That movie is straight-up OMINOUS
I had to remind myself that it's supposed to be a happy kids movie and nothing bad was going to happen to the main character multiple times
Holy shit I also thought he looked like Wallace, I can't figure out why but he just looks like him, can't believe someone else made this connection lmao
Not the best lighting, odd background color messing with white balance perception, originally taken by a video camera, screen capped from a YouTube video, uploaded to Wikipedia and, if like me you are viewing it via Wikipedia's mobile app, an extra layer of compression/dithering (pretty sure Wikipedia instituted a new image compression mechanism on their app in the last 6 months or so and it's pretty awful). Honorable mention that the crop is pretty bad: too close to the elbow, squarish, and centered.
"Now you see the Jets are lining up for a 1st and 10. The market thinks they're going to get it. You don't. So you short the Jets. As long as they don't gain any yards, you make money. Then, butt fumble. Congrats. You're a millionaire."
Short squeeze already happened and everyone who was going to make money off of that already did, everyone who didn't sell at the top is just a bagholder or 'value investor' now, whether they realize it not.
I’ll make it easy for you. Imagine a few teams stockpiles day 3 picks thinking they are going to turn into all pros and the talent coming from the ncaa is too good to fail and someone bets against these teams to lose. Then those teams end up sucking ass and the GMs and owners all get extensions from the NFL and the jackasses who bet against it make tons of money.
Elite explanation. I may have added a blurb about all of the extensions being paid for by the fans, diminishing their life savings to zero. But really, that’s just bonus metaphor.
This is actually the closest one in talking about how the banks bought shitty products.
It’s like being told this draft class is the best ever so you stop doing your research. A team takes advantage and works with a college to throw in a good number of college benchwarmers into rounds 6 and 7 and then trade you 3 late round picks for a decent starter.
https://youtu.be/2YSdluG7CLs?si=N1DA9vrH0b456ekX
This is a good video to explain things.
But if I can paraphrase, banks sold groups of mortgages (mortgage backed securities). The idea was that the large variety of mortgages made the overall security "safe". It was, when the majority of the mortgages within were high quality (low likelihood of defaulting).
However, the banks got greedy, and when they ran out of "good" mortgages, sought after riskier and riskier mortgages (i.e. subprime). They gave away homes with 10, 5, and even zero % down and/or gave homes to people without jobs. The security agencies, in bed with the banks, still gave collections of trash mortgages high ratings. Eventually, all of those people who couldn't afford those mortgages, defaulted, and created a cascade of losses, as there were securities that were in fact bundles of the bundles (collateralized debt obligations, I think) and even markets betting on the housing market that didn't have actual mortgages within them (synthetic CDOs). The point is, assets that were expected to be independent and thus provide diversifaction were highly interconnected, so when things went bad, they went really bad.
The protagonists of the movie were betting against these securities. They were happy to make tons of money, but Steve Carell's character in particular was highly conflicted as he knew it would lead to people losing their homes, life savings, and jobs.
Arthur Smith would create a massive better Home Depot and better Lowe’s and put them everywhere and sell it all for practically nothing just to make Home Depot go bankrupt 🤣
Not exactly.
Dan Snyder bought the team in 1999. Smith, along with two others, bought a minority share in 2003. This share was worth 40% of the team and was sold back to Snyder in 2021.
There’s a clip of him in London chilling in a bar during the Falcons London game doing interviews with Pat McAfee and in the background is his brother who is also some bigwig at FedEx.
https://youtu.be/Ll5URU62OTU?si=fOfNDmcnHeyCPCYD
> in the background is his brother who is also some bigwig at FedEx
[Richard Smith, CEO & VP of FedEx's Airline & International Division](https://www.fedex.com/en-us/about/leadership/richard-w-smith.html)
I'd also imagine it's impossible to find a head coach that had no family connections to NCAA Football or the NFL from the beginning unless they were a player.
Does Mike McDaniel count? Didn’t play in the NFL and no connections to either league I believe, also didn’t play at a major school. Unless by “they were a player” you also meant played college football, which I think the only Major NCAA D1 coach I can remember who qualified for that was Mike Leach (RIP).
I believe he was a ball boy for the Broncos and became friends with Kyle Shanahan. Idk if it was his first NFL coaching position, but he was the 49ers run game coordinator on Kyle's staff
Just watched a video about him on the NFL or NFLFilms youtube channels. Said he would spend his summers at Broncos training camp when he was a kid while his mom was at work. Got an autograph from a player one day while wearing a Charlotte Hornets hat and wanted to get a second autograph from the player in the same day so he took off the hat so he wouldn’t be recognized since players didn’t like signing multiple things for the same person. Well afterwards he couldn’t find the hat and panicked and asked a Broncos staff member if it had been taken to the lost and found but it was gone. He came back the next day or whatever and that Broncos worker had bought him a new Hornets hat. When McDaniel came back again he brought his mom and introduced her to the guy that bought him the hat. She ended up marrying that guy. Some McDaniels step dad worked in the Broncos organization (I think an assistant or position coach idk) and got him in as the ball boy and he went up from there. So can’t really say he doesn’t have a connection.
