So the NFL has now adjusted the Rooney Farce to require 2 minority Coach interviews and 1 minority Coordinator interview. Still won't change anything because teams will just conduct more fake interviews because they already know the guy they want when they fire their current coach.
More interesting, though, they've now removed the ability for teams to block coordinators from interviewing for jobs with other teams. A rule which gets a lot of use these days.
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Any word yet on the start of the NFL season if at all?!
It all depends on how the C-19 situation develops. Wuhan is already seeing signs of what is perhaps a second wave of the virus going round and if that happens in the rest of the world and mainly the US too, then well, good luck with that cause it will at best mean a season with a HEAVY asterisk next to it due to many players missing time by being quarantined and/or affected by the virus. Even healthy people report to still have trouble with their lungs many weeks later. If that happens to a star player in the middle of the season, then that's a black mark.
Then again, you can argue that a season, even truncated, even marred by virus injuries is still better than no season at all. Personally I'd rather have no season than one where we have to hope and pray our guys don't catch anything. That'll just make the entire thing painful to watch.
I imagine they will go and make it about 2 weeks before a player tests positive and everything gets shut down, like the NBA in March.
It's still valuable interview experience for the coaches, why do you think they agree to the interview in the first place if it's a sure bet they aren't gonna be the top choice? Eventually if you keep getting interviewed for coaching jobs you will wow someone, ace an interview and get the job. The incentive shit is stupid and I don't think that should happen but I don't have any problem when they requiring 2 more minority interviews and neither will the people that take those interviews no matter how "token" you think they are.
Last edited by Tech614; 2020-05-20 at 03:33 AM.
Bandwagon sports fans can eat a bag of http://www.ddir.com/ .
If I had a $ for every time we heard NE was on the decline..
People forget this is a coach that got an 11 win season out of Matt Cassel.
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Bandwagon sports fans can eat a bag of http://www.ddir.com/ .
There was some buzz that S Patrick Chung was on the way out for the Patriots, with a huge amount of safeties on the roster + a 2nd round draft pick coming in at his position.
So of course Belichick signs him to a contract extension. xD
That contract extension will also make it possible for the Patriots to sign said 2nd round pick, cause we didn't have the cap space for it up till now.
This should mean the Patriots have their whole draft class under contract soon.
Its going to be the same situation for the Saints when Brees retires, he has so much money pushed into future void years. If Drew retires after this season he will still have a $22.6 mil cap hit. If he sticks around another year, they'll push much of his 2021 base salary of $25 mil into the future and same problem.
The sensible thing would be to move on except that Brees is still so damn good. His ego got away from him in the playoff game though, which worries me - After Taysom made a big downfield throw, Drew felt like he had to match it and got picked off. Drew Brees is the best game manager in the NFL but he doesn't have the proper mindset, its why Bridgewater did so well, he has the right mentality for not trying to do too much and playing to team strengths, while Brees has spent most of his career carrying the team along.
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