Oso planning to go pro
Several of Tsmith’s last few posts have all been racially charged and he’s talking about antagonizing? Wow.
It is consistent with history of the Ford family with regard to the Lions. Not surprised. Remember, this is the family that held on to Matt Millen from 2001-2008. I do, however, think that when the hatchet falls, it will be on both Quinn and Patricia.
Chuck Schmidt was let go to hire Millen. Chuck's son worked for me for many years, and now I work with him at HBO. Had the pleasure of talking to Chuck at his son's wedding last year. Really interesting guy and his views of the Lions some 20 years later. Sometimes the culture of losing is very hard to eradicate. It seemed that Chuck and Fontes, actually had done that to a degree, but folks wanted more. I can't remember, but I think the last time the Lions had three straight winning years was around that time period, and something like 4 out of 5 years.
Matt Nagy Dumb
Either Nagy realizes how bad his quarterback is or he’s not the offensive genius the Bears parade across their promo presentation on their scoreboard. It’s as if the team went through the motions in a game where they had to prove something for next year.
It's both. I don't think Trubisky is very good. But I also think he's been trained too much to not make mistakes. He rarely pushes the offense, constantly checking down. The playcalling, with all the screens and such, doesn't ever force a defense to respect anything downfield. Bears would be wise to move on both quarterback and coaching wise. My guess is they do neither.Look what the Titans are doing with Tannehill. You can find an experienced guy to come in and move the ball enough with this defense. Go get Teddy Bridgewater. Sh*t, I'd even look at Blake Bortels.
The Bears were absolutely terrible this year. Their high point was a near meaningless game against another 7-8 team, the Dallas Cowboys. Either Nagy realizes how bad his quarterback is or he’s not the offensive genius the Bears parade across their promo presentation on their scoreboard. It’s as if the team went through the motions in a game where they had to prove something for next year.The scarey thing is that the Bears have shot the wad on Khalil Mack while having an offense so bad that they’ll never be good enough to fully utilize Mr. Mack’s incredible talents.
Panthers will be better without games.................................
If I were a Panthers fan, I'd be wondering why Christian McCaffery is getting 25+ touches in a meaningless blowout loss at the end of the season.
I am.He is fairly close to being only the third RB ever to get 1000 rushing and receiving yards, and I think that matters to the franchise (and quite possibly to McCaffrey, though he doesn't talk about individual stats). But I'm not a big fan of chasing milestones like that in a meaningless game at the expense of keeping a franchise player healthy.McCaffrey rarely takes a play off. I am not saying that in the coach-speak way; it's a fact. For the second straight season, he will have played more snaps than any other RB, and it hasn't been close.I'd be much happier Sunday if, rather than playing him, the Panthers announce that they're paying him ... by giving him a nice contract extension befitting one of the best players in the NFL.
There have been a lot of dives into this, but the consensus is that RBs with a 400+ touch season typically (though not always) see a big drop in production and increase in injuries the following year.McCaffery is at 387 touches right now.
Congrats to new Panthers coach Mike McCarthy