when i say fisher has lost this team i don’t mean to say players are revolting against him.

i believe players like playing for him. i just think players have gotten way too comfortable on his team. there are no repercussions to the constant mental errors. i remember tavon saying that he was unprepared at the giants game. maybe they finally make changes on the oline this weekend. gurley not training as hard this offseason? well why not get him some more reps in the preseason. don’t let him off easy.

there isn’t a healthy fear of him. it’s too easy maybe playing under fisher. i don’t know. i could be totally off base here.

norv turner would be interesting. that would definitely give me good feelings.

the brady argument is weak. i agree. no way anyone could predict that.

but the patriots as a staff have a knack for picking up retreads or picking up little known players in the draft and getting the most out of them.

ok now granted one can’t compare to belichick. i agree with that too.

but fisher and staff have a knack for drafting dumb players. they have a tendency to make untimely errors. is that coaching? do they need to focus maybe a little more on intelligence?

maybe they hit on the goff pick and all this is forgotten… if they don’t hit on this pick then i definitely see no possible way fisher comes back from that.

but i will say their track record on dbacks and dlinemen is very very good. i’ll give them that. they’re also pretty good at finding rb talent. i think.

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i remain hopeful with goff. and gurley for that matter.

i can only hope goff shows real promise down this last stretch and gurley looks like the gurley of his first six games.

that will give me some hope.

yup. he did not get draft picks right. if he coulda hit on grob and austin. those 2 alone would have made a huge difference.

to be fair the austin pick was a hard one. hopkins maybe but no one saw him as an upper tier first round talent. many wanted patterson, but he’s been even worse.

grob, however, was a blown pick. and this is coming from someone who was really positive about the pick at the time. but looking back either lewan or matthews would have been a better pick.

do we make anything of donald and gurley supposedly ducking interviews?

my opinion. he’s losing this team. maybe i’m wrong, but there’s no fear there. the team continually makes minor errors to cost them games, and no consequences.

but i blame the players too. gotta hold each other responsible. where’s the leadership?

never heard of the discovery doctrine. found this bit on wikipedia.

Chief Justice John Marshall had large real estate holdings that would have been affected if the case were decided in favor of Johnson. Rather than remove himself from the case, however, the chief justice wrote the decision for a unanimous USA Supreme Court.

yikes.

zn wrote:

I see them as seeing themselves as back to business as usual–and the truth is, that offense IS more productive than it was against Miami.

i don’t want to see business as usual. i want to see some winning football.

seriously though i do expect them to open it up a little this week. offensive line should have an easier time blocking.

i’m still looking forward to goff’s first regular season td pass…

InvaderRam wrote:

kill all the animals and eat half the humans.

actually i’ll change that to kill all the animals. eat all the vegetarians.

badabing!

— X — wrote:

Of course not. I’m just tired of the constant pigeon-holing of middle Americans as less thans because they don’t have any higher education on their CV’s. Why make a point of it? What difference does it make? Does it make me less informed or signify an inability to think critically? Am I somehow less enlightened? Do I think only linearly? Why shouldn’t I take exception to that? What if I constantly harped on the idea that college students don’t know how to think for themselves? What if I kept suggesting that colleges are like liberal cults that are breeding grounds for mindless twits who only know how to parrot the things with which they’ve been indoctrinated, and it’s THEY who are responsible for the past 8 years of moral regression and fiscal irresponsibility? Would it bother you if every article you read suggested as much?

my own personal belief. many humans are like this. not just the people who voted for trump.

i mean why did people vote for obama? as someone said before probably for some very superficial reasons. only because he was black. because of some stupid slogan of “change”.

these elections appeal to the most basic desires and fears of humans. it’s all dumb. in my opinion. the people who voted for obama are every bit as ignorant as the people who voted for trump.

not everyone of course. but it played a significant part.

wv wrote:

Showed the same pocket-presence and escapability and niftyness in the pocket we saw on the college vids.

yeah. he’s nimble. that’s the biggest difference i see between him and bradford.

hopefully we see the staff give him more responsibility as the season goes on.

if they do decide to go in a different direction, i can say that this should be an attractive gig. a talented defense, talent in the backfield. and i credit fisher for that.

one other thing i was thinking is they keep fisher and hire a new oc. maybe a hot oc candidate who fisher can hand the reins to in a couple years when fisher steps down to a cozy front office job…

one can hope anyway.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by InvaderRam.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by InvaderRam.

zn wrote:

I am not putting Foles at anyone’s feet. No one predicted anything like that meltdown. Because it was not predictable. Fisher is about as responsible for that as he is for Bradford’s injuries, or as responsible McCarthy is for Rodgers declining, or as responsible Arians is for Palmer declining.

that’s what he’s paid to do. he was wrong on foles. no one can predict anything. but this is not the same as bradford’s injuries. it’s not the same as palmer or rodgers declining. we differ on that. he’s just not who they thought he was.

he got the receivers wrong. he just did.

the oline has been a revolving door.

now maybe one or two of them i can understand. stuff happens. all three have been a disaster so far. hopefully, goff comes good. but almost all aspects of the offense have been a mess for five years, and he hasn’t been able to fix even 1 unit. except maybe rb.

— X — wrote:

I take it to mean keep out illegal immigrants. Nothing beyond that. If they want to come across legally, then that’s fine. I don’t care who they are or what color their skin is. If people want to interpret that to mean keep out all brown people, then they’re just looking for something to be offended by. That’s the way I see it. I mean, when you consider that most of the illegals coming across *are* a different color, then how is it racist? It’s just the facts.

even if that’s what they meant. which i highly doubt given the context. is it ok for a group of students to chant that at another group of students?

would you as an adult chant that at your kid’s high school football game?

this wasn’t some protest or some trump rally. this was at a high school football game between a bunch of kids. children.

it’s unacceptable on any level.

kyle shanahan.

whoever it is i want an offensive mind. and someone who can bring a more aggressive mindset. doesn’t necessarily have to be more pass oriented. just more creative.