Word is that Todd Haley has been fired from KC and Miami has fired Sparano. I know the Chiefs are terrible this season, but half the team is injured. Really don't think he should have shouldered that much blame. Not too surprised about Sparano. I actually thought he did alright with what limited talent the team had, but oh well.
Sparano is a nice guy but not a good coach. The weird thing is they are reporting that Carl Peterson will take over the Parcells "Football czar" role and GM Jeff Ireland will kept on 'in some capacity'. I am not as down on Ireland as some. I think he was Parcells' puppet for a while and got blamed for shit over which he had little to no control. Parcells fucked the Fins franchise and set them back 5years.
Sparano has done well recently, but they might as well have fired him after week 7. There was no way he could keep his position after opening the season like that. You can't wait until you are out of playoff contention to find your rhythm. As for Haley, I think the firing is a mistake, pending who they get to take over his job. Haley lost his best offensive and defensive players right at the beginning of the season. Then he lost his already mediocre QB. Not to mention the chiefs didn't have a lot going for them to begin with. If the management really looked at the chiefs problems and thought it started with Haley they are sorely mistaken. This team might be bad for a very long time.
Tim Tebow plays 3 shit quarters and 1 good one and everyone is blowing him. Tony Romo goes 21 for 31 for 320 yards, 4 TD, 0 interceptions. He throws 2 touchdows in the 4th quarter to give the Cowboys a 12 point lead with 5:41 seconds left in the game. The defense gives up 15 points. Even then, Romo takes the field on his own 20 with about 45 seconds left and drives the team to field goal range, where the field goal is blocked by the Giants. However, many Cowboys fans are blaming Romo for the loss because he missed a throw to Miles Austin (while they were still up by 5 points with only a couple minutes to play). He played a great game. But apparently it's his fault that the D blew a 12 point lead in less than 6 minutes and it's his fault that a field goal got blocked. Don't get me wrong, he's blown his fair share of games this year but damn, the fans are blaming him for blowing this game?
For a game I thought was going to bore me into a coma, I thought last nights was pretty good. At least it was a game and not a blow out. I am getting really tired of ESPN trying to figure out which of the two is the better more exciting NFL story this season, Tebow or the Packers record. As a cheesehead I'm glad the Tebow thing is in the spotlight because it keeps the media away from the other at least some of the time. Edited to add: People are fucking nuts.
As a Patriots fan for 10 years, I am scared/nervous for this game. I will not celebrate Gronk's 16th and 17th touchdowns or anything until I see "Final" with the Patriots winning that game. I feel fear, unadultered fear. The Broncos are playing with God, The Holy Spirit and Tebow. The Patriots play with a cold, hard efficiency, not a ton of passion unless Brady goes into "I'm playing the Colts or Jets mode" otherwise he doesn't show much emotion either way. On and their secondary who will be waiting Tebow for runs more than the passes that will fly wobbly over their heads and might end up in the endzone. Fuck...
You became a Patriots fan right when they won a bunch of Super Bowls? That's a long time to be on a bandwagon. Good for you! Seriously though, I'm of the belief that Brady will surgically dismantle Denver's defense. Ever since they got Roethlisbergered by Detroit, Denver has only played one elite QB in Rivers, and he hasn't even been playing all that elite this season with a 22/17 TD to INT ratio. With all due respect to Rodgers, there's Tom Brady, and then there's everybody else. Everybody keeps going on about how Rodgers has been unreal this season. Brady did the same thing in 2007. And he's won two more Super Bowls. Brady is the atheist's last chance to prove God doesn't exist, at least until the playoffs. Now that I'm done defending the Patriots, I will now jump into a woodchipper.
As I've talked about in previous threads, it was the first football game I ever watched more than 2 minutes of ever. And my friends and I were just turning gambling age, and I bet on the Patriots as everyone else bet on the Rams. I won $290 and change. I was converted to the church of Belichick and Brady...fuck you. 2 years later I traveled to Boston and onto Foxborough where I visited Gilettte and paid my respects. So fuck you. I've been faithfully with them every since. Even when Brady was injured for a year. I've always have had at least 2-3 Patriots on all of my fantasy teams. So fuck you very much. I also believe Brady will deliver precision and a virtuoso performance. But I have a fear of God. Of the mistakeable. That Faulk, can fumble, Hernandez can fumble and that refs can make phantom calls. I will not breathe a sigh of relief until it is 60 minutes of football with the Patriots are declared winner. I know how Tebow inspires teammates. Inspires those lesser to play morer (new word). I will watch with bated breath as Bill coaches the worst defense he has had his entire career. I pray that he does not change gameplans in the 4th quarter as other teams have done. I pray that he smites Tim Tebow with 6 turnovers, 6 scoring drives, and 6 forced punts.
