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Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll sure seem to have made the right decisions with their QB situations this year. If it wasn't for Bruce Arians I'd say Carroll was coach of the year.

 helgrenze wrote:
Flacco has done something no other QB in NFL history has....
He has won a playoff game in each of his first five years as a starter.
Even Brady didn't do that.

And Flacco is not even an elite QB.

So say Tom Brady and Peyton Manning:

Warning NSFW Do not open if you are opposed to cuss words. (But it is hilarious).

 DeathReaper wrote:

 helgrenze wrote:
Flacco has done something no other QB in NFL history has....
He has won a playoff game in each of his first five years as a starter.
Even Brady didn't do that.

And Flacco is not even an elite QB.

So say Tom Brady and Peyton Manning:

Warning NSFW Do not open if you are opposed to cuss words. (But it is hilarious).

Spoiler:

http://profootballmock.com/nfl-qbs-on-facebook-divisional-roundup/

These have been great throughout the season

Also @MDS, at least the seahawks also crashed out this week so there's no fighting

EDIT:

That video blew up today today. I love the Harbaugh I WANT IT NOW! But I want cake now, I want cake.

Yeah, for some reason it seems to really be what he's like
I also like orange peanuts

So, there is a report coming out of Philly that Chip Kelly has been hired as the coach of the Eagles.

I can't find anything on Googles, but local radio station has said Chris Mortensen reported and it was apparently confirmed by a Jeff McClaine from a Philly newspaper.

Wow good for Philly. They have the personel to thrive under his fast break system.

And I want to get back to that bad lip reading video cause lord i can't stop watching it.

Yah I'm white! *high five*

Stop doing heroine!!!

Chancetragedy wrote:
Wow good for Philly. They have the personel to thrive under his fast break system.

And I want to get back to that bad lip reading video cause lord i can't stop watching it.

Yah I'm white! *high five*

Stop doing heroine!!!

I hope he comes to the NFL and falls flat on his face.

Confirmed: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000127099/article/chip-kelly-will-be-new-philadelphia-eagles-head-coach

THe Bears have also signed the CFL coach as head and the Saints' Interim Interim Coach as their Offensive Co-Ordinater/ Offensive line Coach

 Alfndrate wrote:

Chancetragedy wrote:
Wow good for Philly. They have the personel to thrive under his fast break system.

And I want to get back to that bad lip reading video cause lord i can't stop watching it.

Yah I'm white! *high five*

Stop doing heroine!!!

I hope he comes to the NFL and falls flat on his face.

Confirmed: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000127099/article/chip-kelly-will-be-new-philadelphia-eagles-head-coach

Alf as a Philly fan and follower of their team. What's the deal with their front office? Lots of reports of "shakiness" or whatever that means. Or whatever that meant for the reid firing. What's your opinion on them?

Chancetragedy wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

Chancetragedy wrote:
Wow good for Philly. They have the personel to thrive under his fast break system.

And I want to get back to that bad lip reading video cause lord i can't stop watching it.

Yah I'm white! *high five*

Stop doing heroine!!!

I hope he comes to the NFL and falls flat on his face.

Confirmed: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000127099/article/chip-kelly-will-be-new-philadelphia-eagles-head-coach

Alf as a Philly fan and follower of their team. What's the deal with their front office? Lots of reports of "shakiness" or whatever that means. Or whatever that meant for the reid firing. What's your opinion on them?

With Philly's front office? Idk, we've had a lot of "dealings" with the run off from the Eagle's Cheesesteak if you will. We've picked up Banner, who is looking at Ray Farmer for the GM/in charge of player personnel, who Banner drafted as a linebacker back in the day, and a few other things. I've got nothing against the Eagles. My ire is simply for the fact that Chip Kelly was wishy washy on his dealings with the NFL last year and this year. There was a student that tweeted out that just signed up to Oregon after Kelly visited him in his home 2 days ago, and now is probably locked in to Oregon even though Kelly isn't there.

I don't know much about the Philly front office other wise I are Cleveland fan.

Apparently Manti Te'o's story may not be completely true
http://deadspin.com/5976517/?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Yah alf that is pretty shady about Kelly I didn't think of it that way. Most everything I heard was praising eagles FO for being persistent. But Kelly is kind of scummy in that regard.

And that manti te'o story is not even believable.... Holy shoot.

Just looked up ticket prices to a Blues/Blackhawks game




....safe to say I won't be going to one of those game. Even the low-profile games are priced super high.

EDIT - Just noticed this thread was for NFL....

Chancetragedy wrote:
Yah alf that is pretty shady about Kelly I didn't think of it that way. Most everything I heard was praising eagles FO for being persistent. But Kelly is kind of scummy in that regard.

And that manti te'o story is not even believable.... Holy shoot.

apparently ND have confirmed the rumours, the main question being now if Manti was in on it or not

Chancetragedy wrote:
Yah alf that is pretty shady about Kelly I didn't think of it that way. Most everything I heard was praising eagles FO for being persistent. But Kelly is kind of scummy in that regard.

And that manti te'o story is not even believable.... Holy shoot.

It's fine, it just sucks that Cleveland sports media is going to spend the next two to three years comparing Rob Chudzinski and Chip Kelly until one of them gets fired, or Chip resigns and runs back to Oregon. I wonder if he only accepted the position to escape the possible sanctions that Oregon is facing.

 mega_bassist wrote:
Just looked up ticket prices to a Blues/Blackhawks game




....safe to say I won't be going to one of those game. Even the low-profile games are priced super high.

