nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

i can't decide if i want chilly back in my life or if he's just too fucking weird for comfort.

Hue's last presser was kinda yeeeesh, this doesn't really surprise me at all

they definitely can be a playoff team....with Campbell

Marty to the Raiders would be great based on their needs, but obviously he is an enemy to the Raiders so it might be a bad fit.

That would almost be enough to turn me into a Packers fan. Fuckin hire Shannahan too, make a party out of it.

i really don't want to have to look at brad childress sunday afternoons

Hue Jackson said he's lost for words. He said "He's going to gut this place".

^__^

oh joy

If the next head coach is Winston Moss as some are predicting, I predict failure due to baldness:

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slideshows/458/slideshow_45859/display_image.jpg?x=806632

He looks like a Bowflex dude

alright i'm already way into the winston moss era

He seems kinda badass & handsome. I'm in!

#shallow

haha oh Veg you speak for me

DING

http://prod.static.packers.clubs.nfl.com/assets/images/imported/GB/photos/persons/coach-cards/Moss_Winston.jpg

'sup

That's why I'm lobbying for Gruden! I demand a handsome coach.

hell of a neck on that guy

Moss played on the Raiders from '91-'94, during the original Art Shell era.

I just saw that on wiki

hmmm

he is VERY handsome

winston moss is one hell of a good name too

means business imo

I dont think the "rule of bald coaches" applies to black guys

I was mostly joking frog bullshit

For all the talk that the Raiders had the most penalties in 2011, Baltimore and Detroit (and Washington) had more penalty yards.

well I was 100% serious. look at Tony Dungy for CHRISTS SAKE

Tony Dungy is bald, right? I can never tell whats going on on that head

He's bald, yeah. He was already starting to go when the Bucs hired him.

Dungy was another bald guy who was smart enough to wear a hat though.

http://cbssports.com/images/blogs/peyton-dungy-colts-090611.jpg

Not this guy, though:

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/images/photos/001/100/201/120510-raidersATchargers75--nfl_medium_540_360_crop_340x234.jpg?1293774994

i do like the idea of the raiders gm firing hue out of spite for not allowing him to draft anyone in the first three rounds

Belichick is developing quite a bald spot of his own, thus making the Patriots seem overall less dominant.

Art Shell wore that tiny baseball cap, dude shoulda rocked the bald look

Hue wasn't actually bald though was he? He's "bald by choice", right?

No one with a lustrous head of hair would go bald by choice, come on.

Gardening accident iirc

Art Shell wore that tiny baseball cap, dude shoulda rocked the bald look

I have a secondary theory/caveat that fat people shouldn't wear hats.

That is a good theory/caveat

Proof 1: I look terrible in hats.

For all the talk that the Raiders had the most penalties in 2011, Baltimore and Detroit (and Washington) had more penalty yards.

― polyphonic, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's probably because so many of the Raiders' penalties were probably declined, which is much worse.

I don't know why you'd assume that the Raiders had more penalties declined than those other teams. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me but it seems unsupportable.

prob just means that the raiders had lots of pre-snap penalties than those other two teams -- not sure if that's better or worse or if it doesn't matter

its definitely worse if they had a lot of declined penalties, it means that they fucked the play up they got penalized on.

sucks that individual penalties aren't tracked except for offensive line penalties

dude, this is the internet. Somebody somewhere is keeping track.

let me know if you find it!

it's not in nfl game books so it could only be tracked by watching every game.

I mean, shit, some Pearl Jam fan tracked every concert and made a statistical analysis of how many times each song in their catalog has been played live. If that dude's doing THAT, someone is tracking NFL penalties. They HAVE to be. Too many shut-ins in the world for it not to be happening.

though a cursory google check doesn't show anything immediate
now i'm curious about this.

The rise and fall of Hue Jackson is so fascinating to me. He goes from OC to head coach, and then in the wake of Davis' death he decides to assume complete control of the franchise by making a crazy-ass trade for a retired QB.

Then when things spun out of control the guy lost his fucking mind.

There was literally 10 days of a power vacuum for Jackson to make trades with no GM in place before the trade deadline and the guy decides to go all in with the wackiest and ballsiest trade in years.

He's a great play caller though; the Dolphins should hire him for OC.