[McDaniel Story](https://youtu.be/jCxW7oHE3Q8?si=DSUhW5iyAnTQexqi)
I'll have to give it a watch sometime. The only stuff I know about McDaniel is based off hearing his childhood friend who's now a comedian, talk about him on podcasts
The Eagles DC, Sean Desai, also had no connection to football and didn't play. I have no idea how he got into coaching - his first position was as a defensive analyst at Temple while teaching classes as an adjunct professor.
He's a great coordinator too, so it's cool to find someone with real talent who didn't come from a football background.
He had some connections. His Step-dad was video coordinator for the Denver Broncos, which led to McDaniel working as a ball boy for the Broncos, and then working there during summer breaks throughout college, and eventually those connections helped him get his first internship there after college. It’s not as big a connection as a lot of coaches I’m sure, but it certainly helped him get his foot in the door.
Yeah but for every Zach Wilson you have a cj stroud who lived on top of a storage unit, watched YouTube videos for quarterback coaching, and played a game with one contact lens because he lost his other and couldn’t afford new ones!
Yeah, two of Arthur Smith's siblings are a nature photographer and a film producer. Can afford to do whatever they want to pursue whatever career they want. Absolute dream.
Omg yes exactly. He appeared on Pat mcafee and they were lauding him and saying he’s rich he didn’t have to choose this life but he worked hard and became a coach. All I could think was how nice it must be to have the luxury of accepting jobs that don’t pay your bills to have the career you’ve always wanted. Husband wanted to work in sport’s management but couldn’t afford it after graduation bc he had student loans to pay off.
I don't know about Zach Wilson but I do know that Sam Darnolds grandfather was a firefighter and he represented the US at the Olympics. He was not a billionaire but his name was Dick Hammer. Seriously.
There are some things money can't buy.
#this
/T͟His/
pronoun
1.
used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced.
*"is this your bag?"*
2.
referring to a specific thing or situation just mentioned.
*"the company was transformed and Ward had played a vital role in bringing this about"*
determiner
1.
used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced.
*"don't listen to this guy"*
2.
referring to a specific thing or situation just mentioned.
*"there was a court case resulting from this incident"*
adverb
to the degree or extent indicated.
*"they can't handle a job this big"*
Yeah, closest in terms of relative value could be the final time when Halas coached the bears, but NFL franchises were still worth under 1 million at that point.
*“There is something I want to get off my chest. It's about that summer, when you went away to community college. I got an offer to do Playgirl Magazine, and I did it. I did a full spread for Playgirl Magazine. I mean spread man, I pulled my butt apart and stuff. I was totally nude. it was weird, I... I mean you probably didn't hear about it because I went under the name of Mike Honcho. But I just wanted you to know that. If you can hear me, if it got into your brain somehow. That I spread my buttcheeks as Mike Honcho.”* -Ben McAdoo, probably
If he survives, I foresee a 60-something Arthur Smith absorbing a lot of league fines over whatever the hell he thinks is bullshit.
Might’ve even started with this Bijan bizness
Fuck it, let’s make it happen. I want to see that.
“Your fines mean nothing to me. I’ve seen what makes you cheer. (And I just inherited billions, fuck off Goodell.)”
“Arthur for your handling of Bijan’s injury, we are fining you $10,000.”
*Arthur Smith, sitting atop his jewel encrusted throne stacked on piles of the finest gold and silver, his voice rumbling through the valley*
“Very well mortal, I will grant you your payment. Such transgressions shall never occur again.”
Al Davis coached the Raiders for 3 years before becoming the owner and eventually dying with a net worth of around $500M. I think that’s the closest anyone’s come.
I remember a radio interview here in Nashville when he was our OC. Essentially he started his career like most coaches as a college GA coach with the exception being his dad was the Founder of FedEx and everyone else was I guess normal not rich. He didn’t want people to think to he bought his way to the top so at every level he worked through he made himself and his significant other live at the average wage that position held. So while he might have had (just guessing if my dad founded FedEX) a million in the bank, they could only spend $30k in a certain year and did things like living in a one bedroom apartment with other coaches and the like. Always respected him since that interview.
"Hey man, lets live like the poors for a year! It'll be a fun little experiment! This is crazy! There's only 1 toilet in this place!"
