I woke up about 10 min after the press conference and had 5-6 texts about it, which I read and pumped my fist in the air to nobody in particular. This is a good sign for the organization, but I think Phil Emery wanted to do it last year and Ted Phillips forced him to make it work for a year. Probably set them back. As far as the delusional fans thinking Cowher is a candidate. I'll give you that I don't think he is, I haven't heard any rumors about him wanting to come back at this point. HOWEVER, a few years back, Lovie was in uncertain waters for basically the same reasons that got him canned now and there was alot of talk that there were only 1-2 jobs that Cowher would be interested in (that would be open in the near future) and the Bears were one. So its not totally unfounded like when people talked about fucking Sean Payton "coming back home". That was just lunacy.
There are two reasons Cowher would never take the Bears job. First, they just hired Emery, and if Cowher came in he'd want total control over personnel, so unless Emery constantly deferred to Cowher, that wouldn't happen. Second, I can't ever think of the Bears hiring a coach that was a head coach before. They're notoriously cheap in that kind of way, in that they'll always go with a cheaper option. Every head coach they've had was a coordinator before, and I'd bet anything that is the route they go now. They're going to search out a strong offensive coordinator and make them the head coach, and basically go in the opposite direction from Lovie, who was exceptionally defensive minded. Lovie will go someplace and either be a head coach or a defensive coordinator. There is just no way he doesn't have a job next year, it is just a matter of whether its a head coaching job or a coordinator job. The Bears just need to desperately find someone, anyone, that can actually make them a good offensive team, and who can bring in a quality defensive coordinator. So far, coaching jobs are now open in Chicago, San Diego, Arizona, Cleveland, Kansas City, Buffalo, and Philly (with potential for Jacksonville and Tennessee head coaches getting axed, still). There are a lot of openings for a lot of coaches now. I see Jon Gruden coaching someplace, Andy Reid will get another job, but otherwise I think a lot of coordinators and maybe a few college coaches getting shots.
Sooo, I guess the GB game was like a real live practice, for next weekend. FUCKING GOD DAMN VIKINGS. I have no idea where the Packers were yesterday or if they just decided they like purple. I was trapped at the bar with a couple that were Vikings fan"s". The female half had probably only seen 5 NFL games judging from the blabberish (my own word, shut up) that was spewing from her yap. Shut the fuck up, watch and LISTEN when you ask a question rather than talk over your SO like you have ANY fucking clue about the game. It does not make you cool or cute. It does make you a dipshit though. It's because of people (normally a female) like her, I almost hate this time of the year. Everyone circle their bandwagons and pretend like you've got a fucking clue, much less been following "your team" this season. STFU. God damn I'm pissed about losing the bye.
I've been giving my wife an endless amount of shit for ignoring the Colts this season. For years, when Manning was their QB, she was a big Colts fan. When Manning got hurt, she still watched as they went 2-14. This year, as they've been doing great and been one of the feel-good stories of the NFL, she has been basically ignoring them. To her credit, she didn't become a Broncos fan once Peyton Manning switched teams, she just stopped watching altogether. I'm totally getting her an Andrew Luck jersey soon, and sitting her down and making her watch the Colts against the Ravens next week. I also love that the crazy Jets bandwagon fan on my facebook (only a fan because she dated Dustin Keller's brother, and apparently she has a big crush on Dirty Sanchez) who hasn't said a god damned word about them this season. It's been a good, schadenfreude-filled season. Personally, I want to see a Broncos/Patriots AFC title game (Brady vs. Manning part 9 billion) and a San Francisco/Green Bay NFC title game (Green Bay Offense against SF Defense... damn).
I am absolutely fine with that loss. The bye week hasn't been kind to us the last few years, it was an away game; plus, Woodson, Starks and most importantly, Cobb were all sitting and will be back next week. Besides that, the Vikings have a history of building up hope, followed by shitting down their fans' throats I'm not concerned one bit with next week's game
Broncos Pats would definitely be the game to watch in the AFC. I think that Seattle may be the team coming out of the NFC though. They're red hot right now, and more importantly, pretty healthy. SF looked like shit without Justin Smith.
Who would have thought a non-QB/non-coach white man would be such a huge contributing factor on a team. Interesting.
I also think it has been very interesting the discussion over Sean Payton. Its like everyone forgot how successful he's been in New Orleans. I know he's re-upped his contract for 5 years, but people actually were discussing him leaving which I always heard that talk and thought "Why in the fucking world would he leave his offensive weapons for Tony Romo? He's not fucking retarded. He just won a Superbowl!" They won 7 games with an interim interim coach, then an interim coach, with a ton of bullshit going on about that. No reason to leave that at all.
This would be an absolute disaster. Romo and Reid together? Every Cowboys fan that read the link I posted just threw up in their mouth.
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If you mean the actual animal that kills Indian villagers from time to time, then I absolutely agree with you. At least they picked an absolutely incredible of his walrus face.
I can confirm this. I'm pissed the Vikes didn't get AP the record. I realize it's a team game but without him they were going nowhere this season.
What could they really do? He had 34 carries in that game, it was a close game, and short of the kicker shanking the kick at the end in the hopes that AP would get the 9 yards in overtime and they'd STILL get the win, there was nothing they could really do. They were trying to make the playoffs. AP getting the record was secondary. You'd have room to be upset if the Vikings were getting blown out and were throwing the ball around. If they were getting blown out, they should constantly feed it to AP to try to get him the record. Otherwise, try to win first, get the record second. Unrelated note: I find it comical that sports writers and fans in Chicago are thrilled that Lovie finally got fired, while national writers seem to think it was either unexpected or unfair. Anyone who watched the Chicago Bears closely this year knows exactly why Lovie got fired. His offense is consistantly in the bottom of the league, they went out and made trades for Cutler and Marshall, resigned Forte, and drafted Ashlon Jeffrey, and they STILL couldn't do anything offensively this year. In a league that values offense, and a team trying to revamp their offense, Lovie was simply not the guy to do it. Now a team with a shitty defense and a good offense should pick Lovie up and let him work his magic there.
At the end they had 2 timeouts. They could have called one after the ~25yd run he had that put him at 8yds to go, let him run once more and see what happens, then use the last time out.
And risk a fumble or botched snap? Though that's unlikely, I would rather just take a chip shot with a kicker who (even as a rookie) has shown that he's one of the best kickers in the league. And as AP himself said after the game, getting the win had clear priority over breaking the record. He didn't even know how close he was until he was told in the post-game interview.
Yeah, like I said I know winning the game is more important, it just sucks. I have to believe that deep down, AP would have rather had the record than the win. It's not like they have a decent shot at the Super Bowl.