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John Fox is gone. Elway don't f around.

Peyton has been carrying a bad quad injury as well according to reports

 

John Fox is gone. Elway don't f around.

They don't muck around in Denver... 4 divisional titles in 4 years and if reports of Peyton's injuries are correct they had a fair excuse, interesting to see if my side goes after fox.. Spewing they dragged there feet and missed out on Rex Ryan, reckon he could have fixed our D

They don't muck around in Denver... 4 divisional titles in 4 years and if reports of Peyton's injuries are correct they had a fair excuse, interesting to see if my side goes after fox.. Spewing they dragged there feet and missed out on Rex Ryan, reckon he could have fixed our D

From my very limited knowledge fox was more of a manager then a head coach. Manning runs the offense. Rex Ryan would've been a good fit in Atlanta. You have the offense so he could concentrate on the D. Dan Quinn should be your target. Defensive coordinator for Seattle. Enough said. The vikes have a pretty good system. Our defence was woeful so we got mike zimmer who has improved us out of sight. Norv turner was head hunted to run the offense and zimmer stays out of his way. If you guys can obtain a improved defense plus the division your in you could easily bounce back.

 

From my very limited knowledge fox was more of a manager then a head coach. Manning runs the offense. Rex Ryan would've been a good fit in Atlanta. You have the offense so he could concentrate on the D. Dan Quinn should be your target. Defensive coordinator for Seattle. Enough said. The vikes have a pretty good system. Our defence was woeful so we got mike zimmer who has improved us out of sight. Norv turner was head hunted to run the offense and zimmer stays out of his way. If you guys can obtain a improved defense plus the division your in you could easily bounce back.

From all reports atlanta was Ryan's preference but for whatever reason they took there time and were happy to let him slip to the bills.. I'd be all for Quinn but reports suggest he might be New York bound.. The other is todd bowels from Arizona but his also front runner for the jets job, maybe whoever doesnt get that job will get the Atalanta one. Why can't there be a roos type saviour out there for me :(


I'm struggling to see a Packers win but I have to pick them ... the other game could go either way but it's the Pats - just.

Green Bay 30 Seattle 29

Colts 24 New England 26

Happy with Foxy. Reckon he'll bring a steadying presence similar to Roosy. But we need good coordinators. Mike Mularkey ex Atlanta and Steelers OC sounds interesting, would run the ball. But I'm really intersted in the Defensive Coordinator. I see they've put in a request for Fangio and I think he's done a fantastic job at the 49ers so I'd love him. Long road back to relevance and nothiing fixes our QB problem but I certainly feel we've done better than some.

I can't understand why the Bills hired Rex Ryan. I understand defensive based coaches for Oakland, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and even the Jets and 49ers if they want to be a defensive based team. But the Bills have a good defense. They have no answer on offense. They really should've kept Jim Schwarz and gone after a coach to either draft and develop or build up a free agent QB (Hoyer seems the perfect fit).

Green Bay 21 Seattle 20 - Everyone thinks it's Rodgers v Seattle's D that will make this game. I disagree. I think the champion QB and champion D will slug it out all right. But I think the key to the game is the other side of the ball. In the superbowl and in the great 49ers v Seattle games it's always been the Russell Wilson does enough on key 3rd downs or Marshawn Lynch blows off the big run and from there the defense has the upper hand on a QB playing from behind. I'm backing Green Bay to have finally worked out how to trap Wilson on key 3rd downs and also stopping (or containing) Lynch. Which of course starts from their own running game as well!

Colts 17 - Pats 34 - The Colts don't have a running game. The Pats seem to be able to create one against defenses they can beat that way, otherwise they just Brady it up. The Colts have a defense that's come right at the right time but lacks an obvious pass rush. The Pats have Revis! As much as I like Luck I don't think he's at that otherworldly stage needed to go in to Foxborough and beat the Pats. Only Joe Flacco does that!

 

Happy with Foxy. Reckon he'll bring a steadying presence similar to Roosy. But we need good coordinators. Mike Mularkey ex Atlanta and Steelers OC sounds interesting, would run the ball. But I'm really intersted in the Defensive Coordinator. I see they've put in a request for Fangio and I think he's done a fantastic job at the 49ers so I'd love him. Long road back to relevance and nothiing fixes our QB problem but I certainly feel we've done better than some.

I can't understand why the Bills hired Rex Ryan. I understand defensive based coaches for Oakland, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and even the Jets and 49ers if they want to be a defensive based team. But the Bills have a good defense. They have no answer on offense. They really should've kept Jim Schwarz and gone after a coach to either draft and develop or build up a free agent QB (Hoyer seems the perfect fit).

I think fox is a good fit for Chicago. It will take time to slowly clean out some of the older players on defense but a good draft can fix some holes immediately. Obviously solving the cutler puzzle is a priority but a change back to the Chicago way of playing with a strong defense and running game could free up cutler a bit.

As for Rex I kinda understand the move on the bills side of things. They were close to relocation before the new ownership came in and Rex has a little bit of an aura about him. His opening press conference made me wanna play for him. Buffalo will continue to play strong defense and if Rex is willing to butt out of the offense they might be ok with hoyer as you said or sanchez might make a move. I can't understand why Rex didn't take the Atlanta job. Offense is set they desperately need a defense it would've been a perfect fit.

