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Hype is hype but it doesn't change the fact that Denver swapped Tim Tebow for Peyton Manning... Ridiculous upgrade. And, DD, Ryan is playing a dumb game if he is trying to move on Sanchez - they just extended him - 3 years, $41m... They are going to do the Tebow Wildcat in close games and when it wins them one game, Sanchez will become the most expensive back-up QB in history...

What did he say?

Maybe, but Elway won as a 37 year old and a 38 year old. And that was in the late 90s where QBs were protected but nothing like today. Manning will get hit but he is a chance to take them to the top 2 of the AFC and from there anything is possible. Tebow would have brought 'winning but go-nowhere' seasons for years as he learnt to throw in the pocket. And it would not have been easy to extricate themselves from Tebowmania. I think, even if it fails, it doesn't.

Should have gone to the Jags... They are his hometown team AND they have the worst QB in the game. But because of Sparano and Ryan like using the Wildcat at the Jets? Yeah, every now and again they do, but they still want a QB to sit and throw it for most of the game... He should have gone to the Jags and the owner would have structured everything around him to sell tickets, because that is the best attribute Tebow has.

What are the Jets doing? Playing the Wildcat offence every now and again can work great... But not when the QB you are using is a pseudo-hero for a certain section of all NFL clubs (those that think NY is a city of sin, oddly enough) and when he comes on the field the 'Starting QB' is 'sputtering'... What happens when it works a few times? Mark Sanchez will become as unpopular as you think his last name should make him... If I can use 'Tebow' as a verb, and I think I can - The Jets are about to get royally Tebowed in the groin at some point next season, and they won't easily un-Tebow themselves. Always trust The Elway. He knows what's best...

This thread has turned into that to which it was once so aggressively against.

I knew it would. Whether he deserves it or not (he does), journos don't look hard for narratives and "young player gets paid more than he should be" is right up their lazy alley.

I didn't know embracing a traditional blazer meant becoming a Dickens character...

It's our history, we may as well embrace it, rather than hide it, we sure as hell can't change it.

I think Cam can walk and chew gum at the same time...

Four stars is generous. Cliched nonsense for the most part. Some good politics and then they said "f*** it, let's just churn out the 'sex with intern [censored]' that we always do" halfway through. 2 stars from rpfc.

I doubt there would be berries... I think it would be fruitless...

I doubt there would be anything close to a banana in there...

It's funny how the 'forever thus' has morphed into, after the decades of failure, into a writ of perpetual failure, a promise of eventual doom. First step would be to grow out of that.

This is the killer for me. It's a difficult situation, but to land yourself a job in which you are getting paid ten times more than you should be on the back of your sons talent illustrates pathetic character. It tells me all I need to know about that family.

'Family code'? When someone reaches a certain level of importance and self-importance and arrogance they start to revel in their own hubris, and to be so unreflective as to say this is quite startling. I think he has only a short time left before the commission has to move past him. What an effing ridiculous thing to say in the name of PR in the northern states. Just ridiculous.

7 days to go!!

Well you do know how to make unfortunate allusions to the Holocaust... That's...something.

I don't think Neeld was saying his role was to beat a tag. I think he will be given a specific role; as a forward pocket at the feet of Clark with responsibility for the forward press, a HBF role with an emphasis on both defence and attack, or as a high flanking role similar to what Sylvia does but without the marking ie. get to contests and move out the back or get the hands off. He seems to have lost all confidence when given an undefined role to 'get the footy' in the middle and he needs to get back to what he did in 2010 and then move into what he did in 2009. Looking forward to the effect the new coaching group will have on all the players but especially our senior players like Davey.

Of course he would have done this, RB. This honesty will make or break some players. But I would prefer we settle who is ready to put the work in now so we can stop wasting our time with those are wasting theirs. And to personalise it - t'll with either make Jurrah a great player or it will not... But talent like his deserves the chance at greatness.

9 days to go.

9 days to go!

Words feel inadequate but we are lucky to have touched the life of a young man and he ours. The eternity of the internet and the power of this site allow his intellect and passion to be seen past his time and that is a great thing. Condolences to his family and friends.

Anything he says will be juxtaposed against Bailey but that does not mean he is casting judgement. Why bother. Geelong and about 8 other sides judged us in 2011...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/mark-neelds-hardline-approach-to-lift-dees-out-of-the-doldrums/story-e6frf9jf-1226193168855 He is going to annoy some people at the club...