NFL Divisional Round Thread: Colts? Chargers? Vikings? Saints? Come Out & Play!

The Vikings will welcome him back, too

 

i loathe the cowboys as much as anybody. that said, what childress/vikes/favre did on that last td drive was horsespit. case closed.

you either run the ball or take a knee there. passing into the end zone is running it up. the maniac linebacker brooking overreacted but his sensibilities were correct.

it was horse, horse, horsespit. biggest shame is no cowboy was close enough to favre to take him out at the knees. how would that have played for childress?

GO SAINTS! 8) 8) 8)

 

This isn't high school. These are professional adults. You shouldn't have to stop playing just to keep from hurting their feelings.

 

Brookings followed up on a play like a cheap-shot asshole just a few plays prior to the Favre garnish. Suspect that was the match that lit that particular fuse. Explains everything.

 

As a Vikes fan, my issue is that it was Favre throwing the ball. Should have been TJack or Sage, with Chester Taylor behind him. Don't get Favre or AP hurt.

Then again, we're talking about Brad Childress, who called a timeout with 4 seconds left and a 10-point deficit against the Steelers. Naturally, Favre got drilled into the ground, throwing shoulder first, on the last snap. So standard logic doesn't really apply.

 

Well, we see how well the kicker switch from Folk to Suisham helped the Cowboys Sunday...

If you let him go, you need to have some idea that who you're bringing in is as good or close. Guy has been one of the best in the regular season; not so good in the postseason, and horrible yesterday where's he essentially cost his team the season. You drop him to pick up Jason Elam, for example? Any team with a top flight kicker isn't going to be interested in a trade.

And he better not have blamed field conditions. He just gakked on that last one. Never had a chance--guess it's hard to kick with both hands wrapped around your throat. Just like Rackers last week: the moment was too big and you could see it on his face before he ever left the sideline.

 

You're 100 percent wrong about that. Jerry has a gigantic tolerance for mediocrity, as long as everyone is talking about him. If he's getting his face on TV, being quoted in the papers and discussed on talk radio -- and making money -- he's fine. In fact, Jerry goes out of his way to justify mediocrity by reminding us of his three Super Bowl titles of the 1990s. He is forever making excuses for mediocre performances, telling anyone who will listen that his team is this close to another dynasty, and he should know.

As much as people in Dallas like to say Jerry cares so much about winning, I'm firmly convinced winning is way down on his list of priorities. He'd rather maximize publicity by doing things his way, and if anyone says he's wrong, well, just look at these rings.

That's why Wade isn't going anywhere. Not because he works cheap, but because he's had a modicum of success -- two division titles and a playoff win, allowing Jerry to say, `See? It's working better than Parcells!' -- and he allows Jerry to remain the center of attention. Think Cowher would let Jerry announce changes in the starting lineup? Jerry went that route with Parcells and because he didn't win a title has dismissed it as a failed experiment. He can now say his way works just as well.

This way Wade runs the defense and Garrett runs the offense and Jerry remains the face and voice of the franchise, the guy who stars in TV commercials and the one reporters go to over the head coach when they really want a comment about the team.

Jerry is also ridiculously loyal and he hates to admit mistakes -- look at all the washed up players he's signed to too-long-term contracts. Firing Wade now would be admitting he made a mistake, when Jerry doesn't believe he has.

Unless Wade completely crashes and burns -- to the Campoesque tune of 5-11 or so -- he's staying.

 

Should've gone for the 2-point conversion just to rub it in even more, followed by an onside kick, followed by telling every member of the Cowboys' families to fuck off, then pissed on the side of the team bus.

 

Re: NFL Divisional Round Thread: Colts? Chargers? Vikings? Saints? Come Out & Pl

I swear I don't know why teams even bother paying for players. Everything the teams do or don't do hangs on the coaches.

 

Which is why they are in such a tough spot. As great as the guy is in the regular season, who wants a kicker who can't handle kicking in the playoffs?

 

I've always contended it's not my job to keep me from scoring -- it's your job.

Don't like me running up the score? Play better.

 

bullspit. i don't give a spit what level of play you're talking about -- you win with class or you don't.

childress opted not to. was it his "right?" certainly. as it is every observer's right to judge him/his team for doing so. i'm sure he'll get over it, but childress will forever be seen as a p.o.s. by me and many others who were turned off by putting up another td.

this is how it works: you kick the fg or take thre knee, showing the 'boys you've called off the dogs. you choose to take the knee, then it's on phillips to take a knee or two to end the game in acknowledgment. case closed.

cripes, minny ran the first three downs before the fourth-and-three, right? if you choose not to kick the fg or take a knee, you run the ball on fourth down, tops. throwing the ball in the endzone? TOTAL HORSESPIT.