Geezer wrote:Besides, where did I say that Peyton doesn't love playing football?
That was the implication I got when you said "Peyton seems to be in love with his arm, his fame, and his stats. Eli, to me, just seems to be a guy who loves to play."
i bow to you, eltinator. that was an excellent example.
peyt came into the league about the same time as another famous-nfl-qb's-son, brian griese. after watching a season or two of both play, i told my friends that i felt both were overrated. and they were.
BUT, peyt worked hard to get better whereas brian did not. that's why i have a lot of respect for manning. it looks like brian might actually grow into a pretty good qb under gruden. but he wasted so many years being an immature brat that it's gonna take quite a bit to get me to see him in the same light as peyt.
eltinator wrote:Also he's done miracles for my fantasy team too
and y'know, he's on my OPPONENT'S fantasy team, so that's speaking volumes. now, i'm second-guessing why i'm rooting for the guy!
This just in, I heartily approve of hiring Mike Singletary as the linebackers coach. Back in the 1980s, he was one of the most dominant players in the NFL... but what most impressed me about Singletary was his interviews, where his intellectual side came across as well as his work ethic. :applaud:
-PCM
Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary was hired to be the San Francisco 49ers' assistant head coach and linebackers coach on Friday.
Singletary, who spent 12 NFL seasons with the Chicago Bears, spent the last two seasons as a linebackers coach with the Baltimore Ravens in his first coaching job. He worked closely with Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Nolan, who was named the 49ers' coach on Wednesday.
Singletary, 46, played for the Bears from 1981-92 and was named the NFL's top defensive player in 1985 and 1988. After finishing his career with 1,488 tackles, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.
Singletary is the first coach hired by Nolan for the 49ers, who had the NFL's worst record this season at 2-14. San Francisco's strength is its linebacking corps, which features former All-Pro Julian Peterson, Derek Smith, leading tackler Jeff Ulbrich and Jamie Winborn.
pcmodem wrote:but what most impressed me about Singletary was his interviews, where his intellectual side came across as well as his work ethic. :applaud:
Yeah, I remember some of his interviews as well. He's quite well-spoken. :D
eltinator wrote:just draft him next season and you won't have to face him
ha! well, it's not quite that easy. we play a semi-keeper. guess who he'll be keeping? :shamefulcry: (yeah, i know - sux to be me.)
hey, that was a pretty good move by nolan (hiring singletary). i had a great deal of respect for him as a player, and i believe he said that football was as much a mental game as it was a physical one (and he showed it by how much time he spent on game film). i think he'll be an excellent assistant coach.
I think the Mike Singletary hire was a great move.
Here was a guy who was considered too small, and too slow to play MLB even in college. And a lot of pro teams really shyed away from him because he didn't fit the computer profile for linebackers.
But as he said in an interview earlier this week, he made up his mind early on that no one would ever outwork him, and no one would ever outsmart him.
And no one ever did.
If he can get his players to work as hard as he did, and understand the game half as well as he did... the Niner's LB core could get real scary real fast.
Ah, today's the Hula Bowl. Or as fans are starting to call it... the Who? Bowl?
eltinator wrote:Semi-keeper league eh? Haven't tried a fantasy football like that. So basically you have to draft for the future too. More strategy
yeah, to me, it's a bit more fun. even if this season is dead, you can always trade for next season - but we instigated rules to stop people from outright dumping their players.
Geez: i hope the 9er lb corps gets good. ulbrich is a former uh warrior!
as for the who-la bowl. you might be right. it's held here in hawaii (on maui), and i didn't even watch it. :doh:
yeah...what could Oakland possibly give Minnesota? Jerry Porter and Charles Woodsen? Randy Moss is the best receiver in the game but I don't think Oakland is willing to make that trade.
bmwracer wrote:Hmm, I was watching the early morning sports show on KCBS today, and they reported some rumor about Randy Moss wants out of Minnesota...
Destination??
Oakland.
You serious?!?! Oh hec yea!!! :hehe: :hehe:
I think if a trade were to happen Woodson would definately be on the table. I wouldn't mind a Porter and Woodson swap for Moss and maybe some picks or something since Oakland also has Gabriel and a very talented wideout in Ronald Curry.
I think if a trade were to happen Woodson would definately be on the table. I wouldn't mind a Porter and Woodson swap for Moss and maybe some picks or something since Oakland also has Gabriel and a very talented wideout in Ronald Curry.
Just a rumor they were talking about... No validation.
Ugh. The Pats won, 41-27.
Rothlisberger looked pretty much the rookie today and the vaunted Pittsburgh D couldn't stop Brady... :bleh:
Now I've gotta root for the Eagles to derail the Patriots party train.
Wow Eagles won! I guess that'll make my friend at the sushi bar pretty happy since he's a TO fan. Maybe that means more free sushi for me to eat too! :hehe: :hehe:
Congrats to the Pats also, they're amazing. Now who's going to win it all this year?
congrats to the eagles and pats. falcons really disappointed me. not like i really wanted the falcons to go, but the eagles looked so sloppy in their latest wins, that they were barely edging by. they really got lucky in the playoffs. unfortunately, minn and atl played so bad, they really deserved to lose.
eltinator wrote:Now who's going to win it all this year?
i'm going with my original pick - new england. but i really think it's going to be a good game. if terrell can come back, we'll see how healthy he is. since it's terrell's first sb, and corey dillon's first sb, i much rather see corey get it. (even though they're both on my fantasy team. :hehe: )
Oh c'mon...you can't possibly say that Atlanta did a bad job. I mean offensively, yes, but defensively, no. If the refs happened to read the rulebooks and realize there is a penalty called "offensive holding" then the game would have been more balanced. I'm saying this on behalf of both teams. I believe there wasn't a single "offensive holding" call in the game. People might just think this is just another rant, but you have to realize that the Eagles offensive line isn't the greatest. It's great, but not so great that it can hold off a 4 to 6-man rush and give McNabb almost 10 seconds to throw the ball. This was very frequent in the game and I know that in the playoffs they let some penalties slide. But some of this is just ridiculous. Get Ed Hockuli(sp?) in there! He's a triple threat! He's a lawyer, he's ripped, and he refs for the NFL. You can't go wrong with that.
All you thumb fans get no love in pittsburg. actually, i was hoping the steelers would win myself. Oh well, i think this will be the last SB trip for the NE dynasty. With weis already gone and crennel going to the browns, i have no prob with the patriots last SB win, cause philly won't stop them.
Don't get me wrong, by no means i'm a pats fan. I just think the nfc has nothing on the afc.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, there were two NFL refs that used to crack us up...
One was "The Smiling Ref", who was always smiling at the end of explaining the penalty... that ref was Jerry Seaman (spelling?), who later became the head referee of the NFL.
The other was "The Hanging Ref", who always sounded angry and outraged when announcing a penalty. But I don't know what his name was.
Hut, Hut, HIKE!
-PCM
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