Hell of a deal straight up.. Recovers the pick traded for Minshew and possibly moves us up a round. Personally I prefer Minshew over Fiacco at this point going forward.
Hidden benefit is that it also might open us up to receiving a 5th for Mills signing with the Pats. I know there was some consternation about losing that pick by signing Fiacco this offseason. Right now we're 2 FA down (Mills and Rudy Ford) and one up (Harris). Ford's contract is borderline, but if Howie sees a way to get a 6th for Harris, knowing that will probably lock in a fifth for Mills, it would be tempting.
Jeffrey Lurie has now hired 5 head coaches, and the one thing that is consistent is he has never hired anyone who has ever been a head coach in the NFL before. In fact, only Chip Kelly had any experience as a HC in college, the other 4 had ever even done that.
Clearly Reid was a huge success, and Pederson was a success based just on winning a SB. The other 2 were failures, Rhodes just seemed over his head and Chip Kelly almost caused a player revolt and took over as GM and decimated the roster. Sirianni is obviously hampered by a poor talent pool, but his choices of coaches was way too slanted in people that had no experience and he seems has been not just losing, but also getting out-schemed and making indecisive mistakes (timeouts because he couldn’t make up his mind what to do, etc).
I certainly am not giving up on Sirianni yet, but Gannon has proven that he is not yet ready to design a defense. Sirianni needs to do something, if he doesn’t, then he is an offensive coordinator, not a Head Coach. And if that is the case, I hope Lurie has learned a lesson also.
I have noticed an oddity about Hurts when he escapes to the right. He always tucks the ball for 5-6 steps and then looks to throw, so there is a “dead” period where he can’t throw the ball.
At least twice today I saw open guys he could have thrown to in this window, but he wasn’t looking to throw. It is almost like he doesn’t exactly scramble, he just relocates to throw or he runs, but it seems like he makes that decision too early. If he can’t find the running land he wants, then he steps back and tries to throw again.
There seem to be some technique things that need to be cleaned up with Hurts, especially when he is on the move. He is horribly inaccurate on the move, I hope (but doubt) that this coaching staff can fix things like this.
Campbell shows why this will be his only season as lions HC. 13 seconds left on Eagles 23, 4th and one. Instead of kicking FG he goes for it (doubtful anything to gain, very unlikely to score TD in 2 plays from 23). Eagles get another sack (despite not blitzing).
I guess ours isn’t the only coaching staff with no idea what they are doing. Might explain how these teams are 2-12.
If Goeddert keeps playing like this they may be forced to Franchise him. I assume they have approached him about an extension, but there has never been any whispers about it.
Not sure how expensive a TE Franchise is, but they may need the extra time to convince him to consider staying. Obviously he may start to be more excited as the #1 TE and with next years picks hopefully the future looks better than the present.
JJAW again out with an injury. I assume he slipped off the bench. He has to be the only WR in the league to play every game and have 0 targets.
https://twitter.com/ben_bot_baldwin/status/14548767562347069449
Kind of harsh to say he should be fired based on this play. Campbell has been better than I expected, but the team is really bad.