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Shanny wants to get fired so he can keep the remaining $$ on his contract. If he walks, he gets nothing. He's basically saying, your move Snyder.

ill tell you what, he's not a great coach anymore and I wasn't afraid of the skins when he was hired a few years ago, but he is great at playing this media game.  not sure if you guys know this, but he is very close with adam schefter dating back to the days when he was the broncos head coach and adam was a writer/reporter for one of the Denver papers before he went big time (side note: I remember one time al davis at a HOF induction was being interviewed by schefter and he made some snarky remark and wouldn't never get interviewed by him basically saying that he didn't trust him due to the broncos/raiders and shanahan/davis rivalries which I thought was hilarious).  Anyway, shanahan is really connected with ESPN so any story that espn breaks in regards to him or the skins there is a good chance it came from those 2.  with that said, with him leaking these stories about rg3/synder and how he almost quit last year is pretty brilliant if the goal is to get fired/paid.  

hes already been on other teams radar after a good start in each game hes played. i think hes the most coveted backup in the league with his age and performance so far.

if a team would give up 3 first rounders plus some for a player why wouldnt they give up a first for the guy that outplays him?

flynn was a seventh rounder who had literally one good game thats not a good comparason.

you would give him up for all the reasons you stated a few posts ago. otherwise this is a lose-lose for the skins.

not saying its a definate but its definatly best case scenario

me neither. there are def a lot of very good QBs in college right now but a lot of them will still be in college next year. bridgewater is far and away the best, but the current #2 ranked is some guy from central florida. manziel is a long shot to be a franchise qb especially with whats going on with rg3. manzel is rg3 not russel wilson or kaepernick or cam newton.

beyond that your talking the lsu qb who just tore his acl, tajh boyd fell off a cliff, aj mcarron and carr from fresno. i see at MOST 3 first round qbs and manziel is a project, but of course that will change a lot before may.

the 2 qb's im most interested to see where they get drafted is maziel and aj maccaron.  I could see both guys going in the 1st round and being over hyped like ponder, locker, gabbertt etc or both falling to say the 3rd-4th round like matt barkley did.

i think both will go in the 1st round and i really like manziel if he goes to a decent team who will play to his strengths and not force him to be a pocket passer.  if foles didn't come out of nowhere and play out his mind i would have wanted the eagles to draft him and see how he did in the read option with chips offense, i think he would have been a star.

maccaron i think will go in the middle to the end of the 1st round to a team who wants to develop a young qb but has a decent record and wont draft in the top 10 (say cardinals).

are there any other alabama starting qbs in the league?

McElroy never got a fair chance! BRODIE!!!!

yeah id put those chances around .5% no one even reported this it was just people throwing out names.

i gotta disagree about the college not mattering thou. i would say moreso than the college the QB went to the coach and his offense is whats important. there are coaches that run a pro style offense which is a very real thing in college. then there are running offenses like alabama which has produced 3 first round RBs in the past 5 years. auburn is going to the national championship game but no one is talking about their QB because they run a college offense with the read-option.

big ben, flacco, rodgers all ran pocket passing offenses. more recently tannehill and dalton ran pro style offenses too and id say they were pretty pro ready. thats why a lot of these guys shoot up draft boards. they may not put up gaudy numbers in a fast paced offense like oregon but they are accurate pocket passers which is why pro coaches love them. thats the case with blake bortles the UCF QB that mcshay has #2 over a guy like manziel.

manning was a unanomous #1 overall pick. he was more talented than any other tennesee QB of that era. BTW there have been 7 tennesee QBs that have been drafted since 87, 4 more than alabama...

excellent sunday for me yesterday.  how the eagles look like they did last night and also lose to teams like the vikings with no RB's makes me crazy sometimes.  i cant believe the skins let cowboys come back like that.  4th and goal at the 11 with the season on the line??  i told my brother when cowboys were down 9 id rather see the cowboys up cuz they seem to blow big leads.  anyway, if u told me before the season it would come down to week 17 for the 3 seed i would have taken that in a heart beat.  cant wait til next sunday night!

anyway, thanks for the steelers win, they seem to be the only team i win money on consistently.  also, i want to rub one more thing in nicks face for the final time:

2. Chip Kelly: The Broncos have the best offense in football; they average 38.2 points per game, which is comfortably ahead of the pack. In second are the Chicago Bears, who have averaged an even 29 points per game, even after their blowout loss last night. If you don't include the two games when Matt Barkley suited up and played meaningful snaps, well, the Eagles are right there. The Eagles scored 10 points in those two games; otherwise, they've averaged 31.4 points per game, which would make them the second-best offense in football. The Broncos have Peyton Manning. The Eagles have Nick Foles.

