NFL 2011 Week 14

The things I know Sherman did well at A&M don't really translate to the NFL (and I know little of his Larger body of NFL coaching): He recruits well and is a person of great character who can absolutely teach young men how to become real men of integrity and class.

Tim Lincecum for Jags coach!

boogle wrote:

Tim Lincecum for Jags coach!

F*ck yeah!

I approve of this idea.

Jay Gruden - Not John, but the little brother, the one currently offensive coordinator in Cincinnati. Definitely the sort of "up-and-comer" a team like Jacksonville should consider.

This is the guy you want. NFL offensive coordinator experience. NFL QB coach experience. In the arena league, he coached AND played QB at the same time! Who else would be better if you plan on keeping Gabbart around!

karmajay wrote:
Jay Gruden - Not John, but the little brother, the one currently offensive coordinator in Cincinnati. Definitely the sort of "up-and-comer" a team like Jacksonville should consider.

This is the guy you want. NFL offensive coordinator experience. NFL QB coach experience. In the arena league, he coached AND played QB at the same time! Who else would be better if you plan on keeping Gabbart around!

Or even not. If the team doesn't see enough in Gabbert, they can go right ahead and draft another quarterback. Post-rookie cap, the financial outlay for a top drafted rookie QB is no longer crippling. Gabbert plus another top 10 QB would still cost less than the Rams spent on Bradford.

Question is, is Gabbert definitely not the guy, or did he just need to be in the sit-and-watch situation that Jake Locker and Colin Kaepernick ended up in? That'll be up to the new regime to determine. But if it's not Gabbert, it'll be another young prospect that we'd want a QB guru for.

Jayhawker wrote:
boogle wrote:

Tim Lincecum for Jags coach!

F*ck yeah!

This has officially been in my head all day.

Love how they slipped a shot of Will the Thrill in there.

Kush15 wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

Cowboys it's like picking between two ugly chicks...

If they're ugly chicks, what are the Eagles?

Guru, I am interested in your take on Andy Reid, and should he be fired. A lot of people in my circle are calling for his head, but I can't seem to find another coach that wouldn't bring the team even further backwards next season. Thoughts? I think the same goes for Tom Coughlin, there's just no one out there to replace him, aside from maybe Bill Cowher.

Don't get me wrong, I hope the Giants keep Coughlin, but like Eagles fans, Giants fans are not patient. They should be more patient, since Coughlin did bring them to Super Bowl glory just 4 short years ago. Most fans (Eagles) have to wait a lifetime for that.

Reid has to go... regardless of if he is a good coach or not.. he has like all coaches good or not reached his limit with this team and has to move on.. Jeff Fisher isnt a bad coach.. and he had to go.. Reid is no different. While you are true that we arent a patient bunch.. I gotta think that over a decade later its time for everyone to move on... he has had many many chances with a really weak NFC at times and has failed to reach the promise land.

As for the next coach.. its a crapshoot really.. I'm not a retread fan.. so I'm going to hope for a new and up and coming coordinator that can wow the ownership with a solid plan for success and then hire a quality coaching staff to implement. But in this league you need to adapt and be able to maximize your players strengths and mask their weaknesses.

I also feel that the front office needs to be overhauled.. scouting and drafting have suffered in recent years.. They have some skill in offensive talent..but on the defensive side its been barren.

Can I change my Steelers pick since Roethlisberger done got f*cked up?

All home teams this week:

Buccaneers at Jaguars
Bears at Broncos
Bills at Chargers
Giants at Cowboys

Wildcard: Colts at Ravens

*Legion* wrote:

* Jeff Fisher - Man, this would be a hard pill to swallow just in terms of the "guy I hated for years" factor. But of all the crap I talked about Tennessee, I always praised Fisher as a coach. Fisher made overachievers out of roster fodder for many years in Tennessee. I have to admit that I would love to see what Jeff Fisher could do with the diamonds-in-the-rough Gene Smith digs up.

I just don't understand this build up Fisher gets as a great coach. The guy had 16 years to do something, he is 5-6 in the playoffs, and went to the Super Bowl ONCE. As someone who watched every game he coached from 1997 to present his coaching methods are old and predictable. He will always and I repeat ALWAYS go with the washed up, busted up veteran player over the new up and coming rookie. I had to watch f*cking Nick Harper get burned over and over and over again for YEARS while Fisher kept playing him. Fisher also made sure his buddy Chuck Cecil ,who doesn't deserve to coach high school D much less NFL defense, got a big fat pay check before his ass got kicked to the curb. Mike Muncheck isn't my first choice as his replacement, but I'm sure as hell glad it's not still Fisher.

Gumbie wrote:

I just don't understand this build up Fisher gets as a great coach. The guy had 16 years to do something, he is 5-6 in the playoffs, and went to the Super Bowl ONCE.

And he did that with rosters that usually had little business getting as far as they did.

Floyd Reese stocked much of your roster with bottled dog sh*t. The Titans have never once been the stacked talent team. Fisher's Titans routinely overachieved. They could easily have been one of those teams that didn't go to the playoffs for a decade, but instead they were competitive.

In no world did the Super Bowl team have any business being on the same field as the Rams. They were not at all on par talent-wise with the Jaguars either, but that didn't stop them from beating those Jags 3 times. They weren't bad, of course - they were good. Fisher had a way of making bad teams seem pretty good, and good teams seem pretty great. But he had lots of bad teams and not very many good ones.

I'm not saying he never failed at anything, but you give him too little credit. The high esteem he has in the eyes of the rest of the league is well deserved.

I guess my only question would be, is he still hungry? He's kept a fairly low profile since his exit from the Titans.

