Recent content by btemp

Look at the NFL list of valuations: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/05/official-nfl-team-valuations-2024.html It's almost entirely location. The Cowboys haven't won a divisional playoff game even since 1995. They have been, from an on-field perspective, a bottom 16 team (at least) over that time...

You see this take on ownership but it misunderstands how ownership works. Because of the salary cap and minimums, every owner is spending money. From a purely financial perspective you don't care whether $50 million of your $255 million salary cap goes to Dak or someone else. It's getting...

What do you do with that Watson contract? Just roll him out next year? The problem is you can't really turn this team over with his contract hanging over his head. It eats up too much cap room to do a proper restructure/rebuild. Unless you eat it in one season and spend a couple more rebuilding...

I just don't see McCarthy as the problem. You know what you're getting - McCarthy isn't an All-Pro at coach but he's a Pro Bowler (maybe second ballet). Certainly an above average coach. The rot is in ownership and it takes a miracle coach to fix that. And those coaches won't work for Jerry.

There's just no way to win when the owner cares more about making money than winning. Jerry Jones is a carnival barker.

I mean you know what you get with Winston. This shouldn't surprise anyone at all. After all, he's in the 30-30 club. But with the season for sure lost, may as well move to DTR to see what you have there.

That might've been the biggest comeback in NFL history. Someone can hopefully find those stats, but needing two onside kicks alone is impossible. You're at a 0.03% chance JUST THERE (depending on season). But I'll remind you, with 6 min left the Bucs were down by 23 points. That means they...

Agreed. And given how poorly the Jets have developed QBs (which is an organisational issue beyond the HC), you've got to back to a offensive HC who can develop a relationship with the future QB. For whatever reason, defensive coaches are failing and I think because great OCs are being picked...

My metric to assess coaches/teams over a period is Conference Championship apearances. Not perfect by any means, but at that stage you're playing other elite teams and a single bounce can sometimes decide those games. If you're getting to that stage with any regularity you're doing a good job...

Coaching malpractice. You're watching him limping around thinking it's good to have him on there? Even the red zone was dumb. Evans is a great player, but how useful is a gimpy WR against a good D? And hamstrings have a high chance of reinjury and he has a long history of them.

Hard, hard disagree. I think this is a horrible decision. Like it will cost the Bucs the season and hopefully Bowles his job. It's that bad. An aside, Evans should never have been playing. He wants to gut it out, fine, but when a coach sees him limping that badly... We all know how hamstrings...

Damn, I'd forgotten about that play. Even worse than I remember. Dirty play to begin with from Garrett, trying to injure the QB long after play is over. Then rips off his helmet and starts swinging... I guess being a POS is just a current Browns culture thing.

I don't know how representative Garrett's comments are. At that stage, having played with a guy, you're not ripping him just after he had a serious injury. I had a friend who played in a Grey Cup (Canadian Super Bowl, but going for over a 100 years) and the future HoF running back on the team...

He might be viewed that way but is it true? He'll now have had 2 winning seasons out of 5. 1 playoff win in 5 years. For an offensive coach his teams have been middling in points. And while the defense gets respect, they've averaged 18th in points against over his tenure with the best result...

I don't know if they can do that either, without an agreement from Watson. Not an expert, but I think it has to do with the labour agreement. Can't just "paid leave" someone without a conduct issue or injury. And still leaves them in a pickle - even cutting them next year is a likely...