There's not anything new to say about what Kelly's doing; it's the same stuff that Chris Brown suggested before the season, mostly. There's no gimmick to it. It's just hyperefficient, and when you're playing the league's second-worst run defense, it becomes a deadly weapon. LeSean McCoy could have set the single-game rushing record if Kelly had made that a priority. Foles might have been able to do it, too.

It will be tougher in the playoffs. A lot tougher. But next week? McCoy versus the Cowboys run defense? The league's third-worst run defense? He might go for 200. Then again, that might not be enough if the new sheriff in town is showing off …

DiVa Jackson

umm imagine if companies started paying qb's to use their company name during audibles and pre-snap calls hahaha

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/10298373/2013-nfl-playoffs-omaha-steaks-mulls-offering-peyton-manning-denver-broncos-endorsement-deal-call-company-name-line-scrimmage

peyton explains omaha:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000313849/article/peyton-manning-explains-omaha-meaning-kind-of

i know nick will love this

http://grantland.com/features/grantland-fauxsclusive-roger-goodells-inbox/

i dunno how to feel about that hire. on one hand the ravens former OC was promoted to head coach and kubiak was demoted from HC to OC so they are on opposite trajectories. on the other hand the texans have had some good offenses.

i think the texans had much more talent thou. the offensive line of the texans was top 3, arian foster and ben tate > ray rice and pierce and andre and deandre > smith and jones. schaubs best years and flaccos regular season have been about a wash. lets see what kubiak can do with less.


now, for the steelers, i will say munchuck is the best possible hire (and FA aquisition) they could have ever hoped for. steelers line turned it around last year and after going 6-2 in the last 8, their offense was beastly. draft 7 defense studs and were right back to the top.

btw manziel will do more harm that good to the browns. i am honestly hoping they draft him at 4.

steelers finished second in the division last year and were on a major upswing. ravens, not so much. bengals lost all their coaches. i really really like the steelers going into next season. much more than last.

theyre getting all that **** because they hired chudzinski and fired him less than a year later. then they make a hire they obviously werent crazy about after 4 or 5 guys turned them down. they didnt give chud 2 years to turn it around and i dont see how the new guys much of an upgrade.

i do think they have talent. i wouldnt use the pro bowl as much of an indication because a few of those guys were 3rd and 4th alternates. tj ward was an alternate and is a free agent so well see if he even comes back. jordan cameron (another alternate) and alex mack ehh not huge talents there. joe haden and josh gordon are certainly beasts.

the cheifs on the other hand had studs at positions that actually matter. jamaal charles compared to the browns RB, who they dont even have. justin houston, tamba hali and eric berry are more impact players than mack, jordan cameron. plus they had the #1 overall pick, traded for a servicable QB and pettine is no andy reid.

you know how i feel about manziel. him vs. steelers twice a year. ha! bring it on.

it doesnt appear like a bad situation to come into but they didnt get any better in the coaching of FO positions and when coordinators are turning down opprotunities to become a HC you know something up.

either way the factory of sadness will F it up.

he plays center. the most invisible position on the entire football field. steelers went thru 4 of them last year and were best when an in-week FA pickup cody wallace was starting.

Giants had offensive line issues a whole, but losing Baas was a big blow. You're absolutely out of your mind if you think C is "invisible" or "unimportant" and lets be real LG is the most invisible position.

well i guess the browns are taking the ship this year since they have pro football focus #1 center. oh wait hes been there 4 years and they havent had more than 5 wins...

not a fan of strahan since he was a giant who killed the eagles every year but i like him more than sapp and at least strahan is good on tv and that was funny.

couple notes:

1. strahan was on the ballet last year and didnt make it so he wont be a first ballet HOF but i would have argued as well he is more than deserving last year.  i think the HOF voters didnt want to put sapp and him in the same year they like to split up the positions

2. i think bettis deserves it as well, just not sure when he will get in.  obviously i am no voter but they way i would do it isnt nessercarlly on total yards and history rankings but if i thought that player was dominate at his postion for a long period of time when he played and i always remember bettis being one of the best few backs in football esp with the rams and his first few years with the steelers

BIG coaching upgrade!

If this guy can make his previous teams RB's look good, imagine what he can do with his new team:

 

The Steelers have hired former Vikings running backs coach James Saxon to the same position, the club said on Tuesday afternoon.

Saxon, 47, coached the Vikings’ running backs the last three seasons.

hell yeah leveon bout to be the new AP!!!

gregg williams about to get hired again as DC for the rams.  jeff fisher must love this dude, its the 2nd time hes hired him in 3 years

i read online that the weather last week was scaring ppl away from the game and ticket prices were plummeting from like 10 grand to like 4 for lower level. if the steelers were playing in the SB i would be on the first amtrek to NTC first thing tomorrow!

 

must be awesome to be up there right now even if ur teams not playing