2014 NFL thread: The Final Battle

[Warhammer]

Peyton doesn't need defending. Haters can hate all they want, he is still easily top 5, even if you hate him.

Haters gonna hate? You aren't even a Denver fan. Chill out.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'll say this for Manning. At least he kept Rex Grossman from winning a Super Bowl. We do owe him thanks for that.

I'll take it. t:

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Haters gonna hate? You aren't even a Denver fan. Chill out.

#Peyton4life.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Ramblings are starting about Ron Rivera's job security.

Good. Make sure you take Shula's incompetent ass with you, Ronnie! Four years wasted in developing and building any type of offense for Cam that doesn't require him to be a RB.

Not one NFC South HC should be back next season. And that includes the Super Bowl winner and the first year guy.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Not one HC should be back next season. And that includes the Super Bowl winners and the first year guys.

Fixed.


Come on, NFL. Let's really shake some sh** up.

 

[W/ Great Power]

Agreed, but at same time I hate seeing another game decided like that. Refs should be invisible come the end of a game.

I sort of saw it coming. I was at work constantly refreshing the feed of the game, and after the Packers took the lead, I had a feeling we were going down to the last series or the last play of the game.

Regardless, I think it's safe to say we've had some great playoff football so far.

Lie. I've seen mostly realistic fans, disappointed the season is over but agreeing the call was by rule book.

Same statement applies in reverse too. Everyone commenting last week just changed sides this week. Hypocrisy is not relegated to one fan base.

Most of the statements I see are like mine. "I thought it was a good catch...but that isn't the reason they lost".

I'm just referring to Dallas fans specifically because of their overabundance where I live, and the constant trash talking I heard all week.

I had fans walk in where I work and complain. Then I log on to Facebook and Twitter and see the same thing.

There were a lot of arrogant fans that got their humble pie. At the same time, though, I completely understand the frustration by both fan bases (even though I think the call in the Lions/Cowboys game was worse).

 

[Rowsdower!]

Eli Manning is the Greatest Post Season Quarterback of All Time

 

[Spider-Fan]

Peyton doesn't need defending. Haters can hate all they want, he is still easily top 5, even if you hate him.

Oh, I don't think anyone disagree Peyton is an all-time elite QB. But, I think his playoff exits take him out of the best of all-time debate, for me. Manning is the best regular season QB ever, but he isn't the best QB ever.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Fox is gone. Don't blame them.

 

[Immortalfire]

Time for Jack Del Rio to rise to power.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I could see John Fox heading to Pittsburgh as the DC. I really don't think at this point he would get another HC job.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Fox is gone. Don't blame them.

So are all of his assist coaches including Gase.

 

[Boom]

I was gonna say, "Hopefully some of these HC candidates stay in their current roles one more year so the Bengals have a shot at them next off-season." But then I remembered who I was talking about.

How our QB, DL, TE, and O-Line coaches have kept their jobs is beyond human reasoning.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers...bad-decisions-seahawks-panthers-playoffs.html


"That play was designed to go away from Sherman's side, but first-year receiver Brenton Bersin, the first read, slipped in his route."

"...first-year receiver Brenton Bersin, the first read, slipped in his route..."

Brenton Bersin, the first read.

BRENTON BERSIN

Shula'd

 

[Boom]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

So are all of his assist coaches including Gase.

Who is probably leaving anyways. Or do they give him the head coaching job?

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Who is probably leaving anyways. Or do they give him the head coaching job?

Naw, he got fired with everybody else. Apparently, Elway walked into the meeting like a G and told all of them to pack their stuff.


Cold blooded, mofo.

 

[Hound55]

If they s***canned people for almost-but-not-quite, then John Elway should have been bounced out of the league years before winning a Superbowl under anyone's definition...

 

[CELTICPRED]

The absurd notion of Seattle having "no fans" is old. It was old before it got started.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Naw, he got fired with everybody else. Apparently, Elway walked into the meeting like a G and told all of them to pack their stuff.


Cold blooded, mofo.

I misread your original post. My fault.

And yeah, that is some cold blooded stuff right there. Considering how things went though I don't blame him. The offense was weird all season, even before Peyton got hurt. The few times they say F' it and threw the ball early in the season they looked a lot better then when they kept trying to run it, and run it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

If they s***canned people for almost-but-not-quite, then John Elway should have been bounced out of the league years before winning a Superbowl under anyone's definition...

Don't think that applies at all here. Elway was the talent that made those trips to the big games possible.

 

[Doc Samson]

I, personally, feel bad for Fox. I don't think he ever got enough credit for completely revamping his offense to appease Tim Tebow and squeezing out a playoff victory. Then doing a 180 to accommodate Peyton and getting them to the Superbowl. Those two offensive approaches are about as different as you can possibly get.

It's also not his fault Peyton's out there injured. (I'm tired of that too, if you're hurt, just say you're hurt, having it come out after the fact isn't changing anything.) He also couldn't control his defensive players not making any plays. I think it's a raw deal to act like changing him is going to solve those problems...

 

[Hound55]

I, personally, feel bad for Fox. I don't think he ever got enough credit for completely revamping his offense to appease Tim Tebow and squeezing out a playoff victory. Then doing a 180 to accommodate Peyton and getting them to the Superbowl. Those two offensive approaches are about as different as you can possibly get.

It's also not his fault Peyton's out there injured. (I'm tired of that too, if you're hurt, just say you're hurt, having it come out after the fact isn't changing anything.) He also couldn't control his defensive players not making any plays. I think it's a raw deal to act like changing him is going to solve those problems...

Agreed.

With the exception of "just say you're hurt". I fully understand why they're not announcing injuries.

That said, in Peyton's case it's been blatantly obvious, regardless.

 

[Doc Samson]

Obvious to the point that it wouldn't have been much worse to have someone else out there. I get the tough guy thing to do is conceal it and play through it, but most of the time, you're not going to have any sort of signature game out of that scenario. Having a high seed and being 1-and-done is Peyton's narrative, it's been that way since Indianapolis. Putting Fox out to pasture just doesn't seem right if it's based strictly off that...

 

[Matt Mortem]

The Denver defense definitely had a lot to answer for that game. You can't let the Colts walk up and down the field like that.