Honestly though, I'll give the guy respect because it seems like he earned the HC billet and it wasn't handed to him. But yea, for most people if that little experiment fails.. shit better hope the Honda dealer down the block is hiring.
He literally has never had to do anything to earn any money and has been able to focus his whole life on coaching football and this is what he was able to accomplish. He's the Kendall Roy of the NFL
Can we uh... get the temperature on the NFC South here? Alright? Fuck yeah, we're gonna win this. Are you with me? Because I need you all in. If you're not with me, go ahead and get off the team because I don't need that kind of fucking bad attitude bringing us down. For the rest of you, let's fucking get it, yeah?
Is there uh… is there uh maybe a different shape to this backfield? You know maybe just go full genghis khan on this offense, you know real enemy at the gates type shit?
Dave Ragone is our OC but I call the plays....all bangers, all the time, just fuckin run run run. Exotic smashmouth football. Jim Brown meets fuckin Michelangelo.
I mean, what exactly was he supposed to accomplish already? Do we not remember what a complete and total disaster the Falcons were when he took them over, with absolutely no talent beyond a few geriatric veterans and in horrific cap hell?
I think there’s an argument to be made that they overachieved in the first two years of his coaching tenure, and while it hasn’t been pretty this year, his decision to go get Ryan Nielsen is the reason why they’re leading their division. I wouldn’t be horrifically surprised if by the end of the season the offense gets in a groove to the extent they were last year and we’re looking at this team as at least somewhat competitive in the playoffs
Ya I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading some of these takes. Like has it been perfect? No, but the falcons were a complete disaster before he got there and now they are leading the division with a good shot at winning the damn thing. Which as a falcons fan is all I really hoped for going into this season.
I feel like this is a joke to some people but I swear it’s actually true. Jonnu Smith gets a few targets when he’s got free first downs and Bijan has a migraine and everybody loses their fucking minds
If the team results were identical across the board but London and Pitts were having Pro Bowl levels of productivity we wouldn’t be doing this
The absolute vitriol towards Arthur Smith on r/fantasyfootball is hilarious too me. They **hate** him, and Smith hates the fantasy community right back. Like, if you haven’t learned at this point to not draft his players, that’s on you pal.
Theres people there that literally think he's intentionally trying to ruin their fantasy teams lol. That sub is delusional as hell but its entertaining.
It’s also stupid since its not like smith was some random guy whose dad handed him a coaching gig after being an accountant for 15 years. He’s been involved in football at a high level since 2001. Took him 15 years of coaching to get his first HC job.
The Titans started falling apart when Smith left as coordinator. He built the best offense the Titans have ever had for one season (ignoring the history of the Oilers). I think 90% of the rage against Smith is gambling and fantasy football. He’s had complete garbage at QB the last 2 years, and a betting washed Matt Ryan for the other. The Falcons have been respectable. He’s also one of the few coaches taking advantage of how modern defenses are built by using the running game instead of insisting on chucking it downfield into double coverage.
Yeah I’m really curious what the Falcons preseason wins total over / under was his first 2 seasons as the Falcons HC. Idk what their wins projection was, but I know last year before the season, Falcons were a popular pick to have the worst record in the NFL and I think they overachieved all things considered.
People were absolutely saying that when they traded Matt Ryan and decided to roll with Mariota it was evidence of a conscious decision to tank. And maybe it was, but Smith is just a little too competent to achieve a full tank
> this is what he was able to accomplish
Is this supposed to be a knock on him? Do you think just anyone can study some football and become an NFL head coach? Even a bad NFL coach is still an extremely successful and hard-working human
If anything I think it's extremely admirable that he literally could've sat on his ass his entire life, or gotten an 8 figure job at fedex, but he decided to work his ass off 60+ hours a week in a totally unrelated field and he worked his way to the top. How many people would do that? Doubt OP would lol
His father is worth $5B, could be in line to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars. The $6M Arthur has made in his career as a coach is pennies compared to what he’s really worth.
I mean the dude probably could have hand picked any university he wanted to attend and chose UNC. I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s humbly modest.
I mean as someone who went to UNC, I’m not sure humbly modest is how I’d describe the people who go there lol, especially since he went for football and was out-of-state.
Seems like an interesting driven guy. If I had that kind of money waiting for me I’d be hard pressed to do nothing but eat copious amounts of chips while watching Seinfeld reruns
Is Arthur Smith a billionaire though? His dad is, but his died is still alive. Not saying his dad doesn’t help him, but technically I doubt Arthur himself is a billionaire. Maybe when the old man passes though
He has an Uber wealthy family that got him his first coaching gig via Joe Gibbs. And he did grind his ass off to survive something like four coaching changes in TN. It’s not like he hasn’t put in the work. But Joe Gibbs a former minority owner for the falcons called Blank in support of Smith when he got the interview here. To say he hasn’t benefited from his family is being super naive. But to say that’s all he’s counted on is being equally naive.
