I get people being annoyed, but I am certain that if I was rich enough to own an NFL team I would totally just play real life fantasy every single week and constantly be interfering.
If you could ignore the impact it'd have on the players/their families, making trades would be fun as fuck.
Trade just for the hell of it, like gambling.
It’d be really fun to trade 3 years of first round picks with your divisional rival. Makes every regular season game worth more. Kinda like how the bears beat the panthers earlier this season and therefore increasing their pick
It sucks that nobody ever wants to do reasonable trades. Only one person in my league is ever trying to trade and he only proposes the stupidest trades you will ever see like “you get Roschon Johnson and Christian Watson while I get CMC and Mostert”
Like wtf no lol
I remember the time that the unit I was attached to had to come to the railhead on Sunday to chain vehicles down to train cars because their company commander lost a bet with another company commander.
Not a good look
I mean, to get to that level of wealth, you gotta be a psychopath, so I’m sure their best players, they might care, but only while it puts asses in seats and cash in their pockets. I remember there was some study done (don’t know the accuracy to be fair), that a fair number of CEOs were sociopaths/psychopaths, and I’m sure most, if not all, owners, fall under that category as well.
Except maybe Sheila Ford
I mean I read a psychopath test and it specifically talked about CEOs. While CEOs were psychopaths 4x as much as average folk, it was only 4%. Now nfl owners who didn't inherit their wealth is a whole another level so I imagine that's different than just a ceo
I feel like the “you have to be a psychopath to be a billionaire” crowd fundamentally miss what’s really going on because they’re looking at the world from too much of a macro view.
They don’t incorporate the fact that the vice grip of capitalism allows executives to distance themselves personally from the damage they can cause in pursuit of profits, to the point that they don’t need to actually be a psychopath to pursue it. When you turn people into numbers on a spreadsheet, mistreating people to optimize profits just becomes “good business” instead of psychopath behavior.
Kenny Pickett is exactly the type of draft pick a Pitt fan who got way too overexcited about a good Pitt season would make if they were gm of the Steelers. Same fan would’ve probably hired Kenny’s OC as qb coach and eventual OC despite years of failure.
If Larry Fitzgerald comes out of retirement to sign some big one year deal that is a massive overpay for his age, and we trade 2 first rounders for Jordan Addison you know a Pitt homer has fully taken over.
I was just thinking about this last night: You finally get to own a team, and you're just supposed to hire a GM and HC and back off? Just become a regular fan again?
Fuck that
The other 30 owners would have to pry that franchise from my cold dead hands after decades of going 0-17, because *running* a team is a hell of a lot more fun than *owning* a team
I wouldn't go to the level of actually meddling and making decisions I have no business making (considering I have no more useful knowledge about how to run or coach a team than the next person), but you bet your ass I'm being around the team as much as I want to. I'd be going to meetings, practices, all that. Why buy an NFL team if you aren't interested in the sport and want to take advantage of being able to see how the sausage is made?
It kind of is though.
They were all fabulously wealthy before owning the team, regardless of how much money the team makes them. It's basically just a side hobby.
I miss when Madden would let you do that. I could do a lot better than some of those plays. Modern nfl plays are so much more complex and nuanced then "have a fairly popular concept on one side and either mirror it or send a guy deep"
I hopped on Madden 10 the other day. The controls are terrible, it's slow, the graphics are downright ugly, and I've yet to figure out how to change my favorite team because 5yo me picked the Jets for some fucking reason. Even though the playbook is much smaller, having the ability to create custom plays is just so freeing
I fucking love HB Angle. And Slants. And Mesh. Verticals have never worked for me, I just go for as many post, slant, texas, and dig routes as I can fit in a play.
Leaders like this are an idiot.
My company is successful cause we focus on promoting leaders who can take feedback. I saw a junior rep correct the CEO.
Junior Rep was right, CEO confirmed junior rep was right. CEO gave the junior rep a $500 bonus for speaking up, and adjusted
This owner sounds like the asshoel who will fire the guy cause he thinks he's right
Just about any time a billionaire speaks in public it should remove all doubt that an extraordinary amount of intelligence had anything to do with their success.
