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I can't fathom Mike McCarthy even slightly wanting his first year in a new job to be tied to 50-year-old Aaron Rodgers. I like McCarthy. I like Rodgers. I think it makes no sense for them to come together in Pittsburgh at this point. I am presuming the thing Pitt likes in McCarthy is his experience at the QB position and the absolute dumpster fire they have going on there. I don't see how Rodgers fits their plans at all. If anything he will prevent them from getting the top 10 pick they badly need.
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I'm glad Saleh is off the board. That's at least one BFF that Matt can't hire.
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If we are excusing the Packers this year for injuries, the Lions were a mess by that playoff game last year. They were running out a preseason lineup on defense.
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2025 Miscellaneous College Football thread
OldSchoolSnapper replied to young guns's topic in Other Sports
I would really like to know what is going on at IU and I really can't believe it's just the coach speak stuff. "He gets guys to play," "he's a details man," etc. There's no way that's it. The first national champion to break the BCR rules and did it by several orders of magnitude. They have to have pinpointed something quantifiable that is forecasting these kids. I'm not saying it isn't great coaching, but that can't be it. There are a litany of other greats who'd have done something similar and there is absolutely nothing that comes even close to this GOAT coaching job. Not saying it's illegal either, but they are doing something drastically different. -
Campbell resurrected the Lions. At the time they traded Stafford, Goff was a salary dump to make it doable. They got him playing very efficient football again. Maybe his coordinators played a big part in it, but that's a staff he assembled. He built that bully culture and changed the identity of that team completely for about three years. Now they're a bit old, washed and hurt, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them right back in it. I think whittling him down to recklessness is pretty dismissive of what he's done in Detroit. He definitely has a style and he is willing to gamble and fall on the sword. Much more impressive than what LaFleur has done.
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I have always had a bit of disdain for "playoff records." Being substantially over .500 requires multiple titles by default. If you overachieve and lose in the Wild Card you are 0-1. Until recently you could go 12-4, get a bye, lose to the 1 seed on the road in the CG and you're 1-1. Do that for a few years and your playoff record is easily something like 4-6. Something about it has always irked me. It would look prettier if you didn't make the playoffs at all. All these things need context. If you're a perennially decent team without the proper tools to be in top tier, your playoff record probably isn't going to be that great. I look at somebody like Coughlin who had 2 runs that combined for 8-0, cool. But he coached in New York for 12 seasons. They went 0-1 three times and missed the playoffs entirely 7 times. It seems more like he got lucky than he's a "great playoff coach." But he's 8-3, he must be amazing.
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I think you're spot on though. These things are highly situational and don't happen in a vacuum. Maybe MLF would have been fired if Andy Reid was out looking. It's entirely possible something like that is the only reason McDermott got fired. It only takes one guy that the ownership wants to hire.
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MLF wasn't canned because (I think anyway) that the Packers really thought they were on the cusp prior to Parsons (and Tom and Watson) going down in Denver. They were looking primed to take over the division, highly probable to sweep all 6 division games and secure a 1 or 2 seed. They looked at the season before the comical rash of injuries, figured most of the important stuff is coming back, and thought their best chance was with LaFleur. It's not a crazy position. My problem is the raise/extension whatever. If there was ever a case for a prove-it year for a coach, it was 100% next season and MLF. Are they gonna fire him if they go 9-8? Because they should.
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I mean, that's pretty much my opinion of him. Without looking at a list and picking names I'd say he's probably my 13th favorite coach or something. I still think it's true he's riding waves that Aaron made and that's why he's got a job in GB still. I think they probably make the playoffs again, but I have no faith in him to not botch games, not even big ones - he can botch week 4 in Cleveland just as well as the NFCCG. I simply don't think he's a championship head coach, and I think his decisions have consistently directly caused bad outcomes. As for Love, I guess a lot has to go right, but that's always the case. I don't really have any doubts that the Packers can win a title with Jordan Love. I think he's a really good player.
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The only thing missing to complete the disappointment will be when we replace Hafley with our secondary coach or something.
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Yes. One of those years quarterbacked by Brett Hundley and the second where Rodgers played all 17 games with a tibial fracture and MCL sprain. It's fine if people want to defend Matt LaFleur. But if the argument is that he rescued Aaron Rodgers or something I am just gonna laugh. Matt LaFleur was the beneficiary of Angry Aaron going absolutely bonkers and putting together two MVP seasons in his late 30s. I hope he at least sends him a Christmas card every year because he owes everything he has to Rodgers.
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All 3 have engineered bringing their teams from the league cellar to at least somewhat contending. LaFleur inherited a Cadillac and got its oil changed but that is about it. It depends how much credit you give him for Jordan Love, which is really the only way to argue he's achieved more than any of them. Johnson and Campbell aren't even a question. O'Connell is the only one I'd even consider largely because their '24 season seemed a bit fake but he's had at a mess to handle at the most important position. The nicest thing I can say about Matt LaFleur is that the Packers have remained competitive. That's about it. If I get into the details it's less flattering.
