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It hasn't been fully investigated yet. They shouldn't take action against him. But if it turns out to be true, he should be gone immediately.

Coach Hot Seat Rankings GOOD AS GONE 1. Jonathan Gannon - Cardinals. Full rebuild coming here. Maybe the Lions can find an O-Lineman for a mid-round draft pick. Kyler Murray will be leaving too (my guess would be for Minnesota). We could see a similar Stafford for Goff type deal with JJ going to the desert with a few draft picks. 2. Raheem Morris, Falcons. They had a nice swansong for him against the Rams, but this dude's been done since midseason and Arthur Blank was just being patient. 3. Pete Carroll, Raiders. Remember when Al Davis was the maverick who spit in the face of the NFL and won (for awhile). Well, his son is the opposite. Horrible owner. How many coaches in how many years? Pete should have walked into the sunset after Seattle. What a story if Gruden came back. It's the Raiders - Never Say Never. 4. Kevin Stefanski, Browns. I don't think it's his fault that the Browns are a mess. It's still because of Deshaun Watson. And they still have to pay him next year. I don't think the greatest coaches of All-Time could have done anything with this mess. HANGING BY A THREAD 5. Zac Taylor, Bengals. The team is too dependent on Joe Burrow. Is it Tay-Tay's fault they struggle? Would be a great choice for Lions OC 6. Todd Bowles, Buccaneers. Injuries played a huge part in the Bucs' collapse. I think he gets one more shot 7. Mike McDaniel, Dolphins. The Pats leapfrogged them big time. I expect the Jets, with a better QB, to close the gap next year. They continued playing hard for him. Tua is a bust with good numbers, but not a real winner. Goff might get that rep pretty soon too. 8. Mike Tomlin, Steelers. It's just stale. But Pittsburgh does not change coaches often and haven't fired one since 1968 and have only had 3 Head Coaches since then. That's amazing. 9. Shane Steichen, Colts. The collapse was brutal. It was a great story, they were the Belle of the Ball until about week 10 - from 8-2 to 8-8 and no playoffs. I think he gets another shot. BUTTS GETTING WARM 10. Dan Quinn, Commanders. We don't know much about the new owner and his patience, but what a drop off. 11. Aaron Glenn. I don't think the Jets will dust him after 1 year. He doesn't deserve that. But that owner is an idiot 12. Matt LaFleur. Pack fans might be sick of just making the playoffs, eh?

Priorities 1. Find the best OC you can find. Brian Daboll was a very good OC at Buffalo (but was it Josh Allen?). I think he'd be great. If the Bengals fire Zac Taylor - he's the #1 choice, since he's worked with Goff in the past in LA -- and very well. Stay away from Eric Bieneimy (that was Andy Reid & Patrick Mahomes). Press Taylor from the Bears could be an option too. 2. Figure out the O-Line issues. Losing the anchor Ragnow, AFTER the draft, really really hurt. If he retired before the draft I think they would have taken a Center. His late retirement made it so guys had to move over, play in different spots. I think Decker is done - and honestly, the way he was playing late, it might not be a drop off having someone else. I would be stunned if he doesn't retire. Some of the young guys are okay, but they need better anchors. I don't know that I'd move Sewell to LT, though he may be the best option. He's the best RT in the NFL. They'll have to draft someone and sign a top level FA. I don't know why Zeitler left to go to such a horrible team. He'd have helped. But we went from a Top 3 O-Line to a bottom 10-O-Line in one season. Having an inept OC made it worse, and losing both TEs, who were good blockers hurt too. After Wright went down, the offense really fell apart. I think this is actually very fixable without being super expensive. 3. Hire medical experts to maybe help you figure out a way to stay healthy, dammit. Do something. Figure this out. It might be from playing so much man-to-man, but they've been a MASH unit on Defense two years in a row. Even with all that the defense was really good in the Minnesota game. Only a couple of mistakes. The horrible Offense gave the Vikings a short field all game. 4. Coach, Keep your onions packed away a little bit more often. Sometimes it's okay to take the 3 points. The O-Line is not the same one that made 4th down tries a good gamble. The 2024 season - just about everything broke their way. The 2025 season - just about everything didn't. Look at the Niners - last year they had this kind of season and then, they are back in the playoffs with a legit shot at reaching the Super Bowl. They lost a lot of players too. This year they had a 4th place schedule which the Lions will likely have next year. If it is a 4th place schedule, then they get The Saints, The Jets, The Giants, The Titans and The Cardinals. Their baked-in opponents are the AFC East and NFC South. The NFC South is garbage. If the Falcons actually hire a good coach they could be decent. I think Kyler Murray will be the Vikings QB in 2026. I always believed they'd have a step-back year, I didn't think it would step back this much, but this was it. A lot of people have soured on Brad Holmes and I think that's ridiculous. He built a great machine in the span of 3 years and I think he can do it again. The biggest failure of this season was the hiring of John Morton as OC, which a lot of people around here questioned. Going from Ben Johnson to John Morton is going from a Ferrari to a Golf Cart. He may be one of the worst OCs we've ever had. It was a very strange hire. They should have promoted from within.

