Leonidas

I disagree with your list completely somewhat. Seattle is in complete rebuilding mode, there's no reason to get McNabb. San Francisco is a young team that isn't quite playoff ready - not exactly a QB away from a super bowl; plus, Alex Smith is finally starting to show some promise. St. Louis is also rebuilding and needs a lot more than just a quarterback. Minny is definitely a possiblity if Favre retires but that won't be determined until probably training camp and McNabb will have landed somewhere by then (since he is due a $6M~ish bonus on 5/5/10). Carolina? Maybe, but I don't see Fox bringing in McNabb down there. There's no chance of them trading him to Washington, you're right. Miami won't stunt Henne's growth if they're committed to him, the Raiders are just about done with JaMarcus (only Al is clinging to him); I think Gradkowski starts the '10 season for them at QB. Denver? No chance. Cleveland has a million holes besides QB. My guess would be Minny or Buffalo, with Arizona as a dark horse should Warner retire (depends on the organization's view on Leinart). Carolina's also a possibility, but I doubt it. Maybe San Fran, it's possible I suppose.

No argument there. Do you have proof of any of this?

Tim, I read your article "Maybe Jets shouldn't worry about Rivers," and while I don't want to be accused of "lacking the brainpower to comprehend unorthodox thought," the article by George Bretherton you based your blurb on was really terrible. Bretherton suggests that shutting down SD's run game will ultimately lead to the defeat of the Chargers (http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/is-making-san-diego-throw-the-jets-best-path-to-a-victory/), but he fails to mention what a poor running attack the Chargers have had this entire season, yet still going 13-3. Tomlinson and Sproles combined to barely surpass 1000 yards, and in the loss to the Broncos, Tomlinson rushed for 70 yards (his fourth highest total of the season - he didn't hit the 100 yard mark one game this season even though he started all but two games). Aside from Indianapolis, San Diego had the worst rushing attack in terms of yardage in the entire league (which sort of contradicts the old addage that you need to be able to run the ball to win games in the National Football League, but that's a different conversation altogether). They managed to beat Washington with only 50 yards on the ground, Dallas with only 73, Cincinatti with only 70, Oakland with 77. Rather, it seems San Diego only gets beaten in shootouts: the three teams that beat them having averaged 34.3 points while the Chargers, 4th in the league in points, averaged 28.4 over the course of the season(never once scoring below 20 points this season), 25.7 in those three losses. So while it seems unlikely to all of us that the Jets can win in a shootout (aside from the 38-0 drubbing against Oakland they haven't put up 30 in a single game this season), statistics seem to point to that as a way of beating the Chargers than merely shutting down an already anemic running attack. Your thoughts?

I'd take Billick at this point over any of the other remaining candidates (not including Cowher, of course). If he's really interested then he should at least be brought in for an interview. I agree that he was supposedly an offensive genius who won a super bowl on the back of a Newsome-built all-world defense, but what are the alternatives? Herm Edwards might be the worst game coach of all time. Mike Martz would be a disaster. Leslie Frazier is going to continue that awful Tampa 2 defense that only seems to work when you have future HOF'ers on your defensive line and terrific athletic coverage LB's. Jim Mora, Jr. has literally done next to nothing as a head coach (I'm still not sure how he got that Atlanta team to the NFC Championship game against Philly in '04/'05). Grimm appears uninterested, the Shottys have both declined. College coaches rarely do well in the pros. Who is left? I say Billick should at least get an interview.

Don't give a **** about your brother-in-law, but you're 100% right on all other points. I don't want anything to do with Frazier but that's besides the point.

Sorry, just didn't appreciate you thinking I was really one of those guys to jump on in the second half like that...

Try looking to the 1st page tough guy, I said the same thing to this guy before the game. Thanks for your input.

Great call.

Is that a serious comment? You think the Ravens are putting up five touchdowns on the Colts???

For the record, Kiper wasn't high on Matty Ryan but McShay definitely was. Whatever that's worth...

