nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

He's an RB. Unless you are some sort of superhuman like Walter Payton, you have a very short lifespan as an RB. It's like a boxer, once you are shot you are shot. There are no comebacks at that position.

the fact that he had a good year with the Jets was pretty amazing in itself. but yeah RBs are not like QBs or safeties or WRs that can potentially gain new skills as they age, every important RB skill is the sort of thing that starts to decline once you hit 27-28 (and arguably much earlier)

tbf, the jets running game was fucked regardless; don't think LDT detracted from them this year

It's not really that LT's production fell off as much as respect thing. He went from being the coolest player in the league to kind of a choad in some ways at least to me.

yeah it's not too cool to go talking about locker room shit to the press

on the other hand, he's not wrong. bringing in santonio (and plaxico!) guaranteed this kind of shit, and for whatever else sanchez is or isn't, he certainly doesn't have the stature to tell his wrs to stfu.

and if rex let it fester/was clueless ('i didn't know santonio had been benched') then that's on him. apparently everyone -- on defense, anyway -- loves playing for the guy, and i understand his ott media pronouncements are meant to assume the pressure for himself rather than the team. but he's such a blowhard that when things go awry, he seems to have no other ideas but to double down.

He went from being the coolest player in the league to kind of a choad in some ways at least to me.

Me too. I was not at all sad to see him go. Was much more upset about losing Sproles and Turner.

well duh; those two guys are at their productive peaks!

fins hiring joe philbin apparently

Bury son in Green Bay, move to Miami. That's gotta hurt like a motherfucker.

well duh; those two guys are at their productive peaks!

Yeah but I also just miss them as dudes. They are quality fellas.

Was much more upset about losing Sproles and Turner.

but . . . you still have norval!

I like Norv!

well he seems like a nice guy

otoh i'm curious about how many guys have been the head coach of three different teams with such middling results

(he kind of got shafted in washington and i can't blame the raiders' performance on him, but he's been wholly underwhelming with the chargers)

i mean what separates him from dave wannstedt, except luck

I'd like to go on record as saying Darren Sproles is the guy in the NFL I'd most like to hang out with.
Honestly the Saints might be the coolest team to go to a bar with .

Roman Harper would open all your beers with his neck

chip kelly might coach tampa. crazy..

this is insane + i am so pissed the dolphins let him go to tampa

Is his steez too gimmicky for the nfl? Seems like all his qbs are the types who never stand a chance in the nfl.

well chip backed out, happy for college football

if he really wants to coach nfl he should wait for a better job than the bucs job

everyone wants to hate peyton manning, it's only natural, but how can you hate a guy that calls rob lowe 'sodapop'?
http://www.indystar.com/article/20120124/SPORTS15/120124015/Kravitz-Manning-says-Irsay-not-Grigson-will-decide-his-future-Colts?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com

huh

http://tracking.si.com/2012/01/24/report-dennis-allen-is-the-favorite-to-be-next-raiders-head-coach/?sct=hp_t2_a5&eref=sihp

Maybe the Bucs should just try going a season w/o a head coach.

BUT I DONT WANT A BRONCOS COACH.

*grump*

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8265203d/article/colts-hire-ravens-dc-pagano-to-replace-caldwell-as-coach?module=HP11_headline_stack

greg schiano, tampa bay hc

woah

Chilly is the new o-coordinator for the Browns

Sorry brownie

oh no

My condolences.

http://gickr.com/results2/anim_7c275206-c26c-a654-854b-d376d0fd5df0.gif

so good/terrifying to see that again

I had hoped to never see it again (hides)

Absolutely love this hire. Good to see the Browns front office finally all be on the same page (Heckert is totally the best G.M. we've had since coming back). I predict Chilly will be the next Wade Phillips, where a disgraced former coach who should have never been a coach in the first place gets re-hired as a coordinator and the rest is history. Happy to see Shurmur realizing you're not doing a good job at playcalling when the other team knows what play is going to be run 95% of the time. Chilly failed in Minnesota because he lost the locker room, and as an O.C. being in control of the players is obviously not his responsibility. He'll be fine. 10-6 and 12-4 in his last two full seasons + a trip to the NFC Championship game? I'd take that anyday.

chilly's whole "dressed to kill" method of motivation (mixing fear and sexual confusion) worked on brett favre that one year, i guess.

http://i44.tinypic.com/6nxzx1.png

arian foster best dressed guy in the league

Childress will make an excellent offensive coordinator if they can get Andy Reid to call the plays for him again.

http://www.panthers.com/news/article-2/Panthers-introduce-refined-logo/22b44075-6ab5-477d-ac6d-7d29733deea0

panthers FINALLY got a new font

not great but better than the old one?

the panther got spruced up a bit too, that's nice for them.

before:

http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/c/carolina_panthers_logo-9058.gif

after:

http://www.panthers.com/assets/clubimages/News/2012/01-January/120129_refined_inside.gif

god that looks sooooooo much better

i was talking w/ my friend the other day about how shitty it was that the god cam newton had to wear such mickey mouse 90s uniforms

i'm trying to figure out what happened to the new panthers right whiskers which seems to have migrated quite a ways from his nose

lol, that is technically better i guess, but "slightly less terrible" would be more accurate

well as long as the colors are black and screaming electric blue they've kind of painted themselves into a corner

is it some kind of optical illusion that makes it look like the font and logo are no longer the same shade of blue?

someone should do a fonts poll for nfl teams.
say what you will about washington we do have a good font

lol, that is technically better i guess, but "slightly less terrible" would be more accurate
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, January 30, 2012 3:29 AM

Is there a particular reason why the A in "Panthers" needed to have two extra scratch marks? Also, I can't locate the new panther's nose: is it the blue "triangle" above the teeth? Is it the black space to the right? Or is it the blue "hook" to the right of that?