If ESPN feels his comments will hurt their business they should fire him for damaging their reporting credibility, but he should not be fired for having a stupid opinion.
The article definition is not close to right, simply saying above or below 500 is not the proper definition since an 7-9 team is not bad. I would say above 650 and below 350 which those games do not happen as often back to back. I would say the raiders vs Jets was a trap game and it almost happened.
The biggest change to me from 30 years ago is teams seem more willing to tailor the offense around the player (LJ, Murray) vs telling the player to learn the system. I think old school coaches were so afraid of appearing dumb they would never do anything out of the ordinary.
He appears to be a good coach during the week with game planning and getting guys ready. His in game adjustments seem to be where he has to improve but it is hard to rip him too hard seeing what he did last year, sometimes you just don't have the horses.
Truly my dream scenario is where Josh plays a fist half puts up 5 TDs against the Pat's* and then Dolphins and we pull all starters at half. I understand the wanting to stay in rhythm but I would rather have rest for our important players. Coach McD might have to make some decisions and make one of us seem smart
The two big questions to me are: does Brown show up for the playoffs and is Mackenzie ready to be our reciever to take the top off defenses? If brown ends the year with less than 500 yards including playoffs I think he is likely to be gone
Your points are all valid but I think our coaching staff did him a huge disservice. Literally his best back to back games were his first two. That tells me they weakened his strengths without improving his good points.
The only one of those QBs who had a chance of being a good pro, not Josh good, was EJ and he was hurt greatly by Marrone. The rest of them were packing and could only become career backups or middling at best.
You do not get to the level of a Daboll without wanting to be the top guy. I can say though that he won't jump at just any position unless the fit is good most likely. I am hoping the Chargers don't offer because I think that team is set up to be good for some time with a good coach.
I am more concerned about power running teams than KC at the moment. I believe our biggest weakness is the DT despite the fact they played great last night because I think last night was largely based on Mullen and his weak arm.
To the original question part of QBR is situational concepts so a fumble on the 5 is worse than a fumble on the 50 and slicing and dicing when up 17 is not equal to doing it while down 3. I am not sure how they value your elements but they definitely do.
If we win the next two games and the Phins drop one of them we can clinch the division before going to the Pat's*. If that occurs do we rest our stars and just accept a 4 seed? I think we play full out at NE and rest against the Phins because I think seeding is of little importance this year unless you are the 1 seed due to little fans
I can happily state I called him a round peg in a square hole kind of player earlier in this thread. He is not the same style as Milano but when used differently he can be a big asset.
I don't what to make of those guys that have us at 4 since I don't think we have played to that level yet but I definitely think the next few weeks will show a lot