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I'm pretty sure at this point that this poster is MLF. We have, pretty clearly IMO, the worst HC in our division.
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Everyone left is pretty benign. But those who keep saying everyone from the old Seattle regime is gone don't understand that one group is the same - the fans. I think my desired order would be: New England - just don't care, another title won't hurt Los Angeles - Davante Denver - Payton is yuck Seattle - the fans A couple things are clear though. The sentiment that the Packers weren't a contender this year is a joke, they absolutely were and had Denver on the ropes in their house before the season collapsed on itself. I don't want to hear again that Love doesn't have "it" or that they can't win it with him. Looking at this final four he is completely adequate at QB.
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To be fair, 7 years isn't that long to be the longest tenured coach holding that honor. I'm wondering how often that title holder has had that short of a tenure if ever. And there are a few guys who did make the Super Bowl and are resting on doing it like 15 years ago, which shouldn't be a thing either. In any case, I am just not too excited about next year. Parsons not likely to start the year and who knows what kind of player he is. They just have a lot of holes and not much to play with. And I have zero, zilch faith in Matt LaFleur to execute even if things break their way and they win 13 games. It's unconscionable we will be in the same spot next year or worse and grasping with the reality that we gave this guy a raise. A raise.
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Honestly, it is pretty incredible there is a lone Super Bowl title now 41 years ago among the 3 other teams in the North and that Detroit still hasn't gotten there. Our luck is going to run out and eventually and we will have to endure one of those teams winning it. I'm not sure which one I'd choose but it's between Minnesota and Detroit. I think probably Detroit.
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I probably forgot because that was also a fraud, like pretty much all of their fart-in-the wind seasons since the 80s. Won two playoff games against 9-7 and 10-6 teams and had Rex Grossman at QB. Completely on brand, after hearing all summer that their defense would have them in contention for years, they went 7-9.
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I just cannot wait for them to do nothing next year. I don't know how anyone never sees this coming. It is the same every single time. They even say the same stuff. "This just feels different." "This was only the first step." They are completely oblivious to the insane number of ways the ball bounced their way this season. The best thing going right now is the absolute glaze-fest thrown upon Williams. The only thing tempering my excitement is that we still have Matt LaFleur so I anticipate this time next year I'll be hoping some other benign team makes it out again. I hope if the Packers do beat the Bears next year, MLF just doesn't shake hands at all and tells Johnson to go F himself. That would make me respect him again.
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Yeah, oof. That remains our best shot out of the last 3 seasons, and as is common around these parts, they absolutely should have won the Divisional and they beat KC that regular season. It hurts in hindsight.
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Caleb Williams yet again threw about 250 yards on 42 passes and completed his signature 54%. He made a couple nice plays with his feet and threw up that fluke prayer that should have never been caught. I will give him a break on the numbers last night due to the conditions except he added in 3 interceptions that were all terrible throws and failed to convert a bunch of 4th downs that is for some reason just being ignored. Reading the headlines you would think he was masterful and the defense broke his heart or something. I cannot stand the worship of this guy. He is so ripe for a crash back to Earth but the coverage of him is as if we are seeing the next Pat Mahomes. I can't imagine what the narrative on Jordan Love would be if he had a 2-game "playoff run" and threw 5 interceptions. The Bears went -5 in differential in the playoffs. Didn't force one in either game and for all intents and purposes should have lost twice without the flukey nonsense that has trademarked their entire fraud of a year.
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They were flipping him off lol at the exact moment he said it lmao. They won their first playoff game in I don't know how long and haven't been to the Super Bowl in 40 years. They were running around last week like they won the Super Bowl after beating the Packers reserves in a game they choked away. Rather than just pour Gatorade on each other like anyone else they decided to bring the Packers into it again, then again the next day at the press conference. I couldn't care less about him apologizing, but do all of that and expect the world to laugh when you lose. Johnson is a good football coach and a huge douche bag. He will learn the hard way that life in the NFL won't always be as easy as it was this year, winning every damn toss-up game in improbable ways and going +33 in the most turbulent stat in the sport. I'll enjoy his crash out thoroughly.
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That'll be the song of the summer. Things are "looking up." Just like they were for Jayden Daniels. The league will adjust to Williams, he'll fail because he's simply not, and never has been, an accurate passer. Right now it feels warm and fuzzy. They'll extend him and the fans will want him traded a year later.
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More baffling was on 2nd down they snapped the ball with about 5.5 play clock seconds left on a running clock. It would have negated the whole sequence at the end.
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Can't wait to see the Bears go 6-11 when they don't have a +40 turnover differential next year.
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Aw. They look so sad! What a shame. God I hate this team.
