Tom
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Once so high up there......
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpag...port=NFL&id=646
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Whoops! False start!
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Giants' special teams 2nd only to Bills
Giants' special teams 2nd only to Bills
BY RICK GOSSELIN
Dallas Morning News
DALLAS - Special teams helped coach Tom Coughlin transform the Jacksonville Jaguars into an AFC power in the 1990s. Special teams are helping Coughlin turn the New York Giants into an NFC power again this decade.
During his final seven seasons in Jacksonville from 1996-2002, the Jaguars posted top-10 finishes five times in special-teams rankings compiled annually by The Dallas Morning News. The Jaguars fielded the NFL's best special teams in 1997.
Coughlin inherited a New York team in 2004 that hadn't finished in the top 10 in special teams since 1996 and hadn't been out of the 20s since 1999.
But the Giants improved from 23rd to 17th in Coughlin's first season in 2004, then vaulted all the way to No. 2 in 2005 as the Giants won their first NFC East title since their Super Bowl season in 2000.
The Giants finished with the best special teams in the NFC, second overall to the Buffalo Bills.
The league's 32 teams are ranked in 22 categories and assigned points according to their standing - one for the best, 32 for the worst. The Bills became the first repeat winner in the 16 years The News has compiled the rankings. Buffalo won with a composite score of 217, 41 1/2 better than the Giants.
New York was the only NFC team to finish in the top six. The Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers finished 13th, the Cowboys 14th.
The reconstruction of New York's kicking game actually began in 2003, a year before Coughlin's arrival, when the Giants drafted wide receivers David Tyree and Willie Ponder with sixth-round picks and signed punter Jeff Feagles in free agency.
In 2004, Coughlin hired a familiar face to coach the special teams - Mike Sweatman, who handled the kicking game for Bill Parcells in New York in the 1980s. The Giants also drafted linebacker Reggie Torbor in the fourth round.
In 2005, the Giants signed kicker Jay Feely and return specialist Chad Morton in free agency and drafted defensive end Jason Tuck in the third round. New York also signed undrafted collegians Chase Blackburn of Akron and James Butler of Georgia Tech.
Feely tied a Giants' season record with 35 field goals and finished second in the NFL in scoring with 148 points. Feagles finished eighth in the NFL with 26 punts inside the 20.
Ponder returned a kickoff for a touchdown, Morton returned a punt for a score and Tuck and Tyree blocked kicks. Blackburn, Butler and Ponder recovered fumbles in the kicking game, and Tyree was selected to the Pro Bowl as the NFC special-teams player.
Blackburn led the Giants with 22 tackles on special teams, followed by Butler and Tyree with 21 apiece and Tuck with 18.
The Bills finished in the top 10 in 13 of the 22 categories and were the only team to rank in the top 10 in the four major return categories: kickoff (first) and punt return (fifth), kickoff (fourth) and punt coverage (seventh).
The team that made the greatest improvement was the Houston Texans, who vaulted from 29th in 2004 to third in 2005. Rookie Jerome Mathis finished second in the NFL in kickoff returns with a 28.6-yard average and scored two touchdowns on his way to the Pro Bowl.
2005 NFL SPECIAL TEAMS RANKINGS
The NFL's 32 teams are ranked in 22 kicking-game categories and assigned points according to their standing (one for the best through 32 for the worst). Here are the team totals, crowning Buffalo as the special teams champion for the second consecutive season:
1. Buffalo 217
2. NY Giants 258.5
3. Houston 260.5
4. Miami 286
5. Tennessee 298.5
6. Cleveland 311
7. San Francisco 321.5
8. Jacksonville 334.4
9. Carolina 337
10. Washington 343.5
11. Chicago 358
12. Minnesota 360.5
13. Pittsburgh 362.5
14. Dallas 365
15. Atlanta 365.5
16. Cincinnati 367.5
17. St. Louis 376.5
18. Denver 379.5
19. Kansas City 380.5
19. Tampa Bay 380.5
21. New England 382.5
22. San Diego 387.5
23. Philadelphia 393.5
23. Baltimore 393.5
25. NY Jets 400
26. Oakland 406.5
27. Detroit 423.5
28. Arizona 428
29. Indianapolis 428.5
30. Seattle 429
31. New Orleans 437
32. Green Bay 442.5
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Yep.
This "all star" crew must have been officiating flag football games, or maybe bobsled racing, all year. That was one of the worst calls I have ever seen. And to make it in the Super Bowl.
Simply surreal.
Agreed.........
Who was this tool Leavy anyway? I have DTV & watch a lot of games & never heard of him.
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Heh Mr. Wonderlick ! Who pissed in your corn flakes ? And yes you can improve the value of a brand new house ! You can add hardscape, landscape, remodel the kitchen and baths with granite, or more add square footage to the house. And yes the most expensive house on the street is the hardest to sell and appraise. And yes I am a real estate professional ! I appraise houses, invest and develop real estate.
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Sweet!!!!!!!! 
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They had the idea for awhile........
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Schott is a BAD pick for a head coach. Sure, he may be able to turn the Bills around after a few years and win a few games, but Marty teams are notorious for doing one thing:
Winning a bunch of games in the regular season and - if they make the playoffs - exiting rather quickly. His teams choke in big spots. No thanks.
I'd take him over Marv, but that's about it.
Marge Schott?
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Don't let it bother you..........
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Another Pittsburgher?
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Dump the Cowbell.......
Then tell him to find a new team,
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LOL 
Iron City being pitched as Premium Beer?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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PBR on tap is actually not bad............