*Legion* wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
boogle wrote:

Tim Lincecum for Jags coach!

F*ck yeah!

This has officially been in my head all day.

Love how they slipped a shot of Will the Thrill in there.

Sad part is that half the non-pitchers mentioned in the song who were on the 2010 World Series team have been dealt away...plus Jonathan Sanchez and Ramon Ramirez. Ah crap, now I'm doing it. We need football up in here:

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Aldon Smith, f*ck yeah!

TheGameguru wrote:

Reid has to go... regardless of if he is a good coach or not.. he has like all coaches good or not reached his limit with this team and has to move on..

Reid is indeed a good coach, but I agree with you. The situation there in Philly has gotten way too comfortable.

It *is* possible for a coach to maintain his edge long-term in one spot, but it takes serious discipline and focus. Chuck Noll and Tom Landry being examples. But the NFL is a year-round job these days, so it's even harder now to avoid burnout or slipping into a too-comfortable routine.

After Jack Del Rio got fired, people from inside the Jaguars commented on how he had become lax in his work hours. It's just hard for some people to maintain the intensity for a long period of time. Getting cut loose, taking a little time off or working a less demanding assistant job, and then getting back on the horse again after a little recharge time seems to be the natural way of things.

*Legion* wrote:

I guess my only question would be, is he still hungry? He's kept a fairly low profile since his exit from the Titans.

He's in rehab still trying to get over Vince Young. It's where I expect Andy Reid to be soon.

garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

I guess my only question would be, is he still hungry? He's kept a fairly low profile since his exit from the Titans.

He's in rehab still trying to get over Vince Young. It's where I expect Andy Reid to be soon.

Yeah, he still does interviews with Nashville media sometimes and he always says he expects to be back coaching in 2012. He's definately sending teams the signal that he's available.

garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

I guess my only question would be, is he still hungry? He's kept a fairly low profile since his exit from the Titans.

He's in rehab still trying to get over Vince Young. It's where I expect Andy Reid to be soon.

Coaching the "dream team" is a stressful job.

Aaron Kampman now on DL. How many are we up to?

Jaguars
Broncos
Cowboys
Chargers

Texans over Bengals in a close one.

This Rothlesburger injury thing adds a real wrinkle to the AFC playoff race.

Of course, that's probably what everyone thought about the Schaub injury, and the Leinart injury. Possibly the Johnson, Williams, Hartman etc. injuries as well.

Still, I think Big Ben is more important to his team than any one of those Texans. I wonder if he'll just keep playing the whole way? He's likely to give himself lifelong ankle trouble, but hey, being a playoffs QB in the NFL is probably one of the best uses of an ankle anyway.

EDIT: Just keep believing, Hoppa!

garion333 wrote:

Aaron Kampman now on DL. How many are we up to?

The number can't go up anymore. They have to cut people. They already had to cut someone when John Chick went on IR.

For Kampman, they had to waive another DE that was on IR, Marc Schiechl.

If not for having to cut people, though, the number would be 21.

Teams have a maximum roster limit of 80. With a 53-man active roster and an 8-man practice squad, that leaves you 19 spots for injured reserve.

The defense just keeps eating up opposing teams. Cincy is going to be tough, but i couldn't fight the homer urge.

Anyone thinking these roster limits are too tight, even in the kinder, gentler, non-Guru-approved NFL?

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Anyone thinking these roster limits are too tight, even in the kinder, gentler, non-Guru-approved NFL?

Despite the number of injuries to some teams, in general, no. There was talk of upping the roster to like 83 if they move to an 18 game season, but I think that is crazy. Only 3 more spots for such a large percentage of game time played is hardly fair, but if they go bigger, it cuts into team profits. I read somewhere the idea of having 2 exhibition games, adding 1 regular season game and an extra bye week. If they did that then 80 roster spots could be perfect.

*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Aaron Kampman now on DL. How many are we up to?

The number can't go up anymore. They have to cut people. They already had to cut someone when John Chick went on IR.

For Kampman, they had to waive another DE that was on IR, Marc Schiechl.

If not for having to cut people, though, the number would be 21.

Teams have a maximum roster limit of 80. With a 53-man active roster and an 8-man practice squad, that leaves you 19 spots for injured reserve.

Okay, so that makes it 23?

garion333 wrote:

Okay, so that makes it 23?

No, it's 21. They have 19 spots and the two guys cut would have put them to 21 if they were able to keep them. Those guys cut were already on IR so it's subtracting one in order to add in a new one.

*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Okay, so that makes it 23?

No, it's 21. They have 19 spots and the two guys cut would have put them to 21 if they were able to keep them. Those guys cut were already on IR so it's subtracting one in order to add in a new one.

Oops. Reading comprehension fail.

garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Okay, so that makes it 23?

No, it's 21. They have 19 spots and the two guys cut would have put them to 21 if they were able to keep them. Those guys cut were already on IR so it's subtracting one in order to add in a new one.

Oops. Reading comprehension fail.

Talk to me again on Monday. Your count of 23 will probably be correct by then.

garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

I guess my only question would be, is he still hungry? He's kept a fairly low profile since his exit from the Titans.

He's in rehab still trying to get over Vince Young. It's where I expect Andy Reid to be soon.

Andy Reid will always be hungry.

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LeapingGnome wrote:
garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

I guess my only question would be, is he still hungry? He's kept a fairly low profile since his exit from the Titans.

He's in rehab still trying to get over Vince Young. It's where I expect Andy Reid to be soon.

Andy Reid will always be hungry.

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Don't run! It's only ham!