krazykat

Here's a better idea; The team should find someone that actually knows what they're doing and guess what? We would be talking about playoffs instead of having people with a sunburned sphincter telling us all about how the the team is gonna walk on water every year as the complete opposite happens every year. Don't blame me for the team's terrible rankings and lack of decent coaching, planning, and talent.

Oh, I see, and you can't make it through the day knowing that someone misquoted Jim Kelly's retirment year. Got it.

That's a fact.

You can consult the list at the top. The Bears w/ Hester. Sorry, but it's true. They also have excellent other STs too. Not sure about the Browns though.

And this was important to you why now...?

More than that, Schonert has never even been a coordinator. The WCO isn't exactly simple to implement. IMO it's too much for him at this point considering that Jauron is the head coach. Who else is Schonert going to draw upon for help which he will need. As to Edwards facing 8-man fronts, I don't think it will be 8, but he will be facing 6 and 7 man fronts frequently from the beginning of the season. To run a WCO you need a line that can block better than ours can. Unfortunately our line is built only for the simplest of offensive schemes. I can't think of one G we have that we've seen pull on a regular basis either and do it well. Dockery probably can but I'm not sure I'd bet on anyone else being able to well. The original plan of using a FB, which isn't a WCO trait, seems to be the best. Use the best all-around TE frequently and frequent 3 WR sets when the FB ain't in there. That's what we're built for and honestly, we're not going to be great at that either. The D is going to have to carry the team into the playoffs if that even happens. I have this feeling that Edwards is going to get his clock cleaned this year. He's gonna see pressure that he just didn't see last year and IMO he's not gonna have a clue how to handle it.

Aren't most of "their" opinions? Some people here think that they actually know more about football than many posters. They're writers that get paid to interject their opinions. They cover all 32 teams and are probably wrong much more than the people that actually follow a single team or a division. They can't possibly be up on what's going on with every team in the kind of detail that makes their opinions more credible than anyone else's. At the end of the season is the time to go back and evaluate them, not before it. I just love it when some stooge cites what some clown says and then uses it to say, "see you naysayers..." as if it's already happened. Hell, we should have made the playoffs three or four times already this decade if these turds are to be believed. I would also bet that they say that about more than the 12 teams that can actually make the playoffs too. It would be one thing for them to pick their 6 PO teams from each division, but to simply say that all the teams that finished around .500 last year have a shot, boy, really stepping out there. LOL

LOL Funny hearing you guys talk about credibility. We had a line that could at least block much of the time back then. Who do you think were the starting linemen besides Brown who were responsible for that, Nails, Spriggs, Zeigler, Hicks, and Fina! LMFAO Can't wait to hear your credibility laden answers on that. Then again, it could have been the awesome RBs of Antowain Smith, Jonathon Linton, Shawn Bryson, and Sammy Morris that really made the line shine back then. You guys are neverending self-imposed humor. But hey, on Fowler's team we've ranked 30th each year in yards but 9th and 11th with Ostroski at C. I guess that sure settles it. I have no credibility, you have tons. LOL

These guys contradict themselves more than politicians do.

People like you say this every year and thus far every year you've been wrong. It's one thing if you, they, are right. It's another when you're as wrong as a turd in a toaster. And since when do the actual facts and realities come out before they actually happen?

I'm not sure about the best, but there's little room for improvement, let's put it that way. Hell, how many other teams do you know that could seriously make their punter their MVP. Lindell is a fine K and our return and coverage games were tops last year. I think from a rankings perspective there was a few better STs, but I'm not sure how they come up with a singular indicator given the breadth of STs activity.

