."
...which of course ran a couple of days before Koo missed the last-minute FG against KC. Kickers should really just stay away from the media forever, methinks.ESPN has a feature on Pro-Bowl kicker Younghoe Koo:
The NFL generated 82 of the 85 largest sports audiences in 2020, with the three exceptions being three college football bowl games last January — the New Year’s Day Rose Bowl and Citrus Bowl and the January 13 LSU-Clemson National Championship. The top non-football sporting event ranked 86th, Game 6 of the World Series.
The Texans have suggested that they’ll listen to quarterback Deshaun Watson when hiring a coach. But what if they ultimately don’t hire the person he’d like to be coached by?
Rumors already are circulating, and we’ve already heard them from multiple different people, that Watson has quietly broached with teammates the possibility of requesting a trade. If that’s happening, it may just be a strategic effort to ensure his views are respected by ownership. Regardless, it raises the stakes and crosses a bridge and potentially sets the foundation for Watson eventually to decide that he’d like to continue his career elsewhere.
We can already hear the reaction. “He just signed a new contract, the cap charge would be crippling!”
Take a look at the contract. Trading him would result in a cap charge of $21.6 million. The Herschel-sized haul of draft picks that a Deshaun Watson trade would generate would more than justify it.
Nick Caserio decides to join Houston's front office...
What did Vegas know last spring?Nick Caserio decides to join Houston's front office...
<insert Bill drinking orange juice pic>
I mean, the difficulty in trading him was never his contract, it was that trading a 25 year old who is one of the best QBs in the league is fucking stupid.
Guessing Watson would want no part of the Jets but if you're going to be dumb enough to trade prime Deshaun Watson, starting with Fields/Wilson and a few other picks is a decent start. Also wondering about Hurts+#6+more for Philly. Then, they trade Wentz to recoup some of the lost draft capital. If they actually make Watson available, Houston would be able to get a ton. Shoot, would Miami do Tua/#3 (their original pick)? They'd be crazy not to.Would Sam Darnold plus both of NYJ's first round picks be enough? They then hire Eric Bieniemy. (This is Rich Eisen's idea...though in his pipe dream it was only giving up the later 1st round pick)
If I were HOU.... no.Would Sam Darnold plus both of NYJ's first round picks be enough? They then hire Eric Bieniemy. (This is Rich Eisen's idea...though in his pipe dream it was only giving up the later 1st round pick)
If you were going to do that trade, I think you wouldn't include Darnold. You would have to love Fields.Would Sam Darnold plus both of NYJ's first round picks be enough? They then hire Eric Bieniemy. (This is Rich Eisen's idea...though in his pipe dream it was only giving up the later 1st round pick)
Watson, barring injury, is the answer. He was already close to elite heading into the season, and cut down on a lot of mistakes this season and had an MVP type year. Get it done!if Watson really goes he probably ends up teaming up with Bienemy, so NE is out.
But Bill should try. I know he will be reluctant to give up multiple 1sts and it'd put a big dent in fixing our offensive skill positions and rotting DL. But Watson could be your answer for the next 10 years at QB.
I don't follow the logic here. I would argue Korn Ferry is more at fault here (or the requirements given to Korn Ferry were crap). It's not like Caserio is a nobody, he's the number 2 in charge of the best team of the last decade with three SB's to his name.Oh I missed this, the Texans hired a search firm to give them a list of GM candidates. Then when Caserio wasn't on it they threw the list away and hired Caserio. Maybe Caserio is a genius and fixes everything, but man nothing McNair does is what a well run franchise would do
Good point. Maybe the requirements compiled for the search included a preference to avoid someone with a Patriots pedigree? Watson's tweet in response to Caserio's hiring might support that.I don't follow the logic here. I would argue Korn Ferry is more at fault here (or the requirements given to Korn Ferry were crap). It's not like Caserio is a nobody, he's the number 2 in charge of the best team of the last decade with three SB's to his name.
It's a process question. If you hire professionals to do something, and tout it widely that you are doing so (in particular noting that Easterby will not be involved) and they give you a list of highly qualified applicants, and you then throw the list away and hire someone that the person you specifically said wasn't involved is close with (and got your team in trouble by trying to recruit in the past) it tells everyone that you didn't really have a process. Caserio's qualifications are irrelevant, it's that you had pre-selected him then went through a charade of lying to your players and fans about an open search.I don't follow the logic here. I would argue Korn Ferry is more at fault here (or the requirements given to Korn Ferry were crap). It's not like Caserio is a nobody, he's the number 2 in charge of the best team of the last decade with three SB's to his name.
All of this, plus I think these consulting firms are basically a scam to begin with, plus the Texans have been interviewing both GM and head coach candidates willy-nilly with no apparent plan for what order they were going to hire them and what their organizational structure is going to look like after. Houston looks dumb and dysfunctional.It's a process question. If you hire professionals to do something, and tout it widely that you are doing so (in particular noting that Easterby will not be involved) and they give you a list of highly qualified applicants, and you then throw the list away and hire someone that the person you specifically said wasn't involved is close with (and got your team in trouble by trying to recruit in the past) it tells everyone that you didn't really have a process. Caserio's qualifications are irrelevant, it's that you had pre-selected him then went through a charade of lying to your players and fans about an open search.
It's a dysfunctional process that may have accidentally ended up at the correct result. Caserio may be great, but he's not so wildly above the field that a search firm should necessarily have put him on their short list, and hiring a search firm then ignoring them to pick your buddy (even if your buddy is qualified) is terrible process and indicates a structural issue at the top. If they were unhappy with the list, they could have asked the firm for additional candidates, but that clearly wasn't the case here, instead it is pretty clear that this was similar to when a team wants to hire a guy then they go out and interview some other people to cover their ass on the Rooney Rule.
Maybe this should go in the "If you were in charge of the Pats" thread, but how much would you be willing to give up for Watson?if Watson really goes he probably ends up teaming up with Bienemy, so NE is out.
But Bill should try. I know he will be reluctant to give up multiple 1sts and it'd put a big dent in fixing our offensive skill positions and rotting DL. But Watson could be your answer for the next 10 years at QB.
Gilmore and two 1sts. that's as far as I'm going to go with armchair GMing.Maybe this should go in the "If you were in charge of the Pats" thread, but how much would you be willing to give up for Watson?
That's at least a first short (also I doubt they want Gilmore given they'd be entering a clear rebuild).Gilmore and two 1sts. that's as far as I'm going to go with armchair GMing.
3 firsts and a second without even blinking.Maybe this should go in the "If you were in charge of the Pats" thread, but how much would you be willing to give up for Watson?
Bingo. Man if Cesario brings over an ex-Pat instead of hiring Bienemy, Watson may just lose it all over again.3 firsts and a second without even blinking.