Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Not really! It's just that there's a contingent that want Beane and McD gone and think the team will be better if that happens. Anytime they can find even the slightest thing to pile on and rip either of them, it's a feeding frenzy. Like a couple people posted when was the last time Ingram played, but lets make this into a big deal!

Think the players at the bottom of the roster understand, it's a business and these are the tactics used every week by every team. If it were Sept and some other team wanted him and told him, he'd be active every week and play alot, he'd maybe prefer going there. But at this point in the year, unless it were another team wit ha good chance of going deep into playoffs, my guess is he'll have no problem coming back here. In the case of Slay that could have been Philly, but oh well

So for all the comments regarding how poor Coleman is, from article in todays Athletic regarding #3 overall pick Abdul Carter, article also talked about some of the things LT did back in the day and apparently Parcells allowed. Article states Daboll tended to look the other way with Carter, but the guy who took over for him Carter had to sit out the opening series of the Giants’ Week 11 loss to the Packers, after he was asleep in the team facility at the time of the walk-through, Dan reported. (Carter denied the charge, saying on social media he was undergoing recovery, not sleeping.) Just two weeks later, Carter was again benched, this time for the entire first quarter of Monday’s loss to the Patriots. The reason? He missed a special teams meeting. After the game, Carter said, “S— happens,” before later apologizing for letting his teammates down. Taylor used to miss time for other reasons. One Sunday night, he drove home from playing golf, saw the stadium lights on and realized he was missing his team’s game. “I thought it was a Monday night game,” Taylor told James Brown. “I (told Parcells), don’t blame me. Blame the foursome in front of me. They were so slow.” When his Giants defensive coordinator, Bill Belichick, told head coach Bill Parcells about Taylor’s tardiness, Parcells asked, “Well, why’d you start the meeting before he got there?”

James Harrisons response was even worse. He said Tomlin is a good coach, but not a great coach.

Voted the most boring SB winning team of all time in my book!

Shula did with two back in the early 70's but do agree with your point overall.

Should probably add Montana and Bradshaw to that list, though they are kind of "old school" era. But agree with you overall.

I do agree on the first part. Second part not so sure that Tomlin isn't considered damaged goods at this point. Seems teams all want the new shiny OC innovators and Tomlin (or McD) doesn't fit that mold. The one exception being the Raiders.

So you want another guy that should have been fired years back. As read in a number of places, the game may have passed Tomlin by. Even when he had Big Ben, he only won SB one time. Excluding Allen's rookie year, McD has never had a losing season either when he had a legit QB so why would Tomlin be an upgrade? I'd keep McD forever if my only other choice was Tomlin!

Yeah I saw LA and just thought Rams. As far as I'm concerned Chargers are the San Diego Chargers!

So the only problem with that is Allen likes the scramble plays. Recall when Diggs first arrived, in an interview Allen stated: "I told Diggs 3 things, catch the ball when I throw it to you, and get open, (Don't recall the 3rd thing he told him" Many QB's want the WR to run precise routes, Allen doesn't seem to care about that nearly as much. Maybe as Allen has gotten older he does care more, but don't think he's at the level of Brady, or Burrow in that regard.

I lived in Section V for over 30 years, left around 2008. Can recall many years the regular season games started Labor Day and weekend ended around Columbus Day weekend, then sectionals started and usually the state championship was over Thanksgiving weekend, think they played like 7 regular season games. Live in NC now and the season there starts a week earlier and most years the state championship would end the weekend before Christmas. Same in Florida and I'm sure Texas follows a similar schedule. Sounds like NY has extended their season some from what was played when i left in 2008, but still can't compete wit these other states in length of the season and the more games you play, over time, players improve.

Weren't drives 6 and 7 the fumble and the Int, so not many snaps those two series anyway?

Not likely as that is the one week where both CBS and Fox have a 4:25 game that day and CBS has Green Bay at Denver so would not want to give that up. Fox doesn't have the best choice of 4:25 games, but doubt that CBS would give it up and the Sunday night game involves Dallas who is always a big draw so not likely NBC would want to give that one up. Actually CBS has 3 very good early 1:00 games that day, Bills @ NE, Rams @ Chiefs, and Balt @ Bengals so could just as easily argue in favor of flexing the other two also. Don't know if they flex to Monday night? That's kind of a dud, Steelers at Miami, but even there, Steelers draw well on TV too.

Dec 28th around 11:00 PM near or at the conclusion of the Sunday night game. They used to announce it at halftime, but lately it's been at the end of the game. But if I were to guess, I'd say 1:00 Sunday. The only way it could be later would be if Chargers and Bills are fighting for last playoff spot, the nmay want game to go up against Chargers 4:00 start time. Looking ahead at schedule I wonder if the NE at Balt game will be flexed to 4:25 on Dec 21st? Would think that's a better game than Steelers at Lions and Vegas at Houston??

I think of the two I'd sign Edwards first as McGovern has looked kind of shaky a few times and got beat clean. I do wonder if he's playing hurt, if so then my opinion would change. I think they may try to keep one as not sure they want so much churn on the O-line. Dawkins also has looked a bit shaky so may be looking in 2027 to shed him so for that reason would prefer one change per year.

A week of practicing with the starters helps alot

I do think all this depth however is one one reason they won't resign both McGovern and Edwards in the off season. They have too many young backups on rookie contracts to take the spot. I'm thinking only one of the two will be signed.

Yeah from watching the video, sounds like it was intentional, but not in an attempt to be dirty, Allen was just trying to get him off him. I suppose it's possible at the same instant Allen extended his knee, Heyward maybe fell forward, so can see that hurting more. But if Allen is on the bottom, hard to see how he can inflict much energy.

With the Int. plus the TD return Benford has a good shot at AFC defensive player of the week unless someone else has a monster game.

Am I recalling right, didn't Bass always miss to the right, and Prater always misses to the left.

Even if that happens, NE wins division based on record in division

I'd give it to the two tackles!

Don't think the torch is being passed. Think it's just the league needs to buy a larger house to house all the good to great QB's today. I'm old enough to remember back in the 60's where almost every team had a good to decent QB. I suppose it helped that only about half the number of teams compared to today. For whatever reason seemed like after the 83 draft, there were very few great QB's coming into the league for the next 15 years or so. Seemed like maybe college was preparing QB's differently and that didn't translate well into the NFL. Add to that teams fire coaches at the drop of a hat so very little time to properly develop a QB. The past 20 years or so mainly for the HC's sake, the plan is throw them into the deep end and see if they can swim, but unfortunately most drowned. In the past 10 years or so, maybe the college game has changed that these QB's now are better prepared and are able to stay afloat and not drown. So no torch isn't being passed, it's just that the game is more returning to where it was 50 years ago with more teams having very QB play.

Yeah and everyone here was so happy in 2023 with Bernard. He had all these fumble recoveries, think an Int or so. Recall reading one article after the season that stated Bernard is very good at making splash plays, but little elsewhere. And that article proved true over past two seasons. As for Rousseau, from an article today in the BN. Again same thing, no splash plays as in sacks so he's terrible. The only thing that's really terrible is the ability of most posters here to evaluate talent. Likely if Groot got some better help on the line the sacks would come. Greg Rousseau's win rate on pass-rush snaps (30.2%) in Weeks 9 through 12 was tied with the Packers' Micah Parson for the fourth-best mark among NFL edge rushers, according to Pro Football Focus. Rousseau's eight run stops during that span are tied for second most.