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2007 NFL Season

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HTTR baby.

The 'Skins are playing solid football exactly when you want to be playing solid football. I know the Cowboys didn't have anything to play for (besides pride), but I don't think any team wants to end the regular season w/a performance like that. I mean, a franchise low 1 yard rushing for the whole game? That can't sit well w/the coaches or players.


yellow said:
So, to you, if they lost in the post season it wouldn't have been a great year?
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Congrats to the Pats for 16-0 and for being a solid team for so long in the "dynasties are dead" era. But if they don't win the SB then it's just another year (albeit a very successful year). Until last season the biggest gripe against the Colts and Manning were that they couldn't win the big one. Records and regular season domination will always take a back seat to the Super Bowl. If the Pats don't will it all it will be close, but not quite in a league where there is ultimately 1 winner and 31 losers.


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I'm a Browns fan from way back, and I have to say: we had it in our hands last week against Cincy, and Derek Anderson blew it with four interceptions. Not that I'm coming down hard on the guy; he's still new at this, after all. But ultimately, that's what kept us out of the playoffs, not Jim Sorgi or the Titans.

(Although that Sorgi guy looked awful. Hard to believe he's Manning's backup.)

Predictably mixed among the more rational fans at the Browns forum there are a bunch of whiners and moaners because we didn't take it to the Super Bowl. Hard to know what planet these guys are coming from. In a single year, the Brownies went from no good quarterbacks to two very good ones; improved from 4-12 to 10-6; and proved all the prognosticators very wrong. Hard to not like a year like that. Yeah we want more, but next year will still be a building year. We'll improve our defense, but we'll also be playing some really good teams, not the cupcakes (Rams, Dolphins, 49ers) that we faced this year.
 
Sources: Ravens fire Billick after disappointing year
The team fired their head coach Monday, FOXSports.com has learned, capping an extremely disappointing season.

This comes one day after FOX Sports reported that the players and other employees informed team owner Steve Biscotti that Billick had completely lost the locker room and could not win them back.

Billick was hired as an offensive guru but during his tenure it was his defenses that won for the Ravens, especially their Super Bowl title. Over time Billick was unable to get his QBs to star and his offenses stalled year in and year out.

Earlier this year he proclaimed that he had been given the vote of confidence from Biscottit but that was never confirmed and was obviously not true.
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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7621108?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=5
 
Wow, Billick gets sacked.

I thought earlier in the year, Steve Biscotti said that Billick would definitely be back? Maybe Biscotti got scared Ray Lewis would stab him if he didn't fire Billick......
 
Mike Teezie said:
Wow, Billick gets sacked.

I thought earlier in the year, Steve Biscotti said that Billick would definitely be back? Maybe Biscotti got scared Ray Lewis would stab him if he didn't fire Billick......
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One year removed from a 13-3 season as well as a SB winner. And Biscotti thought Kyle Boller was their QB of the future? :eek: The NFL is definitely a what have you done for me lately kind of league..Though he probably needs a fresh start given the dynamic & volatile locker room on that team.
 
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majordude said:
I know. He lost to the DOLPHINS ferchristsake!!!
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i think if he won that game, he still has a job. but alas, he's the only coach to lose to the sorry fins this season and that i think put him in the fired category. he ruined history...:mad:

and talking about the fins, i think it's going to be canned cameron tomorrow.
 
majordude said:
I could care less who goes on at this point
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You could care less? How much less could you care? You obviously care a bit if you could technically care less... :p :D

Seriously, I think the wild card match-ups will make for some interesting games, although ultimately I see the teams with the bye emerging victorious heading into the conference finals (as many would expect).

But, never say never - anything can happen. That's why they play the games... ;)
 
furcalchick said:
i think if he won that game, he still has a job. ...

and talking about the fins, i think it's going to be canned cameron tomorrow.
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I dunno. I recall several Ravens games this year where Billick made some really stupid coaching decisions. I'm sure those factored in as well. Plus, if he really did lose the locker room....