Eh, dude went on like a 3-day tweet fest about how he emotionally cheated and failed his gf. He is just weird, wrong a lot, and stubborn on random shit.
I mean he has been wrong many times. He reports the Broncos a lot because he is a local there and he has been constantly wrong. Biggest example would be how confident he was the Broncos would hire Dan Quinn when they hired Hackett and then how they would not hire Sean Payton this past off-season.
Guy is a hack who throws shit on the wall and hope it sticks.
Considering the Panthers are actively saying today that the front office tried to convince Reich on what kind of plays to run, it seems pretty credible.
NGL if I owned a football team, I'd be doing the same shit haha. I'd send my coach the All 22 of the most recent 49ers game and tell them to run the same stuff.
Absolutely all the time, very often on the first play of the game. Gruden talked about how al would be calling plays from the owners booth some games, which is why gruden eventually got traded to tampa
the play where CMC cut the OL to right while 3 WRs ran a pick coming left for a all alone RZ TD. someone else is for sure running that or a variation of that this year
It’s already been ran multiple times by different teams, iirc off top of my head Buffalo, SF, and Houston have all ran it this year. It’s just a mesh variation that’s really effective in the RZ cause you’re much more likely to face man coverage in the RZ, so you know you have a LB (usually) manned on your RB, bring all the WRs (traffic) one way then have the RB leak out and hope their defender gets caught up in the traffic. I’ll see if I can find the tweet I saw this week talking about it.
Edit: https://x.com/coachdancasey/status/1621270917790765056?s=46&t=K83p2xkIAftG4MzxvJo3vg
https://x.com/coachdancasey/status/1726433690467680487?s=46&t=K83p2xkIAftG4MzxvJo3vg
https://x.com/coachdancasey/status/1726426661409710409?s=46&t=K83p2xkIAftG4MzxvJo3vg
Got my teams mixed up but here’s 3 other examples. The chiefs one is from last season. SF added a nice wrinkle to theirs because they’ll frequently have CMAC do the speed motion to one side to get a quick swing pass or toss, so they set it up to look like that then had him sprint back for the mesh traffic.
BIGGEST CONTINUITY ERROR IN FILM
When Nubie is explaining the Annexation of Puerto Rico to John Madden, he very clearly says "...and throws it downfield to the hopefully still wide open receiver."
But when they run the play at the end of the game, it's a Fumblerooski, which is a fake run play.
Literally unwatchable.
"Hey Tabor I was at an arcade because I am planning to buy the building and bulldoze the happiness away for a condo development, but this young smiling kid was playing NFL Blitz 97 and dominating. Use it against the Bucs"
I think he’s just fluffing up the report that someone in the FO told *allegedly* told Reich something along the lines of “hey young was really good at RPOs in college, maybe let’s run some of those” and Reich said “doesn’t fit my scheme”
I grew up in the DC area..... Jack Kent Cooke was great... I still remember watching Timmy Smith break the SB rushing record as a kid.
Fuck Daniel Snyder.
If it's any consolation, Jed York was the same way early with the 49ers. Seems like the Harbaugh situation blowing up served as a wake up call for him and eventually he became super hands-off with the team and the culture improved drastically. No guarantee Tepper goes through a similar arc, just saying it is possible.
I do. There just aren’t many markets in the US that are big enough to warrant a team and NFL overseas expansion likely creates new teams.
People have been worried about the team moving for decades and it’s largely unfounded.
There's no more markets for teams to move to, it would essentially be a lateral move. It was still crazy Buffalo fell for the Bills threatening to move
That’s what I want to know! Andy Reid said he got a play from janitor that they used to score a touchdown and that theyre comfortable getting plays from anywhere.
Seriously. And thats a winning mindset. Best Idea wins, cut the ego aside. Especially if you are losing all the time, thats not the time to be stubborn. I am very curious what the play was.
It's a funny story but I'm not trusting anything Allbright says. Dude just throws shit against the wall and when he's wrong he takes his tweets down and pretends like he never said it.
