0-2? THAT'S WHEN I'M A VIKING ✰✰✰ NFL Week Three ✰✰✰

and kicked the extra point

holy shit i just saw the eagles highlights

vick made three absolutely SICK throws to desean

just, jesus christ

shit, actually one of them was to maclin, down the sideline perfectly beating the cover 2

but seriously the guy was just out of his mind

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d81adb579/Week-3-Michael-Vick-Highlights

the long TD to desean is easily the best throw i've seen this year

wow, that highlight reel is something else. his throwing action is so fast. it's gonna be so sad when he fucks up again.

yipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsSjlZ3eiOM
i am trading this guy off madden as soon as i get home
(seriously tho, hate u 4eva but nice pass)

49ers have fired Jimmy Raye: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/27/jimmy-raye-gets-run-away-from-niners/

Earlier this morning, Rosenthal posted that 49ers coach Mike Singletary gave offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye the dreaded vote of confidence. Singletary specifically said that Raye will remain in the job for the rest of the season.

Apparently, the 49ers' season is over. (As a practical matter, it possibly is.)

Jason LaCanfora of NFL Network reports that Raye has been fired.

Unless Singletary decided to pull an Andy Reid about-face in a matter of hours, it's possible that the order came from higher up in the organization, possibly with a "fire Raye or you're out" ultimatum.

Then again, we continue to believe that no one in the 49ers organization would have the nerve to tell Singletary that he's out of a job.

Still, the move brings to mind whispers around the league the Singletary wasn't ready to become a head coach after being elevated into the position during the 2008 season.

LaCanfora also reports that Mike Johnson has been promoted into Raye's job. Two weeks ago, Singletary and others in the organization suspected that Johnson was the "rat" who spoke to the media about Raye's actual or perceived flaws in calling plays quickly.

^ The year's most wonderful soap opera.

i did not realize that jimmy raye was a 64 year-old coach who has coordinated only three seasons where the offense was ranked in the top 16, last being the chiefs in 2000. i mean, why would you hire this guy in the first place?

That's an excellent question, and goes to the root of why the Niners have been so bad for so long.

cf: Tom Walsh, Oakland Raiders 2006. (Though probably an extreme example in contrast). Who knows why the hell these people get hired.

Jimmy Raye had been a trusted assistant behind Norv, who had been the one coordinator Alex Smith had some success with before Norv took the San Diego job, so the theory was that maybe he could duplicate that success. However, Singletary did not allow Raye to run a Norv-esque system. Raye and/or Johnson implemented some spread offense at the end of last season and the team looked pretty good. Then they drafted two huge dudes and tried to go back to Mike's '80s offense and it didn't work.

I mean, obviously Raye had his own problems this year, but I don't think the problem was that Raye was too old fashioned or didn't know what he was doing.

Oof! Trent Edwards is apparently unemployed now.

Whut?

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2010/09/buffalo-bills-cut-qb-trent-edwards/1

They've dumped Edwards in favor of Fitzpatrick (and, eventually, Brian Brohm I guess).

So I guess Fitzpatrick is REALLY their guy now. Wow.

I will be shocked if they don't draft a quarterback next offseason.

Oh, they most definitely will. In fact, Andrew Luck should probably start looking for a house in Buffalo.

"Hey you, waterboy! You're our #3 quarterback now. Here's a visor, here's a clipboard. Go sit next to Brohm."

How does Daunte Culpepper not have a job in the NFL, btw. Some seriously gross QB play out there.

Weeeelll...friends of mine watched him in a UFL game - Sacramento Mountain Lions v Florida Tuskers (Brooks Bollinger as QB, lol!) and they said Culpepper looked pretty bad. He made Brooks Bollinger look like Michael Vick. And honestly, he didn't get many reps with the Raiders as backup but he was looking slow and creaky when he came in. He's not anywhere near as mobile as he used to be.
His arm's pretty nice, but I dunno that anyone would take a risk on him now. He's way too injury prone.

That's kind of sad.

There's always Jeff Garcia, though. I would love if Garcia were to eventually be signed to every NFL team, even if it's an honorary signing, before he finally retires.

Yeah, I haven't seen Garcia lately but he seem like the kind of guy that can consistently step up.

seems.

ugh my typing sucks lately

Think he's QB'ing the Omaha Nighthawks, if memory serves

Garcia is the anti-Favre. He'll play until he dies, but there won't be any drama and he'll know his limitations as he gets older.

otm

Pretty sure he wears Levis too imo

ITT we compare Jeff Garcia's season with the Omaha Nighthawks to Brett Favre's season with the Minnesota Vikings

Singletary is the worst

Free Jimmy Raye

The bills are such a freaking mess. There needs to be one of those "starting QBs since Jim Kelly" graphics

Btw i bet andrew luck looks at the NFL standings, sees the bills as the worst team in the whole league, looks out his window in Palo Alto and goes "ehhhhh I think ill kick it here for one more year"

Ryan Mallet otoh....

fuck trent edwards

one of the most damning things i can think of to say about trent edwards is that ryan fitzpatrick is measurably more effective than he was.

There needs to be one of those "starting QBs since Jim Kelly" graphics

some bad karma for the way we treated Flutie accounts for some of this, i believe

ry-fitz looked pretty competent on sunday and made some very good throws, but it remains to be seen how well he will perform against an NFL secondary.

i wish i could be hopeful about drafting a new QB like Luck, but i just feel in my bones we're going to fuck it up. also we need a better offensive line.

and a better everything.

/eeyore

/bills fan

some bad karma for the way we treated Flutie accounts for some of this, i believe

― horseshoe, Monday, September 27, 2010 2:02 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is how i feel about dolphins fans and jay fiedler

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George Blanda, R.I.P.

;_;

A fond farewell to the Grand Old Man. Happy trails, George!

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/1971/0719_large.jpg

So Charlie Weis had an inflamed/infected gall bladder as early as Friday, but worked through the pain, KC whupped SF, and he went in and had the offending organ yanked out today.

old school. Gall bladder pain is no joke. Hats off to Charlie.

Yeah, if my wife's gallbladder pain-fiesta in '88 is anything to go by, this is superhuman.

The surgeon told me that women who'd been through childbirth say that gallbladder pain is worse. I can't speak to that, all I know is it hurt like holy fiery hell.

My wife gave birth, and then had the gallbladder blow up six weeks later, and confirms that.

*shudder*

George Blanda is one of those bad asses that played so long, you can pretty much do a 6 degrees of separation to freaking anyone in the history of the NFL. The bro played with Sid Luckman and Snake Stabler, that's nuts.

wld ttly cop a ZOMBO jersey

THIS CHARLES WOODSON