NFL 2022-23 Season Thread

[Kodos]

Yeah, if you’re gonna do something screwy like that at the end of a playoff game, it had better work, or you look like a real moron.

[stevew]

That’s a great way to (likely) end Zeke’s career in a cowboy uniform

[GrantDawg]

Thomas Brown is interviewing for several vacant head coaching jobs. It is weird for a kid I watched play high-school football to possibly become a head coach. But then, if he does every-time he wins we can say "that kid coach so good...."

[stevew]

Aren’t all these head coaching vacancies typically filled by now?

[albionmoonlight]

I imagine the Sean Payton situation (having to negotiate compensation from the Saints if a team wants to hire him) is complicating things for a lot of teams. Once he either signs with a team or indicates he is not coaching next year, I think the other Dominos will fall quickly. Also, I think teams have to wait until after next week to interview assistant coaches for teams in the championship games.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

Aren’t all these head coaching vacancies typically filled by now?

Well, he interviewed for the Texans HC job ... but the story this week is that he's interviewing for the OC spot with the Chargers and Washington.

[henry296]

Looking back to last year the first wave of hiring were the end of this week on the 27th.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by stevew

Aren’t all these head coaching vacancies typically filled by now?

Not only do you have Payton in the mix but remember the season is one week later. Right now last year we already had the SB teams set which freed up even more assistants earlier for interviews.

[albionmoonlight]

I might have miscalculated, but I think that I went 4-2 the first week and 2-2 last week for a total of 6-4 so far. Basically breaking even considering vig, etc. For me, that's amazing. I'm really bad at picking games.

Quik is right that there's a great slate of games this week on paper. Four teams that are SB-worthy in my opinion.

Eagles (-2.5) over 49ers I am super high on the 49ers. They are a very talented team. But we've been overlooking the Eagles all season. They aren't getting the respect that a #1 seed tends to get. I think that they are talented and well coached and playing at home, and I'll pick them to cover the less-than-a-field-goal spread.

Bengals (-1.5) over Chiefs I have no idea why the Bengals are favored here. My immediate instinct was to say that the Chiefs getting points at home is a no-brainer. But then I remembered that no-brainers are how they build those big fountains out in the desert. And, since this isn't real money, I'm going with my heart here. With all of the ex-Saints and LSU players, Cinci is basically Louisiana north for me. So I'll bet on them and root for them. And if Mahomes makes me look foolish, then I won't be the first guy he's done that to.

[Kodos]

I just hope Mahomes's ankle doesn't limit him too much. Twisted ankles are a bitch.

[stevew]

This Demar Hamlin is an imposter shit needs to end

[QuikSand]

The Colts are reportedly planning to interview Jeff Saturday for a second time https://t.co/38A1ugaVjf

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) January 25, 2023

I formally move that we replace "LOL Jets" with "LOL Colts" for the foreseeable future.

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

The Colts are reportedly planning to interview Jeff Saturday for a second time https://t.co/38A1ugaVjf

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) January 25, 2023

I formally move that we replace "LOL Jets" with "LOL Colts" for the foreseeable future.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Thomas Brown is interviewing for several vacant head coaching jobs. It is weird for a kid I watched play high-school football to possibly become a head coach. But then, if he does every-time he wins we can say "that kid coach so good...."

btw this was not just a fart in the wind... i got a solid laugh out of it

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by stevew

This Demar Hamlin is an imposter shit needs to end

Other than just shitty behavior, what was the reason behind the imposter claim?

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Other than just shitty behavior, what was the reason behind the imposter claim?

MAGA is claiming that he died because he got the vaccine.

And, as someone noted in another thread, when your whole worldview is that you are fighting a culture war against the world, you have to take more and more outlandish positions to keep the world opposed to you.

[stevew]

They can’t see his face, etc. it’s just typical abhorrent behavior from people that need to find new hobbies

[GrantDawg]

Reports are saying it is increasingly likely no one is going to sign Sean Payton. No team has asked for a second interview, and no team seems interested in paying him the 20 million a year he wants on top of giving up a number 1 draft pick to the Saints.

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[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Reports are saying it is increasingly likely no one is going to sign Sean Payton. No team has asked for a second interview, and no team seems interested in paying him the 20 million a year he wants on top of giving up a number 1 draft pick to the Saints.

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My Saints message board is very sad. In a week, we went from dreams of a bidding war over him to realizing that the Saints will likely get nothing for him.

[Kodos]

They must feel like Payton put a bounty on their happiness. It’s like he wants to hurt them.

[JPhillips]

All of the video seems to show Mahomes is fine.

[Lathum]

It’s a clone using the demar Hamlin technology. The real Maholmes had his leg amputated and is recovering at gitmo.

