NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - Off Season

[Jaguar]

Del Rio is maybe the most forgettable coach. He's not even, like, unusually incompetent in any real way.

[Al B. Sure!]

Yeah it's the same thing with Marvin Lewis. Like these guys are relatively well-tenured (8 years is a long time for an NFL coaching position) even though they're so blah average and their teams are average.

[Al B. Sure!]

You hear about this guy?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Keith-Fitzhugh-chooses-family-over-football?urn=nfl-292927

It's not often that you see a perfectly healthy, NFL-ready person turn down an offer to join the roster of a playoff team, but Mississippi State grad Keith Fitzhugh(notes), who has spent time with the New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free-agent safety, has decided to respectfully decline a recent offer by the Jets to be a part of their active roster.
Rex Ryan's defense was looking for new blood after losing safeties Jim Leonhard(notes) and James Ihedigbo(notes) for the season to injuries.
Despite their 45-3 killer loss to the Patriots on "Monday Night Football," the 9-3 Jets are still a near-mortal lock for the postseason, with possible Super Bowl glory in their future.
So why would Fitzhugh say "no"?
Because he's thinking about his family and its financial security. He's currently a conductor for the Norfolk Southern Railroad, and he's had that job since the Jets released him in September. There was no venom behind Fitzhugh's decicion to turn down the team that cut him; it's more about Fitzhugh's father, who is disabled and unable to work.
"I told them I'm very thankful for the opportunity," Fitzhugh recently recalled to Jenny Vrentas of NJ.com. "But right now, being that [NFL employment] would be for just a couple weeks, I feel that I'd rather stay with a secure company and job, somewhere I know I could have long-term employment."
Fitzhugh was the 12th-ranked safety coming out of college in 2009, according to NFLDraftScout.com. He is known as a dynamic hitter and good special teams player with some range in pass coverage. He caught the eye of scouts at the East-West Shrine game, and has advanced his talent forward enough to stay on the short list of replacement-need players. But Daniel Rose, Fitzhugh's agent, affirmed the thoughts behind his client's decision.
"The kid has more heart than anybody I know," Rose told Vrentas. "This is his dream, to play. I don't think this is the last you've heard of Keith Fitzhugh."
Let's hope so. Fitzhugh is deferring his NFL dreams for all the right reasons, and that's the kind of guy whose dreams should come true down the road.

[SlowwHand]

The Jaguars play in a tougher division so it's not as outlandish that Del Rio holds onto his job. As far as the Bengals, who decides to sign the thugs? The coach or the owner?

[Al B. Sure!]

The Jaguars play in a tougher division so it's not as outlandish that Del Rio holds onto his job. As far as the Bengals, who decides to sign the thugs? The coach or the owner?

The AFC North isn't tough? Pittsburgh and Baltimore are perennially good teams.

And the Bengals being filled with criminals is like 3 years old. Do they even still have all those guys?

[SlowwHand]

1)
2) Maybe not criminals, but jackasses.

[Donegeal]

You hear about this guy?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl-292927

No, I haven't; but that was a great article and he sounds like he's got his head in the right place. Koodos to him! (Although it would be nice if his employer would 'hold' his job for a couple of weeks.)

[Al B. Sure!]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Rex-Ryan-buries-the-game-ball-from-the-Monday-ni?urn=nfl-293488

Cornerback Darrelle Revis(notes) said the coach led the team out to the practice field before its morning meeting Wednesday, took a game ball from the 45-3 rout Monday night and placed it in a freshly dug hole.
“He said we’re burying the game,” Revis said, adding that the team didn’t know what Ryan was going to do. Revis also said he’s never seen anything like that.

How can you not be a little bit of a Jets fan? Rex Ryan is great.

I heard stories about Buddy when he coached the Eagles back in the day but Buddy was a straight bad-ass. Rex is just cool as ****.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Yeah, amazing how cool he is when he copies something Belichick did in 2001.

[flash9286]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl-293488



How can you not be a little bit of a Jets fan? Rex Ryan is great.

I heard stories about Buddy when he coached the Eagles back in the day but Buddy was a straight bad-ass. Rex is just cool as ****.

Steve Young was on PTI a couple days ago talking about one of the things that pushed him to retire was that he started thinking the speeches and actions from his coaches were corny and geared to young people. I don't see how grown men can listen to some of their coaches' pre and post game speeches and not start laughing. This thought doesn't really apply here, since it seems like it was a joke, but I'm gonna post it anyway because I am bored.

[MRT144]

1)
2) Maybe not criminals, but jackasses.

Ochocinco is hilarious.

[Al B. Sure!]

Yeah, amazing how cool he is when he copies something Belichick did in 2001.

Belichick is boring as ****. oh my god he's like a robot.

[-Jrabbit]

Actually, he's always been a pretty weird cat. He's just not flamboyant like the Ryans.

[Al B. Sure!]

Okay I'll give him credit for this exchange:




Oh and this moment after the Super Bowl made me

[MRT144]

I ****ING LOVE OCHOCINCO.