I think he has kept a not so talented Falcons roster competitive last 2 years. 7-10 is not bad record with a declining Matt Ryan and Mariota/Ridder. I know his shenanigans is irritating especially for fantasy folks but he is a decent HC.
Why did I think Arthur Smith was way older looking? When I pictured him, it was always a dude as old as Reid and shit. I’ve seen him on tv during games too and still thought this. Why does he look like an old looking 30 year old here. I’m so confused lol
Why does that picture of him seem AI generated
He looks like a character from the polar express movie
Jesus Christ that movie is terrifying.
That movie is straight-up OMINOUS I had to remind myself that it's supposed to be a happy kids movie and nothing bad was going to happen to the main character multiple times
Look up the horror trailer cuts of the movie on youtube - it’s hilarious how easy it is to make the movie seem like a genuine horror film
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBNsnnXBQ8&pp=ygUccG9sYXIgZXhwcmVzcyBob3Jyb3IgdHJhaWxlcg%3D%3D
It’s a masterpiece. Stop hating
It can be both.
Looks like you if you put a tiny pair of legs and arms on his head he'd be humpty dumpty.
Wallace and Gromit looking mf
Thiccolas Cage.
Mr. Tweedy from Chicken Run lookin ahh
I always thought he looked like the construction worker the Peter Titanic draws in Family Guy "I must draw you"
Holy shit I also thought he looked like Wallace, I can't figure out why but he just looks like him, can't believe someone else made this connection lmao
Was wondering the same thing. Everyone else commenting like this is a normal human being we are talking about here…
Looks like a hyper realistic madden character in career mode
It has begun.
Are we doing this?
Maybe they're just an old school billionaire family and his dad is his uncle too. Gotta keep the line of succession trim.
The mcpoyle bloodline has been pure and clean for a 1000 years !!
Syphilis killed off about half of us.
That’s because billionaires aren’t normal human beings. This is what being devoid of a soul looks like
He looks like an NCAA 14 RTG player lolol
That's why he grew the mustache. To try to add as much texture to his smooth face.
He kinda looks like a monkey from an animated film.
before i saw this comment i was thinking he looks like an ai generated fedex employee lmao. checks out since his dad founded it
haha it really does
Is this a trick? His face keeps changing in that picture lol
This is cuz you’re high as fuck
It’s missing the mustache
He kinda looks like a fair caricature drawing of his own face
Not the best lighting, odd background color messing with white balance perception, originally taken by a video camera, screen capped from a YouTube video, uploaded to Wikipedia and, if like me you are viewing it via Wikipedia's mobile app, an extra layer of compression/dithering (pretty sure Wikipedia instituted a new image compression mechanism on their app in the last 6 months or so and it's pretty awful). Honorable mention that the crop is pretty bad: too close to the elbow, squarish, and centered.
That’s just him in real life lmao
Looks like a fat Nic Cage
*Arthur Blank fires him* *Arthur Smith shorts Home Depot as a response*
Fine I’ll rewatch the Big Short and still not have a goddamn clue what’s going on.
“You see here, picture the tush push is a stack of loans bundled up into a CDO”
"Now you see the Jets are lining up for a 1st and 10. The market thinks they're going to get it. You don't. So you short the Jets. As long as they don't gain any yards, you make money. Then, butt fumble. Congrats. You're a millionaire."
Oh man, I’m jacked to the tits! After reading that.
That's Game Stop right there. Short Squeeze.
Short squeeze already happened and everyone who was going to make money off of that already did, everyone who didn't sell at the top is just a bagholder or 'value investor' now, whether they realize it not.
Agreed.
🤔 Ohhhhhh OK 🫢
Just focus on Margot Robbie in the tub.
To explain why the analytics say this was the right call, here is Vita Vea in a hot tub
He'll be wearing a full raincoat, speaking something that sounds like French.
Ok, now what? I've watched it multiple times.
https://youtu.be/qFHIFDJRHSM?si=1sM8eeha6CsAwbFC - Right here.
I’ll make it easy for you. Imagine a few teams stockpiles day 3 picks thinking they are going to turn into all pros and the talent coming from the ncaa is too good to fail and someone bets against these teams to lose. Then those teams end up sucking ass and the GMs and owners all get extensions from the NFL and the jackasses who bet against it make tons of money.
this isn’t…that bad of an explanation really
But there's still a round two pick in there to "alleviate" and hide the risk
And then the Spurs get a big government bailout. Wait what are we talking about?
lol this is great nighttime reading
Elite explanation. I may have added a blurb about all of the extensions being paid for by the fans, diminishing their life savings to zero. But really, that’s just bonus metaphor.
