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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 29, 2012 3:30:51 GMT
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Post by DC on Oct 29, 2012 8:23:11 GMT
I'd be even happier if I knew they were singing "The Camp Town ladies" in tribute to Alex Karras.
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Post by Moo on Oct 29, 2012 9:11:35 GMT
They need to work on the timing of their routine a little. Good result though, Stu, you must be happy with your team this season, they seem to be playing well.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 29, 2012 12:24:56 GMT
It's supposed to be Gangham Style but, as you say, they need some work. And maybe a choreographer... What's Cam Cameron doing? As for us, I'm astounded at our record, especially with a "softer" part of our schedule coming up. The defence has been playing some excellent football and the offence has hit enough big plays to put up some points. And then Reggie Bush is doing things like looking for defenders and hitting them to finish runs. Which is about as un-Reggie as I can think. We've also had a bunch of help - The Rams outgained us by about a thousand yards, but missed three field goals and the Jets yesterday gave us a blocked punt touchdown, let us block a field goal and threw an interception at our one. It turns out Tony Spannerano is a deep-cover plant, still working for us. We're not going to win the Soup Bowl, so all we're doing is ruining our draft spot, but we'd only waste a top ten spot on Ted Ginn.
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Post by Moo on Oct 29, 2012 14:15:06 GMT
So what's your impression of Philbin then? I watched Hard Knocks and I couldn't help but like him as a coach. I can't imagine I would go drinking then challenge him to a Gangnam Style dance-off, but as far as coaching an NFL team goes, he seems to be doing alright.
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Post by DC on Oct 30, 2012 8:29:53 GMT
I don't want to say the Dolphins have been lucky, as they're working their socks off for Philbin, but I just can't say I'm convinced by the Phish. I don't think losing Tannehill for any length of time will be an issue, other than for his development.
On another note - doesn't Alex Smith (QB) prove something to do with consistent coaching, supportive component pieces, allowing a QB to mature etc as according to the NFL Press he was a bust even up to the offseason.
Or does this mean that they just have no clue what they are on about when it comes to evaluating talent in bad situations.
A nod to Sanchez there, as he's not as bad as the Jets are making him look, or bad enough to consider Tebow. When they talk of the Jets QB regressing do they honestly view him alienated from a regressing whole team.
On the bad QB front, someone pointed out that John Elway had a poor first season, ergo Tebow is better than Elway ftw. Of course the league passing avg was a full 10% below the current average at the time, and if your defence of Tebow is honestly stretching back 30 years to find one QB who was poor in their debut season only to blossom later on, then you're ignoring the dozens of QB's with similarly Tebow stats no longer in the league. Ryan Leaf.
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Post by elth on Oct 31, 2012 9:17:50 GMT
I still don't think Smith's much more than an OK quarterback, but that's all you need when you've got the best defense in the NFL.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 1, 2012 4:40:47 GMT
Sanchez isn't as bad as the Jets are making him look this year, but he's a bad Quarterback who'll regress to holding a clipboard somewhere after next year's guaranteed contract runs its course. He's finished in the bottom half for completion percentage every year he's been in the league, regardless of whether he's been throwing to Braylon or Plax, or Holmes, or Konrad Reuland. It's not because he's throwing the ball a mile either, because he's also in the bottom half for yards per attempt. As a Dolphin fan, my favourite move of this past off-season was the part where the Jets gave Sanchez $20,000,000 guaranteed. He'll cost them $17,000,000 to cut before that contract runs out and I'll be delighted to see him in the division another year. As for Miami, yes they're a bit of a mirage. They have a good defence up front and although it's vanilla in the secondary (due to lack of talent), it's not a base cover two shell or anything and Sean Smith is having a good year. The defence is good at getting off the field and our punter can kick the ball into space, which can slowly tip field position in our favour. However, the Rams out-gained us by about a thousand yards and missed three field goals and our other wins have been against Oakland, (3-4), Cincinnati, (3-4) and the Jets (3-5). But on the other hand, I don't care.
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Post by DC on Nov 1, 2012 7:55:19 GMT
Sorry, I hate to think anyone thought I was supporting Sanchez as being better than anyone but Tebow.
Any team that has to work so hard to rehab a players reputation with such little on the field evidence is trying to polish a turd.
