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Big rumours Adelaide might beat us to the signing here.

Doubt it. It's a mutual decision to trade him which means we are probably happy with anything at all. A late pick to use in another deal or a slight pick upgrade. Bennell turned things around because he was young enough to. Martin because he's a ruckman. Anything Blease does in his future should be seen as good luck to him not reflecting on MFC.

Only team I really like is the Colts to beat Jacksonville, they simply have to win And I'll go with the Packers because at least if I'm wrong it keeps the division level for my Bears Ravens, Charges, Texans even the Cowboys (bless them) might be the logical pick, but I'm going to be unorthodox and go with: The Bucs, to bounce back from 0-2 against back up QB's and shock the Falcons in the Georgia Dome on Thursday night

You've got as much talent on defense as the Colts without Mathis, you've got a way way better offensive line and RB's, not a huge difference between the tight ends and WR's. They've got you covered at QB but sometimes there's only so much a QB can do. I thought they'd beat you being at home, but a close game was to be expected. Damn Indy, they haven't drafted or signed FA's very well. They haven't really developed a run of great players or any special systems. But they had 15 years of Manning, a gap year then 15 years of Luck. And they have Houston, Tenn and Jacksonville in their division. If they aren't some of the luckiest sports fans in the world then who is!

To come back from 14 down twice to start the season you have to be very good right? Particularly as one of those games will be on the road. So I think it's rare to find a team good enough to come back from behind once but also having the ability to be bad enough to go behind 14. That's my point really. The Eagles come back at Indy was remarkable, that they were ever down 14 to Jacksonville is just as remarkable!

Depends. If we get pick 3 for Frawley that pushes Dogs and Carlton to 6 and 7 respectively and Collingwood to 9. At 6 or 7 then I think one of those clubs bid. If we don't get 3 for Frawley then the dogs are at pick 5. They might look at the draft thinking - Petracca, Brayshaw if one other midfielder or tall defender goes before McCartin or Wright then they have a shot at one of them and don't want to be locked in to Moore. Carlton might be working a Kristian Jaksch trade and might need pick 6 involved in that. You never know. The way I see it is this whole article from Quayle (and she mentions it at one stage) is about Collingwood putting out negative vibes on Moore to try and get teams to panic and not nominate him. Even if they get Mitch Clark I don't see them skipping on Moore at 8 or 9, but they are trying very hard to get him through to the second round.

Not that fussed about the stat. Probably exists because not many teams go 14 down at home against Jacksonville. But a really good win tonight even if it was a tad lucky. Think your defense is a little more resilient than it has been and we know about the big play potential of the offense particularly with Sproles now in. Wouldn't say you are the real deal (in terms of winning a superbowl) as I think the defense is still not at the elite level needed to win a superbowl and I think your offense are limited by Foles and limited without a standout receiver. Growth from Foles, growth from Ertz and Matthews should see the offense get to the top level and then it's whether you develop a defense. Where you are is so well placed to win the NFL East and make a playoff run. Whilst you might not go deep this year with the way the NFC East is looking there's no reason you can't keep winning it for a few years now. The best thing I think about Chip Kelly isn't his fast paced game plan. I think it's that he gets building a team and building for a championship. He's interest in building his defense. He's the first coach in the NFL to really embrace AFL style sports science and training methods.

Monfries, Schulz and Ebert have all been pretty important pick ups for them. And all at unders as well. Came in from other clubs where they were on the outer and probably help provide a bit of a lift to the place where many of the others were pretty down and out. Unfortunately I think that shows the advantage WA and SA clubs have with recruiting guys who are open to fresh starts back home. Game plans I think are a bit underrated. Good footy is good footy whether you attack or defend. The best Ross Lyon teams could all score easily, just when they played top class opposition the games become a close struggle. What Hinkley does is teach the fundamentals of footy well regardless of the attacking game plan. Port tackle, they defend as a team, they put their bodies on the line etc. There was a patch of form in the middle of the year when we really looked like doing those kind of things under Roos. So let's be positive.

I guess that's the thing. Favre got the job done. I can see Luck becoming that type of player if he isn't already. But for Kap the two biggest games of his career so far - the Superbowl and the NFC championship last year Kap had a chance to make the big play and he didn't. Now he's won a whole bunch of big games - including shredding Green Bay a couple of times but he's now had a couple of chances with the game in his hands and failed. Then the other thing is he makes one read that's about it. If his designated receiver isn't open he takes off to run. Has to go through his reads if he's to become a great.

Yeah it's crazy. Overall he'll get hurt more taking sacks in the pocket than he will running I think but low and behold he gets hurt running today even though he was untouched at the time. He'll miss significant time now and this time next year could be traded to a new team. His rookie season was so good it seems such a shame.