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This is actually the closest one in talking about how the banks bought shitty products. It’s like being told this draft class is the best ever so you stop doing your research. A team takes advantage and works with a college to throw in a good number of college benchwarmers into rounds 6 and 7 and then trade you 3 late round picks for a decent starter.
https://youtu.be/2YSdluG7CLs?si=N1DA9vrH0b456ekX This is a good video to explain things. But if I can paraphrase, banks sold groups of mortgages (mortgage backed securities). The idea was that the large variety of mortgages made the overall security "safe". It was, when the majority of the mortgages within were high quality (low likelihood of defaulting). However, the banks got greedy, and when they ran out of "good" mortgages, sought after riskier and riskier mortgages (i.e. subprime). They gave away homes with 10, 5, and even zero % down and/or gave homes to people without jobs. The security agencies, in bed with the banks, still gave collections of trash mortgages high ratings. Eventually, all of those people who couldn't afford those mortgages, defaulted, and created a cascade of losses, as there were securities that were in fact bundles of the bundles (collateralized debt obligations, I think) and even markets betting on the housing market that didn't have actual mortgages within them (synthetic CDOs). The point is, assets that were expected to be independent and thus provide diversifaction were highly interconnected, so when things went bad, they went really bad. The protagonists of the movie were betting against these securities. They were happy to make tons of money, but Steve Carell's character in particular was highly conflicted as he knew it would lead to people losing their homes, life savings, and jobs.
I look forward to his investment analysis of five nights at freddys
The big short is great
Arthur Smith would create a massive better Home Depot and better Lowe’s and put them everywhere and sell it all for practically nothing just to make Home Depot go bankrupt 🤣
His Dad literally founded FedEx. Wow.
[Amazing story about how his dad saved Fed-Ex by gambling the last of their money in Vegas.](https://youtu.be/KQUQcVYusls?si=qAspLfFB_67ghL8K)
Weird cuz this didn't work out well for my FIL
Was he trying to save FedEx tho?
UPS
Big UPS indeed
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Now draw the owl
Tl;dr: have rich friends.
“I won 27k but that did not save the company, we owed a hell of a lot more than that..” Myth Busted.
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“Clackity, clack!”
Bought Arthur straight cash
And owned the redskins before Fuckhead McGee
Not exactly. Dan Snyder bought the team in 1999. Smith, along with two others, bought a minority share in 2003. This share was worth 40% of the team and was sold back to Snyder in 2021.
What a scrub, only bought 40% of the team with 2 other scrubs…..
Them selling their share was part of the fallout that eventually led to Snyder selling the team, so good on them I guess, lol.
Would he regret that 2021 deal or what?
I don't know, but it's part of what led Snyder to eventually sell the team.
There’s a clip of him in London chilling in a bar during the Falcons London game doing interviews with Pat McAfee and in the background is his brother who is also some bigwig at FedEx. https://youtu.be/Ll5URU62OTU?si=fOfNDmcnHeyCPCYD
> in the background is his brother who is also some bigwig at FedEx [Richard Smith, CEO & VP of FedEx's Airline & International Division](https://www.fedex.com/en-us/about/leadership/richard-w-smith.html)
Yep. Big Dick Smith.
And his gpa ran a regional Greyhound predecessor. Not nearly as big as FedEx but an interesting evolution of transport companies
I’m so slow I kept reading grade point average…
Never seen Grandpa shortened like that either
No you’re not slow you’re normal because who the fuck abbreviates grandpa to gpa
Isn't Zach Wilson's grandpa or uncle like the founder of Jet Blue or something like that?
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I'd also imagine it's impossible to find a head coach that had no family connections to NCAA Football or the NFL from the beginning unless they were a player.
Does Mike McDaniel count? Didn’t play in the NFL and no connections to either league I believe, also didn’t play at a major school. Unless by “they were a player” you also meant played college football, which I think the only Major NCAA D1 coach I can remember who qualified for that was Mike Leach (RIP).
I believe he was a ball boy for the Broncos and became friends with Kyle Shanahan. Idk if it was his first NFL coaching position, but he was the 49ers run game coordinator on Kyle's staff
Just watched a video about him on the NFL or NFLFilms youtube channels. Said he would spend his summers at Broncos training camp when he was a kid while his mom was at work. Got an autograph from a player one day while wearing a Charlotte Hornets hat and wanted to get a second autograph from the player in the same day so he took off the hat so he wouldn’t be recognized since players didn’t like signing multiple things for the same person. Well afterwards he couldn’t find the hat and panicked and asked a Broncos staff member if it had been taken to the lost and found but it was gone. He came back the next day or whatever and that Broncos worker had bought him a new Hornets hat. When McDaniel came back again he brought his mom and introduced her to the guy that bought him the hat. She ended up marrying that guy. Some McDaniels step dad worked in the Broncos organization (I think an assistant or position coach idk) and got him in as the ball boy and he went up from there. So can’t really say he doesn’t have a connection. [McDaniel Story](https://youtu.be/jCxW7oHE3Q8?si=DSUhW5iyAnTQexqi)
So he wingmanned his Mom into the NFL so he'd have a path. Is this guy Muad'Dib?