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Post by Moo on Nov 1, 2012 9:07:00 GMT
The Jets have themselves in a right pickle, I'd hate to be a fan right now. I knew Sanchez had an extention, but I didn't realise it was 20M guaranteed, that's mental. Especially when it's essentially you crossing your fingers and hoping he gets better.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 1, 2012 13:57:50 GMT
Because of the vagueries of the salary cap system the deal actually gave the Jets a bit more cap room, (which they spent on Tebow), but it also made Sanchez essentially uncuttable and untradeable.
The only way to shift Sanchez in a trade would be to agree to eat some of his deal and the Jets are already giving Denver something like a couple million for the privilege of having Tebow block on punts.
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Post by Moo on Nov 1, 2012 14:16:37 GMT
So that's even worse than I thought.
What price on Sexy Rexy's head rolling if they miss the playoffs?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 1, 2012 16:07:08 GMT
I'd probably keep Ryan, if only on a short leash. But Sparano should go and probabyly the GM Tannebaum too.
Ryan's defence has significantly slipped, (as if they've lost their best defender, or something), but he seems a genuinely inspirational guy. The best thing he could do is remember that the things he says can inspire the other team too and so maybe he should turn it down a bit or do it behind closed doors. If you saw A Football Life, you can see Belichick absolutely winding his own team up, but no opposing team every got any ammunition they could use from one of Billy's press conferences.
My favourite moment from the past week of Jets-Dolphins jawing was when former first round pick Linebacker Aaron Fooking Maybin said something about how "we're going to knock Bush out." When they asked our Center, Mike Pouncey, if he had anything to say back Pouncey said something like "Not really. To say something to Maybin I'd have to play punt coverage."
Want some ice for that burn, Aaron?
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Post by Moo on Nov 1, 2012 17:15:34 GMT
That's a great comeback. If that was the two parter about the 2010 season, I thought it was very good. (Was it 2009?)
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 1, 2012 17:38:00 GMT
The season where Baltimore absolutely mullered you in the playoffs.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 2, 2012 1:18:49 GMT
The Pats are going to have no draft picks in 2013 at this rate, as they just shifted a 4th and a 7th to Tampa Bay for Safety Aqib Talib, to go with the 5th and 6th they gave up for Haynesworth and Ochocinco.
Talib is currently serving a four game suspension for drug offences, but can play in week 11.
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Post by Moo on Nov 2, 2012 8:55:14 GMT
To be fair, we need all the help we can at Safety, even if he does miss one game.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 5, 2012 4:47:31 GMT
So Luck looked alright yesterday, I suppose. If you like 200+ yards and a touchdown on third down only.
Keep an eye out for Reggie Bush's touchdown run. If he did that in Madden you'd accuse him of cheating.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 5, 2012 4:59:00 GMT
This one. Better yet, Reggie reaches the ball into the end zone and the defender bats it out of his hand. Then Reggie tries to start a fight with him. Tough guy.
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Post by elth on Nov 5, 2012 7:37:13 GMT
Luck is somehow already at the level where he makes shitty receivers look competent. Ridiculous. Not a bad year for Manning to tank the Colts into the #1 pick, as it turns out.
That first jump cut is pretty nice. Makes you wonder how it was the zomg amazeballs Saints coaching staff couldn't get him playing.
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Post by Moo on Nov 5, 2012 11:51:48 GMT
I've been impressed with Luck, he looks very composed.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 5, 2012 12:56:58 GMT
That first jump cut is pretty nice. Makes you wonder how it was the zomg amazeballs Saints coaching staff couldn't get him playing. I could waffle on endlessly about commitment to Reggie being a genuine runningback, but instead I'll just say I blame Kim Kardashian.
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Post by DC on Nov 5, 2012 17:04:21 GMT
I had a similar comment to Stu in mind, but he beat me to it. Canute.
There were some good QB performances this weekend.
Not sure what was up with the abysmal Giants performance even with the refs help.
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Post by elth on Nov 9, 2012 3:05:40 GMT
mike mularky is a complete moron
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 9, 2012 20:57:46 GMT
That was the best throw of the night by anyone in Jaguar colours. Meanwhile... Tebow's email hacked!
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