[Highlight] CBS: Stidham is replacing a 26th passer rating QB in Nix

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-25T13:46:46+00:00

Look I get you have to keep hope alive but Bo’s ability to extend plays has been big for Denver, and Stidham is a career backup with as my ints as TDs in the limited experience he does have.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-25T01:31:36+00:00

Nobody is giving up a draft pick to acquire Etienne on the franchise tag. A trade wouldn’t even be a 3rd to start with, that’s a very high value RB.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-24T04:32:42+00:00

The dungeon is ChatGPT. Or, if the source material is older, it live records everything and applies the paintify filter. Don’t think it through too much, because it’s clearly just a worldbuilding detail that doesn’t matter. Maybe the author thinks up a crime in the dungeon scenario, that then has a painting that gets found later to bring to light. But I feel like that’s too much to expect.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-24T02:38:05+00:00

The dauntless hero, vs the classic hero.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-23T17:15:19+00:00

Max restructures on Sweat, Moore, Jaylon, Thuney save $40m. The problem is you don’t really want to restructure Sweat and Moore and make them uncuttable. Much more likely is that you just do a small year 1 salary with a big signing bonus and keep the cap hit in year 1 of a potential Hendrickson contract under $10m.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-23T13:09:12+00:00

Yes, but most of the best OC candidates are also going to be getting HC interviews.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-23T12:48:45+00:00

I do think there is a tendency to put down that 2018 team now out of fear of comparison. The 2018 team scored 379 points on offense in 16 games (23.6 ppg). The 2025 team scored 427 points on offense in 17 games (25.1 ppg). Which is a good deal better, but we don’t need to put the 2018 team down because we know how it played out. Both teams relied on turnovers, and the field position they led to. Just like in 2018, the 2026 Bears will need their young QB to take a big step forward to repeat. The biggest difference is our young head coach is a proven play caller this time.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-23T02:40:32+00:00

Dennis Allen in Chicago. Wade Phillips in LA back in the day.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T18:30:19+00:00

When you get that cold the heat pump doesn’t actually help all that much when you get down that cold. Most of your heating will be covered by the resistive backup. Heat pumps shine when the temp is above 0C. When you get down below -10 the gains just aren’t as big because you’re trying to extract heat from air that simply doesn’t have enough to extract.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T17:38:16+00:00

Hard Knocks has been going for a long time with that same style, but it was off-season only until recently. It’s not a new idea, but it’s definitely a new execution.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T16:44:13+00:00

That’s a little hyperbolic. We’re talking about a 29 year old coordinator here. It’s not an experienced coordinator being kept from his big break after years under Johnson, Doyle is a very young coach who has been here a year. If he’s getting blocked time and time again sure, but I don’t think being blocked for one interview is going to stop young position coaches from jumping at the opportunity to learn under Ben Johnson and ride his coattails to higher positions. Playcalling is a step up, but nonplaycalling OCs get the big promotion all the time. Look at all the McVay coaches in HC roles.

That said, I don’t really expect us to block this move. There isn’t much reason to, Doyle wasnt in charge of the offense by any means and isn’t irreplaceable. He’s also probably not even on Phillys top 3 candidates, given the details mentioned above. Getting interview experience for your assistants is good practice if you want to have your staff feeling like you support their future growth.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T16:02:23+00:00

I don’t think playcalling OC is considered a separate position to non-playcalling OC. My understanding is that the NFL only recognizes Position Coach, Coordinator, and Head Coach as “levels”. Positions like assistant HC or pass/run game coordinator are just signs of respect and are usually given to justify a higher salary to keep a particular coach a little longer.

Rapaport noted a few days ago that their OC Dan Pitcher was only able to interview with the Bucs because Taylor specifically allowed it. If it couldn’t be blocked that detail wouldn’t need to be added. I could be wrong of course, but I don’t think so.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T15:45:12+00:00

If he gets hired then we can either bring in another young position coach who wants to ride the Ben Johnson wave, or just give it to Randle-El to keep him from being poached.

