Matt in KC

Hell yeah, I'm with you!

Titans are coming off a week 4 bye when we play them week 5. That's the only opponent I see coming off a bye week. I'm so glad we don't have a week 4 bye!

Crap, you're right. The header is updaets, but the byes are 2014....

Bye weeks for 2015: Week Teams 4 New England Patriots Tennessee Titans 5 Carolina Panthers Miami Dolphins Minnesota Vikings New York Jets 6 Dallas Cowboys Oakland Raiders St. Louis Rams Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7 Chicago Bears Cincinnati Bengals Denver Broncos Green Bay Packers 8 Buffalo Bills Jacksonville Jaguars Philadelphia Eagles Washington Redskins 9 Arizona Cardinals Baltimore Ravens Detroit Lions Houston Texans Kansas City Chiefs Seattle Seahawks 10 Atlanta Falcons Indianapolis Colts San Diego Chargers San Francisco 49ers 11 Cleveland Browns New Orleans Saints New York Giants San Diego Chargers

We had to play the Colts sometime. I think that's the spot that gives us the best chance to beat them besides having a longer week to prepare.

I'd rather play the Pats week 2 when they don't have forever to plan for us (week 1) and they don't have much tape on us yet. And besides, that game is at home. Week 11 they play a 4:30 road game the week before, so that will cut into their extra time.

But we have a homefield advantage to start as we try to set the tone for the season. Then we play the last 2 at home when our playoff lives might count on a win.

The schedule looks good to me! I love that we play NE week 2 at home. Then we have from a Thursday night game until Monday night, 11 days later to prepare to play the Pats in Foxboro.

That sentence was indeed added to the Wiki page by "Mr Gronk" on 10/5/14.

Holy crap, I can't believe I just did that. I was multi-tasking, but that was just dumb. In that case, let's go ahead and sign Brad Smith!

6 WRs: Sammy, Percy, Woods, Harvin, Goodwin and Easley (you missed Harvin). I wouldn't bump any of those guys for Smith, and I don't think we have the luxury of carrying 7 WRs. I liked Smith getting first downs out of the wildcat; that really helped the team. BUT, he could not throw to save his life. I don't think he's viable or valuable enough to carry, even for veteran minimum. I appreciate his versatility, but think we have better candidates at each of those positions.

I think we'll get 9 or 10 wins, depending on how fast we start off. While I think the pieces will be in place for a strong team, there is going to be enough new to keep us from doing much better. I hope/expect we go something like 4-4 in the first 8 games, and 6-2 in the last 8. If we see that, we're on the right trajectory!

I would have preferred a Schwartz defense over Pettine's or Ryan's. That said, I'm not sure Schwartz could have run his D well, and the team as Head Coach. I like Ryan's personality more and think he'll be a better and more entertaining coach. Given all the unknowns, I'd choose to stay with what I see we have now. I don't think it's likely a Schwartz promotion would have turned out as well.

This thread is old, and just wants to sleep. Give it some peace people! It is 91....

I agree. Keep the observations coming, John!

Since Special Teams players are now making it into the HOF, I definitely think Steve Tasker is worthy. He was a Special Teams phenom. I remember a few times he downed punts near the goal-time that were spectacular. I remember seeing a slow motion replay of him diving with his body parallel over the goal line, pushing the ball back to the 1/2 yard line as he sailed by. It was almost like a clip of an Olympic high jumper clearing the bar, only he had to run down the field not knowing where the bar would be before he launched himself. And this type of play happened enough, it was clearly not a fluke I thought at the time we'd see a new crop of players perfecting this skill, but again and again and again I see punt coverage team bumble near the goal line, unable to reproduce the magic.

I think it's fine for the off-season; I'm glad it's here. During the season Off The Wall would be more appropriate.

With Fred sticking around and Ryan's comments, I'll be surprised if Boobie Brown makes the team and sees much playing time.

Thanks so much. I love Fred's big gain against the Dolphins at 1:15, and when he helps the cameraman up at 1:20. Class act!

Where is Astrobot? I hope everything is okay. . . .

Please do!

Turn it around?

Great video!

That doesn't sound good for Goodwin! I do take these "we're all done" comments with a grain of salt however. Hopefully this is Whaley playing it cool and getting FAs, including Spikes, to accept we don't have money budgeted for them as a negotiating tactic.

Completely agree. Hallelujah!