03-25-2020, 09:11 PM
(03-25-2020, 07:12 PM)Whatever Wrote: This probably partly the case, but it's likely a combination of factors.
I would say that Mike was probably not comfortable with throwing around a ton of money last off-season due to the uncertain labor climate. With a new CBA in place, he now knows what he's dealing with for the foreseeable future.
He likely also was unsure last year on how much of the issue was with the scheme/coaches and how much was with the players. They changed coaches and still got poor results, so logically the roster had issues. Contrary to popular belief, Mikey has been spending for awhile, but it's primarily been to retain our good players. When you don't have a lot of good young players to resign because you haven't drafted well, that logically means you start spending on outside players.
A possibility is also that they planned to tank the season for a QB from the outset, though it was likely originally Tua and not Burrow if that was the case. There are things that line up with that realm of thinking. AJ sitting all year a sprained ankle. Glenn sitting a big chunk of the year with a self reported concussion even though league doctors cleared him. Players mysteriously retiring. The fact that they won their first game when they had a 2 game cushion for the #1 pick and won the second when it was locked up.
It's likely Mike wanted a coach that embraced analytics simply because Chris Collinsworth owns PFF and the two are known to have a good relationship. Collinsworth would be a guy that Mikey would trust that would broach those kinds of ideas with him. Marvin was very against analytics, openly scoffing at them in pressers. It's been said by other owners and GM's that Mike has a dollar value and a trade value in his head for every player on the roster. For a guy who's already assigning those kinds of number values to players, tools which assign values to players would seemingly be something that would be embraced.
I like your comments about Collinsworth. Do you know if he's an actual consultant to Mike Brown or not?
In regards to your comments about tanking the season from the onset, to me, they are preposterous and conjecture all the way. The reports were that they hired Taylor b/c he was 100% on board with Dalton as their starting QB and could win with him at the helm. From the onset, no one knew AJ would get hurt in the first practice, Glenn sitting out several games, and you certainly don't go out and tell your players to "tank" or don't play hard b/c we want to draft Tua #1. It's just so ridiculous it's laughable.
