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Who are you rooting for in Super Bowl 60?

  • New England Patriots

    Votes: 11 22.0%

  • Seattle Seahawks

    Votes: 25 50.0%

  • Team State Farm

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • The Meteor

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .




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DSP's Tax Lawyer said:




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I think it's quite clear at this point that, between how McDermott was fired, Beane was promoted, and then Pegula making an ass out of himself in a legendary press conference, whoever gets that job is going to be the go-to scapegoat when they can't get that below-mid roster to a Super Bowl.
Buffalo will most likely have to settle for a retread who the league has left on read for a while, or Brian Daboll.
 
Absolutego said:
I think it's quite clear at this point that, between how McDermott was fired, Beane was promoted, and then Pegula making an ass out of himself in a legendary press conference, whoever gets that job is going to be the go-to scapegoat when they can't get that below-mid roster to a Super Bowl.
Buffalo will most likely have to settle for a retread who the league has left on read for a while, or Brian Daboll.
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They need a proven offensive mind who has a track record of taking good QBs far in the league. They might have to wait until he gets done with the Super Bowl, but Josh McDaniels is ready for his third chance
 
Time for me to beat the dead horse that is the Jets but using a different approach, let's look at human buttfumble and fucking idiot Mark Sanchez stats

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In at least one way, he was not the worst QB they ever had as he is their qb with the most wins in the post seasons (first pic)
 
Dildo_SHwaggins said:
It also annoys me because teams should be looking for every advantage they can to win. Weather, special teams, home field, etc. Ignoring Special teams because it isn't sexy is retarded. I don't care how smart or well manicured the head coaches haircut is, ignoring special teams can be the difference between champions and runner-ups.
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IIRC, Bill Belichick favored hiring left-handed (footed?) punters. The football would spin opposite what most returners are used to seeing. That unfamiliarity could lead to more fumbled punts.
 
GrammaNazi said:
IIRC, Bill Belichick favored hiring left-handed (footed?) punters. The football would spin opposite what most returners are used to seeing. That unfamiliarity could lead to more fumbled punts.
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I fucking hate the Patriots and Tom Brady with every fiber of my being, but I can't help but like and respect Bill Belichick, that guy thought of every aspect of the game and built one of the most solid franchises ever on every side of the ball. He is probably my favorite Coach behind Bill Cowher, Chuck Noll, and John Madden (though I mostly just like John Madden for his personality, I never watched any games he coached tbh).
 
GrammaNazi said:
IIRC, Bill Belichick favored hiring left-handed (footed?) punters. The football would spin opposite what most returners are used to seeing. That unfamiliarity could lead to more fumbled punts.
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Belichick has the perfect kind of Football Autism you'd like to see in a coach, though the second he was also made GM that autism really handicapped his personnel decisions. The less said about the latter years, his UNC run, or his girlfriend the better, they just show the poor decision making, but if you were to give Bill a podcast and just let him talk about his football knowledge he'd be great.

Least he had Brady to cover the warts for 20 years.

Edit to avoid double post - the Bills are promoting their OC Joe Brady to Head Coach.
 
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Dildo_SHwaggins said:
Special teams is actually important. If the rams had a competent Special teams unit, they could be going to the superbowl instead of the seahawks. It always annoys me when GMs or coaches ignore Special teams and cut players or get cheap to save a few bucks. As we've seen, it can mean the difference from going to the superbowl and getting the 1 seed and going home early. Shaheed has been a difference maker for the seahawks and probably won't get the proper recognition, but was critical for this run.

It also annoys me because teams should be looking for every advantage they can to win. Weather, special teams, home field, etc. Ignoring Special teams because it isn't sexy is retarded. I don't care how smart or well manicured the head coaches haircut is, ignoring special teams can be the difference between champions and runner-ups.
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As a Packers fan, it's legitimately been about 2 full decades of horrendous special teams. For whatever reason it's simply not an organizational priority even though it's cost them numerous playoff games. They just don't give a fuck.
 
