Derrick Henry is a baaaaad man.

What an amazing weekend of games! Next weekend should be good, too. SF vs LAR is always a dog fight. Joe Burrows could make KC uncomfortable.

chuckrh wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:03 am

What an amazing weekend of games! Next weekend should be good, too. SF vs LAR is always a dog fight. Joe Burrows could make KC uncomfortable.

x2

that Bills/Chiefs game was incredible, but damn... that OT rule should be modified in the playoffs.

neither D could stop Mahones or Allen, so a coin toss decides who gets to touch the ball?

tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 24, 2022 10:15 am

that Bills/Chiefs game was incredible, but damn... that OT rule should be modified in the playoffs.

neither D could stop Mahones or Allen, so a coin toss decides who gets to touch the ball?

The rules are better than they were when OT was first adopted (a 55 yard field goal by the first team to have the ball ended the game) but you're right they're still not as they should be. OTOH, back in the day, like NY Football Giants v. Baltimore (!) Colts, it was sudden death so first score then won also.

cannot understand the Bills' coach(es) deciding not to kick to the 5 yard line, or squib-kick, but otherwise the most incredible NFL playoff game I ever watched

Wow, Brian Flores may not be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy this year but he definitely gets the big brass balls trophy. He has probably pulled the plug on his pro coaching career*, essentially sacrificing it for the benefit of others. I wish it didn't come to this but I have to stand up and applaud because there's not much question that he's right.

*No idea if college coaching will be an option for him.

In case you're wondering, the big news in New England is Tom Brady's alleged diss of all things Patriots and New England in Brady's farewell message. You see, he didn't mention the team, any person affiliated with it or the fans of New England while thanking pretty much every person who has lived, lives or might in the future live in the Tampa - St. Pete area. If you think that New England is populated with parochial get a lifers, here's your evidence. Good grief.

Or, put another way, what does Tom Brady owe the Patriots and New England? Absolutely nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero.

For the love of Cooley, can someone PLEASE update this thread title?

Zip City wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:51 pm

For the love of Cooley, can someone PLEASE update this thread title?

There you go. Sorry, my attention has to be elsewhere most of the time these days.

I got a feeling that the Bengals are going to take out the Lams in Lo-Fi Stadium. It'll be close & come down to the Bengal's kicker. Probably it's a good thing I'm not in Vegas & the local casinos with sport books are all a painful drive away.

Finally, the high holy day is here. How high & how holy remains to be seen. GO BENGALS!

Urban Meyer's NFL debacle: New details show that ex-Jaguars coach was a total disaster in Jacksonville
Meyer's tenure in Jacksonville was actually worse than anyone originally thought
John Breech By John Breech 17 hrs ago
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For most new NFL coaches, it's not easy to get fired before you even finish your first year on the job, but that's exactly what happened to Urban Meyer in 2021. The former Jaguars coach was canned in December after compiling just a 2-11 record in his first season.

Based on the information that has come out over the past few months, it's pretty clear that Meyer's stint in Jacksonville was basically a disaster from start to finish. As it turns out, his time with the Jaguars might have actually been worse than anyone originally thought.

A story published by The Athletic on Monday painted an ugly picture of Meyer's 11 months in north Florida and a lot of that picture was painted by former Jaguars receiver D.J. Chark, who decided to go on the record while talking about his former coach.

"The way he was running the ship, it was impossible to succeed," Chark told The Athletic.

So what exactly did Meyer do wrong? Well, grab a chair and get comfortable, because you could be here for awhile.

For one, Meyer had no idea how to make his players better by putting them in a position to succeed.

"He told us from day one that he was going to maximize our value," Chark said. "And I truly can't tell you one player that maximized their value on the Jags this year."

Chark can personally attest to that. The receiver broke his finger in training camp after Meyer forced him to do extra reps during a round of live contact drills. The ensuing surgery caused Chark to miss the entire preseason.

With Meyer unable to get the most out of his players, the one person who seemed to be hurt the most by this was Trevor Lawrence. The top overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft had an ugly rookie year, and according to Chark, that was mostly Meyer's fault.

