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[The Dove]

This definitely can be blamed on Josh McDaniels, Tarl.. He really is turning our team into the Denver Patriots!! (hmm..wonder if he could execute a miracle trade..Orton for Brady? LOL) I'll just say that he's gotta do something incredible next season or he's gone!

[tdalton]

This definitely can be blamed on Josh McDaniels, Tarl.. He really is turning our team into the Denver Patriots!! (hmm..wonder if he could execute a miracle trade..Orton for Brady? LOL) I'll just say that he's gotta do something incredible next season or he's gone!

I think that the Broncos should go ahead and start searching for a new coach now. Every one of the moves made by the Broncos since McDaniels took over has made the team worse. Mike Nolan greatly improved that defense, giving up a touchdown less on average than the team did last year, and he loses his job for that? That's just ridiculous, and I think that the Broncos should go ahead and find themselves a coach that is going to give the Broncos the best chance to win rather than a coach that is there just to serve his ego.

[The Dove]

I put my vote in for Brian Billick or (if he's still available next offseason) Bill Cowher!

[Eric Stromberg]

I put my vote in for Brian Billick or (if he's still available next offseason) Bill Cowher!

YES
Let's get Cowher and perhaps keep McD as offensive coordinator. Put him on a mentoring/head coach under training program. Then, when his pair drops and he starts shaving, he's good to go.

[Eric Stromberg]

Norv didn't miss those field goals...granted I'm bitterly dissapointed in him right now.

The way I see it (and I am in the cheap seats for sure) Norv is the skipper of that ship and he takes ultimate responsibility for everything that happens. Overall team discipline and character go a long way in the playoffs, and Norv sets the command atmosphere. That's a big part of his job.

So he can't help the kicker missing I suppose. How about the 10 penalties (including a couple of significant personal fouls)? Or one of the worst team police blotters in the league? Those are signs that the players are running the team.

[Tarl_Cabot]

This definitely can be blamed on Josh McDaniels, Tarl.. He really is turning our team into the Denver Patriots!! (hmm..wonder if he could execute a miracle trade..Orton for Brady? LOL) I'll just say that he's gotta do something incredible next season or he's gone!

I think that the Broncos should go ahead and start searching for a new coach now. Every one of the moves made by the Broncos since McDaniels took over has made the team worse. Mike Nolan greatly improved that defense, giving up a touchdown less on average than the team did last year, and he loses his job for that? That's just ridiculous, and I think that the Broncos should go ahead and find themselves a coach that is going to give the Broncos the best chance to win rather than a coach that is there just to serve his ego.

I think the recent mini-trend of hiring young(under 35 with no NFL player resume), inexperienced coaches(Lane Kiffin, Josh McDaniels, Raheem Mooris) is officially over.

[tdalton]

This definitely can be blamed on Josh McDaniels, Tarl.. He really is turning our team into the Denver Patriots!! (hmm..wonder if he could execute a miracle trade..Orton for Brady? LOL) I'll just say that he's gotta do something incredible next season or he's gone!

I think that the Broncos should go ahead and start searching for a new coach now. Every one of the moves made by the Broncos since McDaniels took over has made the team worse. Mike Nolan greatly improved that defense, giving up a touchdown less on average than the team did last year, and he loses his job for that? That's just ridiculous, and I think that the Broncos should go ahead and find themselves a coach that is going to give the Broncos the best chance to win rather than a coach that is there just to serve his ego.

I think the recent mini-trend of hiring young(under 35 with no NFL player resume), inexperienced coaches(Lane Kiffin, Josh McDaniels, Raheem Mooris) is officially over.

As well it should be. None of these coaches has produced anything. Even look at Eric Mangini, the most successful of the bunch (and, to be honest, he did do a decent job in Cleveland this season with the four game winning streak at the end). He couldn't get Brett Favre and the Jets to the playoffs, but both Favre and the Jets are in their respective conference championship games this season without him coaching either of them.

