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Graham was a joke of a kicker when we had him. Guys do develop and sometimes you can't afford to wait around.

Well, that's pretty much exactly how I judge a GM (along with how well he puts a staff together). I don't see it like some others who use the corporate "trickle down" analogy where everything stems to the top man. The Coaches have their own responsibilities that don't fall back to the GM, as do the players. I am not one who would say any GM is a failure because he chose one draft pick over an equally rated draft pick at the time, in any round. Hindsight should not factor into how one can fairly evaluate a GM.

Actually he's right. Yes they do. It's a good way to draw attention to a throw to force the hand of the ref a little bit. It's not fullproof but works more often than not if the infraction is blatant. Rich Ganno is an example of a QB who used this strategy often.

I agree that this would be a good way to ease him into the fold, and help the team at the same time.

I agree with just about all points Matty T. I am a MW supporter generally but was also dissapointed by his play yesterday. Although I found it very diffucult to "key on him" yesterday due to the nature of the television broadcast. I was trying to determine if the TE was at all involved in some of the mistakes I was attributing to MW just to be fair because honestly he's played pretty well THIS season up until yesterday.

I'd hesitate to say the Line can't support being a running team when we pass the ball so frequently inside the red zone. At this point I'd much rather see run,run, run , FG than any od the plays they've been running.

Bingo! Exactly.

Well said...

It's too bad that because of all the other implosions going on, it will go under the Radar that our sometimes maligned DE Schoebel (sp?) had a monster game against the best LT in football.

Well said...

As I remember it the rants were very much the same as they are today. He's always spoken as if he knows better, as if he knows item one about football. When it comes down to it, he doesn't. He enjoys the losing and feels his opinions are a way of "talking straight" to the fans, and that every comment from OBD is a spin job. He hated Kelly for god's sake...

You obviously weren't familiar with Sullivan during the "glory days" of the early nineties. He sounded much the same as he does today and had the same unfounded yet consistent negative opinions on teams that were going 13-3.

The whole staff ...TD, Modrak, Ralph, Coaches, and scouts collectively do the picking. I see nobody coming out next year that I'd be more excited about than JP in the QB department, especially with his mobility. Oh, and TD will be here next year like it or not.

That pick that we "don't have" next year is JP Losman, with a year in the system under our coaches, as opposed to some rookie QB fresh out of college.

Kids I tell ya....

He showed a lot today given the situation. His break away from Ray Lewis was eye-opening. Still needs to improve in pass Protect and catching but is no worse than TH in those areas. I still think we have 2 good rb's but Willis is slowly but surely going to take the majority of snaps.

Go root for Bill Cowher...

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Unfortunately for us, while JP's elusiveness will surely benefit this team, his other deficiencies as a rook in the NFL will just do us in in other ways. Of course this all may not matter in a couple weeks when he's ready to go. I like the idea of Drew between the 20's and JP in the redzone. Atleast try it out...

So we are now expecting the '85 Bears defense? The team gives up one drive in the entire game and they are part of the sucking?

No , he said that regarding the over the middle pass to Evans in the Endzone, not the corner route. Re: the corner route you refer to, he said he should have thrown the ball through the back of the endzone.

Ok three then if indeed it didn't go off of Evan's hands. Ouch...

The ball was not high, it was right in his hands. That aside, Drew has been very poor today regardless...

It's been Drew's fault on 2 of the four picks today. Two is bad enough without getting "help" from your teammates.

I certainly would have liked to see more runs inside the ten than they have been calling. The Ravens must be just daring us to throw and were not good enough to produce.