I encourage everyone to read this epic dissection of Marc Trestman as a HC candidate for the Bears.
Tl;DR version…He’s basically the love child of Mike Martz and Andy Reid.
“News” for the thread:
A couple sources saying that the Bears are down to two candidates: Seattle OC Darrell Bevell and CFL HC Marc Trestman.
The Eagles are bringing in Seattle DC Gus Bradley for a second interview. For all the bogus contrived narrative about the Eagles going all-in on the college coaches and whiffing, they have maintained a wide search (even as they have met with other candidates). This will be their first candidate to be asked for a second interview, from my understanding.
The majority of Eagles fans like Bradley a whole lot, he’s probably the favorite at the moment. It’s understandable, but I feel a little hesitant.
The story has been updated to include Arians too. I’m not sold on any of the three, but I think Arians would be the best of them. The article I posted really soured me on Trestman, though in a small way I like the gamble of it, and Bevell seems like a bit of a no one.
Wonder what the issues with Dennison, McCoy and Roman are.
I didn’t realize Trestman was an actual candidate for real NFL teams, I thought he was some random whackadoodle candidate the Browns pulled out of their ass.
Chargers get McCoy.
Rumors on local TV say the Chargers have hired Mike McCoy as their new head coach. If this is true, It’s great news for the Chargers
He’s supposedly returning to SD ion about 30 minutes and there may be an announcement.
Confirmed and awesome news!
He was my top choice personally with Lovie in second. Mainly I just did not want Arians so good news for Bolts fans!
Only vaguely related to this thread, the Browns have sold the stadium naming rights to First Energy. It now has the awkward official name of FirstEnergy Stadium Home of the Cleveland Browns.
It doesn’t matter much, but I’m dissapointed. I liked being one of the few teams that didn’t sell the name of their stadium, I’ll miss “Cleveland Browns Stadium”.
But hey, Haslam said no to cheerleaders, so that’s good. That’s more important anyway. Now let’s just hope this retarded dome talk is conjecture.
I’m betting the season ticket holders don’t think it’s a retarded idea. Snowy December games are fine, it’s the rainy October and November games when the team sucks that make people not want to bother going to the game.
Retractable roof aside, the stadium needs improvement regardless. They can start with a new scoreboard and video screen.
And the Browns owner went public saying that the Browns will bechanging their uniforms to include… the color purple?
Not sure which Browns fans you know, but the position of the vast majority is FUCK YOU I’LL BURN IT DOWN HELL NO.
Similar with uniform changes. I’m guessing they’ll be minor tweaks or they’ll be hell to pay.
I know quite a few season ticket holders, and every season it’s the same dilemma for them in late October into November when the weather is shitty: do they really want to deal with all the parking and traffic hassle just to sit in the cold rain to watch their crummy football team, or would they rather give the tickets away and watch the game at a bar? Maybe it wouldn’t be an issue if the team hadn’t sucked in every season but two since they came back, but unfortunately they have.
I honestly think it’s 90% not wanting to go, and 10% using the weather as an excuse rather than admitting it’s just not interesting to go watch the team. If the team were winning, no one would be batting an eye at horrible weather.
Maybe, but I think you’re discounting how unpleasant cold, rainy weather is.
I live in Vegas, but I grew up in Cleveland. I’ve been to many December games. I remember a MNF game in December where it was so damn cold my knees locked up and I had a hard time walking back to my car.
Browns fans are insanely dedicated for the shit they have to go through and the utter lack of reward they ever get. It takes a lot out of you to keep up that level of support with nothing positive to show for it year after year. It’s only after all this failure that people are even starting to consider stuff like the unpleasantness of cold weather. And if they started winning, that would dissapear.
In that blizzard bowl in 07 against Buffalo, the temperatures were such that freezing rain kept up all game and people had icicles hanging from their beards and shit, but you saw nothing but an utterly packed stadium with wild crowds, because we looked like we were going to be a playoff team at that point and there was something to get enthusiastic about.
The only thing the Browns have left is their history and their identity as an old school hardcore football team. Become a dome team and you give that up. You lose that attachment to history, then you lose the passion of the fanbase, and then there’s nothing left that makes the Browns special or worthwhile.
I’m not talking about snow, I’m talking about rain. You can still have snow games in December with a retractable roof, if I’m understanding the NFL’s rules correctly. I guarantee, none of the traditionalists demanding outdoor football only are doing so to preserve cold rain games in November. Those games suck.
No, the NFL rules say that you have to close the roof if there’s any precipitation, or if t’s likely to fall during the game. You don’t have the option of opening it to snow.
The home team must declare 90 minutes before kickoff whether the roof will be open or closed for the game. After that, the referee will determine whether an open roof will be closed under two criteria: 1) hazardous conditions such as lightning or severe winds developing; or 2) rain.
The roof cannot be closed for rain after the five-minute mark of the fourth quarter, but it can be closed at any time for hazardous conditions.
Once a roof is closed, it must remain closed for the entire game.
Bears get Mark Trestman. The hope that is that he will do what McDaniels, Turner, Martz, Tice and Jay Cutler himnself couldn’t do, help Jay Cutler live up to his talent, reputation, draft position, and trade value.
The Packer nation laughs at other teams wimpy fans. 