NFL (since 2016)

[crystal falace]

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

[Far Cough]

"Takashi Miike 2:17 Mon Nov 26 Re: 2016 NFL Season cough, the understanding between cousns and thielen is special. improve the running game and you will contend in the next few years Can we have Peterson back :-)"

[Grumpster]

"As much as I dislike the Seahawks, I always take pleasure in seeing Newton lose. I don't mind some arrogance, but his is to a degree that it must affect some of his on field decisions. Don't see the quality QB's doing any of the nonsense that he does, as they're too busy worrying about winning games."

[OccupyGreenStreet]

"Hawks' late late win at Panthers - great decision-making and game management from Russell Wilson. Panthers really should have been maybe two scores ahead. Hawks probably not going to go much further this season, but that was a hell of a finish in a tough away fixture."

[Takashi Miike]

watch last chance u to see where many of these stars are discovered/developed. the latest season (3) was superb

[crystal falace]

"I also think it has a lot to do with the fact that a lot of these guys come from bad upbringings and bad neighbourhoods and then get raised up and treated as Kings based purely on their athletic abilities even from High school age, they're then offered free rides through colleges and get whatever they want, not sure it really helps them get ready for the ""real world"" where people may actually say no to them."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Grumpster 10:25 Mon Nov 26 'Serious amount of lunatics play in the NFL and it would seem that quite a few of them love hitting women!' I suspect that a large proportion of those lunatics are not normally lunatics but are 'roided out of their heads. Not that that is an excuse.

[Takashi Miike]

"cough, the understanding between cousns and thielen is special. improve the running game and you will contend in the next few years"

[Far Cough]

Anyone see the Vikings and Packers game? Wild card hopefully

[southbankbornnbred]

"CF - you;re right, the penalty incident would most likely have led to a field goal, not a punt. For some reason I thought it would leave the Patsies with a 52 yarder, but it would have been a 42-yard kick. Mind you, Bowles can't even get his own performance stats right - he seems a bit delusional. He told reporters after the game that he took the decision to waive the penalty because 'we have a good record on 3rd and 12 and longer"". Except we don't. The Jets rank 28th in the NFL on 3rd and 12 and longer. But I guess that's what must pass for 'good' in Todd Bowles world. Inept."

[crystal falace]

"Will probably end up on the Cowboys, Jerry Jones seems to not give a shit about players with dodgy backgrounds like Greg Hardy. Probably because he has unquestioned power there, still think it's a terrible way of doing it having the owner be the GM"

[southbankbornnbred]

"TM - yeah, Carmichael is a name that is getting mentioned a lot by Jets fans who follow the game closely. Not sure how the hierarchy feel about him, but he's served a good amount of time under Payton (a top, top coach) and it seems to have rubbed off on him. Also not sure what the Saints' appetite would be to let him go, but for the HC job he might be tempted. He's not a bad call, mate. Crystal - yes, you hit the nail on the head: Bowles seems to have learnt nothing about the teams he's up against, and the incredible quarterback who has dominated the division for well over a decade. It's not like this little-known Brady guy has a track record or anything! It was a poor call for precisely the reason you mentioned - he neglected to consider that it was Brady (or, at best, a field goal - most likely a punt). I like Bowles as a person - he's a very dignified guy in a sport that lost much of its dignity some time ago. But he wilts under pressure and has a long track record of not thinking clearly in those situations. Yesterday, it cost his team the lead, and the momentum in the game, and he does it very regularly. He has to go. He's a good defensive mind, and he should stick to a DC's role. He has almost nothing to offer offensively."

[Grumpster]

"Most decimated squad through injury in football and now also having to release a player after his 5th arrest in the past year. Serious amount of lunatics play in the NFL and it would seem that quite a few of them love hitting women! Shame, was an excellent prospect Foster, but clearly another massive cսnt."

[crystal falace]

"Southbank - yeah it was a bad decision to accept the penalty but I can also see what he was thinking, I think the pats probably go for it on 4th & 2 or I think it was in field goal range. So he's thinking they probably have more chance of stopping them gaining 14 yards and getting it close enough t maybe go for it on 4th down or even keeping them out of field goal range. Might be a good idea against a lesser QB, but you don't give Brady extra downs to work with"

[medwayhammer1]

Although they must be the only team in professional sports who have a worst record for injurys then our mob!

