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The Cowboys secondary has pretty much been purged to free agency. Carr and Claiborne have signed with the Jets and Ravens. Church went earlier in the week. :doubt:
and it's not like their defense was great last year.
The secondary was the best part of their defense. It's the defensive front tat totally blew, and even the 1 or 2 guys that made any impact there have been signed elsewhere. There's no way this defense gets better next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
The Cowboys are going to release Romo today. He plans on going into broadcasting.
Makes sense given his history, he will do well on TV.
He's replacing Phil Sims as CBS's top NFL analyst.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...oadcast-career
Clear upgrade.
texans are screwed.
The Texans are idiots. They were a QB away from being a Super Bowl contender.
Texans should inquire about Phil Simms making a comeback at QB.
Cutler to the Texans.
That could be interesting. He's definitely an upgrade over Brock.
I'm still on Team Cutler
I'll just leave this here.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1Q...JHbU1jYm5WaGRR
I don't see "games missed because he was breathed on" anywhere on that list. :D
I don't see punctured lung win, or ruptured disc win either. :)
You can't because the glare from 5 Lombardi trophies is too strong! :D
Honestly though, Romo just couldn't catch a break. He really should have been in a couple of SBs.
I'm pretty sure Marino was thinking the same thing during his career.
No Marino had his chance. And lost to a better QB. (If that doesn't bring back Yoshi nothing will)
A better QB with a talent loaded team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Error
I still think that Montana is the greatest. He did amazing things while under pressure.
http://i.imgur.com/pwBOpma.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Elway is probably the best QB
Elway will always be my all-time favorite, but Montana was just at another level in the big games. He threw no interceptions in his 4 Super Bowl wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Aaron Hernandez took out one more person for the final time.
He was so good at football, it's a real shame he decided to start murdering.
Well at least he was pretty good at it.
Not really. He didn't kill the witnesses.
There were no witness, it was all circumstantial.
looks like John Lynch is a good GM
Give it time.
:lol:
https://twitter.com/JacobyFC/status/...s%2Far-BBAsyRz
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Niiiiice
I don't get why the Saints went with an offensive lineman. They were a top 5 offense last season, but were pretty much at the bottom on defense. They really needed to add a bit of a punch to their defense.
It's just the first round.
They needed somebody to anchor their defensive front, which has been abysmal for years. They aren't going to get anything close to that in the later rounds.
Well, they WERE about to draft Reuben Foster, but the Niners traded up and got him.
Seahawks want to sign Kap. Heh.
Honestly he's kind of a homeless man's Wilson so he probably wouldn't be a bad backup in that spot. The problem is, I'm not sure the Hawk WRs are good enough for him - Kaepernick still can't run through his reads and never will.
Apparently the Pats SB broke Richard Sherman the way Krusty's 29th Anniversary Special broke Ralph Wiggum
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...oblem-nfl-2017
Speaking of the Pats, this is spot on.
"Bill Belichick routinely preys on weak organizations"
lol, I mean who did he trade Jamie Collins to? Turned around their defense and season.
That didn't break Sherman; it put a fire under his ass. He's challenging his coaches and offense to step it up. That is what great players do. Scottie Pippen hated Jordan, because he was always challenging him to be better, and Pippen responded to the challenge. Jimmie Johnson was always challenging his players and rarely giving them praise, because he knew that praise led to complacency; Parcells did the same.Quote:
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I agree that is what he is trying to do, but it is obviously not working or coming off like that. When he whined about that play call last year and referenced that Butler play, he sounded like a petulant child not a burning competitor. And then he threatened that reporter and shit.
Michael Jordan was the big dog and he ran that team, so he had latitude to do those things. Sherman is not the big dog.
Sounds like Carroll's time is near the end. Team is imploding from within because the defense carried the team but Wilson gets all the glory and coddling from Carroll.
