adamprez2003
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Six weeks into a football season is probably the best time to take an assessment of a team. The first two weeks are usually meaningless in that 3/4 of the teams havent got their games together and havent figured out their best set of personnell packages. Additionally, everyone's playing blind in that game tape that teams use to prep for their opponents is largely off the previous seasons and since there is personnell and coaching turnover every season as well as new play packages put in, you're basically playing blind when you go into a game. The next two weeks, bring with them the discarding of what's not working and putting in new players to shore up weaknesses. Weeks five and six are usually when you see what you have for the remainder of the season. Having said that here are my impressions.
Mularkey sucks.
Let me repeat that.
Mularkey really, really sucks. Not in the throw away sense that most fans will occasionally use when things dont go their teams way but truly and profoundly sucks at the very core of suckendom. He is the definition of clueless bozo who has no feel for the flow of a game, how to set up plays, how to gauge what's working and what's not, how to use your personnell to garner the best advantage for your team, how to attack the other teams weaknesses. Instead he will attack the other teams strengths with your weaknesses. His coaching is something out of Madden Football. It has no basis in reality. I am astounded as to how bad this guy really is. There are those of you who have been saying this since before the season started but I figured it was typical overreaction that is commonplace on these boards but its obvious that he sucks, really, really sucks. I figured he needed to get used to his personnell and then he'ld be ok, nothing special but ok. But he sucks! You guys were right.I am astounded as to how many times in the course of a game he takes the ball out of the hands of the players who are producing only to give it to players who produce nothing. Sammy Morris being given the ball at critical times of the game instead of Ronnie is mind boggling. Having the oline who is getting a two yd push in straight ahead run blocking for most of the game all of a sudden be forced into spread run blocking schemes where agility rather than brute force is needed. Running wide on critical plays where we lose our physical advantage instead of up the gut where we have the physical edge. My god he sucks. I could go into more detail as to Mularkey's numerous mistakes in the game but I am under too much emotional duress when thinking about him because he SUCKS and so I will stop now. By the way in case you werent aware, HE SUCKS!!!!!!
Moving past that nightmare, Saban needs to lose that brook trout look and get more control of the game situation. He's emotionally off. Conservative when he needs to get aggressive, Agressive when he needs to get conservative. He needs some time off after this season to get his bearings back. He had a rough offseason where unlike 2005 every move he made was pretty good, 2006 was a year where almost every move backfired. I havent jumped off his bandwagon but he needs to learn from this year and move forward. If he's going to have success aas a NFL coach, this year will be a great learning experience in what not to do from personnell decisions to play calling. It could make him a better coach if he takes the right lessons from it
Defensively the schemes are fine overall but some of the secondary matchups at times are mindblowing. Jackson on Coles is coaching masochism. Beat me please.
Offensively we have the personnell finally in place. It only took 6 weeks to get the best set out there. The line with the last moves looked good and functionable. Pray for injury free games because this is a line we can get some continuity out of. They're not great but they are servicable and against poor defenses like the Jets can have good games. Finally we fixed the oline. Next year we need to add some talent but for the rest of this season we're relatively fine for what its worth
The receivers are the girl with the curl. We need one superstar added next year. McMichael, Chambers are good but their drops prevent them from ever being great. Hagan showed some promise but the dropsies affected him too.
Ronnie Brown is an old time running back that just takes what's given him. He wont create something out of nothing but he generally gets every single inch out of a carry that can reasonably be expected. He lacks the cutback vision needed to be great but he can be very good and effective
Harrington's detractors must be watching some parrellel game because in his first game where he had a full week with the offense, he had a very good game. Going into the last drive he had three bad passes all game- three. He had one more in the final drive for a total of 4. Think about what you're using for criteria when you are criticizing a QB who had 4 bad plays for an entire game. What were they? In the 1st he threw a sideline pass that was 50/50 whether the receiver would getit or the defensive back. The pass fell incomplete. The interception where he tried to thread the ball was boneheaded and truly the only really bad play you can point too. In the third or 4th he missed by 5 yds a wide open Welker and on the last 3rd down play he couldve hit Welker and used a timeout but he immediately read a bl;itz turned the other way and overthrew Hagan. I just rewatched the game and if anybody feels he made more mistakes point them out because I didnt see them. Call out the specific play, what he shouldve done and in what qtr and I'll look at the tape again. My feeling is that the detractors didnt watch the game and instead are going off of GameCenter stats because if you watched the game and still think he had a bad game with 4 bad passes for the entire game, then your standards are beyond Hall of Fame. If you expect QBs to play games with two or one bad play, we'll be drafting QBs for 100 years before we find one.
Defensively, The front seven played with a lot of heart. Coulda used more pass rush but overall we're fine there for this year.
The secondary, well everybody knows. They play well 75% of the time and then get ridiculously soft. We simply dont have the talent back there. We dont need a complete overhaul but we need an additional two defensive backs back there. How bad is Jason Allen in practice that he cant get on the field with this secondary?
