Bella*chick
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.1) McDaniels wants to be a HC in the pretty near term. Why else did he go interviewing and then go further and (initially) accept the IND offer?
2) McDaniels has to know that leaving IND at the altar like that is going to make him radioactive. No one is going to want to touch him for years. So that means any HC ambitions he has are dead, dead, dead anywhere other than NE.
3) McDaniels had a guaranteed HC job. So it is very reasonable to expect he's been given assurances about becoming the next HC of the NEP. Would be strange to give up a guaranteed HC job now for a future maybe HC job.
Putting all that together, unless McDaniels has had a massive change in his ambitions, he is expecting to be the head coach here pretty soon, which in turn means that Belichick would be leaving pretty soon.
And we all know how strictly the Rooney Rule is enforced.I agree except for the necessity of complying with the Rooney Rule when the Patriots begin to "look" for a new HC.
I cannot imagine bringing my family up in such a backward facing state. Friggin religious nuts everywhere and crazy folks who are 50 years behind the times, and gun laws that will get your children killed. No thank you!
There are advantages to living in a state that provides some of the greatest education in the country, has progressive laws, and has thoughtful people who call it home.
The paragraph below is from Peter Kings Article. I thought there may be some kind of assurance in his contract that he would be the next head coach. IMO, his relationship with Brady and having to relocate his family kept him in New England. Also, a little extra $$$ is always nice.
That’s a sign that the McDaniels-Patriots marriage got somehow rekindled in a long day of talks in Foxboro. A source close to the story said late Tuesday night that, as part of his agreement to stay in New England, McDaniels got no written assurance that he will succeed the 65-year-old Belichick when he walks away from the job. No one knows when that will be. Belichick will coach at least this year, and at the Super Bowl last week, one longtime Belichick acquaintance said he thought Belichick would coach multiple years in New England, despite the reports of discord between him and Kraft.
The paragraph below is from Peter Kings Article. I thought there may be some kind of assurance in his contract that he would be the next head coach. IMO, his relationship with Brady and having to relocate his family kept him in New England. Also, a little extra $$$ is always nice.
That’s a sign that the McDaniels-Patriots marriage got somehow rekindled in a long day of talks in Foxboro. A source close to the story said late Tuesday night that, as part of his agreement to stay in New England, McDaniels got no written assurance that he will succeed the 65-year-old Belichick when he walks away from the job. No one knows when that will be. Belichick will coach at least this year, and at the Super Bowl last week, one longtime Belichick acquaintance said he thought Belichick would coach multiple years in New England, despite the reports of discord between him and Kraft.
PFT explains it well... it's the Colts that tried to pull a **** move.
Colts should have learned from the Bears’ mess with Dave McGinnis
"On Tuesday the Colts announced that Josh McDaniels would be their next head coach, but by Tuesday night McDaniels had informed them he wasn’t taking the job.
McDaniels never signed a contract with the Colts, never put out a public statement saying he would be the next Colts head coach, and repeatedly refused to answer reporters when they asked him if he’d coach the Colts. So why did the Colts put out the announcement?
Maybe the Colts thought a verbal agreement was good enough. Or maybe the Colts knew that (as PFT reported on Sunday) McDaniels was wavering, and they thought putting out a public announcement would make him feel like he had no choice but to follow through."
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as to the assistant coaches, maybe McDaniels discussed with the Colts who it was he’d like to hire, once (and if) he accepted, and the Colts went and hired them as part of their effort to make him feel like he had no choice but to go there. They were trying to shame him into accepting the job.
It’s not hard to believe that the Colts can be both that incompetent and that sleazy. Look at their drug-addled lying weasel of an owner.
No WRITTEN assurance is different than no assurance. Kraft likely gave McDaniels verbal assurance.
Now need to see BB sign a new three or four year deal to stick it to the media.
The reasoning.. when the media knows your going the narrative never ever changes, we have seen it the last 24hrs. What needs to happen to change that narrative is for BB to sign a three or four year deal, to shut the fcuk up the media stories, the narrative to how they want it. But then still go in a year or two. You see the stories will always be, player x knows BB is done, who gives a bleep about what he says, or BB don't care about the cap, he isn't here next year, you see the narrative could destroy BB's final year if that is even a go and there is evidence it happens.
This happened previously here in England to a and it pains me to say it a great coach who is a bit like BB in Sir Alex Ferguson. He actually came out and said it was his last season and was to retire, what happened was it destroyed the season, players gave up, everyone questioned whether he still had the heart, it meant he didn't leave in a blaze of glory and in the end he changed his mind. Signed a new deal, he didn't want to go out that way. Then whilst in that deal he woke up one morning and announced his retirement without anyone knowing or expecting it. This is how you have to do it, or next season is going to be a car crash for BB.
Control the narrative.
We will see sooner than you think - Detroit is on this year's schedule and it could potentially be on ThanksgivingI think Patricia has a chance to break that.
For one thing, he's got a real QB. And having Quinn there helps a lot.
We will see though. It's Detroit, the bar isn't that high.
No WRITTEN assurance is different than no assurance. Kraft likely gave McDaniels verbal assurance.
Of course St. Dungy feels the need to virtue signal about "your word." Come the F on. I'm triggered.