Even though Raheem Morris had the worst season of any of these coaches, I'd have to say that McDaniels has done the worst job of the bunch. He took what was a solid football team, that was only lacking consistency on the defensive side of the ball, and blew the whole thing up for no reason. Mike Nolan helped to greatly improve the one glaring deficiency the team had, and he gets fired for it, and McDaniels, the offensive "genius" blows up the offense by shipping Cutler off to Chicago and ticking Brandon Marshall and Tony Sheffler off to the point that they will not return to Devner to play for him. Now they're left with no offensive firepower at all, and looking to hire the team's fifth defensive coordinator in five seasons. I honestly don't know how McDaniels won the number of games that he did this season, but I'm expecting somewhere around 4-12 or 5-11 at best for the Broncos next year.

It also makes me wonder just how the Patriots managed to build that dynasty, given how none of the assistant coaches from that team have been able to be even moderately successful head coaches. Crennel and Weiss failed miserably in Cleveland and Notre Dame respectively, Eric Mangini has been (amazingly) the most successful of the bunch but still quite mediocre, and Josh McDaniels has single handedly destroyed the Denver Broncos organization. How were these people able to build such a dominant dynasty?

[Tarl_Cabot]

Norv didn't miss those field goals...granted I'm bitterly dissapointed in him right now.

The way I see it (and I am in the cheap seats for sure) Norv is the skipper of that ship and he takes ultimate responsibility for everything that happens. Overall team discipline and character go a long way in the playoffs, and Norv sets the command atmosphere. That's a big part of his job.

So he can't help the kicker missing I suppose. How about the 10 penalties (including a couple of significant personal fouls)? Or one of the worst team police blotters in the league? Those are signs that the players are running the team.

You're preaching to the choir...I want blow up the whole thing and start over...

ok, ok a little hasty...maybe just:

*Give Ron Riveria the HC job.

*draft a DE, DT and a RB.

*give Kaeding one more chance since he's money in the regular season but with additional coaching, counseling(I'd make him do Martial Arts to improve focus) in the off season.

This definitely can be blamed on Josh McDaniels, Tarl.. He really is turning our team into the Denver Patriots!! (hmm..wonder if he could execute a miracle trade..Orton for Brady? LOL) I'll just say that he's gotta do something incredible next season or he's gone!

I think that the Broncos should go ahead and start searching for a new coach now. Every one of the moves made by the Broncos since McDaniels took over has made the team worse. Mike Nolan greatly improved that defense, giving up a touchdown less on average than the team did last year, and he loses his job for that? That's just ridiculous, and I think that the Broncos should go ahead and find themselves a coach that is going to give the Broncos the best chance to win rather than a coach that is there just to serve his ego.

I think the recent mini-trend of hiring young(under 35 with no NFL player resume), inexperienced coaches(Lane Kiffin, Josh McDaniels, Raheem Mooris) is officially over.

As well it should be. None of these coaches has produced anything. Even look at Eric Mangini, the most successful of the bunch (and, to be honest, he did do a decent job in Cleveland this season with the four game winning streak at the end). He couldn't get Brett Favre and the Jets to the playoffs, but both Favre and the Jets are in their respective conference championship games this season without him coaching either of them.

Even though Raheem Morris had the worst season of any of these coaches, I'd have to say that McDaniels has done the worst job of the bunch. He took what was a solid football team, that was only lacking consistency on the defensive side of the ball, and blew the whole thing up for no reason. Mike Nolan helped to greatly improve the one glaring deficiency the team had, and he gets fired for it, and McDaniels, the offensive "genius" blows up the offense by shipping Cutler off to Chicago and ticking Brandon Marshall and Tony Sheffler off to the point that they will not return to Devner to play for him. Now they're left with no offensive firepower at all, and looking to hire the team's fifth defensive coordinator in five seasons. I honestly don't know how McDaniels won the number of games that he did this season, but I'm expecting somewhere around 4-12 or 5-11 at best for the Broncos next year.

It also makes me wonder just how the Patriots managed to build that dynasty, given how none of the assistant coaches from that team have been able to be even moderately successful head coaches. Crennel and Weiss failed miserably in Cleveland and Notre Dame respectively, Eric Mangini has been (amazingly) the most successful of the bunch but still quite mediocre, and Josh McDaniels has single handedly destroyed the Denver Broncos organization. How were these people able to build such a dominant dynasty?