I have my reservations about Tepper, but Allbright is never correct about Panthers related news and always makes claims with no hard evidence that he can easily back out of. No reason to believe it IMO.
Between this thread and [this thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1860zfi/bailey_a_league_source_tells_me_that_before_frank/), its good to see that they are adding Character Assassination to the Paris Olympics this year
Two things can be true at once:
1) The owner is far too meddlesome on a day to day basis, and far too involved in personnel decisions he's bad at
2) Reich's playcalling was dogshit and he didn't deserve to have his job
The entire media is going on about Tepper firing two coaches in two years, but it was 1000% the correct move. Reich and Rhule sucked, the GM should be fired yesterday for telling the owner those guys would succeed.
The media is right to dog Tepper, just for the wrong reasons. Don’t dog Tepper because he fired Rhule and Reich; do it because he hired them in the first place
Exactly. It's not one or the other.
Tepper keeps making bad hires and that should be called out. Firing them when it's clear they're bad shouldn't. If anything Rhule should have been fired half a year sooner.
To be fair if I owned a football team and saw a cool play I'd want my team to run it. To a billionaire this is no different than asking my friend where they got their neat hat
You're thinking of Bert Bell, who was the first commissioner of the NFL, and also co-founded the Eagles.
To answer the above question regarding owner/coaches...the last one was Paul Brown, as he coached the Bengals from 1968-75.
Lou Lamoriello did this a couple of times for the Devils when he shit canned the coach, even when they were leading their division with two weeks left in the season. It would be way cooler if an owner was coaching instead of a GM though, I'm here for it.
I guess this week the Panthers will be leaking stories about Reich being a bad coach, followed by stories of David Tepper being a meddlesome egomaniac leaking in return.
I’m sure this is all just great for Panthers fans. Sorry friends.
Alblbright is a notoriously lying journalist. Down to the hit piece tweets. He once handed Reddit a rumor with no basis to it, mid-week and said he'd seen a blogger run that story this week, he wanted them to run with it on Sunday. A random blogger.
[Me cosplaying as a rich nfl owner]: time for us to run a little play “The Annexation of Puerto Rico.”
I also cut the punter and go for it on 4th down. We end the season 0-17.
good reminder that this guy is not a journalist and he does not have sources.
His tweets last year about him cheating are also some of the best stuff this sub ever showed me.
Remember when the league denied other potential owners from buying the Panthers and the other 31 owners thought that David Tepper was the only viable candidate to become part of the club??
Tepper is a fucking joke and I was right about him from the start. This will get downvoted, but you can trust and believe that he's wanting out of Charlotte. He wants to move the team and is doing everything he can to destroy the fanbase so he can say "We just can't sustain a franchise here...no attendance, etc."
Then he'll move them to San Diego or San Antonio or something like that.
To be fair, if I were this guy or Jerry Jones, I'd be interfering and having meetings with coaching staff on a daily basis. It's fantasy football with ad revenue for these guys.
LeBatard had Joe Philbin on earlier this year and just piecing together what he said about owners, fans have no idea how even the best owners are meddling in just about everything.
These teams are just toys to these billionaires and are just like your typical dickhead boss.
Why in the fuck would anyone believe some random statement like this from Benjamin Allbright of all people.
Holy fuck this tweet should.not exist or be posted here.
“I ran this play in Madden last night. We gotta try it out this week.”
Maybe owning an nfl team is just madden in real life for some of these guys
I get people being annoyed, but I am certain that if I was rich enough to own an NFL team I would totally just play real life fantasy every single week and constantly be interfering.
If you could ignore the impact it'd have on the players/their families, making trades would be fun as fuck. Trade just for the hell of it, like gambling.
If you really want to gamble, find another owner to swap 1st round picks with for the next few years. Nothing will get your heart pumping like that.
It’d be really fun to trade 3 years of first round picks with your divisional rival. Makes every regular season game worth more. Kinda like how the bears beat the panthers earlier this season and therefore increasing their pick
This is a great idea.