[miami_fan]

Jets hire former Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett as new OC

After doing a deep dive on Nathaniel Hackett's offensive coordinator career, is his friendship with Aaron Rodgers really this valuable? Here are his team's weighted offensive DVOA rankings as offensive coordinator.

BUF- 2013-29, 2014-31
JAX- 2016(co-coordinator with Greg Olson)-25, 2017-18, 2018-30
GB- 2019-9, 2020-1, 2021-2

Forget the whole Denver nightmare. Why is he considered a good NFL OC?

[Swaggs]

It looks like the Panthers are going with Frank Reich.

Still have the Colts, Broncos, Texans, and Cardinals open.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

It looks like the Panthers are going with Frank Reich.

Still have the Colts, Broncos, Texans, and Cardinals open.

Reich was the franchise first QB. That is a cool circle.

[BishopMVP]

I like the Panthers hire, unless Reich tries to bring Carson Wentz with him instead of developing a rookie QB. And I love the Jets hire, sounds great.

Along those lines the Patriots recriminations started today and it was a doozy. Sounds like Judge was even worse than Matty Patty Inside the most dysfunctional Patriots season under Bill Belichick: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’ – Boston Herald

[stevew]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Jets hire former Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett as new OC

After doing a deep dive on Nathaniel Hackett's offensive coordinator career, is his friendship with Aaron Rodgers really this valuable? Here are his team's weighted offensive DVOA rankings as offensive coordinator.

BUF- 2013-29, 2014-31
JAX- 2016(co-coordinator with Greg Olson)-25, 2017-18, 2018-30
GB- 2019-9, 2020-1, 2021-2

Forget the whole Denver nightmare. Why is he considered a good NFL OC?

The Jets are probably trading for Rodgers makes the most sense

[albionmoonlight]

I think that hiring Reich the coach makes a lot of sense. But I'd make it clear from the beginning that he has very little say in personnel. Reich the GM is the worst enemy of Reich the coach.

[Racer]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

It looks like the Panthers are going with Frank Reich.

Still have the Colts, Broncos, Texans, and Cardinals open.

My opinion as a Colts fan is that Reich is the Derek Carr of head coaches.

Jeff Saturday's equivalent is whoever the worst QB to start an NFL game in the past 5 years.

[GrantDawg]

Dan Quinn is staying with the Cowboys. He says "his heart is still with the team", but it probably had something to do with no team actually willing to hire the rest of him as HC.

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by stevew

The Jets are probably trading for Rodgers makes the most sense

If I am the Packers, I am adding another 1st rounder to the price for Rodgers. The Jets just saw what happens to a team when they bring in Hackett without Rodgers.

[Galaril]

Demi o Ryan’s played for the Texans and his wife is from Houston. I think he goes to them. Payton is with Arizona for 8 hours and is going to dinner with Bidwell according to reports. Man Denver could be left without a chair and be stuck with David Shaw?

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by Galaril

Demi o Ryan’s played for the Texans and his wife is from Houston. I think he goes to them. Payton is with Arizona for 8 hours and is going to dinner with Bidwell according to reports. Man Denver could be left without a chair and be stuck with David Shaw?

I know there are only 32 of these but the Texans would be last on my list if I were a candidate. Was Jack Easterby the only issue down there? Is Nick Caserio still on the headset asking the coaches to justify playcalling during the game?

I like the Reich hire. I would not allow him to be solely responsible for picking the new QB but I think once the QB is drafted, Reich would be a great person to coach him up.

Money is not everything but damn. Denver can NOT be be left with another rookie NFL head coach. Not with a Walmart heir owning the team.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by Galaril

Demi o Ryan’s played for the Texans and his wife is from Houston. I think he goes to them. Payton is with Arizona for 8 hours and is going to dinner with Bidwell according to reports. Man Denver could be left without a chair and be stuck with David Shaw?

I'm okay with Peyton going to my Cards if it doesn't involve the 3rd pick in the draft. A future 1st is ok though I'm not a fan on having to trade draft picks to get a coach

[Galaril]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

I know there are only 32 of these but the Texans would be last on my list if I were a candidate. Was Jack Easterby the only issue down there? Is Nick Caserio still on the headset asking the coaches to justify playcalling during the game?

I like the Reich hire. I would not allow him to be solely responsible for picking the new QB but I think once the QB is drafted, Reich would be a great person to coach him up.

Money is not everything but damn. Denver can NOT be be left with another rookie NFL head coach. Not with a Walmart heir owning the team.

Well,the Texans do have the 2nd pick in the draft and cap space. The Broncos are in cap space he’ll due to RW contract for the next 4 years and a late first round pick.

