Damn the Hawks are fighters.
Damn the Hawks are fighters.
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The Seahawks are now leading their division. After the Saints beat the 49ers next week and the Seahawks lose to the Rams, the Saints will be the #1 seed in the NFC.
The Eagles are a bad team. They have lost to the last-place Detroit Lions, the last-place Atlanta Falcons, and the Dolphins.
Read something yesterday that the Jags might look to find a team like Miami that has oodles of cap room to trade Foles by giving Miami a pick to take him and his cap number off their hands. Miami would then probably just cut him as they wouldn't need him - they have Rosen, probably Fitzpatrick, and probably some rookie they'll draft. Basically the same type of thing that the Texans did to get rid of Osweiler by sending Osweiler and a pick to Cleveland.
Panthers have fired Ron Rivera....
Damn.
I always liked Riverboat Ron
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Rivera will be an interesting head coaching candidate. The Redskins have to be looking at him given how he is a good coach , but given injuries to Newton and how things fell apart in Carolina he could help that organization. Course the Redskins need a new GM and not Bruce Allen.
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Wow, did not expect Rivera to be fired. They've had a few really close losses this year enough to make a big difference, so maybe the organization concluded it was a game management issue?
Dumb. It was Norv Turner, he ruins things worse than Smaug wherever he goes. And now he's the head coach! Maybe we'll get one of those rare situations where both the head coach and his replacement get fired in the same year.
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Saw news of the Rivera firing while at the gym. I have to say that surprised me more than a little, given how he had been hamstrung by not having Cam Newton for practically the whole season. Meanwhile, Rivera could be the hottest offseason coaching name, depending on who else becomes available. Here’s a question: would division rival Atlanta ax Dan Quinn after the season if Arthur Blank decides he wants Rivera as his next coach?
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Yeah Fewell was named the coach for now. The Panthers have a big ? entering the off season. The owner inherited a team and Rivera as his coach. And he's pushed out the GM and now coach the last 2 seasons. So the team will have some big decision making ahead.
"The story so far: As usual, Ginger and I are engaged in our quest to find out what the hell is going on and save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible." - Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
“ Well hell just froze over. Because CM Punk is back in the WWE.” - Jcogginsa.
“You can take the boy outta the mom’s basement, but you can’t take the mom’s basement outta the boy!” - LA Knight.
"Revel in What You Are." Bray Wyatt.
Bizarrely, as many times as the Panthers have gone to the playoffs with Cam Newton at QB and Rivera at coach, the franchise still has yet to achieve two back-to-back winning seasons. There were a lot of points where people thought Rivera was going to get the hook after underachieving a year after making the playoffs.
They were 7-9 last year. If the trend continued, this should have been a winning season... but it doesn't look like it will. The Panthers are 5-7, have Luke Kuechly getting older all the time (and with serious concussion concerns), and Cam Newton is broken. Greg Olson is almost certainly near retirement. Their hopes fall almost exclusively on Christian McCaffrey and a promising DT corps, going forward.
They're going hard reboot, and I can't blame the new ownership and GM for doing so.
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Opinion: Cowboys or Eagles will get a home playoff game, and that's not right
Well, a good deal of solace can be taken from the knowledge that, given how shoddy both Dallas and Philly have played of late, whichever team wins NFC Least will be guaranteed one round and done cannon fodder.It’s one thing to accept mediocrity and quite another to reward it. Yet that is exactly what the NFL is going to do this postseason.
As the playoff picture stands now, the winner of the very lackluster – to put it nicely –NFC East will host a wild-card game while either San Francisco or Seattle will have to hit the road.
That’s right. The Seahawks and 49ers are two of the best teams in the NFL, 10-game winners already, and, for one of them, it won’t count for anything. They could squeeze into the postseason with a Week 17 win, and the result would be much the same.
This absurdity is the result of the NFL’s archaic system for playoff seeding. Unlike the more meritocratic NBA, the NFL continues to award its top four seeds to division winners, regardless of their records. That means a Dallas or Philadelphia team that likely would be shut out of the playoffs if not for winning the NFC East will get preference over a wild-card team with a better record.
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The Kaepernick tryout from a few weeks ago paid dividends and a workout with an actual team happened. . . . for one of the guys he was throwing the ball to.
Jordan Veasy got a tryout with the Browns after being part of the workout.
Got an alert that Giants rookie QB Daniel Jones has been shelved due to an ankle injury, so Eli Manning will be brought out of mothballs to face my Eagles Monday night.
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