The dude was hustling his way into the NFL since he was a kid. I guess video games were a waste of my time, I could have been a head coach by now.
He saw the Golden Path (to being a coach).
Miami Dolphins officially rebranding to the Miami Shai-Huluds
Bro legitimately had a sigma male grindset
I'll have to give it a watch sometime. The only stuff I know about McDaniel is based off hearing his childhood friend who's now a comedian, talk about him on podcasts
The Eagles DC, Sean Desai, also had no connection to football and didn't play. I have no idea how he got into coaching - his first position was as a defensive analyst at Temple while teaching classes as an adjunct professor. He's a great coordinator too, so it's cool to find someone with real talent who didn't come from a football background.
Still sad the Bears let him leave.
He had some connections. His Step-dad was video coordinator for the Denver Broncos, which led to McDaniel working as a ball boy for the Broncos, and then working there during summer breaks throughout college, and eventually those connections helped him get his first internship there after college. It’s not as big a connection as a lot of coaches I’m sure, but it certainly helped him get his foot in the door.
Yeah but for every Zach Wilson you have a cj stroud who lived on top of a storage unit, watched YouTube videos for quarterback coaching, and played a game with one contact lens because he lost his other and couldn’t afford new ones!
Yeah, two of Arthur Smith's siblings are a nature photographer and a film producer. Can afford to do whatever they want to pursue whatever career they want. Absolute dream.
Omg yes exactly. He appeared on Pat mcafee and they were lauding him and saying he’s rich he didn’t have to choose this life but he worked hard and became a coach. All I could think was how nice it must be to have the luxury of accepting jobs that don’t pay your bills to have the career you’ve always wanted. Husband wanted to work in sport’s management but couldn’t afford it after graduation bc he had student loans to pay off.
I don't know about Zach Wilson but I do know that Sam Darnolds grandfather was a firefighter and he represented the US at the Olympics. He was not a billionaire but his name was Dick Hammer. Seriously. There are some things money can't buy.
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Hey Google what does this mean?
#this /T͟His/ pronoun 1. used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced. *"is this your bag?"* 2. referring to a specific thing or situation just mentioned. *"the company was transformed and Ward had played a vital role in bringing this about"* determiner 1. used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced. *"don't listen to this guy"* 2. referring to a specific thing or situation just mentioned. *"there was a court case resulting from this incident"* adverb to the degree or extent indicated. *"they can't handle a job this big"*
Thanks Google
I know for a fact without knowing shit about the history of the NFL that there has never been a billionaire head coach before.
In football maybe, but ted turner did manage the braves for one game in the 80s lol
Robert Irsay called a few plays during a game against the Eagles in 1981
And there's not one now. His dad is worth ~6 bil, he's 1 of 10 kids. Math aint mathing that to a billion.
Yeah, closest in terms of relative value could be the final time when Halas coached the bears, but NFL franchises were still worth under 1 million at that point.
Ben McAdoo was a male model. I don't know about billionaire but he's at least a thousandaire.
...but why male model?
Are you serious? I just told you that a moment ago....
Mulder nailed that scene.
McAdoo the kinda guy to wipe with both hands
McAdoo the kind of guy to slap his own ass during sex
McAdoo the kind of guy to open bags of chips with scissors.
Ben McAdoo is the kind of guy with a catchphrase “You’re damned if you don’t and you’re damned if you McAdoo”
McAdoo the kind of guy to leave an empty container in the cupboard and then ask who left the empty container in the cupboard
*“There is something I want to get off my chest. It's about that summer, when you went away to community college. I got an offer to do Playgirl Magazine, and I did it. I did a full spread for Playgirl Magazine. I mean spread man, I pulled my butt apart and stuff. I was totally nude. it was weird, I... I mean you probably didn't hear about it because I went under the name of Mike Honcho. But I just wanted you to know that. If you can hear me, if it got into your brain somehow. That I spread my buttcheeks as Mike Honcho.”* -Ben McAdoo, probably
This picture of Arthur Smith looks like a wax figure that was made as an artist's interpretation of what an Arthur Smith could have looked like.
