mike1011

Not a problem? Usually when your star player averages under 4 ypc you have a problem. Outside of stats whenever your star RB doesn't make critical 1st downs in tight situations you have a problem. We have a problem and it's lack of heart by McGahee. I didn't see Travis smiling with the opposing D after players like Willis. Don't you miss the games where the RB just owns the field like Thurman could do? I guess mediocrity isn't a problem to you, it is to me.

I don't he should have run, but the A-Train should have.

Not only was the offense great today, JP is progressing. I disagree with his decision to pass on 4th and 1, and the last 2 plays, but we are going forward offensively. Can you say that under the past 3 O-Coord? Didn't think so. We keep Fairchild, JP is better and the team on O is better.

VY is a monster, great player, and hats off to him. I was so impressed with JP in the loss I'm just happy we have a great future season coming up if we can shore up the lines just a little more. I was cautiously optimistic, but now I can see I'm a BILLever in JP. Give the coach and the staff a great thumbs up on the season. We should be proud of Marv and Jauron for sticking things out. Triplett needs to go and we overpaid the dude.

Regardless, Henry played with fire as he always did. The one play called back on holding where he ran 50 yards makes me realize what a huge mistake it was getting rid of him. We need him back if it's possible. Travis has heart, McGahee just doesn't unless it's the Jets.

Spikes is older than Peterson, older than Cowart, and he is done. Sorry boys and girls he is DONE. The fork has been inserted and he needs to take a major paycut. Seeing him stop one play and celebrating isn't the same thing as watching 80% of all running calls on his side of the field and him looking below average.

Vilma is a good LB because he's fast. Colvin at one point was blazing fast and a great LB. Seau was fast and explosive (now older). No one gets better from the worst injury an athlete can have that relies on speed. Seeing TKO become Eddie Robinson is heart-breaking, but a reality. Can he comeback? No, he can't. Can he be 80% of what he was? Sure, but that 20% is the difference between him and all 2nd and 3rd stringers in the league. He was in the top 10% of all outside LB, and at 80% he's slightly below average. The NFL is very fast.

Which was my point that there are no outside linebackers outside of 30 who are any good. Fletch is decent too past 30, but not outside linebackers. Consider that Spikes and Co had 380+ yards in rushing against them the past 2 games who much more intensity equals tackles and stopping the run? If they can't stop the run eventually you just lose more than you win. It doesn't matter if you high kick, scream, dance, etc. if the teams are running all over you. Spikes is a non-factor in a game, an actual liability with no great outside LB outside of 30, and certainly no LB who was anything past 30 after a major injury in the entire history of the NFL. His career is over and Posey is a better option right now. Why not advocate Posey? Because he sucked. If TKO stays here it's for slightly over vet minimum nothing more. What does he bring to the table as far as defense is concerned other than allowing the running game to smash right through us?

I find it humorous that people will bash those with other views as pushing their views on others as they push their overly zealous anti-religious bigotry as a way of stopping what they perceive as bigotry. It's really a pathetic ruse of vice masked as virtue. Please, don't kid yourselves. You would want people like myself caged or dead so you could push your ideas on me. Many of your self-proclaimed beliefs in freedom of speech are hypocrisy personified. It gets funnier when someone like myself admits to being Christian they get the labels of PC world thrown at them without ever discussing ideas as right or wrong, truth or error. Discussions based on ideas are usually degraded by the incessant labeling of ideas rather than discussing them, then best of all we are re-told that we are bigoted because they don't want to discuss the ideas. On a Catholic note I'm told by anti-religious personae on the board that I follow a religion of child molesters, while at the same time these same people are attempting to defend homosexuality. Over 80% of cover-up in the sexual abuse scandal are homosexual acts with young men, not children. So they defend homosexuality as a way of life, and then decry homosexual acts to minors that certainly isn't pedophilia with children, but homosexual acts with young men in adolescence. Well which is it should I defend these men (which I don't) or decry their actions and their lifestyle? The people who castigate people like myself know we would want no Catholic priests who are homosexuals (which would solve the vast majority of the crisis as stats show), and yet they defend those choices when it doesn't pertain to Catholic priests who have lost their vocations as the Church teaches such acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered. The absence of logic is not only stiffling, but it shows my adversaries bias towards a rational discussion which would immediate degrade to labels again. Do you people realize why I stopped responding to the idiocy by some on this board? I can't engage too much in intelligent conversation (although X. Benedict was thoughtful in his responses) when rationality is lacking. Some of you guys really need to step away and think about your illogical conclusions that are hypocritical before you continue to confusedly believe you have some in-roads in being informed and consistent.

How many impact linebackers exist that doesn't play MLB 31 or older? None, and many aren't going over the worst possible injury to an athlete's career on a job made on quickness. So add a horrendous injury and the fact that he's going to be back at 31 with no good/great LBs at 31 and all you have is a big cap hit. If he does come back out of some freak genetic display do you really think he is going to play out his salary at his performance? I don't see anyone really believing that. TKO was great, now he's sub-par. I hope he destroys the league, I just don't see it with my reality glasses on.

I believe New England went D-line 3 years in a row early this decade. It looks like a good move to me to go D-Line again with or without McCargo. I would love to have a great WR too, but they are better to pick up in FA.

I'd love to give him time but will he take a pay-cut to compensate for his lack of playmaking? Enough to keep Clements? I know we will be way under the cap, but with enough money we could easily keep Clements or Assante Samuel, someone decent on the right side of the O-line, grab GOOD depth at tackle (offense and defense) and more depth at LB. The new crop of FAs will get more money with more to spend so talking about the big cap space might all go bye-bye if FAs go up significantly in a buyer's market.

Peterson was hurt over a year ago when he was 25 or 26 is now 28. Spikes is 30 and at 30 no matter what you aren't as good. Unless he found the fountain of youth he's in trouble. You don't bounce back at 30 in a position which requires speed.

You mean a guy with a big trap, nothing to back it up with anymore, and a feeling that he deserves a starting role while playing like a back-up? That sounds more demoralizing that revitalizing. Can you explain what you think he would provide to the team if he was a starter and played poorly?

When do you see anyone complaining here? I'm saying we should cautious enthusiasm before there is any anointing. Sure his stats weren't great but he finished well, but by no means would I consider that a good performance. My hope as a fan is that he's at least a 190-200 yards a game with a 2:1 TD to Int ratio with a minimum of 24 TDs a year. That's not Brees-like #s, it's asking for a good stable aspect of the game which is the most important on the offense. Call me crazy for not going nuts over watching a rather pedestrian performance, although much better so he is progressing. I'm happy for the progress, but certainly not sold.