And there's your key right there. Is the Broncos offense shittier than the Pats defense? I think the Pats win, but it's gonna be closer than people thing. The Pats defense has shit the field in their last 2 games. Didn't they just give up 3 TD's to the Colts in the 4th Q a couple weeks ago?
Best of Tebowing http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/kdvr-best-tebowing-pics-2011412,0,6751507.photogallery
Well, the defense is definitely shit, but I believe they had virtually their entire second string in there in the 4th quarter.
I just PM'd JPrue about this. Look, I don't know who is going to win this game. I will have my Patriots shirt on and masturbate to Gisele (maybe just Tom) for good measure. I just got done watching A Football Life Bill Belichick. He's going to have a great fucking plan to beat these guys. But the secondary is going to make the same goddamn fucking mistakes that every fucking defense has made. They're going to look in the backfield when they need to be sticking on Eric Decker and...Demaryius Thomas (Fuck you I refuse to spell retarded names correctly, and if I spelled it right, that's even worse). Brian Urlacher thought he was the cutest fucking thing in the world saying "He's a good running back." But that was their biggest goddamn mistake. Yeah Brian, great running back that went 7 for 7 PASSING when it mattered to hand you a loss. They kept looking in the backfield, anyone can make 7 passes with receivers that open because the DBs are looking for the run in crunch time.
I was born and raised in New England. I have endured the Victor Kiam days of teams so bad that the QB had to wear a fucking neck roll, all the way to today where the Patriots have 3 Super Bowls and remain an arguably top 5 team. All that being said, this is the first time I have been ambivalent towards the outcome of a Patriots game. I can't help but pull for a guy who has been shit on so hard and told he couldn't do it. Sure, he hasn't done it alone or done it pretty but they are making it happen. Good on him for proving everyone wrong and doing it in spite of what everyone else has to say.
This also. I live in Chicago and I was giddily expecting/wanthing a comeback last week. I usually have people over for the Patriots game. I just want to watch this one in the dark, quietly, wearing all black save for my Patriots shirt underneath a black hoodie only to come out when the finale score is revealed.
Are you serious? The outcry against him was due to the media fellatio of him from the beginning of his college career. He is a freakish athlete who won a Heisman and 2 national championships. Lets not pretend he is some D-III Invincible-esque underdog. Alot of people didn't think he should be a first round pick or a starting QB, but making him an underdog story is just another brick in the ESPN deification.
<a class="postlink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/DouchyRandyMoss/status/147780937588015104" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://twitter.com/#!/DouchyRandyMoss/s ... 7588015104</a> Related: if any of you have Twitter, I highly recommend following @NOTSportsCenter. High comedy.
I agree that during his time at Florida the media coverage was absolutely revolting. You can't hate him for that, that is on ESPN. It is one of only a number of reasons to hate ESPN. The fact the he has been told that no matter how hard he tries, he won't be a starting QB. That he is a FB or TE because of his size and they don't like his mechanics. Elway telling the national press that he doesn't have a franchise QB on his team, Fox not being very supportive either. Well Tebow proved them all wrong. What seals it for me though is that Tebow is no fool. He sees what's going on. Despite everyone saying he couldn't do it and then actually succeeding he still remains humble and doesn't say I told you so. He just keeps being the same guy he was even when he arrived at Florida. The media is the one that really puts him in these positions, namely ESPN. I would rather watch a cat puke up hairballs for an hour than watch a minute of Sports Center. But I digress.
Yeah, try living in Denver. It's whatever y'all are bitching about x10,000. Shit is out of control. I'll admit to being a Tebow hater, but only because as an objective football fan I'm absolutely positive his success is not sustainable. He's winning now, though, and proving me -- along with many others -- wrong, every single week. I do wish more credit went to the defense and John Fox. If the Broncos win the division, Fox has to be a lock for coach of the year. He's got that defense humming, and not many coaches could have built a winning product around Tim Tebow. And as a Panthers fan, I can't stress enough how much it pains me to say that.