The eternal optimist strikes again...

[tdalton]

*Give Ron Riveria the HC job.

While he might make a good head coach, I've always thought it would be interesting to see what Mike Martz could do with the Chargers. With all of that offensive talent, I think that he could turn them into an even bigger offensive juggernaut than the Rams were during their "greatest show on turf" years.

The eternal optimist strikes again...

I'll just say that I'm quite frustrated by what McDaniels has done to the Broncos. I'm not a Broncos fan, but I do have a great deal of respect for the organization and the way that they'd handled their business up until this year (and I no longer have respect for the organization). Had I been Pat Bowlen, I would have fired McDaniels the moment that he jettisoned my franchise quarterback to Chicago. Had he fired McDaniels then, he could have saved some face and then managed to keep things in decent enough shape so that the new coach wouldn't have so much rebuilding to do. The Broncos are going to have zero offense next year with Orton at QB and Royal as the #1 receiver (and no Marshall or Sheffler), and the blame for that falls entirely on McDaniels' shoulders. The Broncos are in a state of self-inflicted rebuilding when they should have been moving closer to being a Super Bowl contender.

And the Dolphins must be laughing hysterically right now since they've hired Mike Nolan to run their defense. What exactly were the Broncos thinking (or were they even thinking) when they made that bonehead decision.

[The Dove]

Plus the fact that two long time Shanahan era coaches, Rick Dennison (offensive line) and Bobby Turner (running backs) have defected to back to Shanahan (Turner to be the RB coach for Washington) and Kubiak (Dennison to be Line coach for Texans) does not bode well for Denver next season! My countdown clock for the firing of McDaniels has already begun!

[Tarl_Cabot]

I was thinking Mike Martz too...

[The Dove]

In tribute to his beloved Minnesota Vikings, Prince decided to write a tribute song, titled "Purple and Gold" for his Vikings as they take on the Saints this weekend.. He just released it to Fox news and....it is absolutely HORRIBLE!! It makes 1985's Super Bowl Shuffle sound good!!

For a good laugh, check it out:

http://www.myfoxtwin...ngs-saints-game

[tdalton]

In an effort to see if I can dig myself out of the massive hole I've dug myself with my picks (I think the best I can finish at is 5-6).

Colts over Jets
Saints over Vikings

[Tarl_Cabot]

In an effort to see if I can dig myself out of the massive hole I've dug myself with my picks (I think the best I can finish at is 5-6).

Colts over Jets
Saints over Vikings

TDalton,

Since we share in common an account with CBN, I will root for your Jets. I'd feel better if the team that beat my Dolts won the SB anyway. Go Jets/Vikings.

[tdalton]

In an effort to see if I can dig myself out of the massive hole I've dug myself with my picks (I think the best I can finish at is 5-6).

Colts over Jets
Saints over Vikings

TDalton,

Since we share in common an account with CBN, I will root for your Jets. I'd feel better if the team that beat my Dolts won the SB anyway. Go Jets/Vikings.

Hopefully they can take down the Colts, but I'm not all that confident that they will. It would be nice to see someone other than the Colts, Patriots, or Steelers make it from the AFC, so I'd be rooting against the Colts regardless of the team they were playing. Hopefully the Colts reputation for choking in the postseason rears its head again and helps the Jets move on, especially as this may be one of the few opportunities I have to actually see the Jets reach the Super Bowl in my lifetime.

For what it's worth, I would have been rooting for the Chargers had they beaten the Jets, as I'd say that they're probably my second favorite NFL team and I pull for them in every playoff game that's not against the Jets.

[Cruiserweight]

I want the Jets to win but...

I'm picking the Colts & the Saints

[tdalton]

I want the Jets to win but...

I'm picking the Colts & the Saints

Colts/Saints seems like the obvious pick and the most likely one. The Superdome will be such a hostile environment for the Vikings that I'm not sure they'll be able to fully overcome it. It'll be even more electric there than it was on that first Monday night game against the Falcons after the hurricane.

As for the other game, the Colts are just that much better than the Jets, and it shouldn't even really be a contest. That game will be over by halftime.