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
Belichick has the perfect kind of Football Autism you'd like to see in a coach, though the second he was also made GM that autism really handicapped his personnel decisions. The less said about the latter years, his UNC run, or his girlfriend the better, they just show the poor decision making, but if you were to give Bill a podcast and just let him talk about his football knowledge he'd be great.

Least he had Brady to cover the warts for 20 years.

Edit to avoid double post - the Bills are promoting their OC Joe Brady to Head Coach.
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Belichick was GM from the beginning in New England (demanding that post-Cleveland was a sticking point that kept the Jets from hiring him outright and a huge factor in why he thought his "promotion" to HC under Parcells was ceremonial, leading to his resignation), and revolutionized how teams used that role almost as much as he affected NFL defensive scheming. There was a whole phenomenon of him letting players go a year too early instead of a year too late, picking up scraps from other teams with character issues, and phenomenal drafting led by his high school friend Ernie Adams.

Then Ernie retired, and Bill was never the same. Teams had cottoned on to his desire to get rid of a player being a red flag, so he wasn't getting the hauls for trading players away he used to. There was increasing distrust from Kraft regarding him letting franchise players walk away to still be ok elsewhere instead of retiring as career Patriots, fueled especially by his repeated attempts to get rid of Brady and Gronk retiring rather than being exiled to the Matt Patricia Lions. And the game had just passed him by. He wasn't able to scout the way he had been, couldn't figure out how to square young players with his team's needs, and the draft busts steadily began to pile up.

Also lmao Bills, have fun with that.
 
CFC-12 said:
Something something that one Jon Bois video that detailed how the 2010 Chargers had both the #1 offense and #1 defense but their special teams unit was so unbelievably terrible that they went 9-7 and missed the playoffs entirely.

For some reason this seems to be one of those lessons that never really sinks in with management, especially when at least once a year some team gets bounced from the playoffs solely due to a special teams fuckup of some kind.
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As a browns fan, back when we had Phil Dawson and Josh cribs, we had probably rhe top special teams. But our offense and defense sucked so we kept losing.
 
Joe Brady joins an Illustrious list of head coaches promoted from coordinator to head coach on the same after a firing. With Joe joining greats like Jason Garrett, Ben McAdoo, Dirk Koetter, Freddie Kitchens, Dennis Allen, and Antonio Piece, I dont know what could go wrong for the Bills.
 
Bill Belichek will not be a first ballot hall of famer.

If you needed any more evidence that the voters are retarded, this should do it. Imagine not putting the greatest coach of the modern era who dominated the league for 20+ years.
 
Dildo_SHwaggins said:
Bill Belichek will not be a first ballot hall of famer.

If you needed any more evidence that the voters are retarded, this should do it. Imagine not putting the greatest coach of the modern era who dominated the league for 20+ years.
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I'm sorry but this is fucking ridiculous and a disservice to Canton. And this isn't even coming from a place of being a Patriots fan/Boston sports homer. The MLB hall is already a clown show of an institution, do the NFL really want to take this path too? Like what is even the argument for keeping him out? Belichick apparently thinks it's due to politics and tbh he's probably not even wrong. We've seen it happen in the MLB, and I don't doubt that it happens in other sports too. If it's about cheating, then does that keep Brady out? That would never happen in a million years. No voter can satisfactorily justify this.
 
Dildo_SHwaggins said:
Bill Belichek will not be a first ballot hall of famer.

If you needed any more evidence that the voters are retarded, this should do it. Imagine not putting the greatest coach of the modern era who dominated the league for 20+ years.
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That's fucking insane. Belichick is easily a top 5 head coach all time, not having him in on the first ballot is a disgrace.
 
Absolute nonsense. He coached two entirely separate Pats dynasties with only one player in common. He had an arguable case as a coordinator alone from his time with the Giants.
You want to go by stats? He's got them. You want to go by hardware? Bet your ass he's got them. Want to go by "can't tell the story of football without them"? Try and tell me about the 2000's or 2010's and not mention Belichick.

I bet you, dollars to donuts, Kraft is pulling some insider politics to keep Belichick out until he's in first, because that man's pettiness knows no bounds.
 
Robert Kraft is a dumdum as proven by the fact he threw Belicheck under the bus
 
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