[Swaggs]

I think Denver could do a lot worse than David Shaw. I actually think I would have a lot of faith in him, as he checks a ton of boxes. He has been around football his whole life (his dad was an NFL coach for 15+ years), has a lot of NFL coaching experience (~8 years), has been a coordinator and head coach with a lot of success in a P5 conference (96-54 at Stanford, with 3 Rose and a Fiesta appearance is pretty impressive to me - and he was still having 9/10 win seasons even after Harbaugh's guys had all cleared out), Stanford-educated, media-savvy, and is only 50-years old.

No one is a guarantee (especially since Mahomes and Herbert are going to be in the same division for the next 10+ years), but other than an established successful NFL head coach, I'm not sure there are too many guys that I would rather have.

[Ksyrup]

Jets hire Hackett, Rams hire LaFleur. Shuffling chairs on the deck.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by Racer

My opinion as a Colts fan is that Reich is the Derek Carr of head coaches.

Jeff Saturday's equivalent is whoever the worst QB to start an NFL game in the past 5 years.

And right now it is reported that Irsay really wants Saturday and the Colts top brass are trying to talk him off that ledge.

[flere-imsaho]

Hahaha....

[BishopMVP]

Tua Tagovailoa still in protocol, to miss Pro Bowl Games, source says

I'm glad the NFL and Dolphins are prioritizing player safety and being deliberate with Tua's return from the concussion protocol when they don't have a game to play for 6 months.

[larrymcg421]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

Tua Tagovailoa still in protocol, to miss Pro Bowl Games, source says

I'm glad the NFL and Dolphins are prioritizing player safety and being deliberate with Tua's return from the concussion protocol when they don't have a game to play for 6 months.

Interesting comment considering they kept him out of the final three games of the year, including a must win game to get in the playoffs and the actual playoff game itself.

[Thomkal]

Don't have a particular team I want to win these games now that Buffalo is gone, just want them to be close all the way. I think CIN has been the stronger team down the stretch of the two left in the AFC, so probably pick them to win today.


Over in the NFC, don't really want to see a Cardinal division rival play in our stadium in the Super Bowl, but how can you not root for the Niners given the QB situation? They should be rewarded for the trade that brought McCaffery to them too. But will this be the day that the player everyone passed on in the draft for a reason, finally show that side of himself?


Regardless of who wins hope there are no major injuries to their star players

[stevew]

I hope Ryans passes on that Texans job. It’s one of the worst jobs in the NFL and there will likely be better jobs in 2024

[Ksyrup]

In what appears to suggest the rumors about Payton not coaching anywhere in 2023 may be true, it looks like the Dolphins have hired Vic Fangio. Fangio was rumored to be on the coaching staff Payton put together. There's at least enough uncertainty about Payton that Fangio jumped at a good job when offered.

Also, in what may be posturing from GB, this report is making the rounds from pretty much everyone. Is history going to repeat itself with a Packers legend QB going to the Jets?

The #Packers "prefer" to move on from QB Aaron Rodgers, league sources tell @AdamSchefter

Aaron Rodgers is aware of the #Packers feeling about wanting to trade him, according to the sources. pic.twitter.com/Od6hEKU6g6

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) January 29, 2023

[Ksyrup]

I'm still not sure that was a catch, but that was a phenomenally acrobatic play.

[bhlloy]

Didn’t look like a catch in real time - that’s an absolutely inexcusable miss from the Niners coaching staff. Just let them have the first score of the game because you were worried about a first half TO?

[albionmoonlight]

The Eagles better be careful. You see a lot of games were you have a big injury, and the other team takes their foot off the gas a little bit. I could still see a world where they lost this game 10 to 12 or something.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

In what appears to suggest the rumors about Payton not coaching anywhere in 2023 may be true, it looks like the Dolphins have hired Vic Fangio. Fangio was rumored to be on the coaching staff Payton put together. There's at least enough uncertainty about Payton that Fangio jumped at a good job when offered.

Also, in what may be posturing from GB, this report is making the rounds from pretty much everyone. Is history going to repeat itself with a Packers legend QB going to the Jets?

The #Packers "prefer" to move on from QB Aaron Rodgers, league sources tell @AdamSchefter

Aaron Rodgers is aware of the #Packers feeling about wanting to trade him, according to the sources. pic.twitter.com/Od6hEKU6g6

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) January 29, 2023

We need this to happen.

Then we need the Bears to do a 180 on Justin Fields, try to trade him and draft Bryce Young.

Let’s do this NFC North!

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

Didn’t look like a catch in real time - that’s an absolutely inexcusable miss from the Niners coaching staff. Just let them have the first score of the game because you were worried about a first half TO?

I would have thrown the red flag solely based on Smith's immediate reaction trying to get the snap off. The dude who caught it was pretty sure he didn't have it.

[GrantDawg]

Is this game going to end 7-3? Or like 10-6?

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