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Re: The 2010-11 NFL Season Thread
Another disappointing end to a Patriots season for me. Maybe next year they can lose a playoff game on the road so I don't have to witness it in person. It's ridiculous that Tom Brady hasn't lost a REGULAR season home game in the last 28 games, yet the Pats have been completely dominated in their last 2 home playoff games.
The playoffs are a different animal, plain and simple.
As for the remaining teams. I want the Steelers to beat the Jets. I don't think I could take 2 weeks of listening to the Jets players and coaches leading up to the Super Bowl. That would be unbearable. The Packers look quite good, but I think the Bears can give them a run for their money. However if the Bears meet the Steelers, I don't think it'll be much of a game. Packers/Steelers would be much more entertaining.
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I'm rooting for the Packers (my preseason SB pick, as I'll remind everyone forever if they do win it all), and I'd rather have the Steelers than the Jets win. I just... don't like the Jets at all. I'm no Pittsburgh fan but I really think the Jets have played better than they really are for 2 games, and the Steelers deserve it more.
Fun fact: The Bills lost 5 games this year to teams playing in the conference championship games. Should've beat Pittsburgh and almost beat Chicago.
Re: The 2010-11 NFL Season Thread
Another disappointing end to a Patriots season for me. Maybe next year they can lose a playoff game on the road so I don't have to witness it in person. It's ridiculous that Tom Brady hasn't lost a REGULAR season home game in the last 28 games, yet the Pats have been completely dominated in their last 2 home playoff games.
The playoffs are a different animal, plain and simple.
As for the remaining teams. I want the Steelers to beat the Jets. I don't think I could take 2 weeks of listening to the Jets players and coaches leading up to the Super Bowl. That would be unbearable. The Packers look quite good, but I think the Bears can give them a run for their money. However if the Bears meet the Steelers, I don't think it'll be much of a game. Packers/Steelers would be much more entertaining.
I think they're still in good position going into next year though. They have 3 picks in the top 33. #17 from OAK, #28 (their own) and #33 from CAR. They should be able to get a pass rusher with #17 and an OL help with #28 or a WR with those picks. Looks like a good year for DE/OLB prospects. Not so much for wideouts with speed anyway.
Like CC I'll be rooting for the Packers. Can't stand either of the AFC Championship teams. But if forced I'll root for the Jets. Only because they can pull out a couple more WWE style promos before the Super Bowl.
Anyway, the Titans are interested in hiring Mangini for their vacant Defensive Coordinator spot. It would be a good hire since he has a functioning brain and can make in game adjustments.
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i dont want the jets or the steelers to advance..i think sanchez is average at best, i think his defence makes him look better than he is, on the other hand we have rothesraper
i'd like to see the pack move on
...but i have a stinking feeling that it will be the jets vs the bears for the superbowl
Re: The 2010-11 NFL Season Thread
Jeff Fisher is out in Tennessee. Didn't see that one coming. I figured he was good to go since they decided to rid themselves of Vince Young. Apparently though, Fisher didn't want to head into the season with just one year remaining on his contract
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About time. He'll do great in tv. He can just talk and talk and fill the dead air. The guy has a rational explanation for absolutely everything.
It's probably smart that he does this now instead of coach out 2011. Last two seasons are 8-8 and 6-10 and another losing one in 2011 would have taken the luster off his rep as an "elite coach." He can blame Bud Adams and Vince Young for the last two years.
Anyway, the story is that he wanted to bring on his son as a quality control coach, whatever that is. Bud Adams has a strict policy of no sons/relatives on the coaching staff. That is what stopped them from hiring Gregg Williams after 2008. Couple that with the coaching defections of the past days, and he choose to leave.
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Ok, in addition to in house candidates, the Titans are interested in interviewing Perry Fewell, Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey. Those 3 are guys are all former Bills coaches. Fewell was an interim coach Williams will interview either on Thursday or Friday.
Anyway, question for Bills (or AFC East) fans, which ones of these 3 ex-Bills coaches was the best? All I remember was Williams was bad with the media and had Rob Johnson, Drew Bledsoe as his qbs. I don't remember anything about the Mularkey tenure at all. Fewell did ok in the interim stint and I think has done some good work with the Giants this year (Colts and Eagles games aside).
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Fewell didn't really get a fair chance, since the team was decimated with injuries and was/is by far the least talented in the division. His defense did considerably better than this year's Bills D with about the same players, although still was statistically lacking compared with the rest of the league. His Giants defense was pretty impressive though.
Mularkey was awful awful awful. Granted we had our last winning season under him but that was an underachieving team. Going into week 17, we were playing a home game against Pittsburgh, who had already locked up the 1st seed and sat all their starters and played a lot of 3rd string players. If the Bills won, they'd make the playoffs, if they lost, they wouldn't. At home. Against a team that didn't even care. And still we lost - so that's the 'clutch' value of Mularkey's teams. Offense was supposedly his specialty but our offense was like 27th or 28th with him.
Williams is too conservative offensively and unimaginative, but he does get a good defense and with a good offensive coordinator you could win with him. But expect to punt from the opponent's 38 a lot. For a bad team, he's a terrible coach, because his conservative calls give your offense no chance to surprise anybody. If you're the better team, Williams can get the win, but don't expect any upsets with him.
The Bills have had some terrible luck with coaches. I really liked what Chan Gailey did with the team this year though.
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Thanks for the input. Williams sounds like Jeff Fisher part II. Luckily he opted not to interview with the Titans.
Mularkey's interviewing today and the more I read the more I'm leery of him. The offense in ATL wasn't that great either.
Fewell's probably my choice but I'm not sure about his chances. I think he has a shot at the job though otherwise he would have just declined the interview.
