2025 NFL Season Thread: Can Uncle Rico save the Broncos or will they be Nixed?

Brady?

Actually what about Rivers? Did Colts release him?

Yeah TJ I think Stefanski is a good get.

Kind of surprised he took the job tbh - you’d have thought scratching around without a QB for 5 years was enough for him

Stefanski to Falcons rumored soon to be official.

I’m cautiously optimistic, and keeping an open mind.

I’d rather have him than whatever the hotshot coordinator flavor of the month is.

5th-time retread Sam Darnold is going to win a Super Bowl ffs. Just goes to show that much of the QB eval / development drama is narrative-driven bullshit.

Rapoport reporting Stefanski is likely to retain Ulbrich as the OC.

I like it, for continuity

Yeah I’m still not entirely sure what the plan for QB is. Or even which outcome I’m rooting for.

The 40M a year Cousins, who can’t move?

Or the young guy who’s now had 5 season-ending injuries, between his college and pro careers.

Penix is a sunk cost. They’ll have to cut or trade Cousins, then sign a vet back up and draft someone in later rounds I’d guess

I’m a little surprised they signed the head coach before the GM.

Usually when teams clean house, they get the GM first, so the whole front office is simpático on the direction forward.

I guess making Matt Ryan president of football ops stands in for that decision.

I didn’t like the Penix pick when it happened. I’m willing to chalk that up to the list of unforgivable sins the previous administration made. In addition to trading this coming year’s 1st.

:(

So Cousins, or a bridge through 26, then figure out a long term QB, seems like the blueprint for a multi-year rebuild.

just trade for Tua.

Thread title needs updating. You know we won't hear from Dom for a while.

Cousins will be cut by 3/13/26. He’s guaranteed $67.9 mil for 2027 if not.

They’ll sign some backup vet to start the year, then Penix will get a chance when he’s healthy. Penix could be the best QB Stefanski has had. Plus the weapons.

But also very live to draft a QB in 2027.

2025 NFL Season Thread: Now with 400% More Josh Allen Tears

The worst thing for the Bills future is that they did just enough to not get McDermott fired.

Imagine thinking McDermott should be fired and not, say, the GM.

I dont think he is a pioneering coach but he is clearly decent and got this team with a WR Corps that would only be slightly downgraded if you put me and SRM after 5 LIITs in there within a crazy INT of the AFC CG despite coughing up the ball FIVE times

They both suck

Don’t you dare question Beane about the WRs.

They need Mickey in there to find some top 100 guys.

Not an Allen or Bills hater, I really thought they had it all the way until they didn't.

But Lamar would have gotten ROASTED for that game. Could've easily fooled me if Bills were wearing Ravens colours. Nobody will convince me that Allen is any different until one of them can bag a ring.

I don't think we'll ever see another QB who is simultaneously as talented and as dumb as Josh Allen

This thread thinks essentially every single NFL HC is an idiot.

he simply shouldn't try to play with god mode activatetd the entire time, yet he often has to

Pats -4.5 seems free next week.