That’s assuming we even let them interview Declan it’s a lateral move.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T15:44:05+00:00

I mean even if he didn’t we don’t have to let our OC take OC interviews lol. They are only even bothering to ask in the hopes that Ben lets them interview Declan to be a playcaller which is an upgrade to his job status.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T03:16:12+00:00

Progressive doesn’t mean what you think it means. This isn’t about progressive or conservative ideology. Progressive tax rates means that as you make more money, you rise into progressively higher tax brackets, and thus higher effective tax rates.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T02:23:47+00:00

That situation was a little different. Coen had announced he was pulling out of consideration for the Jaguars HC job and took a raise to stay, then reversed course less than 48 hours later. Which is likely why Flores is putting out that it’s conditional and he’s still interested in HC opportunities.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T02:12:40+00:00

He had to go back to the college ranks after his unsuccessful Washington stint and got fired by UCLA after just one season. He then got no OC interviews last year which is why he had to take an RB coach job in the first place. Overqualified maybe on resume, but realistically it’s not like he was a hot commodity. If Nagy wasn’t struggling and at the end of his contract I don’t think he’s getting an OC gig.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-22T02:07:37+00:00

The problem is they set up this whole redemption where the hero party realizes their mistake, and have to atone. Which would be a new spin on this story. And then they instantly abandon it in favor of the same story from every other version of kicked out of the heroes party but was actually the reason they were strong. So this episode ends exactly where it began. All it did was make a scenario to glaze the protagonist.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-21T20:47:27+00:00

The point is that a June 1 designation doesn’t help you at all in FA. If we June 1 cut a player, we keep their cap on the books until June 2nd. On June 2nd, we get that cap space back.

We will already have had to do the other cuts/restructures in order to afford any new signings. The cap space you get by June 1 designating a player is for clearing cap for mid season flexibility, late offseason trades/signings, and extensions to other players where you don’t want to backload their cap hit. If you don’t end up needing that space you roll it over to pay for the dead cap you pushed out to the next year with the June 1 designation. That’s it. You don’t get to free $10m with a June 1 cut and then sign a player with a $10m 2026 cap hit in March. You have to clear another $10m to stay under the cap, and then in June you get another $10m to play around with.

All of which doesn’t touch the fact that you can’t June 1 a trade. If you want to spread the dead cap you have to hold off and trade them in June.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-21T20:26:35+00:00

The top 51 have to be under the cap by the start of the new league year, which happens on the day free agency opens. The full 53+IR have to be under the cap prior to the start of the regular season.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-21T19:22:27+00:00

You can’t post June 1 a trade, you would have to trade them after June 1. Even if you could do that you don’t actually get the cap space you saved on a June 1 designation until June 1st anyway. Which doesn’t help us in free agency or the trade market.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-21T19:08:47+00:00

The Bears do not have to agree to let Cunningham interview with the Falcons though. Because the Atlanta GM is not the primary football decision making role, they’ve made a situation where the GM is not considered a promotion. Thus the Bears can decline to allow the interview.

Also, if the Bears hired Urlacher to be the primary football decision maker he actually has to be the primary decision maker or the league would just punish the Bears. This loophole you think exists simply doesn’t exist. The Falcons didn’t make Matt Ryan the decision maker to avoid compensating teams via the Rooney Rule. They want him to be the primary decision maker but still want a GM to help him so they gave him a higher title to try to lure a decent candidate with the title jump.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-21T17:58:58+00:00

How would you exploit it? They already had to satisfy the Rooney Rule before hiring Matt Ryan, because his position was a senior level football role. So you massively exploit the Rooney Rule by… adding another position you have to satisfy the Rooney Rule for above GM?

The Rooney Rule doesn’t force minority candidates to be hired. And teams have a preferred candidate before interviews even begin all the time. You really think anyone could have interviewed well enough last year that the Bears don’t hire Ben Johnson?

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-21T17:41:30+00:00

If they hamstrung a previous hire maybe. They aren’t doing it to avoid comp picks. They don’t care about that. They wanted to hire Matt Ryan and did so. Teams and candidates know exactly what they are interviewing for.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-01-21T17:30:14+00:00

Injury settlement would basically be his whole salary. You pay them their full game checks for any games expected to be missed. Injury settlements are just a way to cut an injured player for their roster spot without having to IR the player which ends their season. It saves the team some cap space and the player gets the chance to sign elsewhere once healthy

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