BobbyC81

I was just reading about Rex. After the early success with 9-7 and 11-5 seasons with wildcard berths and getting to the AFC Championship, the Jets began the 2011 season (Rex's third) with a 2-3 record leading to discontent within their clubhouse. Apparently, they deviated from the run heavy philosophy and began to pass more and the offense struggled. Hopefully he learned from this.

So is the Combine to some extent. Why have offensive linemen running the 40? The Combine would tell you that Chris Borland is too short, too slow and his arms are too short to be the prototype MLB. Your eyes tell you he just makes plays and that's what he did in his rookie year with the Niners. He should turn out to be a steal in the 3rd round. Compare that to our illiustrious Aaron Maybin who had a lot of eyepopping numbers but was a good example of "Look like Tarzan, play like Jane."

I remember that game vs the Colts, but I remember it as he was interviewed before the game and said "neither of these teams are going to make the playoffs." The Colts won that game and made the playoffs. I think, as Marrone did, the head coach should be positive about the chances of making the playoffs until mathematically eliminated.

Yeah, the Niners had LaMichael James and hardly used him. They have another small back in Lindsey Hunter but he wasn't used as a scatback. It was up-the-middle or off-tackle like CJ has been used. Gore was the guy and now they also have Carlos Hyde.

Did anyone catch Aaron Rodgers signal calls in their game yesterday? On one possession he was calling out "New York! Bozo!" Unfortunately, that made me think of Rex.

I wonder if hiring Roman would have him interested in joining the Bills.

Kapernick's play regressed this year under Roman/Harbaugh, which isn't a good sign.

For what reasons do you like Roman?? He was almost as puzzling as a play-caller as Hackett/Marrone. With an established solid running game, the Niners kept switching to a spread formation which failed due to the O-Line's pass protection struggles and Kapernick's indecisiveness and poor decisions. Their offense struggled as much, if not more than the Bills. The Bills scored 343 points vs Niners 306. I know they have excellent defenses in their division but that's only 6 games. The Niners passing game was 30th in the league (the Bills were 18th) despite a better QB and arguably a better corps of receivers in Boldin, Crabtree, Vernon Davis, Stevie and Brandon Lloyd. And remember the questionable play calling at the end of the Niners recent Super Bowl. It could've been Harbaugh but Roman was the OC. I think Roman would be a bad hire.

It would be more like paying a fee for the right to buy a car.

Maybe they got sick of the confusion of two Dave Smith's?

I've heard several interviews with coaches, like on ESPN radio, who say they tell their players to not look at that stuff and get worked up about it. So, Marrone does it himself?

That's just wrong. I think the coordinator positions are another level and should be recognized as such.

I can't believe with the list this long that they're not considering Gary Kubiak. Oh wait, he was coaching this past week and is ineligible to be interviewed this week, too. Of course, we'll be rooting for the Ravens to beat the Pats. They should put a moratorium on interviewing coaches until after the Super Bowl to make it fair for everyone. College football should do something similar. No interviewing until after January 1st. It's stupid when these coaches take another job when their school is going to a bowl game and either they just leave or the school tells them to get lost. The kids then have to play with an assistant coach as head coach.

So what was Polian expected to come in and do? A proper consultant evaluation would be to determine if they had the right head coach. Sounds like he wouldn't have done that.

Could it be possible that Orton retired because he didn't like playing for Marrone & Hackett? Would be a shame if he did and now Marrone is gone. I recall in one of his earlier games, Marrone was sending out the punt team on 4th down and Orton waved them off (not that we haven't seen that before). Then I think it was the Detroit game where Orton just took over on the last drive. Maybe he got fed up with the play-calling? Thoughts?

Ravens couldn't run the ball? Undersized journeyman Justin Forsett ran for 1266 yards!!

Kubiak, I like it. He had success and took Houston to the playoffs until they tailed off last year. He did very well with Baltimore Offense this year. The Ravens scored 409 pts in the tough AFC North. Only a handful of teams scored more.

I agree. I expect a statement soon like "all Bills assistant coaches are free to pursue other opportunities"

Assistant coaches and coordinators picked by the prior head coach are rarely kept by thenew head coach. They want to bring in their own guys. An oddity is DLine coach Tomsula for the Niners. He was there before Harbaugh and now is being mentioned as a candidate as Harbaugh's replacement, along with the D Coord. Fangio.

The Redskins traded all of those picks to the Rams to get RG3.

Mike Iupati!! You might want to look at the stats. Leveon Bell was 2nd on the Steelers with 83 receptions.

So is that what a "manhertz " is, a measure of tight ends? How many manhertz os Gronk?

Bradford's stats in the 2 seasons he stayed healthy: Year Games Yards Comp% TDs INTs QB Rating 2010 (1st) 16 3512 60.0 18 15 76.5 2012 (3rd) 16 3702 59.5 21 13 82.6 Unfortunately, only 17 games played in the other 3 seasons. Unrelated comment: Does anyone know how to insert/create a good table in this editor? Geesh! WYS not = WYG

Fred Jackson's OT run with the stiff arm. They should've just given him the touchdown for that effort.

So, our 4th went to Cleveland in Watkins deal. We got a 4th from SF for SJ and then traded it to Philly for Brown?