"Trevor is a great quarterback," Chark said. "He was not put in good positions."

Meyer ran an operation based on fear, which might have worked for him in college, but the strategy was an utter disaster in the NFL.

"He feels like threats are what motivates," Chark said. "I know he would come up to us and tell us if the receivers weren't doing good, he wasn't going to fire us, he was going to fire our coach. He would usually say that when the coach was around."

According to the Athletic, Meyer once threatened to cut a guy for making a mistake in a preseason game.

Although Meyer wasn't very good at coaching at the NFL level, one thing he did excel at was placing the blame on others.

"I feel like he put us in very bad positions and, when the questions came, he deferred the responsibility, which made it look like we were just out there being the worst team in the league," Chark said. "But we weren't put in position (to succeed)."

One notable example of this came in December when Meyer through running backs coach Bernie Parmalee for a debacle involving James Robinson. After a fumble in the opening quarter of a 37-7 loss to the Rams in Week 13, Meyer called for Robinson to be benched. However, the coach then forced Robinson to go back in the game in the fourth quarter with the Jags TRAILING by 30. Benching a player is one thing, but forcing him to go back in for the final few plays of a blowout is misguided at best and callous at worst.

Meyer took zero responsibility for the incident. Lawrence put Meyer on blast after the game and said that Robinson is a player who needs to be playing.

The incident with Robinson came just a few weeks after Meyer made headlines when he skipped a plane ride home from a game in Cincinnati so that he could go hang out with his family in Columbus, Ohio. Although Meyer likely did spend time with his family, he was also caught on camera in a compromising position with someone who wasn't his wife. The former Jags coach was forced to apologize to his team just days after the incident.

Meyer also routinely belittled and made fun of his players in practice. After John Brown dropped a pass in practice one time, Meyer decided to make fun of him.

"Hey, Trevor, you've got to slow it down for him," Meyer allegedly said, according to The Athletic. "These boys from the South, their transcripts ain't right."

At one point during his tenure, Meyer apparently belittled a player to the point that the player cried.

During his short time with the Jaguars, Meyer was also accused of kicking Josh Lambo in the leg and telling him to "make his f---ing kicks" just before a preseason game in August.

The story from the Athletic also alleges that Meyer was "unfamiliar with star players around the league, including 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel, Seahawks safety Jamal Adams and Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald.

Things got so bad in Jacksonville that one staffer called it, "The most toxic environment I've ever been a part of," according to the Athletic. And that's likely going to be Meyer's legacy in the NFL.

For a full timeline on Meyer's disastrous time with the Jaguars, be sure to click here.

Not a big fan of the NFL but I will be watching the Jags stomp a big mud hole in Philly.

Swamp wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:06 pm

Not a big fan of the NFL but I will be watching the Jags stomp a big mud hole in Philly.

.......and 5 minutes !ater this happens

Too bad Trevor has "Carolina hands".

Winner! I won the weekly pro football challenge on a local radio station. I got 11 of 13 correct & only missed the tiebreaker score by 4 points. I think I won $100 but they haven't contacted me yet. I'll take it, woo hoo! GO HAWKS~!

It's my own damn fault. I turned off the Saints-Bucs game after the Bucs chose not to go for it on 4th down about half way through the 4th quarter, down 16-3. Depending on one's perspective to that point the game had been either a snoozefest or a galactic level defensive battle. I leaned to the former, especially as a Brady fan. In case you missed it, the Bucs came back to win 17-16. I should have known better. F'n Brady.

Even as a Brady fan, however, I have to say it's a bit odd to read the coverage this morning, which is all (as far as I looked, anyway) like Brady alone faced the 11 man Saints defense. But the narrative is the narrative I guess.

Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery to Damar Hamlin. Unbelievably scary. Don't know what else to say.

beantownbubba wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:53 pm

Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery to Damar Hamlin. Unbelievably scary. Don't know what else to say.

+1

First time I've seen it and I'm rolling along w you.

Just saw this referred to as “Jon Gruden’s emails come to life”