RuntheDamnBall

Holcomb fake QB sneak.

"...with a broken wrist."

You know, it's half joking, but if Young comes out I probably would do anything in my power to get him. I'm talking Ditka, trade all my picks for this guy. Get your linemen in FA. And I'm a Losman guy. Young is a difference maker. Period. He showed it on the national stage, with a world of pressure -- and he was clutch against a team that could probably whup the crap out of a few NFL squads. Plus, handing the ball to the official and limited celebration before going for the two? Classy.

I hope he hires an OC who knows something, anything, about offensive playcalling.

EXACTLY. This has been the #1 problem for this entire team. Mularkey has NOT put the players in a position to succeed, nor have most of his assistants. It goes from the top-down. Willis needs X number of carries to succeed. The line needs consistency for anyone to succeed. JP needs a certain number of designed plays and passes to his running backs to succeed. The DBs need to play press coverage instead of giving the opposing WRs a soft 10 yards to succeed. This all reeks of poor gameday acumen on the part of this staff.

He took a spell for a play when they were running hurry-up. That's OK IMO. And this to me points the problem more to Mularkey's choice of strength and conditioning coach than to McGahee. None of these guys can finish a game strong. That still doesn't mean you take him out every third down.

I'm sure he's learning a lot watching noodle-arm lob four picks.

This way they can catch the early-bird special for a celebration dinner after the PC.

Go back and watch the tape of the KC game and tell me Losman is not capable of running an offense. He hit multiple receivers and can hit the home runs that Holcomb can't.

Umm, while his franchise back was shredding the Jets he put the game in the hands of a guy who had tossed 3 INTS by the midpoint of the second quarter. His franchise back gains 12 yards on a catch and he never calls his number for a pass again. Instead he takes the franchise back out in the most crucial situations. That's all I need to know. Mularkey's play-calling and team management is for sh--.

Maybe his casual attitude can be attributed to the fact that the coaches are a bunch of numbskulls that don't know how good he is and how to use him. This team needs Willis, and it doesn't need to mortgage the future (getting Bush STILL doesn't fix our O- or D-line problems ) to succeed.

He blocked really well yesterday too. MM is a frigging bonehead. Our next coach better be using Willis, Willis and more Willis (especially in situations when you're playing a team that's TWENTY-EIGHTH AGAINST THE RUN and your star journeyman QB has thrown FOUR INTERCEPTIONS). Kid can catch, and his catches will make room for his runs. Time to can these idiots who don't know jack about offense, much less "smash-mouth football."

Dude, I don't know how you came up with the best post of 2006 already, but hot dog, you did it.

Does he come with Antonio Gates?

If he is there for one of our thirds, I say grab him. Anyone know where he's rated on the boards right now?

You might notice that the receivers played REALLY well in that game and picked up a lot of yards that Holcomb did not leave out there for them. Holcomb DID throw short on third downs, but some great moves and bad tackling helped us a lot. That's not to say the guy's not accurate, or good at reading defenses, especially the Bengals D that he's had more experience with than most. He even made a few long-ish (25 yard) passes that were excellent and unexpected. But his decent day was made better by the fact that our top 4 receivers showed up to play, which hadn't happened on the same day this year. Holcomb needs to be given the opportunity to compete, and I have the feeling that this would motivate Losman to be that much better, and to become the QB this team needs him to be. If not, I'm all for giving it up to Holcomb until JP figures it out or goes to another team to succeed.

Posted this over in the trading post, but in the interest of time and not being registered (yet) on the hockey board, and seeing as how people tend to post Sabres-related material here, thought I'd cast a wider net here: I know it's last minute, but if anybody has 3-4 tickets for this game (12/30 Thrashers) and doesn't want to go (possibly season ticket holders?) I am game for meeting up and purchasing your tickets. (I am in town for the weekend visiting family and would love to catch a game). PM me, please! J.

By drafting and handing the keys to a young QB and watching him struggle to learn as they usually do.

Colts 34, Seahawks 31. 'Hawks miss a game-tying field goal, wide left by 3 feet in the dying seconds.

You have to depend on your receivers to be able to do the work with a lot of short-yardage checkdowns. We got that yesterday and we also had a minimum of costly penalties called on us. Can we depend on that on a week-in, week-out basis? We did see that, if they are all showing up on the same day, Moulds-Evans-Reed-Parrish is a pretty damned formidable foursome. That's a big if so far, though.

Further evidence that we should hope Jerry Gray gets offered some nice job elsewhere, preferably with a team we don't like all that much. How can a guy who played corner so tough not know what to do with them? It's effing mystifying.

Nice shot at Paul McGuire there:

He has, because he's been penalized at least twice on offense and I saw him catch a ball in the past couple weeks. Euhus has been making plenty of mental mistakes, too. He looks like what he was, a fourth-round backup / second TE at best. Seems like this offense and team have no idea what to do with or how to grade TEs, ironic considering it's our coach's former position, though I'll give them a mulligan until I see Kevin Everett next year. Really, though; the mold for TE's in this league is either big, tough and athletic / or smart, tough and clutch. None of our TE personnel exhibit these traits -- I'll give Campbell a little toughness on account of he catches a few passes even when he's about to get his bell rung, but nobody's confusing him with a premier TE.

How about the guys who work on power lines? Not only because it's tough labor, but because the unions actually enforce safety standards. Ten to one when you see a guy hanging out of a bucket electrocuted it was a contracted job done by someone with less training and protection.