NFL Black Monday Thread
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I couldn't have named Atlanta's HC if my life depended on it.
And I have no idea who he is beyond his name now.
And I won't be googling him....
But I wish him nothing but the best going forward
And I have no idea who he is beyond his name now.
And I won't be googling him....
But I wish him nothing but the best going forward
Same… I found out his name today when he was arguing with the Saints head coach during the post game handshake.
He used to have a sweet mustache but he shaved it. Unfortunate, as that was the only thing memorable about him.
He was by far the worst coach in the NFL and was hated by anyone who played fantasy football, including players.
He defied logic and was always the smartest guy in the room. Good riddance
He defied logic and was always the smartest guy in the room. Good riddance
He is the son of Fred Smith. Yes, that one who owns FedEx. He is a billionaire already so don't cry too hard for him losing his job.
I had no idea.
Guess it makes sense seeing how his entire career was spent with the Titans.
His career path is like if your dad was a billionaire and you decided one day you wanted to be a football coach
Shocking that he wasn't a huge success***
On a related note, what his dad did in creating FedEx is one of the most unlikely and greatest business succesess of my lifetime.
He never should have let the saints score that last td. He would still be employed **
I'm a Belichick fan. But I think it would be a huge mistake to hire him. He's well past his prime and his handling of pretty much everything in New England for the last 4 years has been a disaster.
He shaved it during no shave November, because they wouldn't expect that.
He also lost to the 2-15 Panthers while his incompetent offense only scored 7 points….in a game that could have helped put them in the playoffs.
Spend Top 10 draft capital on Kyle Pitts, Drake London, and Bijon Robinson? Ah who cares….lets run the entire offense through Cordarrelle Patterson, Jonnu Smith, and Tyler Algeir.
Guess Ron Rivera won't be part of that complete Washington overhaul:
www.espn.com
Rivera fired; ex-GMs to lead Washington overhaul
The Washington Commanders dismissed coach Ron Rivera and hired former Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers and former Minnesota Vikings GM Rick Spielman to help in the search for a new head of football operations and head coach, team officials told ESPN.
www.espn.com
I would argue that Dennis Allen is worse. Yes I know that the Saints beat the s h I t out of the Falcons yesterday but the Saints roster is significantly better and could not win that awful division and they were 1-1 against the Falcons this year
Owner of random NFL team... "Our QB play has sucked as long as we've had this coach, maybe longer. I'm gonna fire the coach and we've got to get us a QB." You can't win many games in the NFL without really good play from the QB.
Usually, but a good defense can carry a team. There are examples. But to your point, good qb play makes it much easier to win. Of course you can have the Phillip Rivers who play good and never win anything of note.
But they won't expect Bijon to sit on the bench.
If all our linemen go left, they won't expect us to run right.
I googled. His dad was FedEx founder Fred Smith, who owned the Redskins where he got his break into coaching for 2yrs before landing at the Plantation a 1yr. Then he was small potatoes at the Titans til taking over OC for a year (once Matt LeFleur left) and becoming the under-qualified, nepotistic HC of the Falcons
Maybe so, but they are just about the worst company I have ever had to deal with. Horrible customer service. Lousy website. They are so consistently bad I started choosing to pay more to use other carriers.
Truly stunning how a company that well known and that large can be so awful.
Someone wake up Gayle Benson and tell her to get to work and start firing some clowns
It was more a comment on the original idea of competing with the postal service and making a huge success of it. Not there current customer service.
Well that guy was terrible.
The ATL head coaching position has been a damn revolving door.
Shlt, I wish they had run more of their offense through Tyler Allgier. I had that guy on a couple of fantasy teams and he was horrible this year after being really good last year.
Allgeir is a thumper, but Bijon is considered a generational talent at RB. Probably the best pure RB out of college since Zeke. There are probably 30+ Tyler Allgeirs scattered throughout the NFL.
The Falcons personnel management has just been dumbfounding. They’ve spent not just 1st round picks, but 17ing top 10 picks on elite offensive skill position players that they don’t even use. Drake London is their WR1 and gets just 70 catches per year….on like 7 targets per game. Kyle Pitts is the biggest physical freak to have ever existed at the TE position. He’s both faster and more athletic than most NFL wide receivers….yet they run 12 personnel, and damn Jonnu Smith only ends up with 3 fewer receptions than he did. Bijon - another top 10 pick - gets like 10-12 carries a game. Its total nonsense.
Saints appear to be retaining Dennis Allen. Unreal. In no galaxy does that guy deserve another year. 24-46 career record as a head coach with zero playoff appearances, but yeah let’s run it back!
The Saints deserve what they get. They have division in their locker room and have since at least when Brees was shamed for his comments that he apologized for before he retired. They’re throwing away money at Thomas and Kamara.
The Saints have sucked left hind tit at QB since Brees retired. You can’t trot stiffs like Derek Carr and Jameis out there and expect to consistently be over .500….much less a playoff threat. Allen may be part of the problem, too, but he’s not had much to work with at the most important position on the field. Hard to judge him accurately until he has at least base level QB play.
I mean, have the Saints ever drafted and developed a QB since Archie?
Since Tom Benson died. Brees kept it going until he retired, but management has been clueless without him. Same situation in LA when Jerry Buss retired. Franchise went to the cellar while Jeannie and her brother were battling for control. It got better when she was able to kick him to the curb. I don't see much hope for the Saints until Benson's wife sells the franchise.
They don’t have a Super Bowl roster but they have enough guys to make the Playoffs, and haven’t done in it an absolutely awful division the last two years. Tampa has won it two years in a row by going 8-9 and 9-8. Not asking for much here. Carr isn’t great but he had an OK year. Very middle of the pack in most season.
I don’t feel like Saints fans have unreasonable expectations. Drew and Sean are gone and it’s going to be tough to recapture that magic. But with Brady retired this division was the Saints’ for the taking and they totally whiffed.
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