Broncos

it bothers me that some of them have first names on their jerseys

 

Broncos are putting the nail in the coffin of a dynasty right now. Bellichek is coming back down to earth hard. Assistants are very important.

 

What's NE's record now?

 

I'm thinking that losing Teddy Bruschi, Ted Johnson, Matt Light, Rodney Harrison, Richard Seymour, Ty Law, Joe Andruzzi, etc might have something to do with it.

That said, don't count them out.

 

3-3.

 

wonder if anyone would have believed that Notre Dame would have a better record than NE at this point in the season.

 

Elias Sports said that the Patriots have played the toughest first 6 games in league history. Don't know how they went about saying that but 3-3 after the first 6 teams they had to play is pretty good. 2nd half schedule is relatively easy so they'll probably still be around come conference championship time.

 

Bruschi has been cleared to practice. Think he will make a big difference?

 

Yes, they are. Not that Bill isn't still a fine coach, but he had two guys under him that he was very blessed to have kept for so long. They were both deserving to get promoted before now.

Mangini's good, don't get me wrong. They're not losing all that much there specifically, but they don't have a DBs coach on the roster, citing Joel Collier as an "assistant DBs coach". So Mangini's doing it all himself. Pees is a 2nd year, along with QBs coach Josh McDaniels - who calls plays. They have no OC. While the Pats are high on him, he's still just a two year grad assistant at Michigan State and a 3 year personnel assistant for the defense, meaning he's coached in the league for all of 21 games but he's calling plays.

Without an experienced foil, and without a veteran coach to run the offensive practice or gameplan.

It's something they might grow into; it's something that Bellichick might've lost out on, like hoping to gain a coach that never came; or maybe it's a free pass, giving McDaniel time to grow while they left it open as to whether or not he'd keep the opportunity.

Either way, it's kinda ill-advised, IMO, to keep a positional coaching job while coordinating, and it's definitely ill-advised to do it in your first year of coordination. Mangini can handle it, I believe, but their secondary needs all the help it can get - and IMO, a good veteran DBs coach to sit between he and Collier woulda helped. I'm firmly behind the idea of more coaching rather than less.

And past that, I don't know if Bellichick is personally overseeing the offense himself and using McDaniel to do the detail work, but I don't think that's going to work. Some spec that Brady's the one handling a lot of it, too. Either way, it's chancy.




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Honestly, I think Bellichick over-promoted from within. If you really must go into your own guys to get an inexperienced coach, pair him with a vet, which would naturally have to come from outside.

And speaking of promoting from within, Tice gets his own dumb ass in big trouble for this. Promoting an OL coach to be the OC, while not actually replacing him as OL coach? Line coaches are rarely able to coordinate well, and while they added a QBs coach in Rich Olson, Steve Loney might be the worst coordinator in the league.

When Tice is fired, it'll be widely stated how badly he botched the Moss thing. And that's probably true. But keeping Linehan there, getting some production out of their receivers and keeping/finding one good back, they'd be competitive right now, and not waiting for the call to pack up.

 

lol, I noticed that a few weeks ago. I dont usually watch many of their games, so I don't know how long they've had that, but a couple of them had their whole fucking name across the back..and it looks lame as shit.