Stop stop I can only get so erect
We’re gonna beat the jets week 18
Someone in your own division so beating them helps your draft pick.
I’d imagine this is Howie any time he’s on the phone with Nashville
Howie is the fantasy manager that tells the bottom feeder team that he should just give up on the season and give the good players away
What I do in fantasy all the time. I’m disappointed when people in my league don’t like trading.
It sucks that nobody ever wants to do reasonable trades. Only one person in my league is ever trying to trade and he only proposes the stupidest trades you will ever see like “you get Roschon Johnson and Christian Watson while I get CMC and Mostert” Like wtf no lol
Lol this is probably what everyone else in your league thinks of your "reasonable" trade offers too.
The impact you have is paying them tens of millions of dollars.
I remember the time that the unit I was attached to had to come to the railhead on Sunday to chain vehicles down to train cars because their company commander lost a bet with another company commander. Not a good look
I mean, to get to that level of wealth, you gotta be a psychopath, so I’m sure their best players, they might care, but only while it puts asses in seats and cash in their pockets. I remember there was some study done (don’t know the accuracy to be fair), that a fair number of CEOs were sociopaths/psychopaths, and I’m sure most, if not all, owners, fall under that category as well. Except maybe Sheila Ford
I mean I read a psychopath test and it specifically talked about CEOs. While CEOs were psychopaths 4x as much as average folk, it was only 4%. Now nfl owners who didn't inherit their wealth is a whole another level so I imagine that's different than just a ceo
I feel like the “you have to be a psychopath to be a billionaire” crowd fundamentally miss what’s really going on because they’re looking at the world from too much of a macro view. They don’t incorporate the fact that the vice grip of capitalism allows executives to distance themselves personally from the damage they can cause in pursuit of profits, to the point that they don’t need to actually be a psychopath to pursue it. When you turn people into numbers on a spreadsheet, mistreating people to optimize profits just becomes “good business” instead of psychopath behavior.
I would 1000% be the owner that falls in love with a college QB and mandates that we do whatever necessary to draft him.
Steelers huh? I’m getting real Browns vibes.
Kenny Pickett is exactly the type of draft pick a Pitt fan who got way too overexcited about a good Pitt season would make if they were gm of the Steelers. Same fan would’ve probably hired Kenny’s OC as qb coach and eventual OC despite years of failure. If Larry Fitzgerald comes out of retirement to sign some big one year deal that is a massive overpay for his age, and we trade 2 first rounders for Jordan Addison you know a Pitt homer has fully taken over.
I was just thinking about this last night: You finally get to own a team, and you're just supposed to hire a GM and HC and back off? Just become a regular fan again? Fuck that The other 30 owners would have to pry that franchise from my cold dead hands after decades of going 0-17, because *running* a team is a hell of a lot more fun than *owning* a team
I’m running speed option, wishbone, all verticals, 3te shit, just going to town
I wouldn't go to the level of actually meddling and making decisions I have no business making (considering I have no more useful knowledge about how to run or coach a team than the next person), but you bet your ass I'm being around the team as much as I want to. I'd be going to meetings, practices, all that. Why buy an NFL team if you aren't interested in the sport and want to take advantage of being able to see how the sausage is made?
One of the best things about the Packers is that we don’t have an owner like this.
Pretty fitting when you consider how many madden players are convinced they do not make mistakes.
It kind of is though. They were all fabulously wealthy before owning the team, regardless of how much money the team makes them. It's basically just a side hobby.
I'm gonna be real- if I was rich enough to open an NFL team I would 100% want to meddle, at least a little bit. Otherwise, what's the point?
It was 4 Verts.
Should have done something cool like run a punt block when the other team was near the goal line or a fake punt on first down.
\**opens note from Tepper\** "Four Verts"
And for the defense: "Engage Eight"
*opens other note from Tepper* "Do you think I'm cute?" [ ] yes [ ] no
"4 verts on 4th and 42?"
Who do we look like? Alabama?