Urgent care didn't have the equipment to see the full ear, but there was very little earwax, but he thinks it's a perforated membrane, so sound goes in, goes through the hole and has nothing to bounce off of. It heals by itself, but I am still going to the specialist on Monday. I hope he's right. I know not to use Q-Tips like that. FAFO.

Yeah, I am going to an UC or ER a little later today. I am really scared. I mean, it's TOTAL deafness. I can't even hear my own finger in my ear. I was stupidly messing around last wee with a Q-Tip to get some water out and I did accidentally push it too hard - so I am hoping it's that and not SSD or Meniere's. Sometimes there is no recovery for those. I work in radio, I need my hearing. If I lost hearing in both ears, I'd end it. I would not be able to live without hearing music. And I KNOW about not using a Q-Tip in your ear canal. I usually just use it around the outside to get water out, but I got careless.

Worst Christmas/Birthday Ever part two Last night, as I was getting ready for bed I was a little dizzy and the sound in my left ear started sounding like a broken speaker. I tried to pop my ears several times. Then my left ear went COMPLETELY deaf. I can't even hear my finger in there. Just totally out and I am really scared. Has anyone ever had this happen. Could it be a really large clump of earwax? It's gonna be really hard to get into to see a specialist around the holidays and if it's SSD, they say the faster you deal with it and start taking steroids, the better your chances are of recovery.

My mom's big gift to me on Christmas is a Gift Card, one of those Vanilla Gift Cards. I take mine out today to activate online and the 3-digit security code is not there. I angle the card a little bit and see that it has been rubbed or scratched off. Uh-oh. I go to the store, try to buy some strawberries with it - just to check - and it's declined - no money on it. Someone got to it, re-packaged it and put it back in the rack at the CVS on Outer Drive in Dearborn. She purchased the card on 12/22. So if it can be shown that itwas used before then, and the company sees that, she should get refunded, right? I'm not holding my breath. This sucks. This really ****ing sucks. Gee, what a great Christmas/Birthday. People who use their hands on computers to scam others out of money - when they get caught, they should get their fingers broken. You know, like in the movie Casino. They get caught twice, the should get fingers sawed off. Oh yeah, that's brutal, but to hell with people like that. My mom is very upset over this and she did nothing wrong. The card and the packaging did not look like it was tampered with at all.

I think Whit stays only 3 years and then hangs it up, but in plenty of time for Michigan to find the right replacement. Jesus, General Hospital is still around? I haven't watched daytime TV since my foot surgery in 2019. A lot of medicare ads on during the day. I seem to have to be recovering from hospitals to watch daytime TV.

We're gonna have to get him on the air and have a little challenge................that could be fun.

The "Michigan Man" thing came from Bo Schembechler when basketball coach Bill Frieder took a job at Arizona State just before the tournament in 1989 and thought he was going to coach Michigan in the tournament. Bo said no, he wanted a "Michigan Man" and Steve Fisher coached them to a title. Ironically, Bo Schembechler was more of an Ohio State Man than a Michigan Man when he got hired. When does the ink dry for Whit? Once it does can we finally clean house at the top. He's got to go. All of this nonsense has happened under his watch - he's just got to go.

like college sports.

