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I think he is #1 material.... He is noted as having better hands than Harrison on the Colts.

my link over there in case you want to visit... http://www.packerchatters.com/forums/index...?showtopic=2543

Deadfish added: "I think MS is is very well organized, so he always has his team prepared. I also think he is fair with his players and therefore has their respect. I don't know if he makes the greatest game day decisions, but I think this is more of a cases where he's taken chances and things haven't worked out."

TEA wrote over at packerchatters.com: "I think Sherman might be a good fit for the Bills. He certainly has demonstrated his ability to put together a decent staff of assistants, manage the heck out of practice schedules and players, and inspire them enough at just the right time to pull out play-off experiences. I have to be honest that letting Sherman go at this time was the right thing for the Packers to do. Not having any inside sources, I speculate that Sherman had created such a close, comfortable "family" atmosphere amongst his loyal players that he just couldn't come down hard on ones who were continually making the same mistakes over and over, leading to declining success. I think Sherman the GM left Sherman the HC with too many holes and not enough quality depth and when we suffered all those injuries, our season spiraled downward to the 4-12 mess we got this year. I have no way of knowing what sort of conditioning program Rubin designed and Sherman approved, but for years we have suffered multiple nagging injuries like pulled groins and hamstrings, leaving several players unable to practice from early in TC to the start of the regular season. Sherman always "erred on the side of caution" leaving the players and units with lack of reps to be sharp until 4-6 games into the season. Our new coaching staff must see a problem too as they have fired our strength and conditioning coach Sherman has a great December record but needed to after getting off to several sluggish starts. Several on this board have been critical of Sherman's game time decisions and lack of ability to make adjustments, as well as not having his teams ready to match the intensity of their opponents. I agree with those views. Sherman is a high character guy, a great citizen and public figure for your community, but I just lost confidence that he could ever out coach his opponents and win the big games with the chips on the table. Apparantly Ted Thompson thought the same thing, at least at this time in Packer history. I hope Sherman gets a new start somewhere so we can see if we were right or wrong. Best of luck with whoever your new coach is."

well, that is a tad off the mark. If anything, it is the complete opposite. JP has struggled while in the pocket, but has made plays on the run with his arm and his feet nearly every game.

Let us know the scoop on Mike and what he did and did not do for your organization...

or a pisspot.

they need to employ the "pornography" rule... You don't know what the definition is, but you know it when you see it. That was an INT and any rule that states otherwise is a bad one.

actually, they have the technology now. Remember the "3D" view of the game that CBS displayed a couple of years ago? They could have swung the angle around and showed the ball's trajectory going out of bounds.

It is also a "fact" that winning the Lotto is a 50/50 proposition. Either you win it or you don't... Think about that for awhile and maybe the truth will hit you and we can put this tired thread out of its misery.

Bzzzzt. He was drafted in 2003.

I couldn't recognize Terry Miller if he sliced off the heads of two people and was spotted speeding down the highway in a pimped out Hummer...

what is PARTICULARLY asinine about this latest installment is that when 2 drafted 1st RD QB's face each other - only one can be the winner. So, Manning and Palmer are out, by virtue of Ben getting in... yet someone was foolish enough to make a conclusion that the Plummer/Brady outcome dictates how successful 1st RD QB's perform.... Just give it up already....

Another example of a non sequitur argument. Just because a player experiences success on another team doesn't mean he was playing well for the previous team.

what is asinine about your post Joe is that John Fox wasn't that "hot" of a candidate when he was hired. He had some decent success with the Giants, but he was a dirt poor man's Marvin Lewis. No one was clamoring for this guy when he came to interview here. Lewis was the man on the minds of Bills fans. I suspect if Fox was hired we would have had a ton of pissers and moaners bitching about the 2nd tier coach we settled for.

that should be more than a feeling... that should be outrage. 2 TOs and you don't call one there? WTF? That is inexcusable. It was FAR too important a play to not think about it.

I'm not going there in this thread... Like I said, I would like someone to make a reasonable case why Cowher isn't a HoF caliber coach especially if you contrast his qualifications with Marv's. I found it interesting that this article from Pitt. was so definitive about him NOT being worthy (despite 130 wins and averaging 10 wins per season, 8 division titles, 1 SB appearance... all with one of the most frugal owners in the league). I suppose my lack of ball washing for Marv means I will forever receive knee-jerk responses from people, but I guess I'll have to deal with it.

Man, you can't read for crap can you?

What I find interesting is the comment that he falls shy of greatness and therefore would miss the HoF if voted today. I would like to see the argument laid out on why he would fail to make it yet Marv Levy deserved it (without question in some people's opinion). Sure, Marv has a few more AFC chamionships under his belt, but Cowher has done it longer, has had continued success, and has done it, most importantly IMHO, with different sets of players.... I could almost guarantee that some sports writer will make the argument - if we let Marv in you have to let Bill in...

what on earth are you talking about?

etc... plus, has a small blurb about TD, Halsett. http://www.pghsports.com/2005-Issues/psr0512/05120101.html There is always that age old question about the value of the Marty's and Cowher's of the world and if they are better than having someone unknown, but with a better hope of winning a championship.

Yeah, that's it... I know it is good fun to rip on people for any reason, valid or not, but I happen to think there was enough wrong with this organization that no one should feel compelled to grasp for straws.

Interesting, because recent events lead me to believe that he lies through his teeth every time he talks. Just from the last week: Ralph says TD resigned, but everyone else says fired. Ralph says he didn't know what was going on, but GW says he called "every 10 minutes". Ralph says he has no idea what he pays the coaches, but yet TD paid bottom of the barrell prices with someone else's money. Now, I'm not going to rip on RW, but there has been so much conflicting info that it appears to me that it is RW that has been less than forthcoming than his counterparts in those situations.

The argument being that he hired GW and MM specifically because they were "weak coaches" that would allow him to stick his nose in every thing. Now, I probably misspoke when I said "never"... 5 years is a long time and I easily missed 10's of thousands of posts. However, when this subject IS broached - the "weak coach" theory has been associated with job security, not meddling tendencies.