Are you Ready for some Football - Week 17

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Chris: I'd bet the house on Denny.

[Ming]

I thought it was a riot yesterday with Tampa Bay saying they will want compensation if Parcells is hired by another team, and that teams need to ask their permission to talk to them

Let the fun begin

[Chris 62]

Tuna is the bigger catch, but Jones can crow about hiring a Black Coach with Denny.

I say 50-50.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Tuna is also the most disloyal employee ever .

I find it interesting that Marvin Lewis' name hasn't come up yet. He'd be a decent fit for Jacksonville. Maybe the Bears should dump Jauron and pick up Lewis, eh Ming?

[Chris 62]

Ming, the Bucs will get ZILCH.

Like Taggy would give them something for a guy they can't prove signed with them.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Also, just in:

Mike Holmgren will be asked to relinquish his title as GM! Smart move, I think. He's a good coach, but a lousy GM.

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I can't wait until McKay whips out the paperwork that proves that Tuna did sign with us before hanging us out to dry. I'd love to see the Bucs screw the Tuna over like he screwed us over.

And Chris: If the Bucs can't block it, then the Parcells/Dallas wedding won't happen since Bill and Jerry won't be able to co-exist. Plus, Bill's already saying he only wants to do two or three years. Please.

If it's between Bill and Denny, it's Denny, easy.

[Chris 62]

Hollmy looks awful average without Farve, but his boys are all doing well.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I can't wait until McKay whips out the paperwork that proves that Tuna did sign with us before hanging us out to dry.

Doesn't matter. Under NFL rules, if it isn't submited to the league (and it wasn't) the contract isn't valid. That's also the reason the Bucs don't have to pay Parcells anything .

Hollmy looks awful average without Farve, but his boys are all doing well.

Yeah... Hasselback was actually decent and Alexander had his games.

[Chris 62]

Tuna is slippery, never count him out.

But the Bucs are nuts if they think they have his rights.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
All the good young QBs that have come out lately have been 1st or 2nd round: Chad Pennington (1st), Mike Vick (1st), Drew Brees (early 2nd). Tom Brady is the only one that came out later (and IIRC, he was 3rd round), and it is looking like he might be more of a flash in the pan.

Brees is good, but Brady is a flash in the pan?

o_O

[Imran Siddiqui]

Brady looks like he got lucky last year. He really just looks like an above average QB, and Bledsoe would have probably been better. I think they traded the wrong QB.

[Zopperoni]

I don't think Brees is better than Brady though.

And yea, Brady was fortunate last year, but the entire NE squad was fortunate last year

After such a great year, expectations and the pressure are high, and that's what broke NE up this year.

But I don't know if it was the wrong decision to trade Goose away; Brady is seven years younger, and when comparing the season stats of both players, there isn't much difference:

Brady: 373/601 (62.1%) - 3,764 yards - 28 TDs - 14 INTs - Rating: 85.7
Goose: 375/610 (61.5%) - 4,359 yards - 24 TDs - 15 INTs - Rating: 86.0

[Imran Siddiqui]

Remember Bledsoe played on a team that was 3-13 last year and is now 8-8 (one game behind the Pats, Dolphins, AND AFC East winning Jets). It's gonna bite the Pats on the ass in the future (especially trading him to a division rival).

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
(especially trading him to a division rival).

Yea, that was a mistake, although they did manage to sweep the Bills this season