They would be morons to fire him. He's done a great job there. They are dealing with all of the things that happen to non-Patriot winners. The fact that the team can't let that SB loss go makes it extra tough but even if they won that game the bill would be coming due. The NFL is not set up for dynasties.Quote:
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Carroll's a old school defensive back specialist, he's not coddling Wilson over Sherman
I will say that QBs need a lot of coaching support though
Kap is gonna be starting for them by week 5
He might do OK then. Seattle wouldn't be on his schedule.
The Jets might compete for worst offense relative to the league his year, their #1 WR with a whole 80 career catches is out for the year
Also the way Kaepeenick has been treated is absurd, and I'm actually a Cutler fan
Regarding Kaep I am wondering right now if he's asking for too much money, because if that's not it then ya, he should be on a team.
Why bring on a shitty backup QB that might blow up your locker room or at least bring in unnecessary controversy?
Because he doesn't, really. This is mainly butthurtism. What is the controversy? Right now, it's "Why hasn't he been signed?" If he was, it'd pretty much be over. This isn't some Tebow mania nonsense with a bunch of Bible thumping assclowns running around. Which is funny because there's a high overlap between them and the people mad at Kaepernick.
I think he was probably outside of the Seahawks' range. He either wants a medium amount of money (which the Seahawks can't afford) or any money at all with a chance to play and parlay into a contract (which he wouldn't with Wilson ahead of him and never misses a game). I'm not saying he's great, but he's probably (almost definitely) a top 30 QB and a lot of the ones behind him aren't going to improve to be better than he is.
Kaepernick has given a press conference with a fucking Castro shirt and praised him, gee I wonder if that would go over well in MIAMI.
Yeah but there are no pro football fans in Miami
But yeah, Miami is probably the worst team for him
There are plenty of shitty QBs to choose from, what is so special about Kaep?
He's better than all of them? He's not better than the best QBs, and not really even better than the Good QBs (though he could be if he has figured out his diet and had some people who can catch and not be injured all the time), but he's fucking miles better than the Blake Bortles of the world.
The team that SHOULD sign him is Oakland. Vegas. Wherever they play now. That team DIED when Carr went down last year and ended a playoff run that could have been a Superbowl team. Now that Cutler has gone to Miami (if he has, I haven't seen the latest), Kaep is the best thing on the market.
QBs are prima donnas. They don't want a former SB QB riding the pine behind them. There is a reason that Charlie Whitehurst kept getting work.
This story only has legs because ESPN has taken upon itself to act as Kaepernick's unofficial agent. Hopefully when the games start this all goes away.
The big problem with Kap, along with RG3 is that they need to be in a read option offense to be successful. Their coaches tried to change them into pure passing quarterbacks and they both failed to deliver under those circumstances, because a big part of what makes them great is their ability to scramble and keep defenses on their toes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGBx5tT_iI4
In the year after the Superbowl appearance when they tried to turn him into a pocket passer he injured his foot early in the season and was never able to completely recover from it that year, so when he could have burned teams for leaving an opening to double team he couldn't. That started people questioning if he was any good, which started a vicious cycle. After that the team just sucked, new coaches and new receivers. I think he could be more like Steve Young, a pocket passer who would go if you gave him a chance.
More like Vince Young. That's an insult to what Steve Young accomplished at BYU and the NFL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5HeRVH1hhc
I am so sick of talking about this guy but... I don't think he's good enough in the pocket, and at 29 he's probably not going to get better. I think the idea of him becoming Steve Young is laughable, frankly.
Last year he was a serviceable stiff on a bad team, which usually qualifies you for backup work or another year as the starter on a bad team. But the 49ers wanted to start fresh with good reason.
The closest counterpart I can think of is Michael Vick and he got a job as a backup quickly. he also started shortly thereafter, so I think any job he got would put the starter on the hot seat. So that eliminates a lot of teams. Broncos don't want to live the political QB nightmare again. Browns and Jets don't actually want to get any better this year. Rams still have a few years of Goff letting them down. Texans are... in Texas. Vikings, well, Sam Bradford did ok last year. Who am I missing?
