silvermike

Just out of curiosity - who has the final say over the roster, anyway?

Seriously - it was great fun to have the Dolphins keep the Jets and Patriots out of the playoffs, but that comes to an end now. Go Ravens!

They certainly should have left a back in. But that said, I'd make a Peyton Manning exception to most playcalling standards. They showed a stat earlier in the game showing that Manning converted 3rd and short through the air almost every time, and the running game was regularly stuffed.

Tomlinson turns 30 this offseason. Other than Curtis Martin, there are very few RBs who have been successful in their 30s. Thurman had his last 1000 yard season at age 30. Barry Sanders retired at 30. There are exceptions, of course. But sometimes, you wonder whether or not you want to trade a guy a year too early than a year too late.

He had one of the great playoff performances of all time - what was, it, 330 all-purpose yards and the game winning TD? I hope the dude gets a $50M contract from somebody; he's earned it. If you were A.J. Smith, and someone offered a late first for LdT - would you take it and start Sproles? Tomlinson is heading into his 9th season next year. Not a lot of RBs can still perform with that much wear, and he's gotten beat up worse than most.

He's tied for 12th on yards per attempt among QBs with any reasonable number of attempts, which really isn't bad. He's tied with Peyton Manning.

I would say the chances that Peters will recover to (authentic) Pro Bowl form are distinctly higher than the chances the player we could draft at #11 will become a pro bowl tackle. The goal is getting the best team, not settling a score here. What we need, however, is for someone on the coaching staff and the front office to tell Peters and his agent to stop being a-holes and get to work. You can blame Peters for listening to Eugene Parker all you want, but how hard is it for him to be more compelling than Jauron/Brandon/Wilson?

Marv Levy said that if they were going to take a QB there, it would have been Cutler. So while we have the advantage of 20-20 hindsight now, we do know the team was interested in targeting Cutler over Leinart.

I'm not saying they wouldn't do it - but why would making him a Pro Bowler inflate salaries more than any other guy they make a Pro Bowler?

Gotta admire that dedication.

I imagine these are the two games against the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans franchise?

I'd bring in Leftwich as a backup and give Chris Simms a tryout, anyway.

1.) Continuity is great - but you get that by deciding on a coach you want long-term and keeping him long-term, not dragging out the process with a coach who has clearly shown himself not to be a solution. 2.) It's not a coincidence that we started playing much worse after we lost talent, sure. Schobel would have helped a lot in the stretch there. But every team has injuries, and ours weren't worse than average. You gotta win despite injuries, not take a year off every time you lose a quality lineman. 3.) Which circles? People like him, but I have heard few commentors say anything better than "his players respect him and work hard" 4.) Yes. It would be expensive to fire him. It's also expensive to field a successful football team. I'll bet Jauron makes half as much as Kelsay over the rest of hteir contracts. If he cut Kelsay and put the money to a new coach, then we'd be well ahead of where we are now. 5.) Trent did regress and JP played awfully. It's 100% Jauron's job and that of his staff to make sure that THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN. 6.) If Ralph has a plan to bring in Cowher after next season, all is forgiven. 7.) You said injuries already. Every team has injuries - it's how the game works.

I'd take him over Kelsay even if he had to spend six days a week in the Betty Ford center.

I think the key is that nobody cares about Modrak. He's not sacred, just ignored.

Furthermore, if Jauron doesn't have the personnel he needs, why hasn't he been demanding more scouts?

I'll note that Fisher is the ONLY active head coach to take more than three years to get to the playoffs with his current team.

One way or another, we can relax in the knowledge that the Lions will keep ahead of us in the futility sweepstakes.

Dick Jauron has had considerable influence on our drafting throughout his tenure here. There's no GM - he's done his fair share of the shopping for the groceries.

32 teams - though a bunch have vacancies. Who are the non-Jauron contenders?

The bottom line is this: Was Ralph Wilson a better owner when he was younger? He was plenty sharp and spry when he decided to fire Bill Polian and run Lou Saban out of town.

I just appreciate how the example of "Look, this coach was terrible and eventually figured it out and got to the Big Game!" was still more successful in his terrible period.

Unless the Bills bring in Haynesworth or Peppers - which is extremely unlikely - there's no way they'll have the talent next year to compete in the AFC East. ANd they'll get destroyed by the AFC south and the NFC south. Look forward to the Cleveland and KC games, fellas.

The past three years of Dick would make me straight if I were gay and gay if I were a woman.

Which is why the Giants, Steelers, Ravens, Broncos, and Patriots have won eight of the last eleven Super Bowls.