Never thought I’d see the day where the Cardinals, Lions, Commanders, and Falcons are your NFC division leaders at midseason (30 Viewers)

[St. Geezy]

I’m most intrigued by OC Kingsbury in Washington. He’s a big reason that Daniels is playing so well. Maybe it’s time for him to get another chance at a HC job.

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He’s definitely a name at the top of my list. I think he got screwed in Arizona and deserves another shot.

 

[No2DC]

I’m most intrigued by OC Kingsbury in Washington. He’s a big reason that Daniels is playing so well. Maybe it’s time for him to get another chance at a HC job.

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For Carr, nope. There is no improving his level of mediocracy. Jayden is special; Carr is not.

 

[njsaint]

Draft is how you rebound quickly, but goes hand in hand with player development, i.e. coaching...but who will be making these picks? Don't have a ton of confidence based on last couple of years. I guess we'll see....

 

[longtime lurker]

For Carr, nope. There is no improving his level of mediocracy. Jayden is special; Carr is not.

I’m not worried about Carr, he will be gone in the next few years anyway. What we have seen is what we are going to get with him. I’m thinking if we draft a young QB in the next few years and those odds are pretty high.

 

[DahnVill]

My first season watching the NFL was 1991, when Washington beat Detroit in the NFCCG, having blown out the Falcons in the divisional round. (I won't mention who the Falcons played in the wild card round )

Have things come full circle 33 years later?

 

[St. Geezy]

My first season watching the NFL was 1991, when Washington beat Detroit in the NFCCG, having blown out the Falcons in the divisional round. (I won't mention who the Falcons played in the wild card round )

Have things come full circle 33 years later?

I will never forget Tim McKyer, Deion, and Joe Fishback playing around with the football, lateraling like it was no big deal at the end of that game after McKyer caught the game-clinching INT.

That team gave no ****s.

And you're right...cool callback. Who would have thunk that would be the last time we'd see either of those teams in a NFC Championship Game, until last year, more than three decades later.

 

[Innotech]

the NFL is one of the more balanced and fair leagues year to year despite everything with officiating. A team can legitimately just come from nowhere and catch fire and traditionally great teams can crash and burn. Parity is pretty real.

 

[Bill]

That’s it; that’s the thread.

It's the NFL version of The Twilight Zone.

 

[Bill]

the NFL is one of the more balanced and fair leagues year to year despite everything with officiating. A team can legitimately just come from nowhere and catch fire and traditionally great teams can crash and burn. Parity is pretty real.

I totally agree.

Not including the intangible of having multiple key injuries, it has been said that the difference between the best team in the league and the worst is not overwhelmingly different talent-wise. Sure, you have a handful of outstanding, marquee, household name-type players that are great enough to help their team get more wins and higher rankings.

But the NFL has the best of the best of football talent dispersed around the 32 teams. It's one of the reasons the phrase 'Any Given Sunday' is used when one team in a contest is clearly outclassed by another. But most often the reason why one team is consistently better than another is because of the way the talent is being used; ie coaching.

This is why I am especially interested in the way Rizzi prepares his team to perform the rest of the season. No, I'm not fooling myself to believe he can resurrect this shell of a team to playoff status. But if he is able to get the remaining players on his roster to execute assignments well and put them in the best position to win football games, then he will certainly make an impression on me.

The events leading to his promotion is not the way that he wanted to earn a head coaching position. But I can't help but believe that he really wants the job, and that he's going to give it his best shot to try and make it his permanent position. The real test begins Sunday at noon.

 

[Consigliere]

Never thought I would see "Commanders" anywhere.

 

[SirLoinSaint64]

The Cardinals are the most shocking to me.

 

[St. Geezy]

the NFL is one of the more balanced and fair leagues year to year despite everything with officiating. A team can legitimately just come from nowhere and catch fire and traditionally great teams can crash and burn. Parity is pretty real.

Agreed, which is why I really don’t understand the whole “Blow it up” thing. Stay average, hit it big with a draft, and/or free agent signing or two, and/or a godsend coaching hire, and suddenly you’ll find your team rolling and eventually in a close, barn-burner Divisional round game.

(see 2014-2017 Saints)

 

[Bill]

Agreed, which is why I really don’t understand the whole “Blow it up” thing. Stay average, hit it big with a draft, and/or free agent signing or two, and/or a godsend coaching hire, and suddenly you’ll find your team rolling and eventually in a close, barn-burner Divisional round game.

(see 2014-2017 Saints)

To me, there is a big difference between 'blow it up' and 'time to get your salary cap in order'.
I'm advocating for the latter.

 

[St. Geezy]

To me, there is a big difference between 'blow it up' and 'time to get your salary cap in order'.
I'm advocating for the latter.

I agree with what Mickey alluded to yesterday…too big of a deal is being made out of it. It just looks cosmetically bad at the moment only because we haven’t processed the transactions to remedy it yet. And things get progressively better each year after that.