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Darth Cruel
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Saints fan? Not for long me boy.
No...the other, artificial, 9-0. We'll see if they hold up to the hype after they play a REAL defense.
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SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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WTF!
Minnesota Vikings just extended head coach Brad Childress to an extension through 2013.
Why? Couldn't they have waitied until after this season played out!
His in-day game decisions, adjustments and clock management are highly questionable.
This really didn't need to happen now!:emperor
Still love my Vikings though!
EDIT: Remember, Childress failed in developing Tavaris Jackson into a starting NFL QB. That's a second round pick wasted. Bret Favre fell into our laps.
Minnesota Vikings just extended head coach Brad Childress to an extension through 2013.
Why? Couldn't they have waitied until after this season played out!
His in-day game decisions, adjustments and clock management are highly questionable.
This really didn't need to happen now!:emperor
Still love my Vikings though!
EDIT: Remember, Childress failed in developing Tavaris Jackson into a starting NFL QB. That's a second round pick wasted. Bret Favre fell into our laps.
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Seems like that's the way things work nowadays. Teams start playing particularly well in one season, possibly despite the coach, but the coach is offered a ridiculous contract extension as if this is expected to continue for years. I can foresee the Vikings starting to stink it up when Favre finally gets finished and Peterson gets seriously injured (probably middle of next year for both), and a short while later, the coach will get bought out of his contract years early and gets paid millions to sit at home because he becomes the scapegoat for his team sucking.
Darth Cruel
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I think that for better or worse...the coach has to be given at least 5 years just to show the beginnings of improvement on a team. Changing them like underwear only exacerbates problems on a team by adding a lack of stability at the leadership position to existing disfunction.
NFL teams need to commit to a coach like the Vikings are. They can alsways cut him. But if he feels he is THE COACH...it can only help.
Edit - And my point was that Childress IS showing a strong spark of positivity for the Vikings...so my opinion is that the added confidence given to the whole team by the owners showing that they intend to keep him around is a good thing.
NFL teams need to commit to a coach like the Vikings are. They can alsways cut him. But if he feels he is THE COACH...it can only help.
Edit - And my point was that Childress IS showing a strong spark of positivity for the Vikings...so my opinion is that the added confidence given to the whole team by the owners showing that they intend to keep him around is a good thing.
SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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I'm really struggling to see the Falcons getting their first back to back winning seasons EVER this year. Looking at the rest of the schedule it'll be very hard indeed.
SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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Whoa! That statement is meant for college football not the NFL. In college you need the five years to get your own recruits to cycle through.
In the NFL free agency era, a team's roster turns over 20-25% annually. If a team becomes really good, they have a 3 year window to get to the promised land before they fall off. I think a NFL head coach deserves 3 maybe 4 years to get it turned around before being fired.
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SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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Man, I was really liking the incredible turn around the Falcons had last year. But a 5-4 record now and a loss to the Panthers last week has been really disappointing.
Darth Cruel
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You may have a point...but I still say 5 just to allow for what-ifs.
I honestly don't believe Detroit or Cleveland will turn things around in any less than 5 years.
Detroit is already started, though!
ProgMatinee
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i think 5 is a bit long, i say 3 is probably a requirement to get a team rolling the way a coach wants. and I'd even say the same for assistants. the broncos cycled through a new d-coord every year and could never get a good system down.
I will say, sometimes a team needs to realize a bad hire altogether, such as in Cleveland. No way I give mangini another year.
I will say, sometimes a team needs to realize a bad hire altogether, such as in Cleveland. No way I give mangini another year.
SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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You may have a point...but I still say 5 just to allow for what-ifs.
I honestly don't believe Detroit or Cleveland will turn things around in any less than 5 years.
Detroit is already started, though!
Cleveland is so devoid of talent right now. The only thing they have going for them is that they got their team back.
Also, they do have stud tackle Joe Thomas.Detroit might be on the right track. I think their QB Stafford has a chance and they have stud receiver Calvin Johnson.
Eric Mangini is a lot like ???? Jauron. Both should never been head coaches to begin with.
SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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"Eric Mangini is a lot like ???? Jauron. Both should never been head coaches to begin with."
Ummm, what's the deal here? I can't even type in Jauron's real first name? Is that word filtered here?
Ummm, what's the deal here? I can't even type in Jauron's real first name? Is that word filtered here?
Fritz
My muse is a fickle b**ch
I was a big Ricky Williams fan when he was drafted by, and played for the Saints waaay back when. Never got any of those caps with the dreadlocks hanging out the back, though. Obviously, he has not been playing continuously in the NFL since he was drafted, but he still has had an amazingly long career for a running back given the number of games he has played in. Guy's a beast.
JediMike71
GEAUX SAINTS!
You and I are both HUGE Saints fans. I thought when he was drafted that Ricky Williams would really make a difference with our Saints...but he didn't. I am pissed off at Ricky Williams. Time for me to "vent" about him. When Mike Ditka gave up all of our draft trades for Ricky Williams...everyone down here assumed he would be a "saviour" to our team. He was not. Doing interviews on camera with his helmet on...
...Very inconsistent playing, and blaming his erratic behavior on some "condition" he said he had! Huh?Now after a few seasons back in the NFL after being caught smoking some pot he's doing well with the Miami Dolphins. Go figure. I guess he never was happy in New Orleans and it sure did show! But whatever. We have much better running backs now with Reggie Bush, Pierre Thomas, and Mike Bell. I'd take any one of those three guys over Ricky Williams any day. I just don't have ANY respect for him. It would be different for me if he honestly TRIED to play hard for us when he was here. He didn't. If he at least "tried" to act normal...he didn't.
There. My venting over Ricky Williams is now officially over and done. My Saints are 9-0, and I could not be happier!
Fritz
My muse is a fickle b**ch
Thinking any one player is the savior of your team and giving up your entire draft for him is the problem. Don't hate the playa.
...and Social Anxiety Disorder is a big problem, not "some condition".
...and leave poor Ricky alone! Dude just wanted to sit in a tent in the wilderness and smoke some weed rather than make millions of dollars playing football. What's not to like about that?
...and Social Anxiety Disorder is a big problem, not "some condition".
...and leave poor Ricky alone! Dude just wanted to sit in a tent in the wilderness and smoke some weed rather than make millions of dollars playing football. What's not to like about that?
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Thinking any one player is the savior of your team and giving up your entire draft for him is the problem. Don't hate the playa.
...and Social Anxiety Disorder is a big problem, not "some condition".
...and leave poor Ricky alone! Dude just wanted to sit in a tent in the wilderness and smoke some weed rather than make millions of dollars playing football. What's not to like about that?
Exactly. If anyone is to blame it is Ditka. Did he not learn anything from the Dallas/Minnesota Herschel Walker trade?
Or was he more excited to wear the dreadlocks wig?
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