nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

even that seems extremely generous to me

has anyone written about schedule difficulty? i just took a look at philly schedule and (no jinx) it looks a lot easier than it has been for a number of years

nm found it http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/56896/2012-nfl-strength-of-schedule

actually 7th hardest

my problem w/ assessing schedule strength preseason is that the NFL is such a volatile league i.e. no one pre-2011 season would've counted an out-of-division game against the niners as one of the toughest draws in the league

it's hard for me to adjust to this new reality where panthers are a dangerous team

yeah, strength of schedule stats are out of date as soon as they are compiled.

looking thru quickly, nearly every team the eagles are playing has a chance of being decent this year. who knows what the skins will be like this year, and then divisional games can be a crapshoot anyhow, look at that division last year. i would say eagles really want to win those first two roads games vs cle and az

az is still a total mess at QB afaik?

yeah, worst team in league almost def

browns supposed to be actually legit this season?

if richardson turns out like ppl think and their defense plays well

big ifs

4-12

you don't think the Jets can win a road game in Arizona?

they could if they had one?

the browns are gonna suck

branch waived

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrfz8irPU21qkpr6fo1_400.gif

just want to point out that this gif is now a bit more accurate

Whoops, I meant Buffalo!

lol @ the idea of a wasted, decrepit jets team winning in buffalo on dec. 30

rex is 3-0 in buffalo so there is room for doubt but this is the worst jets team of his tenure and the best bills side

also, buffalo on dec 30

Rex says this is the best Jets team he's coached

rofl

cards reportedly name skleton starting qb

who is the cardinals gm btw do they have one

solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the arizona cardinals

‏@AlbertBreer
Can't recall a more disastrous trade for a club than the Kevin Kolb deal has been for Arizona. Just catastrophic for that club.

rod graves, "selected by Sports Illustrated as one of the “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports” as well as one of the “50 Most Powerful Blacks in Sports” by Black Enterprise Magazine"

i mean, he has had a major hand in destroying an nfl franchise, that is pretty powerful right there

http://www.passionsearch.com/Dating-Friends/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tumblr_lnp6ngKGMR1qbjxm7.gif

he has a daughter called 'Britne' so the kolb thing wasn't his worst decision

i wonder how much the eagles knew about kolb's abilities when they made that trade w/ arizona

probably a good amount

www.passionsearch.com/Dating-Friends/

i am just repeating what i have read elsewhere, but supposedly kolb isn't bad, he's just a horrible fit for their offense and always was. but, eagles surely knew all about him and never thought twice about him being a long term starting option, certainly by the time they moved him.

it would be hilarious if the cardinals went through all this w/ kolb then released him only to see him be competent for, like, the texans or something

i guess he would work best with possession and inside receivers, i.e. fitz totally wasted on him. so maybe someone like the titans could make something out of him? i bet he could do a cassel type job if brady died, moreso than mallett, who actually might be more use for someone like the cards, with his downfield arm that the pats can't really make use of.

it is certainly possible, though, that the real problem is he is a bit shit

kolb beat out by this guy

https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkM5tLUedRg-N8Py3mmPielmn3Qj6XOALQ1RssYXlKD08R-5Q-jDYryME

this guy now starting qb for cards

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4/49256/2413658-skeletor_2.jpg

good height, arm strength

yeah, worst team in league almost def
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, August 31, 2012

i would venture that the jags, minus mjd, is the worst team in the league

well for jax it all hinges on gabbert. if he gets that 2nd year bump and can put in a half decent showing he has a couple new wide receivers and a decent TE to target. obviously they have a long way to go on that side of the ball as i think they were last in the league last year even with mjd, but even a middling offense together with similar production from what was one of the better nfl defenses last year, and it's not too crazy to think they might scrape a winning record from somewhere. you definitely can't put any kind of scenario like that together for arizona. plus jax surely aren't even the worst team in their division, they have to do better than indy.

i watched some video on the phoenix newspaper website (i was looking for conspiracy theories about what philadelphia knew + when) where they were discussing who cards should start at QB (this was before they went w/ skeletor over kolb). anyway, they have this few minute long discussion weighing pros and cons of each and then one is like: "between these two choices, and the rest of the talent on the team, does it really matter who they go with in the end?" and the other person was like "no, that's a good point. it really doesn't make any difference to the cardinals season."

gabbert was unbelievably bad last season; i'll be v. impressed if he shows anything this year.

"[Russell] Wilson keeps a diary of every practice on an Excel worksheet."

sounds like a budding chad pennington

To date, Wilson hasn't shown any signs of being made out of glass.

yeah, hes made out of ass.

Russell Wilson is the real deal. You watch.