Yeah... no kidding, I just checked to. The Scottstrade Center will be rocking this year for sure!

Here's the link to the article confirming the rumour about Manti
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wsbt-report-claims-manti-teo-dead-girlfriend-a-hoax-20130116,0,5074911.story?track=rss

Manti and ND come out saying it was all a hoax wtf... This story is unfreakingbelievable...

Chancetragedy wrote:
Manti and ND come out saying it was all a hoax wtf... This story is unfreakingbelievable...

Well... ND do have fanatical fanslll

You ask me, T'eo was the victim of a catfishing hoax, but he obviously invented a lot of lies to perpetuate that hoax. Maybe he was just embarrassed to admit he had a "relationship" with some person he never actually met. So he made up the bits about them meeting at a Stanford game, meeting back home, meeting at all, etc.


Regarding the Eagles FO -- from someone who's not a fan but lives in the area -- the issue there is that their GM is this dweeby guy without any football background. That doesn't mean he can't do the job, but he doesn't seem to get much respect from people inside football. His free agent buying binge (remember the "dream team"?) two years ago was fairly disastrous, so he doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

I had to google catfishing hoax. People are jerks.

Go Texans!

I should also add that I think it's very possible the girl was a cover for a relationship between T'eo and Tuiasosopo (sp?). That would explain many things.

So, while Philly is enjoying the spotlight with the Chip Kelly hire, Browns have hired Norv Turner as offensive coordinator, Mike Sullivan as Offensive Line Coach, Scott Turner (Norv's Son) as Receivers Coach, kept on two of the old coaches from the previous staff.

Chicago Bears hire Mark Trestman, do any of the bears fans have any opinions on him? He used to work for the Browns, went to the CFL and has won two championships up there for Montreal.

Any other teams making hires?

 Alfndrate wrote:
So, while Philly is enjoying the spotlight with the Chip Kelly hire, Browns have hired Norv Turner as offensive coordinator, Mike Sullivan as Offensive Line Coach, Scott Turner (Norv's Son) as Receivers Coach, kept on two of the old coaches from the previous staff.

Chicago Bears hire Mark Trestman, do any of the bears fans have any opinions on him? He used to work for the Browns, went to the CFL and has won two championships up there for Montreal.

Any other teams making hires?

Rams waiting on to hire new DC.

 Alfndrate wrote:
So, while Philly is enjoying the spotlight with the Chip Kelly hire, Browns have hired Norv Turner as offensive coordinator, Mike Sullivan as Offensive Line Coach, Scott Turner (Norv's Son) as Receivers Coach, kept on two of the old coaches from the previous staff.

Chicago Bears hire Mark Trestman, do any of the bears fans have any opinions on him? He used to work for the Browns, went to the CFL and has won two championships up there for Montreal.

Any other teams making hires?

I looked up Trestman on wiki upon the announcement, his NFL/CFL career has always featured good-to-great offensive play, along with the two championships he won the division 4 out of 5 years he was there.
Here's hoping for a good draft and improved O-Line play

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
So, while Philly is enjoying the spotlight with the Chip Kelly hire, Browns have hired Norv Turner as offensive coordinator, Mike Sullivan as Offensive Line Coach, Scott Turner (Norv's Son) as Receivers Coach, kept on two of the old coaches from the previous staff.

Chicago Bears hire Mark Trestman, do any of the bears fans have any opinions on him? He used to work for the Browns, went to the CFL and has won two championships up there for Montreal.

Any other teams making hires?

I looked up Trestman on wiki upon the announcement, his NFL/CFL career has always featured good-to-great offensive play, along with the two championships he won the division 4 out of 5 years he was there.
Here's hoping for a good draft and improved O-Line play

he was on Cleveland's radar, and had one or two interviews... I hope ya'll do well, again I'm only hoping that Chip Kelly fails lol

The Bears have also signed the Cowboys Special teams coach as their assistant head coach and Brandon Marshall has came out in favour of Trestman's signing

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:
The Bears have also signed the Cowboys Special teams coach as their assistant head coach and Brandon Marshall has came out in favour of Trestman's signing

Based on the posts that I've made, the ones that Hlaine has made, etc... Dakkanauts, what do you think of your favorite team's off season coaching changes?

I'm decently happy with the Browns so far, I mean it can't be worse than Shermur. Also, it would be weird if he got the Panthers Offensive Coordinator job. Browns former head coach is the replacement of his replacement.

So, I just had a weird realization today... I know, on some personal level, at least 2 players in the NFL. Defensive Lineman for the Carolina Panthers and of the Ravens, Haruki Nakamura, and Offensive Tackle for the San Fransisco 49ers, Alex Boone.

Haruki and Boone went to St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio. I went to St. Eds my freshman year (while those two were juniors and seniors). But Alex Boone also went to my grade school, and was two years ahead of me. I remember shadowing him and some of his friends at St. Eds when I was in 8th grade, we were in his biology class, and he ate a bit of a sea sponge.

It just seems weird that I have such anecdotes about pro football players. I'm sure people that went to high school with other superstars like LeBron James, etc... feel the same way.