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cuz our franchise has always been cheap unless they are paying their own players--the only exception i can think of off the top of my head is kareem mckenzie and maybe kenny holmes if you consider his contract to be a big one. plax was considered a huge splash in the free agent market (for us) and he only got 24 mil or so right? i think we've taken the wrong approach when drafting defensive players. IMO drafting a 1st round linebacker carries way less risk than drafting a 1st round cb, so i'd rather draft lienbackers and shell out the big bucks for a proven cb. as happy as i've been with aaron ross a lot of it is the fact that he isn't a total bust and is showing flashes, but that doesn't mean he'll necessarily ever be more than a decent cb

i agree with echo, it'd be one thing if this was his first OC but it isn't. we're still bitching about the same things with both OC's: playcalling. coughlin is involved in the gameplanning and im sure he has some kind of final say on the plays that can be called. this is a big reason why i won't give up on eli becoming a great qb, i'd like to see how he performs in a different system with a new coach before i determine that he's a bust/average/etc

funny coincidence while we're on this subject: in my money league i was 1-2 and during all the shit talking i was lumped into a group of teams labeled 'bottom feeders' who were out of playoff contention, so i made a post guarenteeing i'd make the playoffs and i even cheesed it up by using fassel's 'pushing chips to the middle' quote. well i proceeded to win 7 in a row and clinched the playoffs with my 7th win. too bad im not going anywhere as long as jacobs and larry johnson remain injured :brooding:

coughlin wishes he were that slick

i seriously doubt it, every team overvalues their picks, randy moss went for a 4th rounder, the colts and seahawks couldn't get 2nd rounders for edge and alexander when they were in their primes.

it's not as bad as the day plow said "he came in my face"

punt down 31 with 11 minutes left? why not just bench everyone if you've given up....

i agree holiday should've won it, but i can't disagree more that coors field isn't still a ridiculous homefield advantage.

ahh sorry, i just re-read osi's post and realized he only said for 3 weeks or so. i usually see 'shut down' as 'put on IR'

rest him? sure. shut him down? what's the purpose of that?

i agree 100%. you can't talk about how you'd do a better job with another coach's player while that coach is on the hot seat, especially if you haven't even coached in the NFL.

that's a great line

all im saying is that it helps when designing a gameplan this week, anything that decreases our odds--however small that decrease may be--of giving up points is good news IMO. it doesn't matter anyway, it turns out jones is definitely playing

i dont care about the steroids, but he should've had a better lawyer when he testified before the grand jury. i doubt he sees a cell, but he could lose it all after the IRS is through with him, we might be looking at the next pete rose

what an idiot kid presentable was

that's my point, we dont have to worry about duckett at all--that helps us

13th in attendance, had 81% attendance rate this year, not too shabby

i agree, both sides win. i just think arod gets the edge here cuz the yanks took a really hard stance with him which made his opting out riskier. if they never took that stance, and he opts out to test his market value he knows in the back of his mind that the yanks are still playes too. what the yanks tried to do was eliminate this safety net for him and making his opt out riskier, hoping that this risk would keep him from opting out. so in a way he still got to test his market value, found out he wasn't getting more than what the yanks were offering, and got to go back for a two mil raise and another 7 years of security--i think that gives him the edge here

i hear that but boras always had a bad rep anyway. true no team could meet their demands but what happened to the yanks strong stance about how a-rod wouldn't be a yankee if he opted out and didn't sign an extension?

nah, boras wins. he still gets paid, and he successfully called the yankees bluff.

another thing is that i think he'll be useless in the lions gameplan, they rarely run the ball and he's the type of guy who needs a lot of rushes to get going. last week they ran kevin jones four times, even four times we still gotta keep an eye on him cuz he can break one of those 4 rushes for a big gain, but duckett? at best he'll get 20 yards if he gets 4 rushes

he's not the same player he used to be though, plus he's a lot better as a complimentary back

and obviously plax's situation has gotten worse, it was pretty obvious that the gameplan was to target the hell out of shockey. it's not like coughlin woke up one day last week and said "hey, you know i haven't gone to shockey enough over the past 3.5 years, let's switch it up even though we've won 6 in a row". if you ask me i dont think the coaching staff planned on plax being anymore than a decoy last week and maybe if the game wasn't so important he might not have played at all

i've sprained my ankle a million times too, sometimes i could walk on it the next day, other times i needed crutches for a few days and the swelling took weeks to go down. now imagine playing football once a week and getting hit while running on that ankle--it's certainly going to slow down your recovery.

of course they are still in the a-rod running. they currently don't have a right handed power bat and boras wasn't stupid enough to seriously believe that the yanks would let a 27 mil subsidy be the breaking point in a 300+ million dollar contract