The bowl games had to be some of the worst matchups I have seen, other than the tcu game, all the major bowls were one sided blowouts. I hear ESPN’s ratings were bad (the New Years eve playoff games was a big mistake IMO), and I can understand it, these games were not a lot of fun, I suspect even partisans of the team were bored. The other thing is that college bowls have come to be pretty meaningless, with some exceptions, when 80 some odd teams of 120 make a bowl, you know it doesn’t mean all that much.
Apparently the West Virginia/Arizona State game was pretty entertaining. Some controversial events and weird plays made it pretty fun to watch. Sorry I missed that one.
As the family was waiting for the wvu game we saw the last half of the tcu game last night…now that was fun!
I don’t watch pro, only college, so the last game is clemson vs Alabama. (I would cheer for anyone vs Alabama )
nre Bradford might have been a mistake but Foles was worse" That is arguable, Foles turned out not to be a good QB, but Bradford never proved he was a good QB, and spent so much time injured that even if he had talent, never developed. Kelly wasn’t fired because of the QB situation, he was fired because his personnel decisions made John Idzik look like a genius, they lost their O line, and the defense was allowed to languish under a crappy D coordinator. Not to mention his trying to corner the market on ex Oregon players left Philly with a lot of mediocre ex Oregon players, not the ‘machine’ he promised.
So today should be interesting, I am waiting the 1pm “Battle of Buffalo”. Being a long time (suffering) Jets fan, I fully expect them to throw this game away, after some of their more dismal losses this season, I expect them to show up and the offense be in old lady mode, and the defense playing like they didn’t care. A lot of my opinion of Bowles and the Jets future will come out of this game, if this looks like the same old Jets, pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory as they have done so many times in the past (the AFC championship game against Pittsburgh comes to mind), it will tell me a lot about how well (or badly) the Jets are coached. Put it this way, there should be no way the Jets will lose, McCoy isn’t playing, the Buffalo defense is in outright revolt against Ryan, and Tyrod Taylor is not exactly Tom Brady (more like Geno Smith).
Tom Coughlin resigns.
It was kind of a blood bath yesterday but no surprises.
^ I think both Pagano and Grigson surviving at Indy is a huge surprise.
Mike McCoy surviving at San Diego is a bit of a surprise as well.
It will be interesting to see what Sean Payton does. Supposedly NO has said they’ll take a 2nd round draft pick for him.
growing tired of football … signed, disappointed Patriots fan …
HTTR!
Tom Coughlin has a lot more class than the Giants organization does, he basically fell on the sword and ‘resigned’ (if Mara and Tisch think that means people don’t see right through it, they are really in la la land). Whatever Coughlin’s flaws are, the Giants as a team have some of the worst personnel in the NFL, their defense literally has no one above the level of mediocre, and their offense basically relied on Eli and Beckham…the fact that the Giants were close in most of their losses I think is more about what Coughlin was able to do as a coach than about mistakes he made. Put it this way, I think I would much rather have Coughlin as a coach then Todd Bowles, I don’t think a Coughlin coached team would have gone into Buffalo as flat as the Jets did.
What is really stupid is they left Jerry Reese as the GM. I know the Giants are all big on ‘staying the course’ , how Reese succeeded Acorsi, but the fact is Reese isn’t all that much different than Idzik was with the Jets, he didn’t have a clue. Other than Beckham, their drafts have been a joke, especially on defense, and left a team on the field that was one of the more mediocre ones on paper out there. I was following Reese’s press conference, and it sounded like a 5 year old, he claimed to take responsibility for the season, but then spent the next X minutes whining, how the Giants were ‘injured’ (take a look at NE, pal, and what they have done with a banged up team, give you a clue, Jerry, all NFL teams were banged up, and many of them made the playoffs), how “decisions were made by a lot of people” (nice dodge, the buck is supposed to stop with the GM). I listened a bit to talk radio, and most Giants fans, other than the ones in love with the “Giants mystique”, were ripping Mara and Tisch for letting Reese stay. I am not even a Giants fan, but I happened to respect Coughlin a lot, and I hate seeing him get blamed and the guilty party left around. I hope Mara and Tisch will enjoy having another mediocre season, with Reese at the helm, they are going to be an also ran for the next several years, I’ll guarantee it.
@musicprnt I think you and I and any other Jets fan should go out for a cyber drink. Make mine a double.
Speaking of the Patriots it was weird that the time Suh actually did get to Brady in a way that hurt it was half accidental. I went in expecting the worst and he actually was pulled around by his face mask and for once did not seem to intend to roll up on Brady’s legs.
Why are you so disappointed?
I’m not. Two weeks to rest up, get Jones and Ninkovich healthy, get Edelman and Amendola back to full strength, get the o-line back together, and they can beat anybody in the AFC.
Considering their injuries this year, I think they’ve done pretty well.
@hayden:
The jets are so disappointing that you don’t even want to drink after watching them perform another classic example of “Same Old Jets”. While I think the organization is going in the right direction compared to what we saw in recent years, what was dispiriting was to have a team under a different coach do exactly the same thing we saw from Rex, Herm, Mangenius and the like, snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory, through a combination of not showing up on the part of the players, conservative (and baffling) coaching (Revis playing zone against Watkins, when he is a press corner, “saving” Chris Ivory (for what, the offseason? If Bowles was thinking of saving Ivory for the playoffs, that is not a good sign), Fitzpatrick losing his head (and for the life of him, not able to come from behind to win), no pressure on Tyrod Taylor, and it just looked like the same old sloppy, ill coached Jets. It is pretty bad when a Buffalo team coached by Rex Ryan looked like the more disciplined, professional team, and that I think troubled me the most.
Hopefully Bowles and his coaches learned something from this season, and will , unlike the past several seasons, actually improve in the off season. It looks like we are stuck with Fitzpatrick, at least for next season, let’s see what the GM and Bowles can do to change the Jets from being a team that always seems to blow it, into a winning team. I am tired of hearing “well, the Jets had a winning season”, that is all great and good, but remember that the Jets, outside the Patriots, did not exactly face a killer schedule, most of the teams they played (including the teams they lost to) were .500 teams or worse. I hope I am wrong and Bowles isn’t as complacent as he looked this last game, when the Jets can routinely beat good teams, then I’ll believe they are not the same old Jets (and as a fan for 46 years+, I have the right to say that, I have seen it all).
Sorry to the Jets fans but I am glad they lost since it meant the Steelers ended up in the playoffs. Primanti Bros. in Pittsburgh sent sandwiches to the Buffalo Bills front office to thank them!
106 yard return for a td on the opening kickoff, followed by a three-and-out.
Not a good start for Houston. I don’t give them much of a chance anyway.
This game is so bad I muted it and watched the 2nd episode of Downton Abbey (season 6) instead. Did anyone see that get-up that Worthlessburger had on? Who does he think he is, Prince?
I just turned off the TV. I may turn on again.
Anyone watch the Bengals vs Steelers game? That ending… I’m still not entirely sure what happened.
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid unsportmanship!