[Cruiserweight]

It’s the barbershop and water cooler talk across the country.

What Super Bowl matchup will yield the biggest ratings?



Many fans immediately look to market size and figure that the New York Jets have to be one of the teams.


And they’d be wrong.


“The matchup that will do the best is Indianapolis against Minnesota,” said former CBS Sports president Neal Pilson, who now runs his own consultancy firm. “It’s a matchup that features two marquee players in Peyton [Manning] and [Brett] Favre and the rating you’ll get for that exceeds any other combination.”

Pilson reasons that the New York market will already pull a big rating anyway and that the Jets being in the game won’t influence the ratings nationally more than Manning’s presence in the game could.

“Sure, you’d get the New York market, but you have to remember that the Jets are largely unknown as you get further away from the Hudson River,” Pilson said. “Networks don’t want Cinderella stories at the end. In baseball, college basketball and football, they want the strong, established teams.”

That’s why Pilson says the Jets against the Saints are the worst matchup.

There’s one caveat to all this analysis and that is that a less desirable matchup can yield a higher rating if the game is better. The quality of the game, Pilson says, overshadows the quality of the teams.

The highest rated Super Bowl in the last decade was Super Bowl XXXIV between the St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans in 2000. That game came down to the last play with the Titans’ Kevin Dyson trying unsuccessfully to reach the ball into the end zone.

If CBS, which is broadcasting the game, gets the ideal matchup in the Colts and Vikings, Pilson said it could be worth up to about four million more viewers than the worst matchup in the Jets and Saints. The Super Bowl, with any combination of teams playing in it, is good for at least 90 million US viewers.

[tdalton]

Congratulations to the Jets on the WORST gameplan I think I've ever seen. Brian Schottenheimer must be fired after this abysmal performance, and the termination of Jay Feely's contract has to be announced before the end of the day.

Mark this one down as the Jets flushing their one opportunity this decade to reach the Super Bowl down the toilet. Maybe if Rex Ryan had spent some actual time preparing the defense to play rather than basking in the glory of his own "genius" they might have put up some fight today. #1 ranked defense my .

At least the Jets have finally been exposed as the frauds that they are. I'm done with them.

[Cruiserweight]

I'm done with them.

So who's your new team going to be?

[Tybre]

I've only been nipping in and out as I pass through the basement to do laundry, but every time I look Minnesota and New Orleans are tied, and now they're in overtime at 28 and 28 according to the little tickermajig. Glad I didn't put any money on this game.

[Tarl_Cabot]

Congratulations to the Jets on the WORST gameplan I think I've ever seen. Brian Schottenheimer must be fired after this abysmal performance, and the termination of Jay Feely's contract has to be announced before the end of the day.

Mark this one down as the Jets flushing their one opportunity this decade to reach the Super Bowl down the toilet. Maybe if Rex Ryan had spent some actual time preparing the defense to play rather than basking in the glory of his own "genius" they might have put up some fight today. #1 ranked defense my .

At least the Jets have finally been exposed as the frauds that they are. I'm done with them.

LOL You make Emperor Palpatine seem 'firm' but a nice a guy at heart.

Sorry about the Jets..I was pulling for them...

Brett, what were you thinking???

[tdalton]

I'm done with them.

So who's your new team going to be?

No other team, but I'll just spend my time rooting for the nine of the ten teams the Jets will face next season (I can't root for Benedict Favre and the Vikings).

I've never been more embarrassed by a team's play and conduct than I've been this week with the Jets. Darrelle Revis and Rex Ryan need to worry less about talking trash and more about trying to defend the other team's offense. I can't wait for next year to see Randy Moss and T.O. put up huge numbers against Revis for him calling them "slouches". Even though I didn't expect them to win, I'm ashamed of the Jets due to their conduct during this whole playoff run as well as them deciding to quit on defense during the fourth quarter of the debacle in Indy.

The Jets are nothing more than a mediocre team that got lucky by having the Colts and Bengals make them their charity cases by letting them waltz into the playoffs, and then they got lucky by beating two superior teams in the playoffs. That all caught up to them today, and their arrogance is what really lost it for them. Revis was exposed as being an extremely overrated player today, and Rex Ryan isn't nearly the genius that he thought he was.

