Pete and the Seahawks brass found someone dumb enough to pay a premium for a clearly diminished Wilson? They had maybe 1-2 years left of one-and-done in the playoffs, then Wilson's contract would be up or they'd be stuck waiting until the cap hit was bearable, which is what Denver is set to do now.
No one argued otherwise.
The observation/argument is that it's bullshit that the GM is keeping his job at this point. He decided to both hire Hackett and trade for Wilson. He should absolutely be gone as well, and Wilson gets to hang around and be a punching bag while he counts his money.
Not great odds, but I think OSU probably feels better about their chances this year than they did in 2014 with a 3rd stringer having to take his first start in the CCG and then the playoffs.
Not necessarily reasons they should, but reasons the committee could use:
Clemson - Losing at home to South Carolina and getting crushed on the road by Notre Dame is worse than 2 overtime loses on the road to LSU and Tennessee. Maybe they let Clemson jump Bama if Dabo swears a blood oath not to send DJ back out there as qb.
Tennessee - Barely won the H2H at home with their Heisman candidate qb. Said qb is done for the season with a torn ACL. They are not remotely the same team without him, beating Vandy doesn't mean much.
TCU - Are we really going to pretend brand/ability to pull in a national audience is in the same ballpark here? That's not supposed to matter, but if you want to keep believing that it doesn't, go right ahead.
Because everyone knows the CFP will look for any excuse to leave an undefeated TCU out in favor of a 1 or 2 loss blueblood/semi-blueblood like USC, LSU, tOSU this year?
Yeah, if you're the starting QB for 4 full years at UCLA (covid-shortened year be damned) and you STILL come back for year 5 instead of going into the draft, you've hit your ceiling.
SEC Network announcer doesn't think 6-4 is enough to get Florida into the top-25 this coming week, despite their "big win" over Utah (nevermind that was back in week 1). I guess that counts as being somewhat rational given the source?
Gary Andersen left $12.6 million on the table when he resigned at Oregon State in 2017...then left $2.7 million on the table when he resigned from his 2nd stint at Utah State in 2021. Haven't seen anything about either school having dirt on him.
I assume it's something like analytics arguments that go on in all sports.
One side saying analytics show the one guy clearly cheated.
Other side saying the analytics are being used wrong.
End of the day all of them are nerds.
Agree, but I have no idea how long their window is open with this core. Deebo is a beast, but he gets a ton of usage and I'm not sure how long they can expect him to stay healthy and perform at this level. They already have health issues with Kittle and...basically all their running backs. Unless they're drafting someone ready to go in year 1-2, they're pushing their luck with everyone else being around health or contract-wise.
That's fine. But Trey Lance looked worse than Jimmy G at actually trying to make reads and throws. Not Tim Tebow level, but pretty fucking bad. Miami gonna enjoy another high 1st round draft pick next year.
OU potentially losing at the hands of an ex-Nebraska qb that their fanbase liked to blame instead of their coaching/institutional ineptitude. This could somewhat salvage the day.