49er Fan

If Brady is truly the football version of Milli Vanilli there has to be more proof than "they win too many games to not be cheating"

I used to say similar things about Aikman, Favre and Simms.-

There has been no better defense in the entire league from 2004-2012 than Pittsburgh. Don't waste your time looking up stats, there's no doubt about it.

Roethlisberger has benefited from probably the best defense in the league throughout his entire career. Also a top running game. There is more to this than rings.

You obviously are a huge fan of his - vs. GB Roehlisberger's rating was 77.4. Picked off twice, including one for a TD. Rodgers completely outplayed him and will easily surpass him as far as legacy is concerned.

And I would say that he played very well in one Super Bowl but poorly in the other.

I was just responding to the point "[ben] has played HUGE in the big games, especially the Super Bowls."

Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson aren't better than Dan Marino and Jim Kelly....

Not against Seattle. The Steelers won in spite of Roehlisberger's play (9/21, 123 yards, 2 INTs). He did rush 7 times for 28 yards and a TD, but he was putrid in that game and they probably deserved to lose. Antwaan Randle-El threw the game-winning TD.

Arians is a top candidate, also look at Mike McCoy from Denver

No it's not! Last year was - see Griffin III, Robert; Luck, Andrew, Wilson, Russell. Tannehill and Foles are decent. Even Weeden is ok. You guys are drafting Te'o.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" Week 15: San Francisco @ New England Seattle @ Buffalo

49ers post-Mariucci: 2003 - 7-9 (Erickson) 2004 - 2-14 (Erickson) 2005 - 4-12 (Nolan) 2006 - 7-9 (Nolan) 2007 - 5-11 (Nolan) 2008 - 7-9 (Nolan, Singletary) 2009 - 8-8 (Singletary) 2010 - 6-10 (Singletary, Tomsula) 2011 - Harbaugh - 13-3 2012 - Harbaugh - 9-3 Head coach can make a big difference. Franchise QBs often become champs at some point (Brady, E. Manning, P. Manning, Rodgers, Brees). But the easiest way to win in the NFL is to build a strong defensive team. Current NY Giants. Baltimore 2000. Tampa Bay 2002. New England did it before Brady was a veteran. All you need is a handful of high-impact players. SF now has a top defense with Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis, and Navarro Bowman - where just a couple of years ago the unit was terrible. The current offense isn't great, but they usually score enough to win because the defense is so dominating. Bruce Smith and Buffalo's defensive unit was very similar for the Bills in the late 80s. Those great Buffalo teams were very good defensively, then became great teams overall with Kelly, Thomas, Reed, etc.

P. Manning is great but he will never be generally seen as great as Brady and possibly Brees, Rodgers, and even his own brother unless he wins another Super Bowl. And - no QB has ever led two different teams to Super Bowl victories.

I agree with this - seems like a very high number of kickers today can power kick-offs out of the end zone very easily. To me there's something wrong when the ball is kicked so well that it touches down past the goal-post. Just keep moving it back and back further until only 1 or 2 kickers in the entire league can actually reach the end zone. You could tweak the other rules like kicking out of bounds results in the ball at the 50, same with recovering an on-side kick.

Matt Ryan is good but he has outstanding weapons - Solid two-pronged running attack with Turner / Rodgers.....Jones and White at WR.....Tony G. can not only still play - he's lighting it up!

Against New Orleans in the playoffs last year Smith was elite. 4 touchdowns. Probably had a bounty on his head too.

It's an interesting QB situation at SF. Many are saying that Smith will not get his job back unless the 49ers lose a game that Kaepernick starts - but I think that Harbaugh could name Smith the starter Week 15 at New England.

I've lived in Manhattan, New York for the past 6 years.. Lived in DC/NoVa for 12 years before that. I should probably add New Hampshire - they still don't tax booze there right? And they have ski mountains, just not as good as VT.

Curious about the red/blue state breakdown. Red for me would be 2 red states - Texas (Austin) and South Carolina (Charleston). Blue - 14 + DC - Washington (Seattle), Oregon, California, Maryland (Montgomery County) Connecticut (southern), New York (New York), Colorado, Illinois (Chicago), DC, Vermont, Virginia (northern), Maine, Hawaii, New Jersey (northern) Red (2012): Idaho Montana Utah Arizona Wyoming North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas Missouri Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Tennessee West Virginia Kentucky Indiana West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alaska Blue (2012): Washington Oregon California Nevada Colorado New Mexico Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Maryland Ohio Florida Virginia Washington, DC Pennsylvania Delaware New York New Jersey Rhode Island Connecticut Vermont Massachusetts New Hampshire Maine Hawaii

I commend keepthefaith for not using the follwing words in his post: "Kenyan", "Muslim", "Communist", "Socialist", "Anti-Christ". But in addition to the myriad social issues that Dems (and Obama) espouse, many of us also believe that supply-side ecomonics is inherently faulty.

Fox News is consistently the #1 cable news network in the country (owned by Rupert Murdoch). The Wall Street Journal is the #1 home-delivered newspaper in the country (also owned by Rupert Murdoch). What more do you want?

Maude Flanders? Oh, wait... Helen Lovejoy

I thought it was only 47%?

"Baby boom" birth dates are not "facts" - they are quite open to debate by generational scholars - not just using the U.S. Census Bureau dates.