The real problem is that he started dating some lunatic SJW, turned into one himself and lost a ton of weight.
I didn't say become Steve Young. I said like Steve Young. Fuck, you think I don't know who he was?
Anyway, yes he is being blackballed. That's the point. He should be on a team by now. As a third stringer or some shit at worst. Unless he's decided that he wants an unreasonable amount of money.
I think that the right comparison would be more in line with Russel Wilson. He doesn't light up the charts with passing yards, but he does enough to throw off an opponents defense.Quote:
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Yeah, I think a team like Houston would be a great fit for him. And like you say, I do believe he's sort of screwed himself by his actions.
Actions have consequences. Getting paid millions of dollars throwing balls around is a privilege and not a right. He expressed himself, and now owners are reacting to that. His talent has to overcome his reputation, but his reputation is bigger than what he can do on the football field. The fact that ESPN keep talking about him probably makes him less desirable.
ESPN probably has turned him into more of a distraction yes. And they've also cherry picked stats to make him look like the new Joe Montana. We all saw that guy on the field.
Not to mention all the work ESPN put in last year to turn it into a huge story. I remember them covering every game with a "who sat for the anthem" for the first few weeks of the year. I wonder what would have happened had ESPN not went all in.
All signs point to the Texans being really high on DeShaun Watson and want to get him under center ASAP. Plus... it's Texas. No team there would sign him for the same reason Miami did not.
Yeah I blame ESPN for a lot of this and some of Tebow. I honestly don't think if Kaep was signed, it'd be a big issue in the media. Yeah there would be a couple articles but then it's gone. Don't think it's the same Tebow and his followers. Kaep only temporarily has them.
I just don't like the whole thing about not having a job when he's clearly better qualified than a lot of people who do and won't get better. He was decent on a trash team last year, they had zero weapons. And comparing him to the Ray Rices etc (which people against him do) is absurd. Not only is he better than Rice at the time, he also didn't commit a crime. But I don't know what he's asking for. I just doubt it's all that much at this point, and that's enough for me.
But who is he better than? I've heard Flacco get bandied about. That guy probably isn't very good anymore.. yet Flacco is the highest paid player in the NFL right now, thanks in part to that Super Bowl where he beat Kaepernick. So Flacco has the job unquestionably. They're not gonna sign a player of Kaepernick's level behind him, teams don't really do that.
Plus CK's girlfriend posted a picture comparing Ray Lewis and Bisciotti to slave and slave master, I am sure that went over well.
I wonder on some level if this guy and his girlfriend even wants to play.
So is he too good to be a backup though? "Better not sign this guy he might be too good" vs "Can't sign him because he kneeled and ESPN wrote 500 articles about him". Although the whole thing funny because i swore a few years ago he wore a Dolphins hat which I thought was ridiculous.
Like I said in my earlier post yea I do think he's not the sort of guy you sign when you have a starter you want to stick with. First sign of trouble and people start talking. And now because it is CK you have ESPN talking heads asking why isn't he starting yet.
Pete Carroll said as much but everyone assumed he was lying. It is a dynamic you see in the NFL. Again go back to Vick.
Colin's politics obviously factor in somewhat - he probably would be a Dolphin now if he didn't eulogize Miami Public Enemy No 1. But that's how it goes.
Yeah I get what you're saying but Pete would also be the first to tell you that competition is good and you play the best. Wilson got the job over a guy they just paid pretty big bucks to wind up playing a total of zero games. And yes if Kaepernick were a world beater, he'd probably be playing now. But he'd still be better than most QBs that will make a roster and there are a lot of those who exist because you have to have at least two to begin with. If his asking price is low, you take it. But yeah Miami is a bit of a special case. This isn't all about Miami though, look at all the offseason QB transactions every year, high profile and not.