Nfl 2010-2011

Dolphins reportedly willing to offer Harbaugh 8m per season. That's just stupid. He's done well in college but ffs this guy hasn't even achieved what the likes of Johnson, Switzer, Spurrier, Stallings, and Saban had prior to jumping to the pro level. And now a club is really going to make him one of the top paid NFL coaches? fecking ridiculous.

Dolphins enter Harbaugh sweepstakes - NFL News | FOX Sports on MSN
 
At this point it's Miami if the money is what he's looking for, but they've been a bit classless with the way they've gone about it. Didn't even fire Sparano before courting Harbaugh and basically shat on the Rooney Rule. He'll pick SF if he wants to stay local but coach in the NFL. Could still stay at Stanford too now that Luck's staying. Not sure if Denver has a shot.
 
Chapster said:
i don't follow
he's staying to finish his degree?
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My bad, I thought you meant why I thought it was a stupid decision, rather than what happened to begin with :lol:

It's an incredibly dumb move. Ok, maybe he loves being Billy Big Balls in Stanford, but from a football perspective and a career perspective, there is nothing positive that can come from this at all.

The scouts pretty much saw him as perfection. Now they have another whole year to pick apart his game and find flaws in his game. He's losing the coach that has helped him so much, he'll now have a completely new personality coming in taking over the team. He's losing both of his go to WR's in Baldwin and Whalen who are both done after their senior year. There's also the risk that he could suffer an injury. He was the consensus number 1 pick in every mock draft that every expert projected. What does he have to gain? He'll now enter into a draft where there'll be a rookie salary cap, so he'll lose millions. The odds on him improving on this year are very slim given everything that's happening at Stanford now. So what he'll have a degree in architecture? I can't see the scouts being too impressed by his decision not to declare either. Oh, and he'll only have to compete with Matt Barkley in his draft class next year too.
 
Erics_Collar said:
My bad, I thought you meant why I thought it was a stupid decision, rather than what happened to begin with :lol:

It's an incredibly dumb move. Ok, maybe he loves being Billy Big Balls in Stanford, but from a football perspective and a career perspective, there is nothing positive that can come from this at all.

The scouts pretty much saw him as perfection. Now they have another whole year to pick apart his game and find flaws in his game. He's losing the coach that has helped him so much, he'll now have a completely new personality coming in taking over the team. He's losing both of his go to WR's in Baldwin and Whalen who are both done after their senior year. There's also the risk that he could suffer an injury. He was the consensus number 1 pick in every mock draft that every expert projected. What does he have to gain? He'll now enter into a draft where there'll be a rookie salary cap, so he'll lose millions. The odds on him improving on this year are very slim given everything that's happening at Stanford now. So what he'll have a degree in architecture? I can't see the scouts being too impressed by his decision not to declare either. Oh, and he'll only have to compete with Matt Barkley in his draft class next year too.
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Well he's not dropping past the Niners in next year's first round. I can tell you that.
 
Erics_Collar said:
My bad, I thought you meant why I thought it was a stupid decision, rather than what happened to begin with :lol:

It's an incredibly dumb move. Ok, maybe he loves being Billy Big Balls in Stanford, but from a football perspective and a career perspective, there is nothing positive that can come from this at all.

The scouts pretty much saw him as perfection. Now they have another whole year to pick apart his game and find flaws in his game. He's losing the coach that has helped him so much, he'll now have a completely new personality coming in taking over the team. He's losing both of his go to WR's in Baldwin and Whalen who are both done after their senior year. There's also the risk that he could suffer an injury. He was the consensus number 1 pick in every mock draft that every expert projected. What does he have to gain? He'll now enter into a draft where there'll be a rookie salary cap, so he'll lose millions. The odds on him improving on this year are very slim given everything that's happening at Stanford now. So what he'll have a degree in architecture? I can't see the scouts being too impressed by his decision not to declare either. Oh, and he'll only have to compete with Matt Barkley in his draft class next year too.
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Not to mention that he may well end up at a franchise a lot worse than Carolina, (if he remains the first pick next year) whose main problem was their QB play, the rest of their team is probably better than the Rams and the Lions teams who had the no.1 pick in the past two drafts.
 
He could go the way of Bradford or Leinart, both unanimous choices as the anticipated top pick only to stay another year in school.

Bradford got banged up and didn't have the anticipated great year but still wound up the top pick. He was picked apart by scouts and labeled damaged goods and a potential injury bug. He looks to be a solid starter for years to come.

Leinart returned and led his school to a third consecutive national title game only to lose to Texas (oh yes baby) and flavor of the month, Vince Young. Leinart then saw his draft stock drop considerably as he was picked apart by scouts. His career now appears to be that of a backup.


And 6m per year for Harbaugh is a goddamn joke. He makes Garrett at 3m look like the bargain of the decade.
 
gormless said:
Not to mention that he may well end up at a franchise a lot worse than Carolina, (if he remains the first pick next year) whose main problem was their QB play, the rest of their team is probably better than the Rams and the Lions teams who had the no.1 pick in the past two drafts.
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i dunno. Carolina have alot of problems. DEangelo williams isn't getting any younger and steve smith has lost his mojo.

he could end up at a vikings or something next year which has all the offensive pieces already in place but for a good QB
 
Chapster said:
i dunno. Carolina have alot of problems. DEangelo williams isn't getting any younger and steve smith has lost his mojo.

he could end up at a vikings or something next year which has all the offensive pieces already in place but for a good QB
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In comparison to the Rams where Bradford ended up at the Panthers would be paradise. He's throwing to WR's who appear to have wandered in off the street. Stafford at the Lions wasn't much better though at least he had Calvin Johnson. How much of Steve Smith's problems have been Clausen?
 
Here we go and the Seahawks start by kicking the ball out of bounds. This should be a comfortable win for the champs.

Looking forward to the Jets-Colts game, I don't like Peyton but I hope he destroys the Jets so that fat cnut Ryan shuts up once and for all.
 
Such an awesome weekend of sport.

Saints - Seahawks now
Jets - Colts later
Ravens - Chiefs and Packers - Eagles tomorrow
United - Liverpool tomorrow
Oregon - Auburn on Monday

:D
 
Nice throw by Hasselback in the leadup to the TD. 17-14 Saints atm, neither defence looks like stopping the other team right now.
 
Great half, Seahawks have played very well - 24-20 to Seattle.
 
FG for the Seahawks, drive could've been extended but the WR dropped a very catchable ball on 3rd down. 34-20, Saints defence has been very poor.
 
Got to think one more scoring drive would do it for the Seahawks, especially if they can run a lot of clock on it
 
Big stop by the Seahawks there, Saints were going to punt it but they ended up going for it and it failed big time.

Still enough time for the Saints to get back into this, but their defence needs to limit this possession to a FG if they can't get a turnover.
 
TD Saints, 34-27 - I wonder if that delay of game penalty which prevented the FG attempt will come back to haunt them?
 
3 and out, surely that was a fumble not an incomplete pass as it was ruled?
 
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