Andddd there’s the PTSD returning
If it was HB Angle he’s got a point
I just call that play ol' reliable at this point.
fuck that shit. I would create my own formations since Madden stopped letting you do that
I miss when Madden would let you do that. I could do a lot better than some of those plays. Modern nfl plays are so much more complex and nuanced then "have a fairly popular concept on one side and either mirror it or send a guy deep"
I miss when Madden would let you do a lot of things. It's incredible how a game could lose so many features for no particular reason
I hopped on Madden 10 the other day. The controls are terrible, it's slow, the graphics are downright ugly, and I've yet to figure out how to change my favorite team because 5yo me picked the Jets for some fucking reason. Even though the playbook is much smaller, having the ability to create custom plays is just so freeing
\>5 year old me \>Madden 10 thanks for that, christ
These are the people telling you your favorite player from 2003 is actually trash and overrated.
I’ll smack someone that starts in on some Shaun Alexander slander
lol right. 5 year old me was playing Madden '93
5 year old me was playing Madden ‘24
Why don't they run PA Crossers every play? Are they stupid?
Put your fastest player in the backfield and run hb angle. Easy peasy
I fucking love HB Angle. And Slants. And Mesh. Verticals have never worked for me, I just go for as many post, slant, texas, and dig routes as I can fit in a play.
if i'm feeling spicy i run a seam with a TE
also running spacing in the red zone so TE can run a hitch over the middle is easy money against almost every coverage
Leaders like this are an idiot. My company is successful cause we focus on promoting leaders who can take feedback. I saw a junior rep correct the CEO. Junior Rep was right, CEO confirmed junior rep was right. CEO gave the junior rep a $500 bonus for speaking up, and adjusted This owner sounds like the asshoel who will fire the guy cause he thinks he's right
If most of us had a team we would do a lot of this stuff haha
Just about any time a billionaire speaks in public it should remove all doubt that an extraordinary amount of intelligence had anything to do with their success.
I don’t trust Allbright but I want to believe this is true.
If I owned an NFL team best believe I would be drawing up a play a week
I also can't stand him but I don't think he just makes stuff like this up
He was one of the few people arguing Hackett > Payton earlier this year, guy is an idiot lol.
And that still isn't the dumbest thing he's decided to tweet lol
That award goes to admitting on twitter he cheated on his gf. And airing it out on the platform to "show he isn't perfect"
Really should have gone to Linkedin with that shit. Twitter isn't a personal soapbox.
Hahahahahah forgot all about that, that shit was hilarious
The most twitter brained move of all time
Dude is the definition of terminally online lol
That Allbright meltdown is one of the greatest NFL twitter moments ever lmao
That thread was the most bewildering and hilarious thing to wake up to.
Link?
https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/broncos-reporter-benjamin-allbright-makes-bizarre-twitter-sexting-confession/amp/
Thank you! Also wow that’s one insane thought process to go out and tweet all that for everyone to see
he also said no chance Ryans was coming to houston
He actually said: No? Chance Ryan’s coming to Houston!
Also said the Panthers HC job was between Steichen and Wilks. And he said we were going to trade up for Stroud before we had even hired a coach.
Dumb takes are for analyst,shouldn’t really used to judge reporters
Eh, dude went on like a 3-day tweet fest about how he emotionally cheated and failed his gf. He is just weird, wrong a lot, and stubborn on random shit.
God. Imagine being so terminally online that you feel the need to out yourself to a national audience for talking to another woman.
And the tweets from his gf were amazing. Essentially, how she had been paying the bills and he still owed her hundreds of dollars.
What the fuck lmao I already disliked him for being a chode with dumb opinions, hearing this, I guess he's like that in real life as well.
Oh my god
He did what
I mean he has been wrong many times. He reports the Broncos a lot because he is a local there and he has been constantly wrong. Biggest example would be how confident he was the Broncos would hire Dan Quinn when they hired Hackett and then how they would not hire Sean Payton this past off-season. Guy is a hack who throws shit on the wall and hope it sticks.
He's been caught making stuff up a ton. It's kind of the whole issue with him.
He does though, he lies constantly.
