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Warren Moon Randell Cunningham Don't remember but, wasn't Moon more of a pocket passer? Cunningham, on the hand, was certainly mobile and had a big arm. I'm only old enough to remember pocket passer Cunningham post injury.

I'm old enough to remember when athletic black QBs were comped to Byron Leftwich.

Lotta mouth pieces defending this one. And maybe Hightower is a good coach , but this is probably the first big coach disappointment with the Bissaccia rumors. Not the least of which because it looks like he'll land in GB. Really interesting if Eberflus fills out his entire staff and doesn't get any former HC. Maybe Marinelli still in play for DL? No idea how good he is but I love hiring the guy whose unit almost single handedly eliminated the Packers from the playoffs if only for trolling reasons Sounds like they've generally ranked low in ST numbers. But maybe that's just an end of roster issue for SF.

Lotta mouth pieces defending this one. And maybe Hightower is a good coach , but this is probably the first big coach disappointment with the Bissaccia rumors. Not the least of which because it looks like he'll land in GB. Really interesting if Eberflus fills out his entire staff and doesn't get any former HC. Maybe Marinelli still in play for DL?

As much as football sabermetrics are improving, I think it's still extremely hard to disentangle individual performance from line play, scheme, a head coach that likes to run it straight up the middle in every obvious running down, etc. And all of those factors have not been doing Montgomery any favors. That said, I don't think he is anything more than pretty good. It was silly to trade up for him and it would be even sillier to give him a meaningful second contract. The problem is that the expected yards metric says exactly what it's critics are saying vis a vie the Bears line play and play calling. 3.95 expected yard per rush is damn near the bottom for qualified backs. And as I've eyeballed that metric it seems to align pretty well on my intuition of teams with good scheme and line play and those that are poor. But intersecting Y/c with expected is something I'm not entirely sure of. At best it seems to tell us that there's scarcely any differenence between most RB while failing pretty bad to measure the extreme outliers. This variance issue does seem to lessen with large multi year samples. So it's perhaps not awful, but probably lacking any predictive value over a single season. But at the end of the day, DM isn't efficient. Doesn't mean he doesn't provide value. Ironically though many of the people who are most pissed about the article would probably love the alternative take. That if you want to improve your running game, invest 10M in your lineman to improve your expected value instead of 10M to a RB who will most likely struggle to significantly out perform his line play. The rest of the fan reaction is over emotional investment in DM who's play has been admirable given circumstances, but ultimately of seriously questionable long term value over other options.

And it's breaking Bears Twitter. I don't think the RYOE stat is being well understood though. I've seen so many complain that well actually it doesn't account for DMs line play. Except it does. The "expected" has his among the worse measures. And the Y/C still isn't producing above that. I think a little bit of the Montgomery fan love is a little bit like the CF who makes a ton of diving catches. DM breaking tackles is like his diving catch. We like breaking tackles and DM gives us a lot of them, but actually he's just breaking tackles others might avoid completely. He's a nice back and let's see what he does this year in a new system and new line, but my assumption is that he won't be worth paying even if he makes some continued strides. And frankly the potential of Herbert plays into a lot of that.

Probably baseless speculation/hope the Bears are targeting the Ravens top analytic guy. He appears to have gone to college at Loyola, not sure if he's from Chicago or not. https://www.linkedin.com/in/corey-krawiec-21766a10 Interned in Bears ticket office, which George used to run (not sure if same time).

Well with everyone else chasing one type just means prob most will be back in the carousel in a few years. Good chance the Bears will too obviously, but hopefully the first choice of a D guy is better than the 6th best O guy. (positive thinking)

Aka enthusiasm.

Looks like Richard has gotten a few DC looks. Also possible he could just stay in NO and maybe even get a promotion depending on what they do. But if he doesn't get one of the DC jobs and he gets let go from NO, absolutely.

Can he bring Kittle with him? In other coaching news, Jacksonville is hiring Doug Pederson. That hopefully frees up Bissaccia to join Eberflus's staff as ST Coordinator, as rumored before.

Huh. I can get that Daboll would decide to cede play calling. I like that Eberflus did it on D side after all. But that he's hiring outside of not just his immediate circle, but even outside of his "family" of the E-P system is weird. Is Kafka going to pick up E-P language or is Daboll going to have his OC install WC language? Schematically I don't know if it's necessarily an issue, but still odd from a knowledge transfer standpoint. Edit - only posting here since I know Daboll was such a popular name specifically for the desire to bring his O with.

Lol fuuucck the Blackhawks.

Only head coach and GM get comp picks.

Wow

Which guy was that again?

Maybe it's actually gonna be Commandos. That would be a group.

Is it better than Admirals?

I rest my case That clip was after Brady was canned for whatever thats worth.

Yea but Darnold.

Do we know he's never bit anyone?

This makes more sense right. This was before the Watson stuff. This would have been during Brady's final season in NE though so meeting with him before FA would be tampering which is why Flores refused?

Trade Cousins for whatever and sign like Mariota and draft a guy. I think Harbaugh can make that worth as you'd free up a decent amount of needed cap space by trading him.

The QB GOAT is retiring. For real this time Doesn't mention the Patriots at all in his announcement, lol.

Oh yea