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I wrote a ton. Delete. I won’t forget his mistake and it certainly did cost us but it is tough to make assumptions about things that didn’t happen. Like if he did his job. He didn’t. We still might have lost. I’d like to watch that game again though, can anyone say how to do that? Free, preferably lol.

We let Julius Peppers walk. I guess that is a joke or something. Okay Ha. Ha. I do see the possibility that Burns becomes truly disruptive in a 3-4 and transcends the average. But if he does not, with what he is about to be paid, he won’t be a good deal.

It isn’t possible to know what the future holds but 17 games say that everyone will be needed. Stranger things have happened than a backup being put into the job because he was next man up. Kurt Warner says hi. Tom Brady is waving too.

It actually could. That poo is scary. But this place puts filters on words so they come out nice. Poo. Stupid as hell if you ask me but nonetheless that is the way of this corner of the internet world. I don’t feel like that dildo is any less disgusting than poo being left to be poo. The consistent thing would be to whitewash it like the language -make every dildo show up not as a dildo but as a pic of a Steely Dan album cover. Since they got their name from a dildo and all.

Every year so many things are different though. You can’t play last year’s NO, Atl, and TB teams this year.

I never understood how it was supposed to work, the way Gettleman had it figured. He was wrong, period, and should know better after spending a life in football. His reasoning was get a big target. But the target being missed will just get missed higher or taller. Because inaccuracy is inaccuracy at 6’ or 7’ or 10’. You get a tall receiver you literally gain a few inches over a short one. That’s about it. If the ball is much higher no one is gonna reach it. If you can’t hit a target that is above sea level by 6 feet you won’t be accurate trying to hit a 7’ high target. Because you aren’t throwing at a 6’ target anymore, and figuring you miss it by three feet so the taller longer arms guy is going to be able to reach something over the head of a shorter player, is bad figuring. I am spending hundreds of words trying to verbalize the point but basically you don't fix inaccuracy by moving the target to where the misses are. The aim will be there, and the misses will no longer miss there. So get me a guy who can jump and catch and separate from coverage, and get the quarterback to get his mechanics together. If he is tall, whatever, but no more lumbering natural tight ends with iffy hands in the first round, please. I loved Gettleman his first year because of the draft of two DTs where we had not had any quality since Jenkins left. And I am a believer in having big guys up front that will win the point of attack on both sides of the ball. Book should be written and done after his second chance in NYC was kind of more evidence against him being really good at his job.

I wonder if he will thrive in the 3-4. Might make him a lot or cost him a lot, depending on how that goes.

Man, sometimes it's too much.

I lost most of any respect I had for Fox in 2010. He earned that too. JR was too cheap to fire him, Fox just sat and collected the checks with no shits given about the team or fans.

Interesting that in your scenario the #17 team can (seemingly) be favored to win a division. Cool. I think Atlanta is going to be better than people are predicting. And TB ranked higher than them when they appear to me to be the most depleted team in the division? I guess this illustrates why no one pays me for my opinions.

Kelsey was the guy no one had an answer for in the playoffs. They couldn’t defend him.

People just want to stop the run, and the pass. That’s it. Not personal. I hope the new defensive scheme maximizes him.

That was supposed to be a little throwaway joke. 7 years. Tepper gave him 7 years. Which really isn’t very funny either.

Man, Bridgewater would have been fine for two seasons of building the team. The real screwing up started with running him off after a year. Seriously, how bad was two years of him going to be given where the team was? Bridgewater may have told Rhule something that sparked that. How impatient was Tepper for a QB? That was a possibly factor. But really analyzing the missteps of a guy would couldn’t learn to be an NFL level HC, after he is gone, kind of pointless. On his positive side there is a higher level of talent that was achieved last year, it was almost tangible. On paper the secondary was pretty covered, OL came on and got pretty good, top third maybe. So some things were getting figured out. Maybe he really did need 7 years.

Couldn’t edit the above post but wanted to add I will say Young is doing things that Cam should have done that I don’t remember him doing much of. He took his off-seasons off. Young is at SMU throwing to his WRs which, damn right I like to see that. Then I think, a guy with his negatives to overcome, would do that type of stuff though. He’d be used to it. Business as usual. He has done that to succeed his whole life. I definitely value that type of ‘want to’ in my football players

I agree with you there on the expectations. We don’t really know anything yet and there are a lot of areas that applies to. If it turns out the team actually made a good decision on Young, the situation in our division is fairly unique in that I can’t think of a division fully populated with teams on the bottom of the talent barrel the way the NFCS was last year. Maybe the old NFCC in a couple of seasons but even so most times I remember there was one team that dominated which has not been the case here. So I can see a path but again, we know nothing really until they kick it off in regular season mode. And then it will be a few games of the modern NFL’s extended into the regular season preseason practice games. Which is what we get with the labor rules they go by now where you can’t really practice enough to hone things before the shooting starts.

He was tired of Fox and JR. I think Fox had someone watching him maybe, checking on him away from football. Jenkins said something about not being a child and that sort of thing.

Jenkins was missed big time. He should go in on that crazy kick block TB game alone. I’d like to see TD and Luke go in together.

I have the nostalgia for the low tech old days when NFL Primetime was without a doubt a highlight of my week. They need to bring back Australian Rules Football and the America’s Cup overnight programming, repeat that stuff all day, break on with some scores and reports on actual sports news that doesn’t involve contract, money, and focus on the athletic side not the business side. 4am after a late shift, America’s Cup was a blast. Present the content with much less emphasis on the personalities of the talking heads they employ and, again, place the emphasis on athletic side of sports. Too ‘80s? Maybe, but I could handle ego deluded Berman and his nicknames, and Tom Jackson kissing his ass all broadcast long. Yes Boomer, no Boomer, yes Boomer, haha that’s a good one Boomer. I do recognize that much of the old days’ appeal hinged on the more entertaining style of play celebrated on Jacked Up, which the media helped take away from us (if a guy wants to sacrifice his old age for millions of dollars he could never ever get a chance to earn otherwise, $ which elevates his family for generations, isn’t that his right?). Go back in time and stop the overt show biz there before you bring in Skip and Steven A and their TMZ oriented yelling and theatrics, and take the other fork in the progress road.

Comedy gold there CWC. Man you think a lot of yourself.

Yeah I watched an interview with him probably the same one a lot of people have seen. My takeaway was really, that guy is going to be a leader on that OL and the team as well. He has the qualities.

I think Rhule’s failure was easy enough to see coming. There are things you stay away from, generally, if you want to succeed in the NFL. College coaches are one. Successful ones are outliers. I think this last coaching decision went as well as we could have hoped. I can see a good outcome from it without squinting too hard. As far as the other things to stay away from, I need to be shown that the draft wasn’t another of those somethings that you should not do. We better have hit on an outlier. This is going to be a very interesting year. Lot on the line.

The entire postseason was Kelce. The one that plays TE for KC. Not one team stopped him. They handled everything else KC threw at them but when it came down to it they just had no answer for him.

I am with you. I feel Cam’s story is one of unfulfilled potential. I always rooted for him and the team. Always. Hate is a word used erroneously nowadays by so many that don’t understand what real hate is (hint: it is even stronger than what people are feeling that are mad at me for ‘hating’ on him).

I am not gonna be drawn into repeatedly defending a perfectly reasonable thought, don’t twist words. I never said I was worried about a damned thing. I never said the team was gonna suck. If you can’t wrap your homer mind around the intent or motivation behind the sentiment, don’t make it my problem.