My point is that anyone looking to squeeze more out of a special teams ranked near the top is being unrealistic. I mean what do you want from them, 10 points on average per game or something. They are the best at what they do. Unless you're expecting 8 or 10 return TDs, which is absurdly unrealistic, how are they going to improve when they are already ranking among the top few STs units every year now for like five or six seasons? As to Jauron, that's like saying that a defrosted bag of turtle sh-- is tastier than the carrion on the road from a kill two weeks ago. What, Malarkey is some sort of standard for excellence? The man's a moron. Odd thing is that I'm sure we can find plenty of posts right here praising his hire and Donahoe's geniusness for bringing him on. Jauron may be an upgrade over Malarkey, but so are 500 other coaches and assistants currently coaching in the NFL. Malarkey is an idiot's idiot.

You mean weakknees.

He definitely got a huge contract that wasn't warranted back then, I do remember that. He just joins the list there.

What's with the love affair with Fowler all of a sudden? He was just another backup when we picked him up. He has sucked hind tit here and in case anyone noticed, our offensive rankings have sucked since he's been on the team. I might be remembering Ostroski's play at G more, although he really didn't dip until he got injured which was his last season. Either way, this fawning over Fowler is silly.

Fowler sucks. O didn't suck. Watch Fowler and you'll see guys blowing by him constantly if he has no help. The man's useless one on one. I have no idea where all the negativity towards Ostroski is coming from. Maybe my recollection of him as a G is trumping my knowledge of him at C, but I seem to remember him making that transition extremely well. I know at the time no one had issues with his play either. Sounds like a true MB piling on here.

It's just that our offense back then ranked much higher than it does today. Must have been Jonathon Linton and Shawn Bryson running the ball, huh. Sometimes I wonder if you guys even know what on earth you're talking about of if you just make stuff up thinking that no one can verify any way to support stuff. No one in the media thinks that Fowler is anything more than a barely adequate starter. Ostroski was much more than that. I don't know, he may have not been as good a C as G, but he was damn sure better than Fowler and to suggest otherwise reveals ignorance.

You guys talk as if you've never seen Ostroski play. He was halfway decent and better than Fowler easily.

LOL Actually, salaries have paralleled the salary cap largely. I'm sure there's an exception or two. If there's any reason why they might still be high on some teams, it's because they are anticipating an uncapped year and the CBA to go by the wayside meaning football becomes like baseball where the teams that have the money can buy whatever they want in terms of players and teams that don't obviously can't. Otherwise you'll notice that salaries got way out of hand in the early to mid '00s and have slowed since then. Here's the salary cap history of recent years: '08: 116,700 '07: 109,000 '06: 102,000 '05: 85,500 '04: 80,600 '03: 75,000 '02: 71,100 '01: 67,400 '00: 62,200 '99: 58,400 '98: 52,400 So you can easily see that the percentage increase was among the lowest the past two seasons. So if any contracts were much larger, they must have been in a vacuum otherwise, because the cap space certainly has not supported those kind of contract increases the last two offseasons.

Yes, when you rank near the top I'm saying there's very little room for improvement of the special teams. It's exceptional as it is. Any improvement from the "pairing of our D and STs" will come from the D getting better. Unless you're counting on average field position near our own 40 and a dozen STs TDs this year, which is unreasonable, the STs has done all that any team can ask of it recently. As to more red zone opportunities, we'll get more of those too when our O can move the ball downfield like most other offenses. You're right on coaching changes, but we also need to begin hiring some that we suspect know what they're doing other for reasons than they say so and are buddies with someone else on the team or within the organization.

I hate to be the bearer of some additional insight here, but the special teams were even better before Jauron got here.

Some of us having been saying that since Donahoe got here.

They can get rid of Modrak, Guy, Majeski, and a bunch of others too and gain simply by addition by subtraction. This team with a majority vote from its fans could draft better and do no worse in free agency. Hell, a blind monkey throwing darts could hardly do worse.

Over the past several seasons our special teams are what has carried this team and as of only two or so seasons ago led the league or were very close to it for several seasons straight. Do you ever research anything before you post?

So then you expect the level of play to be higher than last year's near league low standards then? You're really stepping out there, aren't you. As to field position, that wasn't the issue last year, it was our inability to move the ball from wherever we were. We were the 32nd ranked team in ball movement. We ranked 18th, average, in starting field position.