2024 NFL Season Thread

[Paulie Walnuts]

Jason Witten is a candidate.

[transplant99]

The Dallas Cowboys are in the early stages of their search to replace Mike McCarthy as head coach, but one name is already known: former Cowboys cornerback and current Colorado coach Deion Sanders.

A source said Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones and Sanders spoke Monday, and while an interview has not been scheduled, the two are expected to continue their dialogue. Fox Sports first reported the conversation between the two sides.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...rs-cowboys-job

[devo22]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879230309788762597


tired of this ####. How Tomlin's job security is 100 percent despite the perennial mediocrity and an obvious lack of accountability is beyond me.

The Pickens thing isn't surprising, obviously. He'll be the CFL's problem in a year or two tops.

[Senator Clay Davis]

If Pickens won't put in the effort when there's millions on the line, why would he for tens of thousands in the CFL? More than likely once he's out of the NFL he's done with football.

[troutman]

As the World Turns on the Factory of Sadness …

The Browns gave Deshaun Watson what he wanted. Now they’re paying the price [the Athletic]

“You have to bring Joe back; somebody has to teach Deshaun the offense,” one member of the organization said as the season neared its conclusion. “Joe picked it up faster in 30 days than Deshaun has in two years.”

Only Charlie Frye and Doug Pederson had worse production.

According to multiple players, those mistakes weren’t pointed out in film sessions, frustrating at least a few veterans who believed Stefanski wouldn’t criticize Watson in front of the team. When Jameis Winston replaced Watson after he tore his Achilles in October, players said Stefanski returned to pointing out the quarterback’s mistakes in film sessions.

He has settled more than 20 lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct since he arrived from Houston.

Players told me there was a constant heaviness surrounding Watson in the locker room and that they felt a different energy in the building upon his departure after his Achilles injury in October. A couple of veterans told me it felt like a cloud had been lifted.

Browns sued by city of Cleveland over plans to move to new stadium in Brook Park [the Athletic]

]In the complaint, filed Tuesday in Cuyahoga County (Ohio), the city alleges that a Browns move would violate the Modell Law — an Ohio law that placed conditions on how teams can leave their publicly financed facilities.

[KelVarnsen]

If Baker hadn't played hurt in 2021 the Browns would be very different right now

[transplant99]

The Bears recently called the Steelers to see whether they would be allowed to talk to and potentially try to trade for longtime head coach Mike Tomlin, only to have Pittsburgh rebuff their inquiry, league sources told ESPN.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...uffed-steelers

[Sylvanfan]

I saw that Todd Monkin interviewed with the Bears. If they can't get Ben Johnson it seems to me that Monkin might be not much different. He's had the Ravens offence running like a precision machine these past two years.

[devo22]

feels like both Bears and Jets are interviewing anybody with a pulse. Both have interviewed 15 candidates so far I believe. Crazy stuff.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by devo22

feels like both Bears and Jets are interviewing anybody with a pulse. Both have interviewed 15 candidates so far I believe. Crazy stuff.

Saints, too.

[transplant99]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1880773212851900826

[transplant99]

Tennessee State coach Eddie George will interview in person with the Bears on Sunday, a league source told ESPN. George, whose career as an NFL running back spanned nine seasons, is the third candidate to have an in-person interview with Chicago, which has conducted 16 first-round interviews thus far.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...rs-sources-say

[Cheese]

Bears signing Lions OC Johnson as HC
https://www.tsn.ca/nfl/report-chicag...oach-1.2239119

[KelVarnsen]

Pretty sure this is the first time I've said this.

Good move for the Bears.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by devo22

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879230309788762597


tired of this ####. How Tomlin's job security is 100 percent despite the perennial mediocrity and an obvious lack of accountability is beyond me.

The Pickens thing isn't surprising, obviously. He'll be the CFL's problem in a year or two tops.

How do you want Tomlin to answer that?

What benefit is it to him to throw Pickens under the bus for something that happened three weeks prior on the Christmas day game. Why is he even being asked that after a playoff loss. I'm sure it was discussed / handled behind closed doors as it should have been.

Kind of ridiculous the media and fan base is making a big deal of it now TBH.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

Pretty sure this is the first time I've said this.

Good move for the Bears.

Yeah I was holding hope that the Raiders rumours were true even though it never made a lot of sense given the Raiders QB situation. If I was Johnson I would have chosen the Bears job over the Raiders.

[devo22]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

How do you want Tomlin to answer that?

What benefit is it to him to throw Pickens under the bus for something that happened three weeks prior on the Christmas day game. Why is he even being asked that after a playoff loss. I'm sure it was discussed / handled behind closed doors as it should have been.

Kind of ridiculous the media and fan base is making a big deal of it now TBH.

"we're dealing with these things behind closed doors" would have been sufficient. I'm not making a big deal of it honestly, I just thought it was super weird how he answered that. Anyway, there's lots and lots of other and better reasons why Tomlin should go, so I'll admit, I'm just frustrated.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Yeah I was holding hope that the Raiders rumours were true even though it never made a lot of sense given the Raiders QB situation. If I was Johnson I would have chosen the Bears job over the Raiders.

At least you guys aren't the Jets or Jags.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Dennis Allen is going to be the DC in Chicago. Another good hire.

[DropIt]

Thank God.

Hopefully it works, but at least we don't see any more cheapskate hirings