Please name me the 10-15 teams he would not start for. Then, if you've got this all figured out, please tell me how T.O. is a bonafide #1 if he only caught 55 balls this season? I'm sure this has nothing to do with out ****ty quarterback situation. I can't wait to hear this one...

Dude's got a right to speak up when someone makes an asinine suggestion like bringing Herm aboard...

Is taking a 4-12 team to a 5-11 season riddled with blowouts really considered an 'improvement'??

Aside from Bill Polian, letting Pat Williams go was the biggest personnel mistake the Bills have made in the last 25 years IMO. That being said, he'll be 38 next year, and I don't think bringing him or Winfield back improves the team at this point.

Excellent point, excellent question. Billy Volek? Brandon Manumaleuna?

hah, pwned!

Nuts to that. I love the Ralph. I've been to Gillette quite a few times and I hate it. Seeing Jerry World on television makes me nauseous. Bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. In fact, it's generally quite the opposite. This "we need a new stadium" mentality just because other teams have them drives me absolutely nuts.

Levy got to four in a row. Dungy kept getting bounced out early. He got bounced out in his first game in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009 (while losing to the Patriots in 2004 and 2005), being a heavy favority in most of those games, playing them at home after the bye. If not for a miraculous comeback in 2007 they wouldn't have won their only super bowl. Dungy is lucky to have stumbled into Indy.

I didn't mean that Gray ran the Tampa 2, just that he wasn't exactly the defensive "wizard" that LeBeau, Ryan, and Johnson are/were. And I agree on Monte Kiffin. But once Tampa's elite players got old/left (Sapp left, Ahanotu got older and wasn't elite to begin with, Spires got old and wasn't elite to begin with, Brooks got old, Rice got old) their defense declined precipitously. You can still run a 4-3 without running a Tampa 2. I'm not sure that the personnel isn't there for that.

I don't care what your beliefs are, but aside from a ritual prayer at the end of the game, religion has no place in football. I guess you missed the part about Dungy having Peyton Manning for eight years. Kordell Stewart and Tommy Maddox don't really qualify. Try to read what is written next time. How many times are you going to write this? What is this based on?? Anyone pushing anything in anyone's face concerning religion is pretty awful. Unfortunately, that's what the major religions call for: recruitment. But people that push atheism in others' faces is pretty awful too, so no real disagreement there.

Give some of us some credit, Dave. It's not the label, it's the softness of the scheme. I watched the Patriots carve up the Colts defense this year, just like they do most years, with their vaunted cover 2. I've watched this Bills "bend but don't break" defense which has led the bills to a, what, 1-19, record against the Patriots over the last ten years? Look, there's no reason whatsoever to suggest he wouldn't run the Tampa 2 here. If you're a fan of that scheme, then be in favor of Frazier coming here. But if you're not then I don't think he's your guy. For the record, I agree with you that we don't have the personnel to run a 3-4 or a 46, and so few people run a base 46 anyway that it's moot. I've been a fan of the 3-4 since I was a kid. I really like hybrid defenses and the "amoeba" look a lot of defenses give. The Tampa 2 doesn't confuse anybody, and more than anything else, that's why I don't like it. When Jim Johnson or Dick LeBeau or Buddy Ryan were calling defensive plays you never knew who was coming in. When Perry Fewell or Jerry Gray were, you did. That's an oversimplification, but it is what it is.

A little more work ethic and X's and O's, a little less "Christ told us to run the spread option." And for what it's worth, Tony Dungy might have been the luckiest man alive to land in Indianapolis with Peyton Manning or he may have never won a ring. He was 2-4 in the offseason with Tampa with one of the best defenses of the decade (and a mediocre-at-best offense - the Trent Dilfer/Shaun King era is one Bucs fans would love to forget). He has the best quarterback perhaps of all time and only wins one super bowl, narrowly even making it to that one? I'm sorry, Tony was a hell of a defensive coach but I'd pass on him being my HC.

Pass.

just shut up already

Well played, sir. How about the Edict of Worms!! Oh wait...