LOSERS ASSEMBLE IN SMALL GROUPS AND COMPLAIN ABOUT THE COACHES AND OTHER PLAYERS - WEEK TEN 2009

now obv heyward-bey is a bit of a product of his team & QB (he is really bad at catching but still) but this WR class looks positively amazing

7: heyward-bey - ~_~
10: crabtree - jury is out but should be v solid
19: maclin - budding star at best complimentary game breaker at worst
22: harvin - star, will make pro bowl as a returner, could get there as a WR if the vikes can find a good QB after favre
29: hakeem nicks - solid contributor, could be a solid #2, at the very worst a good interchangeable 2/3 w manningham
30: kenny britt - already making plays, probably the first WR in a while that the titans have that can legit stretch the field
36: brian robiske - okay not sure about this guy, he was good in college tho
50: massaquoi - the only bright spot on the browns offense this year?

louis murphy & brian hartline are also v solid 4th round picks, johnny knox is decent for the 5th round

good post--that is going to be an excellent group.

btw cris carter has been killin it tonight on the countdown--new favorite analyst iirc

Colts also got Austin Collie in the 4th round and has already caught more passes in his rookie season than Reggie Wayne.

truth

zomg they're going to show "weekend at Bernies" in a couple minutes on the local pregame show (Fox 8 if you can get it). they're going to discuss his "slurred speech" according to the teaser. basically a local sports guy spends a weeked with Kosar.

damn, that's a pretty unfortunate choice of wordplay

Gruden and ESPN extend contract! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why xactly was the titans owner flippin everyone off? not that it really matters..

cause he's old and crazy? i guess he went into the locker room and they gave him a game ball and he started to dance.

just saw it- his mansion is garbage strewn and he's had a dozen concussions and lost most of his teeth and had a broken jaw or two. nothing earth shattering.

i still can't believe there's one team with a worse offense than the Browns.

brownie u talkin bout kosar? did you see the dan lebatard article about him?

damn, that's a pretty unfortunate choice of wordplay

yeah, no kidding. but Kosar is a gamer.

<3 him forever

lol damn no fun league - this is a good quote on it:

"I don't know if he did it, but I condone fun things," Finnegan said, according to The Tennessean. "If he was having fun doing it, then by all means, do what you do."

so this walk out is actually happening?

yes I saw it Jordan! that's why I said it was nothing "earth shattering" but still sad all the same

and that is the man clevelanders want for GM, right ?

eh this boycott (if that's what you mean) isn't anything big I'm guessing

kinda, crunch, but I think Holmgren is the way to go

my dad was really broken up about that article - i think he spent his whole sunday trying to figure out why a grown man would try and cut a loaf of bread with a saw - he was like all those smh.gifs combined into one smh.gif

I do think Kosar still has a good football mind and can help the browns.

he's raising four kids by himself btw

hopefully he has help to cut bread for them

he got rid of his help! that's why his place is a mess

Hahaha one of the streams of this is apparently Australia/New Zealand ESPN. I did not even know such a thing existed until there was an ad for SportsCenter delivered by a guy who kind of sounded like Murray from Flight of the Conchords.

And yet Seabass has been one of their best and most consistent players.

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Monday, November 16, 2009 7:52 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

for some reason this past week i was pondering who the all-decade kicker should be, and i'd say janikowski has a pretty good case for the best kicker 2000-2009. played the whole decade, great kickoffs in a windy environment (though I'm sure winters in oakland are pretty mild) - olindo mare has a better touchback percentage (24.56 to janikowski's 20.76), but he also played the bulk of his career in miami. outside of those two you have a lot of iffy candidates... bironas has been sensational but only been playing like 4 or 5 years, same deal with scobee & gostkowski, akers cooled down in the second half of the decade, rackers looks alright on paper but benefits from some of the best kicking conditions in the league (he was crap in cincinatti), jason hanson's career numbers are pretty amazing but you have to adjust for the fact that he's played 18 seasons in a dome plus kickoffs before 1999 were from the 35 yard line... etc

vinatieri?

why xactly was the titans owner flippin everyone off? not that it really matters..

― johnny crunch, Monday, November 16, 2009 8:22 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

two words for you dude: The Comeback

vinny's kickoffs are too bleh imo, his only years with an average above 65 are all in indy

This game kinda sucks already.

nfln showed the music city miracle game on sat morning - that is a comeback

my favorite common name for a sports moment ever.

^lol @ s/n cad

haha thx.

nice to see such a crisp rhythm to the game so far.

I remember it was called "The Adelphia Miracle" more often than not for the first year, and then the name of the stadium changed and it was suddenly always Music City.

i was referring to the oilers-bills playoff game where frank reich led the bills to an overtime win after being down 32 points in the third quarter

bud adams is one of the league's oldest, longest tenured owners and was a founding father of the afl, it seems pretty natural to me that he would look at the bills (and ralph wilson) as hated rivals~

TIMEOUT ADVANTAGE BROWNS

THIS IS OUR FUTURE

lolvens

wtf

Hauschka is probably not in Kicker of the Decade consideration.

gosh brady quinn is having just a ~tremendous~ game thus far

sorta interesting from the boston.com pats blog:

In another corner of the country, a high school coach named Kevin Kelley approved the move, too. Kelley has gained recognition for his aggressive, and successful, team at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Ark. He goes for it on every fourth down on every drive, at any spot on field, no matter the distance. And it works. They won the state championship two years ago. His team has a quarterfinals game this weekend. Just yesterday, Kelley sent film of his team to Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, at Leach’s request.

Kelley frames the debate of Belichick’s decision in an utterly novel way: What if we are making a category mistake about punting altogether?

“Let’s say you have never seen another punt,” Kelley said this evening in a telephone interview. “You didn’t know what a punt was. Belichick trots a guy who doesn’t look like he even plays football to kick it down to the other team. He didn’t try to keep the ball. He just gave it to the other team!

“People are programmed to think on fourth down and 2 on your own 28, you punt the ball. If people could grasp the percentages, that would change the mentality.”*

A handful of high-profile college and NFL coaches have reached Kelley to discuss his strategy. (“They don’t want to be named,” Kelley said.) Most of them find it intriguing, some of them find it tempting. They all have a similar ultimate reaction.

“They say, ‘I can’t do this. I’ll get fired,’ ” Kelley said. “It’s rough. When you think about that much money being involved at that level, they’re willing to sacrifice what they think because they don’t want to lose their jobs. Maybe I would, too.

Just yesterday, Kelley sent film of his team to Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, at Leach’s request.

YES

no receiver on the browns knows what is going on, they are confused. c'mon rooks

I do not know why my mind is so blown by this, but they just showed an ad for Australian PTI:

http://i37.tinypic.com/28m5gm.png

whoa weird

wtf is all this pre-snap shifting cleveland is doing

so i bet i missed a lot of great football here?

browns offense makes me nervous

I have spent the past 30 minutes wondering if I would not have been better off watching some of my friends compete for the Intramural championship of grad student flag football. (I would not have seen Australian commercials, though.)