Simon

So you want to dump a guy who was run out of P'burgh for his refusal to commit to the run game. And replace him with a guy who was run out of P'burgh for his refusal to commit to the run game. What could possibly go wrong?

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Now that is funny.

I've never seen that. Zima maybe, but not beer........

I didn't see it, but judging from your description I'm pretty sure that was the case also. It's obvious enough what was going on since you never, ever see a player clapping after a play. But to see a player clapping after a play while he was actually turned in the general direction of the sideline?! That is some seriously powerful stuff. I wonder if this was something that Fred Jackson and Titus Young planned in advance or if it just happened to mysteriously occur in the same week. Somebody should rewatch the tape to see if there were any plays where Fred tossed the ball to an official that was wearing the same kind of shirt that an official in the Lions game might have been wearing. If there was, I'd say that definitely confirms that this was no mere co-incidence...

If I was a degenerate gambler, I'd have made a massive pile of money on the Rams this year.

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That was an astounding football game. Congrats to 'Bama on their second straight pretend championship

He'd already made a couple yards after contact and was still scrapping; I would not have blown that dead either.

I think you also have to give him props for his great situational awareness. He has such a firm grasp of down/distance and offensive tendencies that he's able to make quick, confident decisions that put him in places that better athletes often find themselves late for. As bad as it was to lose him, I think the worst part was being forced to watch him standing around with his thumb up his arse for a couple years when it was so clear to some of us that he absolutely belonged on the field. I still get unnecessarily irritated thinking about it.

Well then that Hamilton fella has the same habit since nowhere does Gailey actually say that Fitz is the QB of the future; he says he thinks we're talking about him being the QB of the near future but that they're still looking to develop a QB for the future. Considering the liberties you took with that quote to create your attention-grabbing inaccurate title, I also question what Chan actually said about audibles. Anyhoo, thank you for changing the thread title to something not quite as inaccurate

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There isn't a human being on planet Earth that can comfortable and be efficient in that complicated offense with only 3 months of limited reps. The fact that he couldn't possibly be ready is not any sort of reflection on him.

Even some of us Yankees can recognize when a young man can flat out p-l-a-y. The last few years I've been getting into what I can only inadequately describe is sort of a new school New Orleans sound; Shorty, Galactic, Marc Ronson, Harry Connick's band, etc I'll always have a place for folks like Dr John, Clifton Chenier, the Nevilles, Buckwheat Zydeco and the boys at Preservation Hall, but some of these young bucks are blowing me away. If you have any other suggestions, I am certainly all ears.

I'll do it, but I want full control of all football personell

No, I agree he's under-utilized. But the amount of moaning and wailing is way out of proportion to the reality, imo. What kind of offensive mind does it take to create an historic 7.6 ypc runner?

I guess I was just pointing out that the guy is not some sort of panacea that cures everything. There's dozens of people on this board repeatedly screeching about his touches, as if all we have to do is get him the ball and things will magically be great; but that's just not how it works. If everybody isn't doing their jobs, you can give him the ball as much as you want but still end up with 4 touches for 0 yards.

Actually I was just trying to lighten the near suicidal mood in here. The sprinklers came on during Jacksonville's 62-7 thrashing of miami back in the '99 playoffs They came on again today during the phish game. I thought maybe the memory of that game might put a small smile on somebody's face.

I never suggested any such thing. I simply relayed his 4th qrtr numbers that somebody asked for.

They went to him 4 times in the 4th qrtr; twice early and then on the last two offensive plays we had. He accounted for 0 total yards on those 4 plays

At least we can look back at this and laugh:

Well CJ got back to back touches Whaddya all gonna cry about now?

Mario has drawn more doubles today htan he's seen all year

Hard to understand why not with his massive size, power and lengthy history of moving the pile

lol that was designed for Kyle WIlliams