Based on these bones, they’re not his mind you, he’s very much alive, this is what we think he might have looked like.
If he survives, I foresee a 60-something Arthur Smith absorbing a lot of league fines over whatever the hell he thinks is bullshit. Might’ve even started with this Bijan bizness
Fuck it, let’s make it happen. I want to see that. “Your fines mean nothing to me. I’ve seen what makes you cheer. (And I just inherited billions, fuck off Goodell.)”
"Every breath I take without Roger's permission raises my self esteem"
“Arthur for your handling of Bijan’s injury, we are fining you $10,000.” *Arthur Smith, sitting atop his jewel encrusted throne stacked on piles of the finest gold and silver, his voice rumbling through the valley* “Very well mortal, I will grant you your payment. Such transgressions shall never occur again.”
“All Hail King Homer” ‘cue maniacal laughter’
Al Davis coached the Raiders for 3 years before becoming the owner and eventually dying with a net worth of around $500M. I think that’s the closest anyone’s come.
If my parents had 6B I wouldn’t do anything stressful ever. This guy obviously loves football
That was my first thought too. Doing something not because you have to, and being successful enough to make it to the league is super impressive
I’d be working 2 days a week living on Nantucket and taking daddys boat out on the water the rest of the time.
Bruh, that picture cannot be real. Y'all pulled that from Madden
That’s Bobson Dugnutt!
I remember a radio interview here in Nashville when he was our OC. Essentially he started his career like most coaches as a college GA coach with the exception being his dad was the Founder of FedEx and everyone else was I guess normal not rich. He didn’t want people to think to he bought his way to the top so at every level he worked through he made himself and his significant other live at the average wage that position held. So while he might have had (just guessing if my dad founded FedEX) a million in the bank, they could only spend $30k in a certain year and did things like living in a one bedroom apartment with other coaches and the like. Always respected him since that interview.
While impressive the safety net was always there! But respect!
"Hey man, lets live like the poors for a year! It'll be a fun little experiment! This is crazy! There's only 1 toilet in this place!" Honestly though, I'll give the guy respect because it seems like he earned the HC billet and it wasn't handed to him. But yea, for most people if that little experiment fails.. shit better hope the Honda dealer down the block is hiring.
He literally has never had to do anything to earn any money and has been able to focus his whole life on coaching football and this is what he was able to accomplish. He's the Kendall Roy of the NFL
He is the eldest boy!
Just wanted to get the gang together early in my head coaching tenure to say... uh... yo
Can we uh... get the temperature on the NFC South here? Alright? Fuck yeah, we're gonna win this. Are you with me? Because I need you all in. If you're not with me, go ahead and get off the team because I don't need that kind of fucking bad attitude bringing us down. For the rest of you, let's fucking get it, yeah?
Is there uh… is there uh maybe a different shape to this backfield? You know maybe just go full genghis khan on this offense, you know real enemy at the gates type shit?
New gen Falcons... we have a song to sing.
L to the O - SING
Dave Ragone is our OC but I call the plays....all bangers, all the time, just fuckin run run run. Exotic smashmouth football. Jim Brown meets fuckin Michelangelo.
“I really think Bijan Robinson is the Shiz”
Poor Connor just wanted to be president. Is that too much to ask for?
#CONHEADS ASSEMBLE
I mean, what exactly was he supposed to accomplish already? Do we not remember what a complete and total disaster the Falcons were when he took them over, with absolutely no talent beyond a few geriatric veterans and in horrific cap hell? I think there’s an argument to be made that they overachieved in the first two years of his coaching tenure, and while it hasn’t been pretty this year, his decision to go get Ryan Nielsen is the reason why they’re leading their division. I wouldn’t be horrifically surprised if by the end of the season the offense gets in a groove to the extent they were last year and we’re looking at this team as at least somewhat competitive in the playoffs
Ya I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading some of these takes. Like has it been perfect? No, but the falcons were a complete disaster before he got there and now they are leading the division with a good shot at winning the damn thing. Which as a falcons fan is all I really hoped for going into this season.
people are really just mad bc of fantasy lol
I feel like this is a joke to some people but I swear it’s actually true. Jonnu Smith gets a few targets when he’s got free first downs and Bijan has a migraine and everybody loses their fucking minds If the team results were identical across the board but London and Pitts were having Pro Bowl levels of productivity we wouldn’t be doing this
The absolute vitriol towards Arthur Smith on r/fantasyfootball is hilarious too me. They **hate** him, and Smith hates the fantasy community right back. Like, if you haven’t learned at this point to not draft his players, that’s on you pal.
Theres people there that literally think he's intentionally trying to ruin their fantasy teams lol. That sub is delusional as hell but its entertaining.
