DefensiveEnd76
Football Guru
Use to love it when they called him Jay "Fiedler on the roof".
Good old Berman. He'd even sing the little tune with it.Use to love it when they called him Jay "Fiedler on the roof".
Yep... daily. Just like everyone else who expresses their opinions of players on this forum. You should get out and be more sociable.Lol didn't know you talked to Ricky. Cool.
Fiedler was actually playing good football before he broke his thumb that season. His injury, and the subsequent deployment of Ray Lucas, is what ultimately ****ed us over that year.
I agree that he overused Ricky, but Ricky quitting was because Ricky wanted to smoke weed. Wanny’s just being used as an excuse. Ricky liked weed more than playing football. Is what it is. The only regret I have in the whole thing was burning his jersey only for him to come back later.(Leaving me wishing I had a number 34 jersey)
Yep, it was a different era.... the team that won the SB that year had Brad Johnson as their QB, and did it with great defense and a solid running game.That offense was pretty darn good for a while that year. We were 5-1 before he got hurt and the only game we lost we still put up 30 something points. Sure it was based around Ricky but that was still but Fiedler played his part, and that was the era just before constant rule changes made 4500 yard passing seasons standard faire and the cult of the franchise QB hadn't taken hold so it wasn't as frowned on to have QB's just play their part (it was another three years later that Saban took an RB at number two, first of three taken top 10, while Aaron Rodgers fell to 24).
Still think his injury in 2002 probably cost us a legit Super Bowl run (That and Wanny’s lack of a ballsack).
Ricky hated his job, hated that that it physically abused him, had anxiety and let himself self destruct to get out of it. People who don't have anxiety problems don't realize how otherwise rational, intelligent people can sabotage their lives and careers just out of stress avoidance. My opinion of Ricky might be different if he just acted like some street thug, but in a league apparently full of women and child abusers as well as others who do unethical things on an off the football field, Ricky was a hard worker who displayed otherwise good character.
Yep, it was a different era.... the team that won the SB that year had Brad Johnson as their QB, and did it with great defense and a solid running game.
Ricky didn't hate football, he hated himself. He was the star of the team and his self-conscious paranoia in that position fueled his obsession.