3 INTs and lost fumble. The first half turnovers you might be able to cop. You've got a lead and are trying to break the opposition. But with the game on the line he scrambles and makes 2 more bad INTs. You need to make a huge amount of plays to justify that. Andrew Luck makes his share of turnovers, but more times than not the longer the game goes the more he makes plays instead of mistakes. Rogers, Manning, Brady, Brees Wilson, Luck Ryan, Flacco, Rivers, Newton*, Big Ben* He's never top 5 and he's not in my top 10. Although the gap between the bottom 4 or 5 of that lot and the next 5-10 QB's isn't really that much. It's a lot about having the defense, special teams and surrounding talent to make the QB's job easier. Stafford, Foles, Cutler, Romo, Dalton, Smith, even Eli if the giants put some talent back around him, they are the guys I'd have on the same level as Kap. Of course I'd take Kap over most of them because he's got the physical talent and is younger and cheaper, but it doesn't mean he's any better than them at this stage.

Actually think is very Brady...at least the story anyway. Michigan v Michigan State. Late v Late-ish pick. Both backups. Both physically unremarkable. Don't have big arms, don't have great athleticism. Both have classic white QB names! Both getting their shot to start post injury to the starter. Any crack in that ankle (which there is most times in a dislocation) and it's season over for RGIII. Then Washington will have a hell of a choice if Cousins plays well. Wouldn't it be hilarious if Washington ended up keeping Cousins and then traded RG3 to the Rams where he got back on track and the Rams had their cake and ate it too in terms of the RG3 mega trade

Despite a huge play taken off us after a challenge earlier in the game. So we deserved some luck. Hate when it turns in to flag football but so many times it's the players doing silly things. Cutler was good (or very good) Cutler in the second half. Kap was very bad Kap in the second half. He runs way too often and must not trust his receivers. I mean with Boldin just throw it up to him and he's good for a few catches a game even when he's not open. And Willie Young looks a huge free agent bargain. Thank you Detroit. 3 of our starting defense injured though. Our best special teamer and a back up defender. So 5 injuries to add to 2 OL and 2 WR's from last week (both who played and put in amazing efforts). When you look at injuries across the league you have to wonder if by playoffs there will be any good players left.

Yep. Guess with the ref's miked and the players often sound wired they can do it. But no one in the crowd's going to hear it! Silly. Just additional yards after the pick though so hardly a huge penalty.

Ray Rice went through the courts as well. The press conference gets over played. And Goodell may a horrendous mistake saying 2 weeks. But before Goodell it was open season for NFL players and crime. He's tried to tighten the drugs and personnel code up but just made things worse. Caught out dealing like Demetriou. He's a lawyer but he's not a judge. So he hears the Rice's version of the story, sees Ray as an overall remorseful decent human and dishes out a light punishment. If Goodell turned the player suspensions over to an independent former judge or attorney he might be on to something as a real system. As for Peterson, well I guess just because something is right in the south doesn't mean it's ok for Exempt for NFL charges. The photos are disturbing and so are the texts to his baby mumma. I get he's the Viking fans hero, but at 12-15mil his contract was too big anyway.

Saints, Cardinals, Seahawks for the tips Bears won't win. Defense can stop run and particularly running Qb's, receivers are injured and O line have concerns. They fit the bounce back from a poor week one narrative but not v the niners

And now all of a sudden I feel a good idea sounds bad. As soon as you mentioned MFC Board that is. Present to Jackson, Roos, Mahoney and the director of football (whomever that may be). The board can ask some standard HR questions once the executive have found the man.

Just started getting decent and did his ACL did he not? Plenty cheering him off on the stretcher, some legitimately, some in jest. He also had a crack but I thought he was too much of a Daniher favourite. Would've prefered others given more of a run and then if they failed to go back to old faithful Nicho.

Local footy success, TAC success, turned Coll backline in to a successful unit then took their midfield to the elite level. All sounded good at the time. The flaws I guess were that his head coaching was limited to Ocean Grove taking over post Brendan McCartney and that his time at AFL level was actually pretty brief. He wasn't a long serving assistant as others. Goodwin too doesn't have the longest of apprenticeships but he was presumably getting experience in leadership and coaching to an extent whilst captain at Adelaide and as a senior player there under Craig. Then he had however many years under Hird then the year under Bomber. So already that's 3 coaching styles he's been exposed to. Then he'll have 2 years under Roos. The major difference is that instead of finding the very best assistant out there and throwing them in the deep end by giving them the reigns we just have to find someone who has the potential and they can be molded. Given so many decisions are made by the senior coach at a footy club it must be a daunting task to come to a place and start with limited knowledge. Would be like sailing in the dark. The whole point of the succession plan is you avoid that. Because I think that's where Neeld made all his biggest errors in coming in a flogging a dead horse playing group instead of realising he needed to earn the trust of a playing group that definitely was underperforming but was also pretty lost.