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I think fox is a good fit for Chicago. It will take time to slowly clean out some of the older players on defense but a good draft can fix some holes immediately. Obviously solving the cutler puzzle is a priority but a change back to the Chicago way of playing with a strong defense and running game could free up cutler a bit.

As for Rex I kinda understand the move on the bills side of things. They were close to relocation before the new ownership came in and Rex has a little bit of an aura about him. His opening press conference made me wanna play for him. Buffalo will continue to play strong defense and if Rex is willing to butt out of the offense they might be ok with hoyer as you said or sanchez might make a move. I can't understand why Rex didn't take the Atlanta job. Offense is set they desperately need a defense it would've been a perfect fit.

But that's the thing. The Bills are now owned by Terry Pegula, the patron saint of Buffalo. They aren't going anywhere and the other owners won't force them to move. Not unless they want a fracking well in their stadium. Defense is back in vogue to an extent right now, but it's still a QB league, you only have to look at the playoff QBs this year.

I get the feeling Rex took the Bills job so he can have a super strong defense and a middling offense and can turn that in to a few successful seasons. He can probably make the playoffs again with that formula and therefore stick around in the job for many years. If he took Atlanta he'd have to create the entire defense from a fresh start and could be out of a job by the time they improved. Rex is undoubtedly a good defensive coach, but so much of his success at the Jets came from Revis, first round picks on D-Line guys like Wilkerson and Richardson, free agent linebacker signings back in the day and so on. I think both Rex and the Bills took the easy road.


I think fox is a good fit for Chicago. It will take time to slowly clean out some of the older players on defense but a good draft can fix some holes immediately. Obviously solving the cutler puzzle is a priority but a change back to the Chicago way of playing with a strong defense and running game could free up cutler a bit.

As for Rex I kinda understand the move on the bills side of things. They were close to relocation before the new ownership came in and Rex has a little bit of an aura about him. His opening press conference made me wanna play for him. Buffalo will continue to play strong defense and if Rex is willing to butt out of the offense they might be ok with hoyer as you said or sanchez might make a move. I can't understand why Rex didn't take the Atlanta job. Offense is set they desperately need a defense it would've been a perfect fit.

I have a feeling atlanta wasn't overly keen on Rex, if they wanted him I reckon they would have signed him at their first interview.. I reckon Dan Quinn's been there man all along. Personally I agree that Rex would have been a perfect fit for atlanta with an established QB in matt Ryan. I

It'll be interesting to see what the bills do on the offense side of things... Hoyer does seem like he could be a good fit. Rex has gone from one QB problem to another so Goodluck to him

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Either way it's good to see Rex still around he is entertaining. Does anyone know why their old coach quit? He had a 3 day clause when the new owners came in to vacate the job and he did.

Either way it's good to see Rex still around he is entertaining. Does anyone know why their old coach quit? He had a 3 day clause when the new owners came in to vacate the job and he did.

I think a number of factors that meant he didn't have the trust in the GM and/or of the owner.

Reports were:

- He wasn't happy that they gave away this years first round pick for Sammy Watkins

- Wasn't happy that they signed Orton - which helped him win short term but long term now their are bigger doubts on EJ Manuel

Then there's whatever they did recently where Bill Polian was coming in to be some kind of adviser above the GM and then didn't.

And of course Orton retired as well.

Pretty much he'd have a good defense but such a troubling relationship with the GM and also no real idea what level of play he'd have at QB. They are 2 very negative factors for success.

Instead he took a 4 million dollar pay out and a shot at being head coach somewhere, which it now looks like wont happen.

Great turn over and great goal line stop by Seattle.

On a positive note GB are moving the ball well and Rodgers seems to be moving ok.


Not surprised the Packers are winning. But wow the margin. Kind of surprised that Seattle have picked Rodgers twice but still conceded 16 points.

Not really shocked that the SeaHawks offense is battling, I think they've battled for most of the year compared to last year and really have come good more later in games. But 3 picks and 0 points is again a surprise. I thought last drive was their drive to get 7 and back in to it. But this is looking ugly.

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woweee... absolutely spewing I missed that game. I still don't agree with the OT & the coin toss, too much is placed on a flip of the coin... surely theres a better way to decide it.

Gee wizz Pack Hawks game was a beauty from the snippets i caught at work. Lynch... just a machine.

Pack smashing Colts.

Perhaps Bostick could have done with some 'Blu-Tack' on his hands ... that's a costly missed chance. McCarthy let him have it but we lost the game in a few other areas (including not being able to convert enough red zone opportunities)

In all honesty we've only got ourselves to blame ... all the way back to losing that game against the Bills (and thus losing home field advantage throughout the playoffs)

To play that well and then hand it back to them is hard to cop. 5 field goals and only 1 TD was costly ... we're renowned for getting into the end zone and we just couldn't get it done.

The better team won but the Packers were far from disgraced - I hope this loss steels us for next year. It should.

 

I just watched the highlights holy [censored] there was some awesome plays... If only I could have watched it live!


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