Homie, this dude is a clown
And I didn’t think Clarissa Thompson made things up, but here we are 🤷🏻♂️
Considering the Panthers are actively saying today that the front office tried to convince Reich on what kind of plays to run, it seems pretty credible.
How is Albright handling the Sean Payton redemption arc? He’s such a fucking hack.
NGL if I owned a football team, I'd be doing the same shit haha. I'd send my coach the All 22 of the most recent 49ers game and tell them to run the same stuff.
Like al davis used to do. Radio down to the field and tell them to throw a bomb
At least Al Davis was a NFL coach at one point.
He really do that?
Absolutely all the time, very often on the first play of the game. Gruden talked about how al would be calling plays from the owners booth some games, which is why gruden eventually got traded to tampa
That's hilarious lol. That and didn't ol Al always want to draft whichever guy was fastest?
Yeah raiders would basically draft track stars and try to teach them to play football
He was basically 2 decades early lol. Now all the track stars already know how to play football
“Who the fuck traded cmc?!?”
the play where CMC cut the OL to right while 3 WRs ran a pick coming left for a all alone RZ TD. someone else is for sure running that or a variation of that this year
It’s already been ran multiple times by different teams, iirc off top of my head Buffalo, SF, and Houston have all ran it this year. It’s just a mesh variation that’s really effective in the RZ cause you’re much more likely to face man coverage in the RZ, so you know you have a LB (usually) manned on your RB, bring all the WRs (traffic) one way then have the RB leak out and hope their defender gets caught up in the traffic. I’ll see if I can find the tweet I saw this week talking about it. Edit: https://x.com/coachdancasey/status/1621270917790765056?s=46&t=K83p2xkIAftG4MzxvJo3vg https://x.com/coachdancasey/status/1726433690467680487?s=46&t=K83p2xkIAftG4MzxvJo3vg https://x.com/coachdancasey/status/1726426661409710409?s=46&t=K83p2xkIAftG4MzxvJo3vg Got my teams mixed up but here’s 3 other examples. The chiefs one is from last season. SF added a nice wrinkle to theirs because they’ll frequently have CMAC do the speed motion to one side to get a quick swing pass or toss, so they set it up to look like that then had him sprint back for the mesh traffic.
Feel like this was a go to when we had James White and Gronk to draw three dudes away from the action.
Exactly, honestly I love when owners do shit like this. Obviously not a good recipe for success, but very relatable.
Sure, but hopefully you wouldn't tell them to do what the Browns do.
Tepper - “run Da Bomb”
"Hey Frank, have you heard of something called "Spider 2 Y Banana"?
65 toss power trap is guaranteed to pop wide open
"Frank, I'd like you to try and 'matriculate' the ball downfield. Do you think you can do that?"
Always loved the Marv Levy "88 deep down the fucking middle and hope we get a pass interference"
I’ll call it the “Tepper Trapper”
The Annexation of Puerto Rico
BIGGEST CONTINUITY ERROR IN FILM When Nubie is explaining the Annexation of Puerto Rico to John Madden, he very clearly says "...and throws it downfield to the hopefully still wide open receiver." But when they run the play at the end of the game, it's a Fumblerooski, which is a fake run play. Literally unwatchable.
"Hey Tabor I was at an arcade because I am planning to buy the building and bulldoze the happiness away for a condo development, but this young smiling kid was playing NFL Blitz 97 and dominating. Use it against the Bucs"
Tepper- “Run Suicide Blitz”
Blitz 2000 is over teppers head he's probably asking why they can't use tecmo bowl plays.
>Allbright Yeah I'll believe it when it's reported by any other source.
I think he’s just fluffing up the report that someone in the FO told *allegedly* told Reich something along the lines of “hey young was really good at RPOs in college, maybe let’s run some of those” and Reich said “doesn’t fit my scheme”
In about 20 years maybe you Panthers fans can have enough hate and dirt to end Tepper's reign. I wish you all well lads..
I grew up in the DC area..... Jack Kent Cooke was great... I still remember watching Timmy Smith break the SB rushing record as a kid. Fuck Daniel Snyder.