[medwayhammer1]

Dolphins grasped defeat from the jaws of victory again! Oh well bye bye wildcard!

[Takashi Miike]

"southbank, im not certain he'd move but new orleans o/c pete carmichael would be a great choice. not sure payton would want to break up his team but he's one of the better younger coaches out there, and has loads of experience"

[southbankbornnbred]

"I like David Shaw at Stanford. He plays a pro-style offense in a college game that doesn't really play that way any longer. And he's extremely bright - not surprising, considering where he coaches and the kind of players he has to deal with. But he'd be a big risk. And I'll admit it's a risk that could backfire. Arians would be great - but he won't coach the Jets (lifestyle-wise he's not a New York kinda' guy) and has said he'll only come out of retirement to coach the Browns. the good thing is, however it is, is going to have a high pick in the first round and beyond in the next draft!"

[southbankbornnbred]

"McDaniels would be ideal, coaching-wise. He's certainly the kind of coaching mind we need. But, you're right, he burnt quite a few bridges within the NFL with the way he treated the Colts. And, on top of that, it's unlikely that Belichick is going to let any of his key staff wander off to the Jets - given the rivalry and also BB's own personal history with Gang Green. It's hard to know who they'll go for. Personally, I think they have to opt for an offensive HC - they need to develop this kid at QB and build a proper offense for him. We haven't had one since the late 90s/early 2000s. But there aren't too many great OCs or offensive HCs on the market. They might try to lure one of the big names back from college football - maybe Harbaugh. But that would take some serious cash and my guess is he wouldn't want to coach under Johnson (owner). Knowing NYJ, they will screw it up again and opt for a dull, defensive mind, fail to develop Darnold, ruin the kid, build a decent defense (in fairness that is something we do regularly) but have nothing to offer in attack! That's the Jets' way these days."

[Takashi Miike]

"saying that, the way he behaved when set for the colts job, he may not be cut out to be a head coach"

[Takashi Miike]

i think you should go for mcdaniels from the pats. he'd be good for darnold and would develop much quicker under that type of head coach

[southbankbornnbred]

"TM - yep, classic Jets over-payment. Should have been on about a fifth less than that. He was um-ing and ah-ing about retiring, and the decision-makers didn't know who they'd be drafting, so they threw one-year cash at him. The 'good' thing is we had huge cap room, and will do again next season - when he and other single-year deals will walk. So we overspent but could afford to. I'd still prefer to have seen them use a few million of it to nail down a proper WR target for Darnold and/or some decent O-liners to help make sure our QB doesn't get killed!"

[Takashi Miike]

"southbank, is it true that you're paying mccown $10m on a one year deal? seems like you have bigger problems than bowles if the gm is signing off deals like that"

[southbankbornnbred]

"Jets lost their fifth straight game in a row, to the Patsies - despite not having Darnold and still competing quite well under McCown. Probably the ""best"" thing about the loss, from the perspective of bored and irate Jets fans, was Todd Bowles' stupid decision which cost his own side a touchdown and swung the game towards the Patsies. Leading, Bowles and the Jets are offered a penalty that would have made the Patsies 3rd and 14 if accepted - but 4th and 2, and a likely punt by New England, if Bowles declined the penalty. Every decent coach worth their salt waives the penalty knowing the opposition will punt. What does the fucking idiot do? He takes the penalty. Brady steps up at 3rd and 14 and throws a long touchdown! That decision probably cost Bowles his job - not that he had much chance of keeping it. The team has now lost five on the spin, is 3-8, has lost its rookie QB (who is talented despite Bowles' poor use of him all season), will almost certainly have another losing season, and will miss the play-offs for the eighth year in a row. He's out. Probably when the season ends. But thank feck the Bowles era is now almost certainly over. ig decision coming up on who replaces him, though. Personally, I think that the Jets have to go against their tradition and opt for an offensive coach as their next head coach. You have to go back to the utterly abysmal (more so than Bowles) Rich Kotite for the last offensive HC for the Jets - in the mid-1990s. Bowles is a dignified man and very nice man. But utterly inept as a head coach."

[crystal falace]

I had Prescott and cooper both on my bench yesterday ffs! nearly 60 points between them!

[Takashi Miike]

"you have the better team, shut down elliott and they become very one dimensional. i agree about thomas, the only receivers close to him for me are hill, brown and thielen. i think the falcons was a tougher test than the eagles"