Rolling 2011 NFL Offseason

I'm rooting for Mularkey to be the Browns next head coach.

Huddle up homers with no playoff aspirations.

me too!

tamtam, is Mularkey the man? I mean, young QB in clevo, grizzled Holmgren as Prez, Mularkey is relatively young but experienced. Thinking it could be a match made in heaven.

didn't pay a ton of attention to college ball this year, need to catch up on draft prospects etc, not sure who the big free agents are and oh yeah lockout. happy the panthers are getting screwed out of Luck. i really like the direction cleveland's going in!

dude, I've been wrong so many times about so many things I'm shaken to the core of my being. But yeah, running game and o-line in place. Defensive 2ndary has improved tenfold. Needs = d-line and wideouts and backup RB's. Linebackers are eh but scrappy, Fujita getting hurt killed their run stopping ability. Dunno about the draft, I don't pay attention enough to know who the best receiver is, but whoever it is should be a high priority.

Mularkey's a ~good offensive coach~. i understand he was a lil bit of a disaster in Buffalo, but y'know, buffalo (sorry horseshoe!). im sorta not in love with the system he runs, but im probably just a finicky fan who doesnt understand how good ive got it! he looks like kevin costner.

best receiver is AJ green - best wr prospect since k records legend calvin johnson - but he'll prob be gone before the browns pick.

Mularkeys middle name is Rene which gives the Brownies some badly need ~flair~ also the last Bills coach to post a winning record if I'm not mistaken. Need a horseshoe perspective on this but she's buried in Peyton fatheads atm.

woulda thought the first order of bidness woulda been:
1) more bitchen about 18 game season
2) odds on a lockout

The 18-game season idea SUCKS!

The odds on just about anything are 50/50, right? It either happens or it doesn't.

the browns are gonna hire marty morningweigh (sp?)

yah i feel like i can't deal with this thread until i know if there's a lockout or not

xp Is that breaking news or an educated guess? (I made the same guess a few days ago.)

no, but there's a lot of chatter that holmgren covets him

I think the 16 game season has some nice symmetry to it with football being 4 quarters long. I think the NFL should just be smarter and be able to get more football on national TV instead of trying to expand out the season.

I'd maybe have some NFL teams maybe move the pre-season games to other places in their regions (like say the Cowboys playing a pre-season game in say Oklahoma or Arkansas) in a college town or the Bears playing down in Champaign or a game in Wrigley or something weird like that one. It would still be an exhibition, but if done right and hyped right, it would be a novelty and bring people to see a game that might not go see one in the 'big city'. Then the season ticket holders might not gripe about having to buy 'bad games'.

Conversely to get more football on national TV, where the real damn money is at, I'd maybe dump a pre-season game add a second bye week and then use those bye weeks to have clubs either playing a Thursday night or Friday night pro game on national TV either coming from or to a bye week in the first 10 weeks or so of the season. They do that they could easily put probably 10-12 more big national games on TV, which I got a feeling would offset quite a few of those shite pre-season games.

wade phillips dc at houston will be something to watch. 3-4 with mario as roving rusher. could be fun. wonder if wade has known he is really for a dc for a couple years now.

ron rivera at carolina? i feel like he has been on the brink because he always gets hired as a hc at the end of the first season on madden season mode, for like 4 years now. poly?

earlnash has my vote for NFL commissioner

Roberto: Rivera excelled with the Bears running the 4-3 (or whatever it was), came to SD and learned the 3-4, and got a lot out of a defense that frankly has no great players. He conducted himself with class while he was a Charger, and everyone seemed to like him. He's your classic unproven high character coaching prospect, like Lewis or Dungy or Fewell or Nolan, but of course a lot will depend on personnel and his OC hire.

thx dude. well good luck to ron. he just got landed with a shitty football team.

"wade has known he is really for a dc for a couple years now."

Wade Phillips is a pretty respected coach. There are a ton of dudes that were good defensive coordinators for one reason or not never had luck as a head coach, which really is much more of a PR person/CEO type guy now.

Mid 80s Bears are starting to add up some head coaches --

Jeff Fisher
Ron Rivera
Leslie Frazier
Mike Singletary

Jim Harbaugh

Also, Rivera is fucked. That owner is the new Mike Brown, the Panthers the new budget-concious NFL team.

Rivera being the hc almost guarantees that Nick Fairley goes overall #1 in the draft, though...if they don't trade down to get more later round picks.

Fairley probably goes #1 whether Rivera is coach or not.

it's hard to be fucked in the nfl tbh

obv that's not completely true (see: browns, bills) but generally speaking rebuilding an nfl team is much easier than doing it in baseball -- where spending money is much more important & even the top prospects take years to develop -- and in basketball -- where the best teams have vice grips on championships for years on end.

but even the bills have hope now, sorta

For example: the Chiefs and http://c0848462.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/3d93bd2c4f3f1b33c02182fd0f20476f.png in the playoffs despite being awful last year.

I honestly think the Browns are going in the right direction. This Shurmur rumor is kinda o_O but at least I trust Holmgren (for the time being). It's just that the Ravens and Steelers are head and shoulders so much better than the Browns that I can't see the Browns contending for years. The Bills are in the same boat with two good teams in the same division and a much smaller fanbase, were any Bills games blacked out this year? The Browns, at least, have weirdo loyal subhuman fans that sellout every game

Yeah, what's with those fools?