They blocked me from my account because I used my on-air last name. That is how almost everyone knows me. In order to unlock my account they want me to scan my ****ing drivers license. WHAT? I tried that - by redacting the DL number and my address and they rejected it. I AM NOT GIVING YOU MY DL INFO - YOU CAN PROBABLY FIND IT ANYWAY. So I started a new account with Marc instead of Mark. They'll get around to shutting that one down too - and then I am done with them. I once was put in Facebook Jail for quoting Step Brothers. But hey, go ahead and post extremely stupid and dangerous conspiracy theories all day. The kind that make a normal 40 year old man believe his infant children are demons. His name is Matthew Coleman. Read about him at your own risk. What he did was absolutely horrible and it was all because he got sucked into conspiracy theories on Facebook and Twitter. He was a normal guy - never broke a law in his life and he got so pulled into stuff on FB and Twitter that he killed his children to save the world. That stuff is fine. No worries there, but quote Step Brothers or Letterkenny and you're in big trouble. And you can't appeal. There are no humans involved.

The Kelces. Just ****ing go away. Both of them. One is on a ****ing Chunky Soup can, another one can't be photographed walking off the field. Two of the most annoying people involved in sports. They're like the Paul brothers. Just..........go.............away. Jason, you and TayTay - go buy an island somewhere and just stay on it. Have supplies helicoptered in so we don't have to see either one of you again.

Problem 1 - Going from Ben Johnson to John Morton is trading a Ferrari in for a Golf Cart Problem 2- O-Line going from the best to barely functional. And Decker's retiring. Better fix that and quick Problem 3 - Injuries. Holy **** can this team get hurt. Problem 4 - Dan, you don't have to go for it on every 4th down. We get it, your balls are big. Okay. Jake Bates is great. Use him. I still strongly believe in this regime. Next year they'll have a 4th place schedule and that'll help - a lot. Remember, the 49ers were toast last year but came back strong this year. I think we just had the season they did last year. The Super Bowl window is far from being closed. And by the way, I could go look up my earlier posts from the last year and this year, but I thought this team might take a backwards step before making the big leap to SB contention. This was that year. But please - figure out a way to stay healthy. PLEASE! Okay - The Pistons are 24-6 - the best in the East (with NY only 2 games behind them). The Pistons aren't even a great shooting team. They could pick up a piece that gets them all the way to the Finals. I know, I know, trade deadlines are tremendous letdowns in this town. I think the Pistons buck the trend The Red Wings are in first. They're playing great. They have most people believing. But we've seen this before in recent years. Can we please avoid the March Malaise this season? As good as they've been, they're only 6 points away from missing the playoffs. Can't afford even a mini-collapse. We already know that no help is coming at the trade deadline. And the Tigers. Well, maybe Jace Jung can put it all together because they sure aren't reaching for anything to improve this team. Selling more tickets in the middle of the season seems to be the only real goal for Chris Illitch. Fill those parking lots.

Disaster of a season.

Why would anyone turn down a job where the AD could be fired at any time, there is no permanent President in place and it's only a matter of time before news of yet another scandal breaks. Oh, oh yeah, because it's an ELITE program. Sure it is.

Sacramento lead 12-11. And then never had the lead again. As great as this team is, at 24-6 -- there is room for improvement. They can get better with trade deadline add. They can afford to offer a couple of their players and get better. What a turnaround. J.B. Bickerstaff is so underappreciated in Detroit.

Grand Rapids Griffins 25-1-1 Out of a possible 54 points, they have 51. That's absolutely insane and VERY encouraging

Warde will probably name himself Head Coach with a clause in his contract that he is to be fired as AD for any reason that he gets double his Head Coaching salary and double the length and the buyout triples.

Having a birthday on the same day as Christmas is worse than that.

I said Gleyber Torres will be at 2B for 75% of the games this season. He'll be DH in the other 20% and get about 5% of the season off (if he stays health)

That's where the work comes in. But I totally trust this regime. They brought us out of the abyss and they can do it again.

Well, season's over, but assuming the Super Bowl window is closed is ridiculous. But Brad & Dan have a lot of work. I felt like before they really got all the way home that they would have a step-back year and this was that year, but they really need to get a competent OC - and they have to figure out how to stay healthy. What the hell are they doing with these guys? The O-Line was a major drop off this year and I have a feeling Decker's going to retire, so they have a lot of work to do on that and the defense, wow........tough to win with a MASH unit out there, but come on, man. Third-place schedule next year. Take advantage of it.

I actually don't think it's the worst idea. He's very plugged into Ann Arbor and the whole state and he managed to keep Jayru Campbell out of trouble for a few years.

Maybe that's why he's in no hurry. If he hires someone - he might be out. But since there is no University President right now, they kind of have to keep him. I doubt there is a strong #2 in the department (by design).