2020 Our Year For Sure

"Playoffs? I just hope we can win a game!"

Gregg Williams had a "strong personality." That worked out swell, eh?

Needs: 1a. Left DE 1b. Center 2. Tight End Wants: 1. Right Guard 2. Defensive Tackle 3. Will LB 4. Safety 5. Fullback

Good point. I went out to a bar last night and saw Rian Lindell there, but was confused by these huge black marks on his back. Now I get it...they were tire tracks from being thrown under a big ol' bus.

Great. Keep making stuff up.

Thanks.

Really? Is that what he did last year with Losman? Jauron has switched quarterbacks plenty throughout his career...he did it in Chicago, and he did it last year. I have no idea where your theory is coming from.

Wow, she's gorgeous. Maybe its me, but she looks a bit like a young Charlize Theron there.

No, the FALCONS beat the PACKERS at Lambeau Field in the playoffs.

If I was in love with you, I'd stay with you through thick and thin.

At least you've had the pleasure of watching them make their way through the playoffs 4 times.

I was born in '88, and I can relate to you. The only playoff experiences I remember are Pittsburgh destroying us, the loss in Miami due to that bullshlt personal foul call on Andre Reed, Todd Collins coming off the bench to lose to Jacksonville, and Home Run Throw Up. Add to that that I'm a Mets fan, and yeah...I'd love to know just once what its like to root for a winning sports team. "Someone convince me how to stop caring so much." Couldn't have said it better myself, man. I truly wish I wasn't so emotionally involved with this team. I always pulled through the heartbreaking losses knowing that our day had to eventually come...but with this Toronto thing looming over us, all our labor and grief may be for nothing. Ah well, keep fighting, keep hoping. What more can you do?

Thanks, Dean. Agreed, Dibs. Lets get the interior of this line FIXED, and have more games like last night in the run game. Thats got to be worth a 1st round pick. Next to a quality center, perhaps Butler and Dockery would look a bit more like what we were hoping for.

I see that those three guys were drafted 21st, 26th and 29th, respectively. Unless we somehow get into the playoffs, we'll be picking in the top 19, which is a range that centers normally do not reach. Personally, if Mack is looked at as THAT good of a prospect, I'd have no problem with the pick...but they may very well pass on a center and look to get a lesser prospect at the position in the 2nd or 3rd.

Thank heavens. I thought for a moment that I was losing my mind. You still reading, Dan? Great post, '03. I agree with every word. This loss was a result of poor quarterback play, and individual players just not stepping up when they had reasonable chances to put the game away. To quote Ben Stiller, endo-story.

I finally understand what you're getting at...and every word of the above is completely wrong. Its very easy to seperate Jauron the Coach from Jauron the GM: hire a real General Manager.

Interesting. What did he do? I didn't notice him being very active.

Yeah, pretty sure I had already left the room by that point.

'Swagger' always did seem kinda silly. When a team is playing well, they're said to have swagger, but when they're not, they don't. Maybe instead of saying they have swagger, you're really just trying to say they're playing well.

Agreed, I can't understand how he missed him! Quinn had no idea he was coming and was standing like a statue. Just bring him down!

First of all, are you under the impression that the players decided to blitz? Are you actually unwilling to credit the coaching staff for their own schemes? Secondly, I don't think Jauron is the greatest coach in the world. I think we don't know what he is yet, and we won't until he has the personnel he needs to run his system. He needs quality interior offensive linemen, and the Cover 2 must have a defensive line that can generate rush on its own. Indy had Freeney, Mathis and Booger when they won it all. When Tampa was dominant, they had Booger, Simeon Rice and Warren Sapp. Jauron's 13-3 Bears got 19.5 sacks combined between two players. The Bills d-line just doesn't match up, and thats why their record doesn't match up either.

I admit readily that the playcalling at the end was the one major error from the coaching staff. Why in the world would you rely on a 45-yarder, against a wind that was a major factor in special teams play all night long? They had plenty of time and two timeouts, and Edwards finally looked confident on the pass to Royal. There's no defending their decision to set up a tough kick from Lindell, rather than trying to make it a chip shot. Still, that call never would have existed if Trent played better, or Jackson didn't fumble, or McKelvin or Simpson stepped up, or Corner connected on the sack. This team was put in a position to win the football game, and the players repeatedly allowed this game to slip through their fingers. And ya know what? Yes, the field goal may have been shorter, and the outcome of the game may have been different, if the playcalling at the end was more aggressive. But that doesn't change the fact that Lindell is perfectly capable of making that kick. One more example of players failing to make the plays this team needed to win.

Did you forget to post the part where he throws Jauron under the bus?

I'm not commenting on his overall performance at all. And I'm not taking anything away from how miserable Trent was. ALL I am saying is that McKelvin had a chance to make a big play that would have won us this game, and did not make it. Is that in any way untrue? My point is that several players had chances to win this game for us, and did not do it, so I don't want to hear about coaching this week.

McKelvin did do his thing on special teams, and I was surprised at how well he held up when Greer left. He had a great night. Still, he had both hands on the ball for what could have been a game-winning interception. He's just one of several guys who had chances to put a tick in the win column for us, and failed to step up with the game on the line. It wasn't an easy play, but it certainly wasn't an impossible one either.