(looks left and right; whistles innocently)

nothing wrong with them other than loyalty + subhumanism + weirdos and the ability to never know who to start at QB.

this is now in the past

a new day has dawned over browns town snrub

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zI4K8x7sa84/SXYe175p4oI/AAAAAAAAAYE/_IL2_k3Zvo0/s400/The+BPA.jpg

a new day

http://vintageprintable.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/virgin-and-unicorn-chastity.jpg

brand new

http://www.michaelstanley.com/images/stanleyshadowland_cover_9kjv.jpg

Shurmur to Browns and John Fox to Broncos now both official.

The Raiders remain... who will it be?

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/news/story?id=6018722

lawrence taylor gets six months' probation

If the Raiders don't announce Hue Jackson I may not be accountable for my actions fyi

He's clearly the best option, so why is it taking this long? Have you heard of them interviewing anyone else?

Nope. But I have heard that Jackson is already trying to shore up Rex Ryan as his defensive co-ordinator...

...

You mean Rob?

Agh. Yeah, Rob.

Defense was never really the achilles of the Raiders program while he was there before, was it? I mean, it's not a sexy hire to bring back a guy who was there before, but I don't think it would be that bad a thing.

Yeah, Rob Ryan was never their problem.

Happy 23rd birthday today, Josh Freeman!

http://a.espncdn.com/media/motion/2010/0520/themag_100518_JoshFreeman.jpg

(y'all, with Raheem as coach, Freeman as qb, and Blount as the monster rb, I think the Bucs are my next favorite team.)

Hue Jackson is the new coach of the Raiders.

thank you jebus. I was afraid he'd bow out and we'd end up with god knows who

generally speaking rebuilding an nfl team is much easier than doing it in baseball

tell this to dolphins' "brain" "trust."

In order: Shanahan OC, Shell line, White OC, Bugel line, Gruden OC, Callahan line, Turner OC, Shell line, Kiffin OC, Cable line, now Hue OC.

great moments in long snapper history

Ryan David Pontbriand (born October 1, 1979) is an American football long snapper and center who currently plays for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Pontbriand played collegiately at Rice University, and was drafted in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Browns. Pontbriand has the distinction of being the highest-drafted long snapper in the history of the NFL Draft.[1]

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/6933113/dallas-cowboys-rob-ryan-new-york-jets-rex-ryan-little-freaky-worse

voting for "She's got great feet, too. She's got everything nice. What the hell?" as the week one thread title

they've probably swapped wives before. imagine getting spitroasted by the ryan bros

as the week one thread title

Yes.

imagine getting spitroasted by the ryan bros

football season ruined, officially, on September 5th

*tears out eyes, drinks poison*

@Jay_Glazer: I'm reporting the Jaguars today have informed starting QB David Garrard they are releasing him! Luke McKown will start opener! Shocker!!!

What in the world.

the heck

really?

You know how weird it was just now to drop DG and replace him with Luke McCown in my ff league?

Are the other 31 QBs taken?

YES. I'm in a nightmare 2QB league with 12 teams.

on how many teams right now would garrard be a legit improvement?

cinci
seattle
niners?

I read this morning where he wasn't even named a captain, but didn't think it would come to this. Not even for one game against Tennessee.

The Eagles should make him their #3.

he'd be an improvement in washington.

yes he would!

If Shanny didn't like McNabb's worth ethic ...

xxp would rather have Kafka

beckgruber the backup :(

so weird

Channing Crowder
Found "Howard the Duck" on DVD. Its a classic movie. That's back when u hd to make good movies with no special effects.
1 minute ago

lol

on how many teams right now would garrard be a legit improvement?

cinci
seattle
niners?

MIAMI

who is qb'ing in buffalo this year? i haven't been paying attention. they are still fielding a team in 2011, right?

yeah... did the jags cut garrard just to screw over every other team?

it's still Fyan Fitz afaik, and he's far from the worst qb in the league. (okay, maybe not far, but he doesn't live on the same block.)

man if i'm the seahawks i'm signing that dude in .0000000000056 seconds

they could still compete in that division w/ a competent qb

or shit, the niners for that matter, yeah

they could still will compete in that division w/ without a competent qb

i'm not so sure about that

i think they're a clear fourth place there -- those QBs are almost unimaginably abominable

Cards have that division on lock this year.

yeah i'm not convinced of that at all

it's still Fyan Fitz afaik, and he's far from the worst qb in the league. (okay, maybe not far, but he doesn't live on the same block.)

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Fitzpatrick's pretty good.

He threw for 3k last year iirc

Chad Henne threw for 3300, just sayin'.

seattle should jump now

saw T-Jack in the vikes/seachickens preseason game...he's still t-jack...

i'm sure they'll have to through their own growing process of realizing those occaissional good things he does are never going to happen on a consistent basis

he even did one of his patented t-jack freaked out under pressure "jump passes"

Henne: 15 tds, 19 picks
Fitz: 23 tds, 15 picks

he's on my fantasy team so i'm hoping for the best until peytey heals up

are there any good season previews for ppl who haven't followed the offseason at all

Bill Barnwell:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6918507/part-i
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6934823/grantland-mega-nfl-preview-part-ii
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6936469/grantland-mega-nfl-preview-part-iii
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6940766/grantland-mega-nfl-preview-part-iv

the grantland preview isn't terrible xp lol beaten

best part of all that -

Worst-case scenario: They start the season 1-6 before their bye, at which point Al Davis gives up hope and sells the team to Kreayshawn.

now they say peyton is out for the year
http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/1493/peyton-manning

thanks polyphonic and mordy even though you were too late

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Two shorter pieces, don't know if they mention Kreayshawn:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=6942181&sportCat=nfl

http://footballoutsiders.com/ramblings/2011/2011-staff-predictions

thanks