StupidNation

My friend, I did read what you wrote. Schobel is too old to play OLB. You can't take a guy who played the same position for about 15 years including college and then in your 30's turn you into a OLB who plays coverage. I've never seen a DE do that EVER. If you have please share it with me. I would be interested to know, but I can't think of one case. Look at Kaufman in Green Bay, and he's younger, and is lost in coverage. Schobel would be worse in coverage because of lack of experience and intuition. DL is a different game than rolling deep and actually doing something on a play against a TE or even in zone coverage. You would have to cut Kelsay, Denney, Schobel, and I agree you could make Stroud and Johnson DEs, but again, you have the problem of creating pressure and getting sacks. You need DEs in that scheme who could get at least 6 sacks a year to be effective. The best 3-4 scheme, which sometimes even becomes a 2-5 scheme is Pittsburg. They have 3 huge linemen and they have Harrison on the outside who is extremely athletic. I wouldn't mind cutting the dead weight of Denney and Kelsay, but the 3-4 is more of an illusion than a reality as you really need a great NT to make it effective. It's easier to find 2 decent tackles than one great one. I wouldn't want to blow up our defense because of Maybin. He should learn to man the LB position and do some outside blitzes. The 3-4 is very hard to get the right personnel and be effective. It's very aggressive but also the hardest to maintain as far as players needed. Right now we are best in the 4-3 until we get some good guys in FAs and draft guys to fit the scheme. Honestly, I like Gregg Williams version of the 4-3 the best as it is the easiest to make a strong defense without great individual parts. I hated bizarro as a head coach, but the guy really understands who to line up the defense. We were #2 in the league in 2003 and he grabbed a past his prime Sam Adams, and grabbed a play-making LB in Spikes, as well as ol'Faithful Pat Williams to stop the run. That's the easiest one to imitate, but you need a good defensive coordinator who understands how, when and where to blitz and it works quite well.

(drum roll and pathetically honest)

Well if we only score 3 or 6 points for the game I would say it's a more entertaining form of losing than the myriad of check-downs.

You cannot be serious. You are talking about a different level of playing. Put JP in college you could say he was "improving". The only guys I see improving on this team are our O guards, FS, and... that's it... sadly

There was contact before the ball was thrown from behind. The WR broke into his pattern and I don't see it affected the throw (which was lousy), but there was contact about 10 yards down they showed from a bird's-eye view. I saw the play a hundred times and there was not enough evidence to say it was bobbling. To say that every catch must be firmly in grip and never move would negate just about every play in which the guy was going out of bounds and trying to stay in bounds. If slight movement is enough to over-turn a call then most plays would be reversed under those same criteria. The very fact it is debatable, and movement is not sufficient evidence, it has to be irrefutable. It's wasn't. Also, what happened with the Josh Reed call? Did he actually touch the ball? I couldn't see any evidence, but maybe it did but I couldn't hear the game. As another poster mentioned, that call against Wood for holding was laughable.

I couldn't hear the game. I could only watch it. That's why I didn't hear about Whitner's injury. As for Maybin not being ready go watch a game and just watch him. The guy brings nothing to the table to the NFL at this point. He isn't strong enough to stop the run and his only move is to attempt to blow by the tackle. When he gets engaged he gets pushed out of the play a lot like Kelsay was for most of his career. He shows no other part of his game that is NFL ready. I've seen plays that are drawn up to go right at him in the Miami game when he was in there and he never once was close to the RB as he had a huge hole because he was in sack master mode. If you think the O-line is ok you're insane. The biggest problem with our line is consistency, and by that I mean you have no idea which guy is going to break down on his assignment but you know it's going to happen just about every play so that must make you a mental case if you are the QB. Usually you can depend on 1 or 2 guys even on a bad line. The rooks have moments and I have faith long term for the interior of the line.

Schobel is not the right type of DE you need a 3-4, so we need 2 DEs, and I don't think Stroud is the right NT you need in a 3-4 either. You would really need to change the personnel. Also, all of our LBs are slotted for this defense with the exception of Poz who doesn't play all that much. I watched the Redskin game and Orakpo is right now heads and shoulders about Maybin. You don't draft a player on future potential because of the free agency. Most of the time they are just cheaper and more successful at that price than a big name FA. All teams lose their rook contracts when a guy turns it up, so you just want a guy who will play 4 years at above average in today's game. Maybin won't be ready until year 3. He's roided some, but certainly not enough. Oh, and anyone who denies that claim tell me how anyone can pack on 15-20 lbs of lean muscle in a few weeks when you are already in good shape. It's just not possible. He needs more cycles.