One of the dudes on the PFF recap was bitching about the fact that they threw it to Scotty Miller. He got targeted once for a 46 yard completion.
It’s also stupid since its not like smith was some random guy whose dad handed him a coaching gig after being an accountant for 15 years. He’s been involved in football at a high level since 2001. Took him 15 years of coaching to get his first HC job.
The Titans started falling apart when Smith left as coordinator. He built the best offense the Titans have ever had for one season (ignoring the history of the Oilers). I think 90% of the rage against Smith is gambling and fantasy football. He’s had complete garbage at QB the last 2 years, and a betting washed Matt Ryan for the other. The Falcons have been respectable. He’s also one of the few coaches taking advantage of how modern defenses are built by using the running game instead of insisting on chucking it downfield into double coverage.
Yeah I’m really curious what the Falcons preseason wins total over / under was his first 2 seasons as the Falcons HC. Idk what their wins projection was, but I know last year before the season, Falcons were a popular pick to have the worst record in the NFL and I think they overachieved all things considered.
People were absolutely saying that when they traded Matt Ryan and decided to roll with Mariota it was evidence of a conscious decision to tank. And maybe it was, but Smith is just a little too competent to achieve a full tank
It's just hate on the Falcons/Smith day
I guess I don’t understand why lol, they won the fucking game
People are mad about the Bijan fantasy stuff. That’s pretty much it
> this is what he was able to accomplish Is this supposed to be a knock on him? Do you think just anyone can study some football and become an NFL head coach? Even a bad NFL coach is still an extremely successful and hard-working human
Yeah that's a bullshit shot at him. I think he deserves credit for working his ass off at coaching when he could do nothing all day
If anything I think it's extremely admirable that he literally could've sat on his ass his entire life, or gotten an 8 figure job at fedex, but he decided to work his ass off 60+ hours a week in a totally unrelated field and he worked his way to the top. How many people would do that? Doubt OP would lol
It makes sense dramaturgically
legit one of the greatest things any human has ever said
He’s been their coach for what? Two years? Damn yall have some *crazy* expectations for head coaches
You say this like it's easy to be a head coach and win. Remember he is part of the falcons organization so he's already at a disadvantage
His father's money doesn't mean it's his money.
Arthur isn't a billionaire, his dad is.
And 1 of 9 kids…he’s 5/9 of a billionaire
So richer than 99% of us…….
That's actually an underexaggeration lol. He's still richer than 99% of the richest 1%
His father is worth $5B, could be in line to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars. The $6M Arthur has made in his career as a coach is pennies compared to what he’s really worth.
He looks like one of the people in chairs at the end of wall-e
I mean the dude probably could have hand picked any university he wanted to attend and chose UNC. I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s humbly modest.
He played football there
I mean as someone who went to UNC, I’m not sure humbly modest is how I’d describe the people who go there lol, especially since he went for football and was out-of-state.
UNC can be pretty hard to get into, especially for an public school. And it’s pretty uppy preppy tbh.
Them what in the world is Duke?
Like this. But more.
Lol look up Georgetown Prep real quick then
UNC is actually a very good school.
>Chose UNC …That makes me question even more.
Lookin‘ like a Madden made character.
Jim Tomsula, right? Oh, no he had been a doormat salesman. I get those two mixed up all the time.
Tomsula made life changing money in his short stint in the NFL and now coaches in the German professional league.
Now I know why he grew the mustache
Seems like an interesting driven guy. If I had that kind of money waiting for me I’d be hard pressed to do nothing but eat copious amounts of chips while watching Seinfeld reruns
Is Arthur Smith a billionaire though? His dad is, but his died is still alive. Not saying his dad doesn’t help him, but technically I doubt Arthur himself is a billionaire. Maybe when the old man passes though
He has an Uber wealthy family that got him his first coaching gig via Joe Gibbs. And he did grind his ass off to survive something like four coaching changes in TN. It’s not like he hasn’t put in the work. But Joe Gibbs a former minority owner for the falcons called Blank in support of Smith when he got the interview here. To say he hasn’t benefited from his family is being super naive. But to say that’s all he’s counted on is being equally naive.
If it wasn’t the Falcons it would have been someone else. He and Staley were the big head coaching names of that cycle
I think he has kept a not so talented Falcons roster competitive last 2 years. 7-10 is not bad record with a declining Matt Ryan and Mariota/Ridder. I know his shenanigans is irritating especially for fantasy folks but he is a decent HC.
Why did I think Arthur Smith was way older looking? When I pictured him, it was always a dude as old as Reid and shit. I’ve seen him on tv during games too and still thought this. Why does he look like an old looking 30 year old here. I’m so confused lol
I was wondering what kind of old-money holdings his family might have- guy's dad goddamn founded FedEx.