On the Cam Cameron thing, I agree with you. GM Randy Mueller is already outta there.
 
zioxide said:
I know, I was just adding to your "homefield advantage throughout isn't a bad thing" since the Patriots have never lost at Gillette in the playoffs.
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You have to watch claims like this....

A few years ago the Packers were in they playoffs and everyone was pushing the stat that since Favre has been QB the pack was 35-0 when the kick off temp at Lambeau was below 34 degrees Fahrenheit. They quickly lost the game to the Falcons...

It's the equivalent of mentioning that your running back hasn't fumbled in his last large number of carries and promptly watching him hand the ball to a defender on the next running play...

Just because they are unbeaten somewhere doesn't mean they can't be beat.
 
atszyman said:
You have to watch claims like this....

A few years ago the Packers were in they playoffs and everyone was pushing the stat that since Favre has been QB the pack was 35-0 when the kick off temp at Lambeau was below 34 degrees Fahrenheit. They quickly lost the game to the Falcons...

It's the equivalent of mentioning that your running back hasn't fumbled in his last large number of carries and promptly watching him hand the ball to a defender on the next running play...

Just because they are unbeaten somewhere doesn't mean they can't be beat.
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Well that's certainly true..Any given week,anybody can go down. Especially playoff football..You just never know....

I would think that the Bucs would be able to sellout:
BUCS HAVEN'T SOLD OUT PLAYOFF GAME

Tickets for the Buccaneers' wild-card playoff game have been on sale for eleven days.

And they're still on sale.

Per our friends at Pewter Report, the game has not yet sold out. In fact, seats remain in all three levels of the team's stadium.

"I'm not disappointed," coach Jon Gruden said about the status of the ticket sales. "I'm confident that it will be a great crowd and it will be an enthusiastic one, and hopefully we get it sold out."

The guys at Pewter Report think that a 1-3 slump down the stretch might have tempered enthusiam. Or perhaps it's a byproduct of the top-heavy nature of the two conferences, or of the reality that the Bucs would never be able to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Or maybe there's a sense that the 9-7 Bucs won't be able to topple a 10-6 Giants team that went toe-to-toe with the Pats.

Still, it's playoff football. And it's likely the last home game of the year -- unless the 'Skins scalp the Seahawks and the Cowboys and the Bucs best Brett Favre at Lambeau.

Tight end Anthony Becht is doing what he can to get the tickets purchased.

"I can't think of any reason why fans wouldn't want to come to this game," Becht said. "There are plenty of people in the Tampa-St. Pete-Clearwater community to come out. It's an opportunity for them to support us. I hear fans every week calling in to talk radio, to talk about our team. They need to come out and bring their friends out to the game. We got to the playoffs, we got them a home game. We need their support. It does need to be full. All fans need to be out there. I remember being out there in 2005 with the flags waving and everything. It was an awesome environment. I'm really looking forward to seeing that again. I would be very disappointed if we didn't see that."
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No surprises here:
DOLPHINS FIRE CAMERON
ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that the Miami Dolphins have fired head coach Cam Cameron.

The firing comes a day after new front-office boss Bill Parcells hired Jeff Ireland as general manager. Parcells and Ireland will now apparently work together to find a replacement.

Cameron had just one year as an NFL head coach, meaning his career record is 1-15. Cameron will likely become a candidate to become offensive coordinator in several places.
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Whoever Parcells brings in,it's going to have to be somebody that doesn't mind him having Parcells looking over his shoulder 24/7
 
swiftaw said:
Jason Garrett?
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Don't be surprised if Blank makes a run at him and anybody on the Cowboy's staff as a way of getting back at Jones for going after Petrino to go to Arkansas...Jones is a HUGE booster and is probably going to anything he can to try and trade up and get McFadden
 
fotografica said:
Don't be surprised if Blank makes a run at him and anybody on the Cowboy's staff as a way of getting back at Jones for going after Petrino to go to Arkansas...Jones is a HUGE booster and is probably going to anything he can to try and trade up and get McFadden
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Then maybe Parcells can trade him the Dolphins number 1 pick for the cowboys 2 first round picks + extras
 
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