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Post by Moo on Dec 7, 2010 10:34:27 GMT
McDaniels - I thought they would have waited until season end, but as one of the "experts" on nfl.com has said (that I read this morning, maybe Pat Kirwan?) sacking him now gives you a head start on looking at who is available, speaking to potential co-ordinators to come in, what sort of college player that new HC will want to scout, that sort of thing. So it's not necessarily a bad thing for Denver.
Pats/Jets - when I saw the score I was actually surprised, Horn. I'm not blowing smoke up your ass here, I thought it would be a lot closer and that you had the defence to cause us more trouble than you did. I read that one of your main D guys was injured on the day of the game too, was he that much of a miss? I watched the highlights and was confused as to why Mr Ryan took so many risks on 4th down and why Sanchez took so many throwing long when he didn't need to. I also read that apart from the Patriots and the errr.... (one other team that escapes me) that your victories are all against teams with records of .500 or less which surprised me. False position?
Even in (heavy) defeat, Mr Ryan has still made his mouth go. Not an ounce of humility in the report I have read, which obviously isn't all of his interview, but you have to go on what you get. Show some respect, fella, you just got humped.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 7, 2010 12:37:51 GMT
I understand the move to shuffle the coach now because the CBA negotiations this off-season could lead to no one showing up for Organised Team Activities. If you give the new coach the keys in the off-season then it could be that the he doesn't get any time with his players until right on the verge of the new season.
Having said that, I can't believe that Studesville is the answer, considering he hasn't run anything bigger than a lemonade stand before. So I presume someone else is in the wings.
As for last night, Ryan did say "that was the biggest butt-whopping I've ever taken as a coach" but that's as close as he's likely to get to humility.
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Post by elth on Dec 7, 2010 23:24:26 GMT
I think the thing with firing a coach midseason is that you don't give him a chance to make a hope giving run at the end. If you've decided McDaniels is out at the end of the year, but let him hang on and he busts off four wins, suddenly you're having to justify firing a 7-9 coach "just when he was starting to turn the team around".
I like it. The Broncos are done, McDaniels is a chump. Get the last 4 games done and bring in someone to start afresh.
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Post by DC on Dec 11, 2010 12:29:39 GMT
Good riddance to McDaniels, if ever there was a guy with a bad case of unwarranted self importance then it's he.
The Bronco's now have to consider the fact that they have given away their best WR, high draft pick QB, and are two years older than when they first hired Josh Mclocker-room-cancerDaniels.
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Post by elth on Dec 11, 2010 13:59:02 GMT
On the plus side, they have Tim Tebow!
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 12, 2010 13:24:21 GMT
The Giants couldn't get into Minneapolis yesterday because of 15 inches of snow, so the NFL has pushed their game to Monday night.
When Coffers was a kid he used to walk school etc etc.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 12, 2010 14:36:11 GMT
And now the stadium roof has collapsed.
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Post by coffers on Dec 12, 2010 20:22:30 GMT
The Giants couldn't get into Minneapolis yesterday because of 15 inches of snow, so the NFL has pushed their game to Monday night. When Coffers was a kid he used to walk school etc etc. We used to happily play football in snow like that, I mean real football with a round ball.
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Post by DC on Dec 12, 2010 21:45:40 GMT
A real football? Luxury!
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 13, 2010 4:18:50 GMT
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Post by elth on Dec 13, 2010 5:25:01 GMT
h t t p : / / /
Does...not...computer.
I used to play football with a rolled up pair of socks, ye great jessies.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 13, 2010 5:35:19 GMT
Stupid long URLS. Fixed now. tinyurl.com/2bhhxokOne of the Jets' coaches stuck out a knee and knocked down a Dolphin special teamer on a punt. They really are a bunch of enormous cunts from the top down and the sooner their season collapses in some sort of acrimonious finger pointing suicide the better.
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Post by Moo on Dec 13, 2010 9:05:16 GMT
That's pretty bad, it has to be said and I agree with your assessment of the whole of the Pikey organisation. Their fans are canutes too. Especially the fat ones.
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Post by coffers on Dec 13, 2010 11:09:37 GMT
Usually a Fido Master 5, one of those damned hard plastic orange things, that we all clubbed togetther at school to buy. Or in earlier days a lace up casey that knocked your head off if you tried to head it and broke your toes if you tried to kick it. Unless of course you had a pair of hand me down hobnailed boots on, usually with the nail sticking through the soles of the boot into the sole of your feet.
