NFL (since 2016)

[crystal falace]

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

[southbankbornnbred]

I didn't realise the Patriots won . Carolina may sticks with Bryce Young who's looked comfortable the last half of the season, if not get Fields off the Steelers

Cleveland. Tennessee. Big Blue. But the Pat’s ain’t fucking around. Just binned HC Jerod Mayo after one season. Won’t be the last head too roll in the next 24 hours.!

They’re going for Vrabel, aren’t they?!

Which means the Jets had better have a plan B that isn’t just Rex Ryan or Rivera!

[Far Cough UKunt]

I was half expecting to lose but didn't think we'd get smashed.

Still Lions v Chiefs should be a good superbowl, that's if they don't meet before then?

[RBshorty]

I think both him and Schoen are safe. Last week just proved he can get good stuff out of half decent QB’s. The problem has always been Jones.!

[Takashi Miike]

It may sound harsh but I'm surprised Daboll wasn't gone after last week

[RBshorty]

I didn't realise the Patriots won . Carolina may sticks with Bryce Young who's looked comfortable the last half of the season, if not get Fields off the Steelers

Cleveland. Tennessee. Big Blue. But the Pat’s ain’t fucking around. Just binned HC Jerod Mayo after one season. Won’t be the last head too roll in the next 24 hours.!

[Takashi Miike]

I didn't realise the Patriots won . Carolina may sticks with Bryce Young who's looked comfortable the last half of the season, if not get Fields off the Steelers

[Takashi Miike]

Some good news after a season of shit. We get the 3rd pick in the draft. So even if the top two QB’s go. We got Travis Hunter.

GO G MEN.

I think the Patriots take him, Maye's showed a lot of potential. You'll still get a QB

[lowlife]

Yep - absolute madness that we didn’t have solid cover for Tua. Obvious to everyone that he wouldn’t be able to play a whole season.

[zebthecat]

Fucking Chiefs!
I know that they don't have to bother and the Dolphins would fall in the first play off game anyway but it still pisses me off.
Not having a half way decent back-up QB killed us.
 

[RBshorty]

Some good news after a season of shit. We get the 3rd pick in the draft. So even if the top two QB’s go. We got Travis Hunter.

GO G MEN.

[Takashi Miike]

Mariotta carries us to the sixth seed, great performance by him

[Takashi Miike]

I'm not sure if Loppy's been coaching the skins this week, we've been absolute dogshit. Worst performance of the season

[southbankbornnbred]

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

Final Sunday of the regular season and some key playoff places still to be sealed.

And then the madness of Black Monday and the scramble to recruit new coaches. Let the mayhem begin…

[southbankbornnbred]

it's like having full control of mk dons, the bloke is a definite oddball. 

I agree. And that will be the risk with Johnson this winter: he’s entirely unproven as a HC, but some sides will hurl big offers at him.

By most accounts, he’s very talented. But you just never know how, or if, somebody will step up from co-ordinator to HC. Saleh looked like a guy who might, and yet if anything he was getting a tiny bit worse by the end of his first stab at it (he’ll be back, wiser, at some point: like Pete Carroll, Todd Bowles etc).

Jets might have to back away from the Johnson hype if it gets too loud and expensive. Vrabel was a good interviewee, I’m sure, and we could do with a solid,  old skool rebuild rather than another big reach - despite Johnson’s obvious potential.

I’d be happy with Vrabel, if I’m honest. No guarantees, of course, but he feels Jets-like.

[Takashi Miike]

it's like having full control of mk dons, the bloke is a definite oddball. 

[southbankbornnbred]

this isn't surprising, given that he refused an interview by text with our gm (adam peters) as they were flying out to meet him. other than the weather, why would you want the fucking  jags job?

He’s being savvy because he’s in demand (more than anybody else). He’s going to roll into that Jags interview and demand wide-ranging powers and complete control of the side. Which the desperate Jags might offer. He’s also going to demand big wages. Which the Jags may or may not offer.

He’s basically demanding a blank cheque in Jacksonville.

But he’ll be laying down a marker for other franchises. Anybody who then wants to beat the Jags to him (and there will be several sides) will have to match, or better, his team demands - and might have to offer him even more money.

Rightly or wrongly, he’s the most sought after potential new HC. So he’s got #1 draft pick-style leverage!

[Takashi Miike]

this isn't surprising, given that he refused an interview by text with our gm (adam peters) as they were flying out to meet him. other than the weather, why would you want the fucking  jags job?