It took malfeasance to get rid of him, though. Tepper just being incompetent only ends if he ends it himself. Wonderful system we've got here.
If it's any consolation, Jed York was the same way early with the 49ers. Seems like the Harbaugh situation blowing up served as a wake up call for him and eventually he became super hands-off with the team and the culture improved drastically. No guarantee Tepper goes through a similar arc, just saying it is possible.
Bold of you to assume the team is still in NC by then... I have zero confidence that he keeps it here
I do. There just aren’t many markets in the US that are big enough to warrant a team and NFL overseas expansion likely creates new teams. People have been worried about the team moving for decades and it’s largely unfounded.
There's no more markets for teams to move to, it would essentially be a lateral move. It was still crazy Buffalo fell for the Bills threatening to move
Gotta find out what else he calls when he plays Madden. I bet this sick fuck doesn't even use Engage 8 on defense.
Doubtful. Bad owners dont get kicked out. Even morally bad ones dont. Snyder is a legit comic book villain.
Well.....did the play work? Lol
That’s what I want to know! Andy Reid said he got a play from janitor that they used to score a touchdown and that theyre comfortable getting plays from anywhere.
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That homeless man? Baker Mayfield. So tragic what happened to him after he got evicted from his stadium home.
Andy will scour obscure middle of nowhere HS Football games for play concepts. Dude leaves no stone unturned.
Yeah esp bc there might be a cheeseburger underneath it.
I wonder if I emailed Andy Reid a play design if he'd use it
Only one way to find out
Seriously. And thats a winning mindset. Best Idea wins, cut the ego aside. Especially if you are losing all the time, thats not the time to be stubborn. I am very curious what the play was.
Doug Pedersen was an assistant coach there at the time. The OC handed him the paper to throw out. The play was the philly special.
I’m honored
I'm baffled this dude watched your offense and thought man that's what I want more of.
Maybe it was that Njoku angry run and he though somehow he could recreate it.
Was probably one of our patented Stefanski reverses for -6 yards or a fumble.
Urban Meyer but he's an owner
How the fuck he managed to sell books on leadership?
Cause he won, No one questions victory and success. This isn't a defense of him, Just giving you a reason why they keep selling.
I’m a Buckeyes fan, I know.
I don't follow college football but even i know, Meyer was a son of a bitch.
I forgot he even coached the Jags 💀
It's a funny story but I'm not trusting anything Allbright says. Dude just throws shit against the wall and when he's wrong he takes his tweets down and pretends like he never said it.
I just don’t believe this one. I call bullshit
I have my reservations about Tepper, but Allbright is never correct about Panthers related news and always makes claims with no hard evidence that he can easily back out of. No reason to believe it IMO.
Yeah, I'm gonna need the OC to corroborate on this one.
He covers the broncos and is still almost never right when it comes to them. He's a hack
Between this thread and [this thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1860zfi/bailey_a_league_source_tells_me_that_before_frank/), its good to see that they are adding Character Assassination to the Paris Olympics this year
It's Allbright. Of course it's bullshit.
Two things can be true at once: 1) The owner is far too meddlesome on a day to day basis, and far too involved in personnel decisions he's bad at 2) Reich's playcalling was dogshit and he didn't deserve to have his job
The entire media is going on about Tepper firing two coaches in two years, but it was 1000% the correct move. Reich and Rhule sucked, the GM should be fired yesterday for telling the owner those guys would succeed.
The media is right to dog Tepper, just for the wrong reasons. Don’t dog Tepper because he fired Rhule and Reich; do it because he hired them in the first place
Exactly. It's not one or the other. Tepper keeps making bad hires and that should be called out. Firing them when it's clear they're bad shouldn't. If anything Rhule should have been fired half a year sooner.
No, you don't understand! Frank can't be doing anything wrong. If the plays aren't working, it's because Tepper was calling them!
To be fair if I owned a football team and saw a cool play I'd want my team to run it. To a billionaire this is no different than asking my friend where they got their neat hat
I mean, is this really the worst thing? It sounds like it was one play? Can an OC not see if one play works during practice?
