Unless TJ Watt’s wife is in high school, I don’t think Collinsworth is interested.

Foundation Fighting Blindness in honor of Shawn Hochuli.

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Staley makes a lot of the same brain-dead decisions during games that McDermott does. If those were our only two choices, that would be bad. They are not.

Realistically speaking, I don’t think a change makes sense until we’re mathematically eliminated from the playoffs at the earliest. It’s not like we have anyone sitting around waiting in the wings to take over on an interim basis. Our OC has two games under his belt (not counting his brief stint under Rhule) and we don’t have a DC. Do we think Eric Washington has what it takes? Because he’s pretty much the only person on the coaching staff who could potentially take over McDermott’s duties mid-season. And it’s not like there’s anyone out there waiting for a phone call who we’re all clamoring for. It sucks, but there aren’t any real options other than ride this thing on out and part ways as soon as we play our last down.

The only time that calling that TO makes sense is if the clock was going to expire on that play, and even then I think you only do it if the kick means a win and not a tie.

They used to have two separate penalties on a face mask depending on whether or not the penalized player gripped and turned the head or if they just gripped without turning. It got way too subjective.

Those of us who went through our formative years in the early 90s have a much harder time with this. The ones who only remember the drought before the JA era are just enjoying the ride. The old-timers have a better understanding of how fleeting this is. We’ve lost friends and family members who never got to see us win anything of consequence. And every loss like this is just another reminder of how it feels to be so close and yet so far from greatness. Just like you don’t realize the last time that you pick up one of your kids in your arms is the last time, you don’t realize that the last and best chance you had was Wide Right or 13 Seconds until it’s too late.

Sometimes I think Stevie was right.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains and you lose.

“Please, give me this grounding call that’s worse than a sack or incompletion.”

That doesn’t even make sense.

The next time we benefit from that level of egregious officiating will be the first time. One call here or there? Sure, that evens out in the end. But there were at least 5 penalties on the Eagles that weren’t called. Two DPIs on key plays, the horse collar debacle, a block in the back on a return, and the head shot on Kincaid. There are probably more that I didn’t see, but those I did.

This reminds me of that time when there was an AskReddit thread about celebrities you’re surprised aren’t dead yet. A guy said Stephen Hawking and he died maybe an hour or so later.

“He threw an interception.”

Note that they say it, but they don’t show it. Because it was an accurate pass that the defender made a great play on. It wasn’t a bad pass or even a terrible idea to throw that ball.

I can almost handle losing a close game where both teams are evenly matched and playing to the best of their ability.

But we outplayed them. By a lot. And still lost. It was a horrible confluence of refball, piss-poor coaching decisions, and the same terrible luck that’s plagued us all season.

Two of these things aren’t fixable, but one is. And we need to fix it. This team has what it takes to beat anyone in the league, but we can’t beat the other team, the refs and apparently God Almighty himself unless we play a near-perfect game in all aspects. And this head coach has consistently proven he’s incapable. He did a great job of taking a shitty team and building a winning culture. He made us a good team. He can’t get us to great. We need someone who does not coach from a place of fear.

You ice the kicker when there won’t be any time left on the clock after the kick. Otherwise you plan for the kick to be good.

People in another thread were suggesting Jim Harbaugh. I’d be intrigued, but given that the NCAA has enforced suspensions in the NFL for lesser offenses in the past, I’d also be very concerned about what might happen in the future.

All of those losses had one thing in common…

I hope we can keep Brady. My fear is that a new coach will want to bring in “his guys”, and I don’t want JA to have to deal with a 4th OC since 2021, especially when Brady seems to have improved this offense very quickly. But we desperately need a new head coach who won’t piddle down his leg in high-pressure situations. If we can hire an offensive-minded guy, I might not mind losing Brady as much. But if we hire a defense guy again, I’d hope we keep Brady to have some sort of continuity.

I honestly don’t want the division at this point. If we play hot enough to get a wild card spot we’re still the team that nobody wants to play in the playoffs, plus we get to play the 2nd place schedule next year.

But we’re likely not going to make the playoffs.

Just hope McDermott didn’t kill his newly-recovered confidence by not letting him even have a chance to score in 20 seconds with a TO.

This is literally a subreddit for fans to discuss the team. People are discussing what they’d like to see happen with the team. It has nothing to do with what will actually happen, and nobody here has done anything to suggest that they think their comments will influence anything. You have a lot of hostility surrounding an issue that only exists between your own ears.

Less the offense and more the game-day decisions. When to challenge and not challenge, when to go for it and not go for it, when to call a time out and when not to. McDermott is consistently terrible at all of this.