NFL '10/'11 Season Thread.

[Jon S.]

There's going to be a quite a lot of turnover in the NFL this year.
--San Francisco (Hello Jimmy Harbaugh :wave2
--San Diego (bye bye NT)
--Cincy (bye bye ML)
--Tenn (bye bye JF)
--NYG (bye bye TC)
--Denver (hello Urban Meyer! :wave2
--Houston (? Maybe Kubiak will be booted)
--JVille (maybe JDR will be booted)
--Dallas (Bill Cowher here I bet)
--Miami (the sharks are circling around TS)
--Minny (yikes, who will take this job?)

Am I forgetting someone?

Just noticed that you missed John Fox in Carolina. I'm pretty sure he's a goner!

On the Bill Cowher front, I read that the infamous "someone close" to him is reporting that the 3 jobs he is most interested in are the Dolphins, Texans, and Giants, assuming one or more of those jobs open up......which seems QUITE likely. One would also think that he would be interested in the Carolina job if it opens up as well......given where he lives now.

 

[Tittyman5000]

Woo hoo Packers Still Alive! Yeah! We almost beat the Pats with a back up QB then we killed the Giants next da bears IN LAMBO! I smell cheese

 

[Straight Shooter]

Woo hoo Packers Still Alive! Yeah! We almost beat the Pats with a back up QB then we killed the Giants next da bears IN LAMBO! I smell cheese

I hope my Bears can beat the Packers next week. If they don't I believe they will meet each other in the playoffs for only the second time in history and it would suck to end the season by losing to the Packers two weeks in a row. The Packers are the only team in the NFC that scare me as a Bears fan.

 

[maildude]

I think Jim Schwartz's job is secure...for now. The Lions finished strong(pending their final game, a homer against the struggling Vikings) and might have done better except for horrific injuries.:2 cents:

 

[Red001]

i think Cowher ends up in Houston.
Harbaugh doesn't want to leave Stanford yet and that will be even more true if Andrew Luck stays.

red001

 

[feller469]

Fox is out in Carolina. His contract is done. I don't know who would want that job. there is talent, but the owner is notoriously cheap and will likely trade the #1 pick.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

I think Jim Schwartz's job is secure...for now. The Lions finished strong(pending their final game, a homer against the struggling Vikings) and might have done better except for horrific injuries.:2 cents:

Very true. I would wager that the coaches of Tampa Bay and St. Louis are both safe as well given that their teams showed two of the biggest turn arounds after the Kansas City Chiefs.

 

[feller469]

Liking the fact we have a football game tonight, too bad it involves the Vikings. So over the Favre story.

And Sunday night we get Seattle and St. Louis? Wow, is my finger no where near the pulse. Saints will knockout the winner of that game in the first weekend and we will be done with that division for another 8 months

 

[Hot Mega]

i think Cowher ends up in Houston.
Harbaugh doesn't want to leave Stanford yet and that will be even more true if Andrew Luck stays.

red001

'yet'??? If not now, why ever? Harbaugh's stock has never been higher and the opportunity to go to what one would think are his dream jobs will never be greater (hard to imagine they ever would). If he doesn't leave Stanford now, I can't imagine a circumstance where he would ever leave.

When you consider he is from the bay area, the 49ers throwing a ton of money his way and him not even having to change addresses to take the job...why wouldn't he take that job? For a QB that he'll coach 1 more year?

The only way he doesn't take that job IMO is if Michigan offers him and he wants the Michigan job more than he wants to be in the NFL.

Even if Harbaugh returned for a stock raising national championship year with Luck...(in which he'd be banking on allot more luck than just Luck considering what he's losing off his team), he will have more than likely cost himself a chance at coaching either of his two dream jobs.

Of course no one can know what his calculus is as there are the cases where people just don't conform to conventional wisdom. But if he's ever going to leave Stanford under the most favorable terms, you'd think now is the time.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Liking the fact we have a football game tonight, too bad it involves the Vikings. So over the Favre story.

And Sunday night we get Seattle and St. Louis? Wow, is my finger no where near the pulse. Saints will knockout the winner of that game in the first weekend and we will be done with that division for another 8 months

Cold, shitty NFL atmosphere is the best way to go. Ed Rendell was right when he said we are becoming a bunch of pussies. Either way, it will still be shitty tonight, so worth checking out, not like some heated dome unlike FB was ever intended to be played in.

 

[titsrock]

Harbaugh is gone, peeps. Stanford does not care about winning football NCs. Plain and simple. I have been to many Stanford games and it's always a half-empty stadium with no energy. In some respects, it is the best head coaching job in college football because you don't have so much scrutiny on your team, you're only allowed to recruit high acheiver students and you have access to worldclass training techniques and facilities.