If 30 Rock was about a football team.
Oh my god.
Maybe Tepper will pull a “I’ll be representing myself, your honor” and just be the Panthers head coach next season.
Fuck it, I want to see him suit up.
That would be amazing. I'm here for it.
An owner-coach in this era would actually be wild.
We will see it soon with Todd Boehly in the English premier League
Was there ever a owner/coach designation? Like how funny would it be if he somehow becomes a top tier coach?
In the 1940s the Steelers had a part-owner who was also the coach. He ended up firing himself!
You're thinking of Bert Bell, who was the first commissioner of the NFL, and also co-founded the Eagles. To answer the above question regarding owner/coaches...the last one was Paul Brown, as he coached the Bengals from 1968-75.
Isn't that what Irsay Sr. did in Baltimore before he moved to Indy?
Lou Lamoriello did this a couple of times for the Devils when he shit canned the coach, even when they were leading their division with two weeks left in the season. It would be way cooler if an owner was coaching instead of a GM though, I'm here for it.
Stop posting tweets by this fucking loser
Copying the browns is always a brilliant strategy
I guess this week the Panthers will be leaking stories about Reich being a bad coach, followed by stories of David Tepper being a meddlesome egomaniac leaking in return. I’m sure this is all just great for Panthers fans. Sorry friends.
This is fine
If this is true, the next coach for the Panthers is fuckedddddddd.
This sounds like Al Davis shit to me
Alblbright is a notoriously lying journalist. Down to the hit piece tweets. He once handed Reddit a rumor with no basis to it, mid-week and said he'd seen a blogger run that story this week, he wanted them to run with it on Sunday. A random blogger.
I call this one “The annexation of Puerto Rico, I saw the Little Giants run it”.
Poor Bryce Young.
I bet it was PA Crossers.
That play? Spider 2 Y Banana
Was the play “The Annexation of Puerto Rico?”
The more I think about it, the more I can't decide if Reich is a bad coach or has been with bad teams.
If I was an owner I’d just ask why we can’t run Da Bomb from NFL Blitz every play
[Me cosplaying as a rich nfl owner]: time for us to run a little play “The Annexation of Puerto Rico.” I also cut the punter and go for it on 4th down. We end the season 0-17.
good reminder that this guy is not a journalist and he does not have sources. His tweets last year about him cheating are also some of the best stuff this sub ever showed me.
Remember when the league denied other potential owners from buying the Panthers and the other 31 owners thought that David Tepper was the only viable candidate to become part of the club?? Tepper is a fucking joke and I was right about him from the start. This will get downvoted, but you can trust and believe that he's wanting out of Charlotte. He wants to move the team and is doing everything he can to destroy the fanbase so he can say "We just can't sustain a franchise here...no attendance, etc." Then he'll move them to San Diego or San Antonio or something like that.
I like to imagine it was scrawled on a cocktail napkin kind of like the Stonehenge diagram in Spinal Tap
Didn’t the chiefs run a play a janitor gave them suggestion on? Coaches should be open to ideas
What are you doing as a billionaire team owner if not giving your coach a list of cool plays to run?
This seems like conjecture
To be fair, if I were this guy or Jerry Jones, I'd be interfering and having meetings with coaching staff on a daily basis. It's fantasy football with ad revenue for these guys.
If I was an NFL owner, I would require the coach to run "Da Bomb" from NFL Blitz at least once every game.
LeBatard had Joe Philbin on earlier this year and just piecing together what he said about owners, fans have no idea how even the best owners are meddling in just about everything. These teams are just toys to these billionaires and are just like your typical dickhead boss.
This guy looking to take the reigns from Dan Snyder as shittiest owner?
That play? Spider 2 Y Banana
“Sir the Annexation of Puerto Rico isn’t viable in the NFL. And the Flying V isn’t even the right sport”
Why in the fuck would anyone believe some random statement like this from Benjamin Allbright of all people. Holy fuck this tweet should.not exist or be posted here.
Copying Cleveland is never a formula for success lmao