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Post by Moo on Dec 13, 2010 12:00:23 GMT
Boots? Luxury!
We couldn't afford boots, we just drew laces onto our bare feet using coal that we'd just mined from the pit. We never had a "casey" - far too posh - we just used a rock.
And you were called a puff if you didn't head it.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 13, 2010 14:44:22 GMT
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Post by Moo on Dec 13, 2010 15:35:07 GMT
And he would know.
The only time they wheel Rodney Harrison into a conversation is to ask him "Would you do this?"... if the answer is "NO!" then it's a fine from the NFL.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 13, 2010 17:25:22 GMT
The NFL did institute a rule that was colloquially known as the "Rodney rule" because of the way he played. I think the rule was "you're not allowed to murder anyone, Rodney, so cut it out." Meanwhile, this gem from Football Outsiders before the part where the Jets thought it would be a good idea to cheat in front of the 800 cameras that are at every NFL game : " Bill Barnwell: Mark Sanchez nearly threw a pick to Sean Smith on the first drive of the game; on the second drive of the game, he did throw a pick that the Dolphins converted on a 47-yard field goal. Sanchez and Chad Henne have started the game 0-for-7. Mike Tanier: The Dolphins are running a ton of Wildcat wrinkles.
Bill Barnwell: Sanchez gets started in the second quarter with a nice slant against the blitz, but on the next third down, Dustin Keller cuts off his route and Sanchez hits Sean Smith in the chest. So that's four drives with one interception, two near-interceptions to Smith, and a fumble.
Sanchez fumbles on the fifth drive, an empty hand going forward. Jets bring in Brad Smith to run the Pistol on fourth-and-two and he hands it off to Shonn Greene for no gain.
Drive six: Sanchez makes two nice throws and then air-mails a screen. Then he gets Santonio Holmes open in the end zone and Holmes does his best Stevie Johnson impression.
Seventh drive: After the Jets recover a Ronnie Brown fumble, a Sanchez pass to Cotchery gets dropped and falls into the hands of a Dolphins defender, but he's out of bounds. I neglected my Sanchez watch, but I turned this game back on long enough to see Sanchez throw a pass as he was falling down that went through a diving Sean Smith's hands. Then the Dolphins deflected away another deep pass.
Mike Tanier: Sean Smith has touched the ball more than Michael Turner this week.
Tim Gerheim: Too bad Sean Smith isn't covering Braylon Edwards. They deserve each other. Anything at all could go on on their side of the field, Sanchez could throw as well or poorly as he wanted, and it wouldn't matter because nobody would catch a thing."
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 14, 2010 1:49:27 GMT
The clown on the Jets sideline has been fined $25,000 and is suspended for the rest of the season by the Pikeys.
No word on if the league will have something further to say about it.
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Post by hornet on Dec 15, 2010 8:58:13 GMT
That's pretty bad, it has to be said and I agree with your assessment of the whole of the Pikey organisation. Their fans are canutes too. Especially the fat ones. Yeah, it's unconscionable to have a coaching staff who cheats. Eh Moo? Eh? Eh? Eh? This team's been smoke and mirrors all season. The only surprise is that it's the offence that's self-destructing rather than the massively overrated defence.
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Post by Moo on Dec 15, 2010 9:08:40 GMT
That's in the past, Hornet, this is in the now. Your lot cheat, my lot currently don't, therefore I hold the high moral ground here and your lot smell of cheap cider and Golden Virginia. Ye pikey tossers.
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Post by Moo on Dec 15, 2010 10:08:39 GMT
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Post by coffers on Dec 15, 2010 15:32:09 GMT
IGFLITO.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 15, 2010 20:23:35 GMT
Now it turns out Alosi instructed inactive players to form a wall to obstruct the Gunner on the play. Alosi has now been suspended indefinitely and the issue has been referred to the league. Roughly no one out here is surprised the Jets would do this.
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Post by DC on Dec 16, 2010 9:24:22 GMT
I've seen the sideline obstruction a lot over the years, but Alosi took it much further.
The idea of the kicking team pushing the pursuing team into the sideline is also nothing new. I'm just surprised it has taken this long to catch someone out so blatantly.
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