[southbankbornnbred]

watched a podcast from a year or so ago with one of our ex players (will compton) talking to vrabel, he shook up the titans locker room that first year he was there (loads of players struggled with him). no fucking about, but he soon gained the players respect 

Daniels could become one heck of a player. He’s already very good, and he’s a rookie. Are you interested in a swap with an ageing MVP and   self-regarding darkroom philosopher?

[southbankbornnbred]

Favourite Mike Vrabel quote:

Interview Question: Would you cut your dick off for a Superbowl win as a coach?

Vrabel's answer: "Well, I've been married 20 years. So, yes. Probably."

That's what's needed in New York. But after he wins a Superbowl. We've already had quite a few dickless and winless coaches.

[Takashi Miike]

watched a podcast from a year or so ago with one of our ex players (will compton) talking to vrabel, he shook up the titans locker room that first year he was there (loads of players struggled with him). no fucking about, but he soon gained the players respect 

[southbankbornnbred]

Serious point is that Vrabel is one of four I'd interview for the Jets job.

Johnson (Detroit OC), Vrabel, Glenn (Detroit DC and ex-Jet) and Monken (Baltimore OC).

I'd probably take one of those four. But the really important Q will be whether Woody rejoins Trump's ambassadorial team and relieves himself from running the Jets while he's overseas. Then we can appoint a decent GM and, who knows, maybe even start to change the loser culture! The risk is that Woody hands over to his brother again...he appoints a "yes man" GM and it's just more of the same shite...

[southbankbornnbred]

Jets are going to interview Mike Vrabel.

https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-to-interv ... aching-job

I'll have a bit of that.

He's not the very best coach around, but he's by no means the worst.

Frankly, "he's not the worst" is about as good as it gets for us after this season plus 14 years without the play-offs.

Guy's got a chip on his shoulder, too, which I think will actually help him in New York. This is the city of punk, McEnroe and hip-hop. "Fuck you" should be the Jets' motto.

[zebthecat]

Jets are going to interview Mike Vrabel.

https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-to-interv ... aching-job

[Takashi Miike]

I listen to a couple of Dallas blokes and they're sure Mccarthy's going nowhere, especially after Jerry's clown son Stephen said just days ago that nothing much will change in regard to talent hiring and it will be pretty much the same as this year, mainly due to them planning on making Micah Parsons the highest paid defensive player ever. The incompetence there is off the charts 

[southbankbornnbred]

Ron's a great person and had to deal with a psychopath owner while being treated for cancer. My only criticism was his choice of coaches and draft picks (pretty big concerns ), as a bloke he was spot on. He'd be ideal in a club president role. Repeating myself again, you need a younger man in charge. Johnson (Lions), Slowik (Texans), even Kingsbury though I don't want him to jump after one year. Another good coach suddenly being considered again by other clubs is Jon Gruden. I know that freak Gase didn't work for you, but that was the right idea. Sadly it showed in his opening press conference that he wasn't the full shilling

Rivera does strike me as a really nice bloke, but his record as a coach was not great as you know. I know he worked for a nutjob, but he'd have the same problem at the Jets. And his choices while working for a nutjob were not good.

He might actually be somebody we could look at as a potential GM, as he's experienced and has much wider knowledge. I also like the idea of the new GM being somebody who has been a bit more hands on as a coach in the past. But Rivera probably wants to coach again.

On the HCs, I think the three big candidates ought to be Ben Johnson (although everybody will be after him, and somebody like Dallas will throw huge money at him), Mike Vrabel and Aaron Glenn.

I like Vrabel. His record at Tennessee was very good until that final year. I like his proven win record. He's also very "fuck you" and his hard-ass mindset will help him in New York. I know other franchises don't like to admit it, but the media frenzy/pressure in New York does play on coaches in the Big Apple a bit more, and you have to have a very thick skin to cope with the incessant intrusion and potential cuntish-ness of the New York media (and I say that as a hack). Just today, the New York Post has devoted almost an entire back page to one message: don't appoint Rex Ryan as HC (which I happen to agree with).

Other potential HC candidates I'd look at if I were the Jets would be Todd Monken (currently OC at Baltimore). He's into his 50s and has the experience a new HC might need in New York, and he also runs a dynamic read-option offense that would help Jordan Travis if we turn to him next season.

Not so sure about Slowik. His record looks good on paper, as OC at Houston. But I'm not sure to what extent he calls the offensive plays. Don't Houston have quite a hands-on assistant HC (who is an offensive mind)? I might be wrong, but he sounds a bit Eric Bieniemy. If it's a choice of Slowik or somebody like Vrabel, I'd go with the proven HC (with a good win record) every time.

My choices would be: Johnson, Vrabel, Glenn or Monken. And I'm giving Glenn (also unproven as a HC) as an option purely because he loves the Jets and would hurl himself into the job.