I will say this though, I've come to respect the heck out of Mark Sanchez today. I hope for his sake that he gets traded to an organization that is actually focused on winning and that isn't as pathetic as the New York Jets so that he can truly blossom into an elite quarterback, because I'm now convinced that he can be that. That was a brilliant performance by the young quarterback. Had anyone told me before the game that Sanchez would through for the yardage he did today and 2 TDs, I'd have said that the Jets would have won it in a rout. Who would have guessed that the offense would show up to play and the defense would just give the game to the Colts.

[00Twelve]

Bring it on, NOLA.

[The Dove]

Congratulations to hcmv and his New Orleans Saints!! Wow what an exciting game!! and despite his bone-headed last INT I gotta give props to Brett Favre for being able to stay in there and have a remarkable game, despite acting as a human punching back to the Saints pass rush!!

Anyways, I'll bet the party is still going on full swing down on Bourbon Street!! I'm pulling for the Saints big time now to finish it all in two weeks..

tdalton... I give your Jets a helluva lot of credit for putting up a brave fight against the Colts.. Ok, I'll give you that Schottenheimer could have come up with a better offensive game plan..it just seemed too conservative to me.. but still to have your team with a rookie QB and rookie head coach make it all the way to the AFC Championship game is very impressive!! I still think you're being too harsh on them..

[tdalton]

tdalton... I give your Jets a helluva lot of credit for putting up a brave fight against the Colts.. Ok, I'll give you that Schottenheimer could have come up with a better offensive game plan..it just seemed too conservative to me.. but still to have your team with a rookie QB and rookie head coach make it all the way to the AFC Championship game is very impressive!! I still think you're being too harsh on them..

I actually thought that the gameplan was a bit too wide open. The goal of any team playing the Colts is going to be to maintain possession for a long time, keeping Peyton off the field, yet Schottenheimer was apparently replaced by Mike Martz during the second quarter of that game, launching the ball all over the place. Then, when he decided to run during the rest of the game, he kept running to the right, when the O-line has 3 (count 'em, 3) pro-bowl linemen to the left (3 including the center Mangold). The right side of the Jets line isn't that great, but I don't understand how there wasn't any run calls made to the left.

I also don't think that I'm being too harsh on them because that franchise is going to get nowhere until the fans start turning on them a bit and start expecting more. The overall consensus amongst Jets fans today is that "Great season, we got to the AFC championship game". It reminds me of that old saying in football "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten". The attitude of it's great to have gotten there is one that I don't subscribe to, and the general apathy on the part of Jets fans disgusts me. There's only one team at the end of the year that had a successful season, the other 31 teams failed, and the Jets failed this year, again.

Although, there was some good news for my former team today. It looks like they've either parted ways, or are about to part ways with Lito Shepard. He should have never been brought to New York, but at least now the nightmare of watching him attempt to cover a receiver is now over (not that his backups are any better).

[hcmv007]

This is not for a city or a region. This is for the ticket holder who took his season tickets with him as he left NO before Katrina. Its for Hap Glaudi, who hosted the call in shows after Saints games on WWL Radio from the beginning until he died in 1986. Its for Buddy Deliburto who needed an interpreter to understand him (if you lived outside Louisiana) who replaced Hap. Its for Ricky Jackson. Its for Morton Anderson. Its for Sam Mills. Its for Hokie Gajan. Its for Bobby Hebert. Its for Dalton Hilliard. Its for Eric Martin. Its for those who never gave up hope. Its for those who held on to a belief. Its for the 6 year old kid who made his first ever NFL game. Its for those who never quit. Its for those who went to games and wore bags on their heads. Its for those who chose season tickets over some other bill. Its for the real fans. Its for those who finally have an answered prayer.


The Saints are in the Super Bowl.

[Forward Look]

Sheriff Pepper's team, at last. Geaux Saints!!

[elizabeth]

not a saints fan and still bummed about my patriots, but go saints!

[Tybre]

Saw Colts-Saints coming. Saints, please.