Everyone at the club was involved. But you'd figure he was a junior assistant coach so not involved in the decision making. In some ways he's probably a victim like the players more than a bad guy. Any sanction might be light if he was willing to take one along the lines of the rugby league guys. It's a concern. But if he's the best coach in waiting you'd take the chance.

Not sure if serious. Can't kick. Slow as can be. Isn't a forward or a back. Couldn't hold a regular game for Brisbane last year or early this year when they pretty much had no reasonable options (they found a bunch of promising kids who needed the start of this year to find their feet). Highlights: - Blind turned Sam Shaw - Took a mark with Matthew Watson on him - Crumbed a pack and shot out a handball that wasn't even that good - Took a chest mark - A couple of other decent marks but that's about it Traded out of Hawthorn when they could've done with a good tall defender. Unable to hold a spot at Brissy. Just because Roos worked a miracle with Pedersen doesn't mean we should try to add more battlers to our list. We can make do with a combination of Hogan, Dawes, Gawn and Fitzpatrick forward and Dunn, McDonald and Garland down back. Then Pedersen can fight for a spot at either end as well. Georgiou on the rookie list. We can then replace Frawley either with Frost or hit the draft for some youngsters with real potential.

Would love to say I'm surprised. But as I said above a Bills win wasn't going to surprise me at all. Our defense blows and it's the coaching that's the biggest issue although the personnel is still louse. Our offensive line and WR's had injuries so it came down to Cutler doing enough and instead he made one of the worst INT's you can make. I really should've picked a team with either no QB and hoped they drafted a good one or a franchise QB. The bears have the worst possible situation, they are tied to a borderline franchise QB too good to cut with no replacement but not good enough to win games he should. If our defense wasn't so lousy I'd suggest we draft a QB in the first round next year and light a fire under Jay. But we have so much work to do to fix the defense

Detroit choked. Chicago's defense was just all time bad with the injuries. Not just a little bad like Green Bay with injuries but the next level of bad! Cutler played one of the best games he's ever played against GB last year and went drive for drive with Rodgers. It came down to a 4th and long, Peppers couldn't contain or get to Rodgers and our safety blew the play. It's one thing I like about the NFL is how unpredictable the playoffs are and how one slight mistake by a player can turn a game. A bad read by a WR can turn an easy reception to keep momentum in to a pick 6 that changes the result. Maybe I'm overrating Seattle but I can't see them faltering at home. Injuries will be key to stopping them. Totally agree about not super teams winning the superbowl. It's another great thing about the NFL. But my main concern remains physicality. I'm struggling to think of a team that wasn't super physical. Baltimore - not a great team but O line played out of their minds and defense has always been hard and tough. Giants underdog teams that had D Lines that became dominant at the right times of the year. That's the achilles heel of Seattle if their O line take some injuries. But as of the first game they dealt with the Packers easily.

You probably will. Rodgers will find a way to score more than he did against pretty much every team besides Seattle. My comments was more saying how good they are (particularly at home) not about you guys. That said I'm not all that high about the packers doing anything come January because I see the O and D line play of NFL is pretty much contested ball in AFL. If you don't win there you don't play 'finals footy' regardless of skill players. Packers O Line looks below par. The D line is relying on ancient Peppers and injury prone Matthews on the outside but looks very soft on the inside without Raji. Bit of Geelong about the packers.

2 issues for San Fran: On offense: One of your best O linemen held out of camp. Another is injured. Without top O line play your running game doesn't work as well (just like every team). Without the running game Kap has to do more by making good reads and throws and the offense struggles. Every chance the O line steps up. The veteran receivers play well. Gore is Gore. Kap makes enough plays with his legs and throwing and your offense scores against a dreadful Dallas defense. Wouldn't be overly concerned. On defense: Lost some players in free agency. Aldon Smith suspended for the start of the season. Bowman coming back from injury. That's 2 elite players missing. Ray McDonald should be suspended already but will be dealt with in Nov for domestic violence chargers. It just doesn't seem the same defense as the last two years. So I think you'll fix your offense and be an average solid offense but I'm concerned you wont be a great defense overall. Which means wildcard spot at best and doing it the hard way through away post season wins. That said you've got Dallas away and Chicago home to start. Not a bad way to get to 2-0. Home game momentum at new Levi stadium will be interesting. They've ripped up the grass twice after the first preseason game. And a fan died from dehydration after the first game. Not a great start.