I’m glad I won’t be wasting my September Sundays watching that trainwreck.
God damn between the Jets and the Devils being shitshows I need the Mets not to fall apart
It's a good thing I'm only a casual Nets fan or I'd really have to be committed right about nowLet's change say the last decade have been absolute horrid since I only like hockey/football and I'm surprised I haven't resorted to alcohol or any other bad vice.
The NFLPA is cucked. Richard Sherman was on the money when he said they should strike.
It’s football. The players careers are too short for them to get real leverage against the owners. There are only a handful of guys that are transcendent stars and even they have issues at times. You think Brady would pass an unscheduled PED test? You think Rodgers forays into victimhood are well received by all the fans? At this point maybe Patrick Mahomes isn’t controversial but most players in the NFL are popular with the team’s fans and maybe thr college team’s fans but to the wider world they just come and go.
How was that going to help? They tried that twice in the ‘80’s and didn’t get jack out of it
The Falcons should have torn it down a couple years ago.
While they had Ryan and Julio Jones they thought they had a chance similar to the Saints. What I think held the Falcons back was coaching which was never on par with New Orleans while they had Payton. That and New Orleans was quietly able to build a good defense as Brees aged and ATL could never quite get that together to compliment Ryan.
I don't like gratuitous insults. Obviously the coaching for the Saints was some of the best in the business. Payton managed to get some really bad teams to at least 7-9. That's impressive. He almost got a completely lopsided one dimensional team to the Super Bowl in 2011. That team could almost literally only do one thing - pass. They couldn't run all that well, they couldn't stop the run, stop the pass, create turnovers, or do much on special teams out of the ordinary. Somehow Payton managed to turn one exceptional thing into 11 wins and one play away from the NFC title game where I think they beat the Giants who they matched up well against. Really one of the greatest coaching seasons that flies under the radar.
I think the Falcons problem on defense was due to their stubborn insistence at picking fast and often smaller defensive players to a fault. They never picked a stout defensive line that could stop the run and rush the passer during Ryan's tenure. The way to beat New Orleans was with pressure in the middle of the pocket, not with coverage or a smaller fast defensive end. You couldn't cover against Brees. He could fit the ball into a window the size of the ball. Speed off the edge wasn't the issue either. Brees just stepped up in the pocket and bought the extra half second. Taking away the run and forcing Brees to throw early to his dump offs was the way to beat the Saints.
