Mike Florio

As you said, it sure feels like Ian Cunningham got a promotion.

And he's the general manager.

And even if there's another person in the organization who's got the president of football operations title, Ian's running the show.

Matt Ryan said it.

And the easy thing for the NFL to do is just give the Bears the compensatory picks and acknowledge the program that the league put in place to try to rectify decades of substandard hiring practice.

Well, yeah.

If the Eagles had won the Super Bowl, I think they'd still be trying to take out the tush push.

As Sean Payton said yesterday, this isn't a safety thing.

They tried to claim it's a safety thing last year.

Meanwhile, they changed the kickoff formation and introduced a thousand more kick returns over the course of the year.

It wasn't about safety.

It was because somebody didn't like it.

And I think it was as simple as in the NFC Championship last year, you had that moment where the commanders jumped offside multiple times to the point where they almost awarded the Eagles a touchdown.

I think the commissioner saw that and said, we can't have this.

We've got to get rid of that play.

They took a run at it.

It didn't work.

And now they've abandoned it.

This year, there really isn't anything that's like, oh my gosh, they're going to make some major change to the rules.

Rich McKay said that the other day, that there aren't a lot of proposals.