First the statements: -Fitz looks better as an NFL QB and this is from a guy who really really wanted to see Edwards succeed. Bad coaching, bad field vision, tentative... I don't know, but Fitz threw passes that Edwards doesn't (e.g. the one to Nelson for 15 yards). I like Edwards as a person, but I don't see him doing much more than being efficient in check-downs as he was today. I don't consider a screen to T.O a pass down-field to a receiver. -Yes, Fitz is not the current perfect answer, but he could be if he was given 1st team reps. He shows pocket-presence which Trent used to have. I want to see him under center for this week and see how he does. At this point Trent is not an NFL QB. I watch Brees mature, this is different, he is not trying to make NFL throws anymore in the intermediate range. -Jauron should have tried to move the ball closer at the end of the 4th to win the game. We won despite him, not because of him. He's just horrible and even in the win he dampens it with his business attitude. -I love the Byrd man, great project as a tackler, great ball-hawk now. -The "13th man", i.e. refs, were horrible when it mattered against us -Oh yeah, fire Jauron yesterday Questions: -Notice they took out Donte at the end for Wilson and Byrd almost exclusively? I wonder why... -Why is Maybin even in the line-up? He's not ready for the NFL -Is Nic Harris that bad? -Did we really save that much money cutting Walker when we need a RT? -Why do fans pretend that our O-line is better? Did Fitz's scrambles scramble people's brains? Oh, and fire Dick Jauron.

I 100% agree with you. I was in awe of a guy who didn't want to move the ball and try to get better field positioning.

Not trying to sound like a jerk, but you don't win games that way either. I love Byrd and I want Wilson and Byrd to start. The team thought so too as it benched Donte over Wilson in 4th quarter. I like safeties that create turn-overs.

I'm sure you enjoyed a nice vacation in Harlem... Oh wait... people don't do that. Are they all racists? Rk is right you are either blind or stupid not to notice.

Yeah, that's why he has a black guy usually fill in for him when he isn't on his program. Your hatred for arguments is swallowed up when proof walks in the door. I mean it's so easy to say someone is racist, it's so much harder to prove it. And making politically incorrect statements are not racist. You have to prove he's against a collective race, which you can't, so you continue to repeat moronic statements. P.S I can't stand Limbaugh's antics or his neo-conservatism, but he's not a racist

There are 5 proofs of the existence of God. You are not intelligent to understand them and would probably rehash the hackneyed arguments against them which are sophomoric and easy to pick apart. You should probably get off the soap-box and try to learn something more than your immoral existence has to offer. You may wonder how I can say immoral without knowing you and I can say unequivocally that people who have this huge anti-God/religion platform are always living immoral lifestyles and which to justify their egotistical way of life. I've met some agnostics who weren't militant in their RA-RA I hate God, but didn't find sufficient proof for their intellectual aptitude, but they were naturally good men. Only a deviant and a lunatic would rant and rail against something they don't believe in. Imagine how crazy the anti-Easter Bunny crowd looks...

Whitner vs Leonard: Advantage Leonard if you factor in cost and replacement of the pick with guys like Ngata McCargo vs Mangold: not close Greer vs McKelvin: Guy becoming a pro-bowl caliber player and keep the pick vs. a guy who shows flashes with a poor head Advantage Greer Poz vs. Fletcher: That is a toss-up before we knew Poz would be perennially injured, and I would have preferred Poz over Fletcher if I didn't know the guy was going to keep getting hurt Haggan vs. What we have: Take Haggan as he was good at ST and would certainly be better than Ellison, Palmer, or the current scrub coming in Bannan vs McCargo: Advantage Bannan as he is cheaper with no loss of a pick His article isn't way off base unless you are a homer

Yeah, we need more open-minded people who shut out everyone except for those who think like they do get their way. Oh wait... that would hypocrisy... Free country we live in (BTW, I can't stand Limbaugh)

If I picked anyone it would be Pike. Don't know where he is going to go, but he's the best of the bunch.

I wish my memory was that short. Actually it wasn't given to him, JP was sucking bad and they put him in when JP got hurt. Then when JP came back Trent looked better and they went with him after JP called himself out. Trent looked good, and has regressed since then. He actually looked like a decent QB through the first 6 games of last year and in the 1st 2 games of this year. His biggest problem is that he can't pull the trigger without clear separation, not that he didn't earn it over stars like Losman and Hamdan.

He doesn't fit in this offense. Steve Johnson is a better fit than he is. Steve Freaking Johnson is better in this scheme than Evans. That just sounds ridiculous, but it's true.

Can you think of any team where SS is a need to take in the 1st round, especially when it's a reach? The only guys picked at SS where studs in college. Whitner was not one of them.

Actually he was answering someone else, not lecturing others, about correlation. The guy who was unproductive wasn't complaining about wealth, but explaining it's correlation, to the person you should have found the irony in. Gotta love the irony of the guy who never gets the context but pretends he does while acting like a sanctimonious idiot.

I disagree, I think that is too optimistic. Look at Argentina in 2001-2002 when their dollar collapsed. We are on that road in less than a decade, not in decades to come.

Like Alan Keyes in the 90's that was blacklisted and thrown out of debates while he came in 3rd in after debate polling? Yeah, not a coincidence at all.

Find me 4 consecutive games with Lynch and Jackson. Jackson wins everytime. I know it's coincidence.

Obviously the front-office didn't have to re-hire him, they didn't have to make horrible decisions on draft day, and they didn't need to hire a tiny defense which is getting hurt.

It makes sense though... do you put in a new guy, have him get killed against the Jets and have the fan-base have no confidence in the new guy or do you let Dick get beat up one more time? If Dick isn't fired by the bye I'm done with the team entirely. I've spent too much of my time and money for a team that doesn't care with the exception of a few players.