the nathan peterman 2018 regular season nfl thread

Browns general manager John Dorsey said last week that he was open to hiring a woman as Cleveland's next head coach, and one prominent name is on the team's wish list to interview.

The Browns would like to interview former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for their head-coaching job, a league source tells ESPN.

If the Browns follow through on it, Rice would become the first woman to interview for an NFL head-coaching job.

I just saw that what the actual fuck

lmao

that's one way to skirt the rooney rule I guess

Watched a bit of football today. Lamar Jackson looked decent in his pro debut. He is still crazy fast and was successful in the short to mid passing game. Big thing like all running QB's is that how long until the hits start adding up. For now, it was promising.

The eagles are bad

Saints are really good, but I got to wonder if they are peaking early.

Eagles DBs are decimated at this point. Good news is that Philly might get a good draft slot and could bounce back next year if they hit on a couple of picks.

Mitch Trubisky looks like he was having fun on that last rollout touchdown pass.

lol at the hatcats signing mark sanchez over, say, colin kaepernick

this game is fun

every penalty just means more yards for mahomes

good contrast between the systematic efficiency of the rams vs. the chaotic athleticism of the chiefs

This game is nuts

^^

this is pretty much what I expected really

over 90 combined pts w 9 min left is bonkers

the over/under was 63.5, which is the largest in NFL history

Was 30 points too low

lol should've intentionally stepped out of bounds

What the actual fuck

Andy Reid's elite clock management could save this for the Chiefs

Damn Tyreek why take that out

Kansas City vs L.A. or N.O would be the dream Super Bowl matchup.

Chiefs averaging 45.5 points in their losses this year

That half time show in the Cowboys/Hatcats game on Thursday was hilariously awful. It would even crack me up more to find out how much it probably cost and how much people got paid to put on such a spectacle.

Browns gotta take care of business today. Let’s goooooooooo!

THIS TEAM IS GONNA WIN THE FUCKING SUPER BOWL

would not mind seeing a team with 3 wins going into week 12 win the super bowl, that would be quite a story

Build Damarious Randall a statue today for handing Hue the INT ball pic.twitter.com/ZWRp1aDL2R

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) November 25, 2018

cleveland browns for president

1st road win since 10/11/2015 praise clev

things are finally looking up for those browns!

;)

this Pitt game is madness all the time

Rivers 28/29 passing O__o

this has got to be the end of the line for Mike McCarthy, right? it's pretty clear that, in addition to all the issues with his in-game decision making, the Packers are just not a well-coached team - they regularly blow blocking assignments, screw up routes, make boneheaded special teams decisions, waste timeouts for no reason, etc. etc. I mean, it's been a hard-luck season all around, between the dumb roughing calls directly costing them games, to the Ty Montgomery kickoff return fumble, and of course that game where they missed 16 points worth of kicks & turned it over 4 times...but they're a better team than this. These were all winnable games!!

i feel like this is the offseason where McCarthy and Garrett and Lewis will finally all be gone.

what head coaches are actually good tho? belichick, andy reid, sean payton. maybe pederson, mcvay, carroll, tomlin, rivera? and even with some of them, it's difficult to separate 'being a good coach' from 'having a hall of fame QB'

miss u eric mangini

i think pretty clearly the top tier are Belichick, Reid, Tomlin, and Payton. Though w/Payton, i was surprised to see that he's had 7 winning seasons and 5 at .500 or worse, i thought he'd been better than that. I guess I'd slept on those three consecutive 7-9 seasons prior to last season.

I believe in Shannahan still. Needs a full season with a reasonably healthy and/or not domestic abusing roster.

I think it's pretty well accepted by now that Rodgers + a halfway decent coach would get you at least 2 SBs by now. Who knows how true that is but I think it's clear that the team's success came in spite of McCarthy, not because of it. He may get another HC gig but I'd be shocked if he's still in the league a decade from now.

yeah i think for too long people were making the mistake of seeing the Packers' success as a result of a Rodgers/McCarthy partnership as opposed to a guy who is in the conversation for greatest QB of all-time dragging a coach along with him. I think there was a wish that this would be a Belichick/Brady situation, and it could have been i think, there hasn't been a single dominant NFC team for the past decade but the Packers were the closest.

it's hilarious our local sports talk was reading comments from ppl in WI that think Rodgers is "uncoachable" and needs to be benched and all this shit too funny

It's like...even if you didn't value Rodgers as much as most, I think you have to put him in the top 10 QBs of all time and I don't think McCarthy is on anyone's top 10 coaches, or top 20, 50, 100 list

Yeah I'm looking at their Super Bowl season again and remembering how many games they either blew or came close to blowing thanks to McCarthy's singular obsession with "establishing the run", his inability to design a single reliable short-yardage play, and his late-game strategy of "run-run-pass-punt". they got Vick's Eagles in the WC game and absolutely dominated them through three quarters, but just completely shut down their offense in the 4th and nearly let them come back and tie it. 4 years later at Seattle they did the same thing and it cost them a trip to the Super Bowl.

one thing I've definitely noticed is how he added trick plays and fakes into his arsenal around 2012 but seems to pick the absolute worst times to deploy them. like running that fake punt vs. Miami, sure it caught them off guard and it wound up working but they were at a point in the game where Miami getting a cheap turnover was literally their only hope. see also his 4th-and-1 playcalling where he just rams it up the middle with the RB starting 3 years behind the line of scrimmage. you see that formation and you immediately know it isn't gonna work, and you just know that McCarthy is gonna throw his hands up and say, "see! I told ya going for it on 4th was dumb!"

I mean, all you really need to look at is McCarthy's record without Rodgers. Outside of a few magical Matt Flynn games they basically transform into a league-worst offense. obviously losing a great QB is gonna be tough but coaches like Belichick and Reid have managed pretty respectable records when their guys went down.

Reid managed a 53-27 record w/Alex Smith behind center and his success in Philly may be more impressive if you consider McNabb to have been a great but deeply inconsistent QB.

sports fans are great, i assume every fanbase has their own example of "run the bum out of town!" chatter when an all-time great player has some manufactured flaw. probably last season Saints fans were yelling that Drew Brees was holding them back.

it made some sense when Rodgers was backing up Favre and was clearly going to be at least decent...makes a lot less sense now that our backup is the only starter boneheaded enough to lose to Brett Hundley

kareem hunt ...

DAL/NO was pretty wild

was weird to see so many people say "this could be one of those weird and dumb upset games" and then have it actually happen

Jesus Christ Hunt needs to be cut from the team before sundown