NFL
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Mike Tomlin now 17 seasons as a head coach and never had a losing season.
He had a lot of years with Big Ben and bunch of other talent, but the last few years the steelers have had very little talent and he's kept wringing out every last bit of performance. He's low(ish) key one of the best head coaches in the league.
Ironically, that success probably hurts the steelers. With league average coaching they'd be looking at top 10 or even top 5 draft picks and might be able to get more talent in.
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hey there is a sport where the regular season means even less than the NBA
Ladies and Gentlemen i give you college football, where teams play 13 games to decide who gets to join Alabama in the final 4. Win all your games? Fuck you, we decided they weren't good enough, so a team that lost gets in.
Florida State got fucked this year. Won out, but those games weren't good enough. And they lost their starting QB (ignoring they won their conference championship game without said QB).
The whole thing is a disgusting sham.
@mariner4life said in NFL:
Florida State got fucked this year. Won out, but those games weren't good enough. And they lost their starting QB (ignoring they won their conference championship game without said QB).
The whole thing is a disgusting sham.
Florida State got fucked by Georgia 63-3 in 5th vs 6th.
Whilst Bowl games outside of the semi finals are a waste of time as so many players opt out it's hard not to think the Committee got it right in the end (at least in terms of leaving Florida State out - Georgia might not be too impressed) - two cracking semi finals.
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YOu have to love the NFL season, 17 games means there are very few times when any regular season game means fuck all.
Sure, a couple of teams got to sit everybody today, but they had already done the hard work. But there were a lot of games today that meant everything. The jags losing suddenly put them out and a couple of teams in.The final game of the season is pretty big for both Buffalo and Miami. For the Bills, win and they host the Steelers. Lose and it's a rematch at Miami. For the Dolphins, win and its host the Bills, lose and its off to KC.
Niners and Ravens get next week off.
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YOu have to love the NFL season, 17 games means there are very few times when any regular season game means fuck all.
Sure, a couple of teams got to sit everybody today, but they had already done the hard work. But there were a lot of games today that meant everything. The jags losing suddenly put them out and a couple of teams in.The final game of the season is pretty big for both Buffalo and Miami. For the Bills, win and they host the Steelers. Lose and it's a rematch at Miami. For the Dolphins, win and its host the Bills, lose and its off to KC.
Niners and Ravens get next week off.
@mariner4life been a good fun year. DAZN came to the party for me - their app worked really well considering.
Draft order largely set now - Bears pick twice in the top 10.
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And tomorrow is Black Monday, where a bunch of coaches start looking for new jobs.
Biggest name being thrown around is Belicheck, which just shows that even legends have a shelf life when the wins dry up.Obviously Las Vegas, the Chargers, and Carolina already fired their coaches, but who else makes a move? Washington, Chicago, maybe Atlanta? The jags losing today might have got their coach sacked too.
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And tomorrow is Black Monday, where a bunch of coaches start looking for new jobs.
Biggest name being thrown around is Belicheck, which just shows that even legends have a shelf life when the wins dry up.Obviously Las Vegas, the Chargers, and Carolina already fired their coaches, but who else makes a move? Washington, Chicago, maybe Atlanta? The jags losing today might have got their coach sacked too.
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Rivera from Washington the only other (and super predictable) casualty. Stays of execution for everyone else.
Interesting rumours from Pittsburg that Tomlin isn't in the gun, but may "take some time off"
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Titans fire their head coach Mike Vrabel.
Huge fall from grace.
Vrabel will suddenly become an option for these other teams (Patriots immediately come to mind given his connections)
@KiwiMurph he's a good coach. Rate him highly. Not surprised patriots interested
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Vrabel is a good coach, and that's a terrible firing by the Titans.
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Titans fire their head coach Mike Vrabel.
Huge fall from grace.
Vrabel will suddenly become an option for these other teams (Patriots immediately come to mind given his connections)
@KiwiMurph said in NFL:
Titans fire their head coach Mike Vrabel.
Huge fall from grace.
Vrabel will suddenly become an option for these other teams (Patriots immediately come to mind given his connections)
Panic firing. I'd laugh if Vrabel went to NE, and Belichick went to Tennessee
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i read a few things that suggest it wasn't really coaching performance, it was not seeing eye yo eye with the GM about the team's immediate future. GM wanted to trade and bring in draft capital, coach wanted to keep players in a win-now type arrangement.
in that case probably fair, you need united purpose in a league with that little room for error
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i read a few things that suggest it wasn't really coaching performance, it was not seeing eye yo eye with the GM about the team's immediate future. GM wanted to trade and bring in draft capital, coach wanted to keep players in a win-now type arrangement.
in that case probably fair, you need united purpose in a league with that little room for error
@mariner4life He got a bit shafted by his GMs in his time.
They trade away AJ Brown
They drop a huge contract on Tannehill
Now they don't want to compete.
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that's big news in Seattle. Pete, for all his energy, is pretty old, and the Seahawks need a rebuild, so it's a good move i think.
Of all the open gigs, Seattle looks good. Chargers look good on paper. Raiders wouldn't be bad either.
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Pete Carroll out as head coach of the Seahawks.
Going to be quite the fight for big name coaching candidates
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Rumours at the Eagles won't go away either, he could be coaching for his job this week
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that's big news in Seattle. Pete, for all his energy, is pretty old, and the Seahawks need a rebuild, so it's a good move i think.
Of all the open gigs, Seattle looks good. Chargers look good on paper. Raiders wouldn't be bad either.
@mariner4life said in NFL:
Of all the open gigs, Seattle looks good. Chargers look good on paper. Raiders wouldn't be bad either.
Washington isn't bad either.
New owners, number 2 overall pick, 5 top 100 draft picks, most cap space in the League.
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Nick Saban has retired. With Jim Harbaugh almost certainly leaving that's the 2 biggest names in College coaching gone.
It's an interesting what-if for Saban's NFL career if the Dolphins doctor had cleared Drew Brees - instead Brees goes to the Saints and Payton is still coaching in the NFL today.
