RuntheDamnBall

You didn't say "drafted." You said he doesn't "like those U players." One of the players he formed the strongest relationship with over his coaching tenure was Kelly. The truth flies in the face of your statement. And despite Marv's preference for character, Kelly was a giant jerk for much of his career. His kid changed him a lot.

Yeah, Marv never banked his career on "U Players" like Jim Kelly

I can't see this happening. For one, if someone offers Gray the right DC or even HC position, he's out of there. Same with any of these guys who have greater ambitions than to just get paid and potentially win a Super Bowl. The 'Skins may be smart to be grabbing for a ton of known coaching prospects who have done something well somewhere. Or, it could backfire, too many cooks in the kitchen as someone earlier remarked. For what they spend and for how often they shake up their lineup, it would appear they should do better than a single one-and-done playoff appearance in however many years. Then again, this ain't baseball and these aren't the Yanks. Team chemistry buys a lot more than money and Snyder and co. just might be doing everything they can to avoid building it.

I see Fletcher staying, but I also see us targeting a LB that is going to be the kind of player Urlacher was in Jauron's Chicago defense. The nucleus. Takeo is going to be back, and I believe, will wreak havoc. But we need another leader there. Fletcher is going to be good for another year or two and then it begins to get complicated. I say start having the new guy (a tough second/third-rounder with raw talent and leadership potential) learn from him now. Any draft scholars know who might be that guy?

Tough to make any assessments on Gates and Geisinger when they drew little to no playing time. We'll see how they fit in with the new regime. Calling out the Euhus pick is rather ludicrous. He looked solid before the injury. Many others have been ST regulars on a good squad. You expect these 5-7 picks to strike gold on rare occasion, and most of the rest of the time they are developmental projects or 2-3 year special teamers. That's what they've been, with a few prospects for eventual starters or solid backups. So what's the problem? Ditto the previous poster on ignoring the Terrence McGee pick. A difference-making All-Pro in the fourth round? That, my friend, is a fantastic pick.

ROTFLMAO. Whoah, Nelly. Real box of laughs, that Coulter. And "creme brulee"? Get it, he's elite! What a set-up. She's still got it. When's her Comedy Central special? Oooh, I hope it's not edited.

Well, if you ask people what they think (and you did), I think you've been around the board long enough to know people will give people pretty candid (and sometimes scathing) answers. Think about what you're proposing here, too. We haven't seen much of a return on our investment in JP Losman (which was 2 first-day picks and a 5th rounder). But, we've only really given him 8-9 games. Not enough for most QBs to prove themselves. This would be a seriously reactionary move that would only be good if we knew something the Rams didn't (JP is a pot-head and about to get busted, JP's injuries are far worse than anyone else knows). We'd essentially be trading one inexperienced QB for another, and losing a first round pick in the process. You have to let an investment like a first-round pick mature. Losman has really only had one and a half seasons at a position where it takes up to 4 years to mature (and note that we'd likely have to wait just as long for Fitzpatrick to fully put it together). Big Ben and Brady are huge exceptions. A trade like this would mean chaos for OBD's public image -- a sign of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. IMO, there's a reason fans are pretty candidly critical of your post -- it would be another sign of instability and loss on investment for a team. We need neither.

Consider who it was addressed to, i.e. the guy who thinks "Nuke all Muslims"= good foreign policy, and then you'll get it.

I would be very happy with bringing on Caldwell or moving Wyche up to run the offense. You're right about Jauron's history, and it pretty much shows that he has leaned much more toward the journeyman (Miller, Matthews, Stewart) than towards the young guy (Grossman). Philosophies can change, and I'm pretty certain he'll have better personnel here than with the Bears. We'll see.

True. Look at what Herm Edwards' media charm bought him.

Drew deserved to be thrown under the bus. He is the platinum version of Kelly Holcomb. He couldn't win when we needed him to, and when the linemen were actually playing their best. He could beat all the paper tigers in the world but he couldn't seal the deal, just as he couldn't in Dallas this year. It was how the whole situation was handled afterwards that was messed up. JP (and the teammates he was going to lead) needed a competition for him to prove he was going to be their leader.

Yeah, because Drew Brees was AWESOME those first 3 years. You're truly amazing. You'll go to any length to criticize JP. Look, his record and stats are what they are -- the record of a rookie. If the coaches think he shows no / not enough improvement in camp to win the job, fine. But giving the job to anyone outright at this point is ludicrous. No one's job should be safe. And that should be a motivating factor for EVERYONE.

Stupid as it is, it's her right. And if you people would stop getting all up in arms about every dumb statement she made from time to time, she'd probably go away.

You are dead-on, my friend. I was at that game and they were just firing on all cylinders in the no-huddle. Another notch in Mularkey's HC record of abandoning a successful strategy and putting his players in position to fail. It didn't help that Willis was getting tired. Rusty Jones, where were you? We saw this postseason that Carolina was a team to be reckoned with. And this team was starting to do some damage on them in that series with JP at the helm. I hope DJ and co. see that for what it is, and 1) get a real conditioning program happening in B-lo, and 2) hire Sam.

And running the no-huddle was one of the areas where Losman looked best this season. What about strength and conditioning, then. If we were to be more of a no-huddle outfit, who takes Brad Roll's job? Has the guy even been fired yet? So much limbo to be in, even with a (crappy) head coach.

I've always liked Sam as an on-field talent, but crybaby actions like this are why we'll never see the kind of success with a young QB that Pittsburgh had, unless things really change. If we were in the situation that they were in last year, with a kid (Roethlisberger) given the reins and the "proven" veteran journeyman down, this team would have folded like a wallet. Pittsburgh went something like 15-1. A lack of discipline up top didn't help either. It was all quick fixes, from anointing Losman the starter instead of letting him compete (and I still think, win), to benching guys and having it backfire, to swapping QBs back and forth. That's when you lose control of a team and it spiralled downward from there. I don't see it happening. Jauron is a player's coach -- and so was Marv, but at least his players were always hungry to prove. Our current roster is a mishmash of a few guys hungry to win, a few hungry to prove something, most hungry only for a paycheck, and a Mike Williams hungry for his fourth dinner.

I'm looking forward to a Gus Frerotte fake QB sneak and some 3-yard passes on 4th and 8 against the Bills.

What's the deal, do we play Indy next year or something? Polian shouold know he doesn't have to work this hard for the win. Cut it with the sabotage, Bill.

He had one winning season, ten years ago. That's a long-ass drought. Sounds more like he had a favorable second-year schedule and some good luck.

All of those guys worked for teams that made the Super Bowl. And they didn't just work for them, they were vital assets -- unlike Mangini, who was low on the totem pole until this year. What available assistant has done the same?

Favre wasn't "Favre" in year 2 either.

Pretty soon they are going to come to blows and start making out.

No wonder Ricky came back.

It's obviously a generalization. But seriously, it seemed at my college that the business department was where all the frat dudes who knew they were supposed to go to college but didn't want to be there to do anything aside from partying ended up. Easy to get a job afterwards, not a whole lot of effort required. Of course there are smart people, go-getters, people who come from nothing who make something of themselves in business school and beyond. I'm just saying that proportionally, you're not going to find as many kids in the biology or physics department who are there because they guess it just seems like a good idea.

Heaven is sick of taking virgins and now wants to hire candidates with "experience."