NFL 2011 Week 11

*Legion* wrote:

At this point, the Jaguars don't have anyone capable of running down the field. It's literally the worst receiving group in the league. Dillard and Chastin West are the best hope for improvement, but they're late starts coming off of injury (in Dillard's case) or getting signed off of another team's practice squad (West).

This is me completely agreeing with you; that WR corps is utterly abysmal. I flipped a Jags game in the early season, and it occurred to me that I couldn't name a starting WR for the Jags. Considering how utterly obsessive I am over the NFL, that's pretty unprecedented for me.

It may just be the worst receiving corps in memory.

There are some platoon players there, but the team desperately needs a legitimate "X" split-end receiver, and he isn't on the roster.

Every receiver on the roster is playing one spot too high on the depth chart.

Get a real WR1 split-end, put Mike Thomas in the slot where he belongs, and maybe Dillard or West can move up to flanker with some more time in the offense.

That would at least be a start.

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line, up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

Didn't he see the LSU game?

Sticking it to the assistants that dared leave him.

Kush15 wrote:

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line, up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

Belicheck. This surprises you?

Kush15 wrote:

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line, up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

I almost took NE to win by 35+.... its Belicheck.

GB on the other hand refuses to cover a spread.

Kush15 wrote:

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line,
up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

I can't wait for the time period when he no longer has Brady as a QB.

karmajay wrote:
Kush15 wrote:

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line,
up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

I can't wait for the time period when he no longer has Brady as a QB.

he did Huerta fine with Matt cassel. 10-6 is certainly respectable.

karmajay wrote:
Kush15 wrote:

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line,
up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

I can't wait for the time period when he no longer has Brady as a QB.

he did Huerta fine with Matt cassel. 10-6 is certainly respectable.

Paleocon wrote:
karmajay wrote:
Kush15 wrote:

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line,
up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

I can't wait for the time period when he no longer has Brady as a QB.

he did Huerta fine with Matt cassel. 10-6 is certainly respectable.

Brady played at the beginning of the season. Plus a lot if QBs do well until tape is out. I wonder what would have happened if Cassel played the next year?

karmajay wrote:
Paleocon wrote:
karmajay wrote:
Kush15 wrote:

Did Belicheck really go for it on 4th and goal at the 4 yard line,
up 27-3 with a minute to go in the game? What a douche.

I can't wait for the time period when he no longer has Brady as a QB.

he did Huerta fine with Matt cassel. 10-6 is certainly respectable.

Brady played at the beginning of the season. Plus a lot if QBs do well until tape is out. I wonder what would have happened if Cassel played the next year?

Brady played almost one full series that year. It was the first possession of the first game when his knee got destroyed. The team went 11-5 that year, not 10-6; but still missed the playoffs. I suspect that if Brady's career ended that day, Cassel would have been fine the following year, with the coaching staff, the offensive line and the receiving corps the Patriots had. Cassel is hardly a bad quarterback, but he suffered when playing directly under center, so when the coaching staff used him in almost exclusively shotgun formations, he did much better.

Belichick has always held that in professional sports, the offense's job is to score points, and the defense's job is to prevent them. It seems like about half of the coaches in the league understand this stance, and will keep on trying to score points, despite how futile it is - say you have 24 points to make up in under 1 minute. I can't imagine being a professional coach and not taking this "garbage time" as extra reps for your players, drilling home the idea that the game is 60 minutes long, not 45 minutes

Spoiler:

Andy Reid's Eagles

. The Patriots in particular fell into this trap a few years ago, letting multiple games get away from them in the second half - I think that was the year they lost in the playoffs to the Colts with the now-infamous 4th-and-2 call. Those 4th and 4 plays in a basically won game can be great practice for the times where you need those 4 yards.

Yeah, I don't get the bellyaching about continuing to play even when you're up by tons of points. There's been a few ridiculous comebacks in league history.

No sense tempting fate and being the one that lets a team set a new 4th quarter comeback record or something. Keep playing until there's no time left.

psu_13 wrote:

Broncos cut Orton

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...

How long do you think it took the Bears to call his agent? Fifteen seconds? Thirteen?

Thanks to waivers, I won't be surprised if the Chiefs snag him before the Bears can.

garion333 wrote:

Thanks to waivers, I won't be surprised if the Chiefs snag him before the Bears can.

why? would cost them 3million and they get a worse draft pick from any games he helps them win?

With the amount of injuries KC has piled up I think its an easy sell to the fans to pack it in for the year.

jowner wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Thanks to waivers, I won't be surprised if the Chiefs snag him before the Bears can.

why? would cost them 3million and they get a worse draft pick from any games he helps them win?

With the amount of injuries KC has piled up I think its an easy sell to the fans to pack it in for the year.

Granted they didn't lose Rodgers, but is that what the Packers should've done last year? The Chiefs are two games out of first place. They're still in contention, though their schedule is brutal.