In retrospect Nate and marrone did a good job realizing Whaley stuck them with garbage with Manuel, getting an uninspired Orton to become serviceable after missing camp , getting a win out of Thad and an almost win from tuell.
It only became the textbook coaching decision to run the clock down to 4 seconds, rather than reserve time for a bad snap, AFTER the music city miracle.
According to Bill Polian Kay Stephenson never had a chance because he inhereted an aging roster. Per Polian Stephenson refused to trade away his top draft choices for veteran players who may have saved his job.
If I was a defensive coordinator Allen would be keeping me up at night. You have to defend every inch of the field and watch for him taking off. And that's this year.
I think he's pretty bad but I like him more than Van. The thing that irritated me about Van is that when the chips were down with the team he was just as emotional and despondent as me which dragged me down even more. The one strength that Murph has is that when things go bad on the field he remains relatively emotionally neutral (maybe he just doesn't care as much). His neutrality is a therapeutic reminder that it's just a game.
From what I see our new franchise quarterback is already inspiring fear in the opposition in part because of his arm in part because of his escapability and in part because he is totally unpredictable. He has no tendencies.
The Falcons win last year was the greatest win in 23 seasons. That was a great Falcons team which we had no business beating and it lead to the playoffs. This would.not be as big because this team cannot go to the playoffs.
The "showcase Marshawn Lynch game" with Lynch, Fred, Spiller all on the roster. Gave him the ball most of the first half. Should have known to keep the future hall of famer the way he was gaining yards all in his own as he always did.
-No vet QB on roster to help in film room
-Culley the QB coach that specializes in WRs
-Daboll no track record of developing a QB
-Horrible oline in front of him
-Not good weapons around him
-Defense minded Head Coach
When you look at everything he's up against it kind of remarkable that he has looked as decent as he has!
They would have to do something that shocked the sensibilities rising to level of benching a franchise QB riding a 210 game start streak to see what you have in a journeyman backup.
Having an opening day QB roster with a total of 2 NFL starts may be enough.
The worst part is that, after Wade publicly called out the refs, they let him know who's boss again with a vengeance in the playoff game against the dolphins.