In the end, I don't think Harbaugh likes being so out of the spotlight like he is in Stanford. All the other coaches walk around the campus and ask each other "How many national championships have you coached?" and he will always answer his coaching colleagues, "Zero, guys!"

The NFL is where the spotlight, the money and the glory all come together. If he stays at Stanford another year, his NFL job list might include Cleveland or Buffalo next year. Haha. No way he takes an NFL job like that.

He is off to the Niners, the Chargers or the Giants -- my guess.

 

[YumiYumi_1988]

'yet'??? If not now, why ever? Harbaugh's stock has never been higher and the opportunity to go to what one would think are his dream jobs will never be greater (hard to imagine they ever would). If he doesn't leave Stanford now, I can't imagine a circumstance where he would ever leave.

When you consider he is from the bay area, the 49ers throwing a ton of money his way and him not even having to change addresses to take the job...why wouldn't he take that job? For a QB that he'll coach 1 more year?

The only way he doesn't take that job IMO is if Michigan offers him and he wants the Michigan job more than he wants to be in the NFL.

Even if Harbaugh returned for a stock raising national championship year with Luck...(in which he'd be banking on allot more luck than just Luck considering what he's losing off his team), he will have more than likely cost himself a chance at coaching either of his two dream jobs.

Of course no one can know what his calculus is as there are the cases where people just don't conform to conventional wisdom. But if he's ever going to leave Stanford under the most favorable terms, you'd think now is the time.

Yeah, if you're gonna leave, you do it when your stock is highest, I completely agree. I remember when the coach at USF, Jim Leavitt, was rumored for big jobs, including Alabama, but chose to stay at USF, and within a few years, he was fired and is jobless. Also look at Greg Schiano at Rutgers, who turned down Miami a few years ago. The good years are behind them, they just went 4-8, and Miami didn't give him a look this time around.

 

[STDiva]

Uhh...Earth to San Fran. You're fucking shit. Do what it takes to get Harbaugh and do what it takes to draft Luck. I don't want to see another Smith running the offense for the rest of my life.

 

[titsrock]

^
San Fran should pull the trigger and trade for Leinart. :yesyes: Harbaugh, Norm Chow and some of Harbaugh's assistants from Stanford :thumbsup:

 

[Straight Shooter]

^
San Fran should pull the trigger and trade for Leinart. :yesyes: Harbaugh, Norm Chow and some of Harbaugh's assistants from Stanford :thumbsup:

Alex Smith has some potential, he's only 26. I think he needs to play in a consistent offense for a few years. How many offensive coordinators has he gone through? Turner, Hostler, Martz, Raye? Surely that hasn't helped his development if anything I'd say it's probably stunted his development. :2 cents:

 

[maildude]

Wussies...WUSSIES!!!!!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/12/ed-rendell-were-a-nation-of-wu.html?wprss=44

 

[Straight Shooter]

Wussies...WUSSIES!!!!!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/12/ed-rendell-were-a-nation-of-wu.html?wprss=44

Ed Rendell needs to worry about other things besides a fucking football game. What's the big deal? Okay the game was canceled but it's still going to be played all they did was move the game to Tuesday, let's move on.:dunno:

 

[D-rock]

Alex Smith has some potential, he's only 26. I think he needs to play in a consistent offense for a few years. How many offensive coordinators has he gone through? Turner, Hostler, Martz, Raye? Surely that hasn't helped his development if anything I'd say it's probably stunted his development. :2 cents:

At the point of his career he's in and the development he has shown so far being 26 years old is very old for that. At best by the time he turns it around and maybe becomes mediocre he's going to be declining again. I don't think all of his lack of development is his fault. The 49ers really screwed it up for him, but there is no way I stick with him at this point as my future quarterback if even a somewhat reasonable younger option is available.

 

[Tittyman5000]

I hope my Bears can beat the Packers next week. If they don't I believe they will meet each other in the playoffs for only the second time in history and it would suck to end the season by losing to the Packers two weeks in a row. The Packers are the only team in the NFC that scare me as a Bears fan.

Well da Bears have got our number once this year & played really well against the Jets, its gonna be a good one! I juss pray Urlacher doesn't like the frozen tundra!!! lol

 

[D-rock]

I suppose the Chargers can take solace in having statistically the no. 1 offense and no. 1 defense with a game left while they're mathematically and practically not good enough to make the playoffs.:o

Yeah, it's weird. Part of the reason is they have had one of the worst special teams in history this year. People tend to neglect that, but it often has a bigger effect than people realize, and it was probably a significant factor that was part of what cost the Chargers a couple of games. Even discounting that when the Chargers can't even win the division they are in while playing as good offensively and defensively as they have one has to admit they just really screwed up. I have a feeling Marty Schottenheimer is going to end up with the last laugh.