Week 2 NFL thread

One of the more surprising hires in recent memory. I was surprised by the Marrone hiring as well, but I'll admit I knew very little about the guy.

It will be interesting if anything comes from these reports that Freeman wants to be traded.

 

Reid and Smith are the perfect combo to take a team from bad to good.

Good to Super Bowl is a whole other story, but not one the Chiefs have to concern themselves with for a while.

 

I'd take Tebow over the Freeman I watched yesterday. He's not accurate. He locks into receivers. He doesn't get the ball out on time. He looks disinterested.

Not sure what's the chicken or the egg here. Did Schiano plot to have him not named captain because of his attitude, or did Freeman's attitude go into the shitter because of Schiano?

 

The NFC East stinks.

 

I'd agree that there is no serious playoff contender in the NFC East, but they're all kind of equally mediocre.

 

Yeah, he wins eight games this season (quite possible) he looks like a genius.

 

Raheem Morris wasn't exactly a hire that was clear either. 10 years ago hiring a pro DC was seen as the preferable way to go, but lately taking a successful college HC is the thing to do. Schiano wasn't a successful college HC, like Harbaugh, Carroll and Kelly.

 

Chip Kelly says yeah, maybe moving toward the tying field goal at warp speed and leaving the Chargers 1:51 with the ball wasn't the best idea.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-eagles/Chip-Kelly-does-not-rule-out-lineuppersonnel-changes-.html

You'll have to excuse him, Washington State and Cal never went the length of the field quite so easily.

 

Raheem was a terrible hire. A total reach...

 

Here's my question. Tampa's up 14-13 with the ball around the Saints 30 facing a 4th and 1 with a minute left on a blustery day. Saints out of timeouts. Kick a field goal or go for it?

Bucs kicked the field goal, missed, then Brees completes 3 straight passes to set up a chip shot game-winner. If I'm Schiano, I'd have gone for it. The odds on the field goal weren't great considering the conditions. You gave up the 7 yards on the miss. And if you get the first down and you're in victory formation, which is a better outcome than the made field goal which leaves the Bucs up 17-13, but with time on the clock for Brees to do something after Sproles (perhaps) gets a chance to run back the kickoff).

Would you have kicked?

 

Hindsight is 20-20, but no quarterback in the NFL can go down the field faster than Brees. I would have done everything possible to keep the ball out of his hands.

 

Yeah, with one of the best running backs in the league and him already having 144 yards on the day, I'm thinking I can get the yard. Wow. I didn't know that happened, Red Zone had to cut that game off because of NBC's exclusive window. But that's a pretty bad call.

They wouldn't even have salted the game away with the FG either. Saints got all the way down inside the 10 anyway, right?