Mare? Please leave
Overall it took us six weeks to get to the point personnell wise where we should have been week one. We are now going through the shooting the foot phase that we seem to go through every season. Thisd usually lasts about a month and then we start playing up to our abilities. We'll probably win some meaningless games later in the season and finish 5-11. The prioblems now are more psychological than physical. If we can survive this season without going into Titanic mode, and follow that up by firing Mularkey and adding some talented freeagents and having a good draft again we may be ok for 2007. This year has been rough and the sooner its over the better but lets view it for a preview of 2007 because this is the first time this season we have the best personnell on the field
By the way, Mularkey sucks!
Mularkey sucks.
Let me repeat that.
Mularkey really, really sucks. Not in the throw away sense that most fans will occasionally use when things dont go their teams way but truly and profoundly sucks at the very core of suckendom. He is the definition of clueless bozo who has no feel for the flow of a game, how to set up plays, how to gauge what's working and what's not, how to use your personnell to garner the best advantage for your team, how to attack the other teams weaknesses. Instead he will attack the other teams strengths with your weaknesses. His coaching is something out of Madden Football. It has no basis in reality. I am astounded as to how bad this guy really is. There are those of you who have been saying this since before the season started but I figured it was typical overreaction that is commonplace on these boards but its obvious that he sucks, really, really sucks. I figured he needed to get used to his personnell and then he'ld be ok, nothing special but ok. But he sucks! You guys were right.I am astounded as to how many times in the course of a game he takes the ball out of the hands of the players who are producing only to give it to players who produce nothing. Sammy Morris being given the ball at critical times of the game instead of Ronnie is mind boggling. Having the oline who is getting a two yd push in straight ahead run blocking for most of the game all of a sudden be forced into spread run blocking schemes where agility rather than brute force is needed. Running wide on critical plays where we lose our physical advantage instead of up the gut where we have the physical edge. My god he sucks. I could go into more detail as to Mularkey's numerous mistakes in the game but I am under too much emotional duress when thinking about him because he SUCKS and so I will stop now. By the way in case you werent aware, HE SUCKS!!!!!!
Moving past that nightmare, Saban needs to lose that brook trout look and get more control of the game situation. He's emotionally off. Conservative when he needs to get aggressive, Agressive when he needs to get conservative. He needs some time off after this season to get his bearings back. He had a rough offseason where unlike 2005 every move he made was pretty good, 2006 was a year where almost every move backfired. I havent jumped off his bandwagon but he needs to learn from this year and move forward. If he's going to have success aas a NFL coach, this year will be a great learning experience in what not to do from personnell decisions to play calling. It could make him a better coach if he takes the right lessons from it
Defensively the schemes are fine overall but some of the secondary matchups at times are mindblowing. Jackson on Coles is coaching masochism. Beat me please.
Offensively we have the personnell finally in place. It only took 6 weeks to get the best set out there. The line with the last moves looked good and functionable. Pray for injury free games because this is a line we can get some continuity out of. They're not great but they are servicable and against poor defenses like the Jets can have good games. Finally we fixed the oline. Next year we need to add some talent but for the rest of this season we're relatively fine for what its worth
The receivers are the girl with the curl. We need one superstar added next year. McMichael, Chambers are good but their drops prevent them from ever being great. Hagan showed some promise but the dropsies affected him too.
Ronnie Brown is an old time running back that just takes what's given him. He wont create something out of nothing but he generally gets every single inch out of a carry that can reasonably be expected. He lacks the cutback vision needed to be great but he can be very good and effective
Harrington's detractors must be watching some parrellel game because in his first game where he had a full week with the offense, he had a very good game. Going into the last drive he had three bad passes all game- three. He had one more in the final drive for a total of 4. Think about what you're using for criteria when you are criticizing a QB who had 4 bad plays for an entire game. What were they? In the 1st he threw a sideline pass that was 50/50 whether the receiver would getit or the defensive back. The pass fell incomplete. The interception where he tried to thread the ball was boneheaded and truly the only really bad play you can point too. In the third or 4th he missed by 5 yds a wide open Welker and on the last 3rd down play he couldve hit Welker and used a timeout but he immediately read a bl;itz turned the other way and overthrew Hagan. I just rewatched the game and if anybody feels he made more mistakes point them out because I didnt see them. Call out the specific play, what he shouldve done and in what qtr and I'll look at the tape again. My feeling is that the detractors didnt watch the game and instead are going off of GameCenter stats because if you watched the game and still think he had a bad game with 4 bad passes for the entire game, then your standards are beyond Hall of Fame. If you expect QBs to play games with two or one bad play, we'll be drafting QBs for 100 years before we find one.
Defensively, The front seven played with a lot of heart. Coulda used more pass rush but overall we're fine there for this year.
The secondary, well everybody knows. They play well 75% of the time and then get ridiculously soft. We simply dont have the talent back there. We dont need a complete overhaul but we need an additional two defensive backs back there. How bad is Jason Allen in practice that he cant get on the field with this secondary?
Mare? Please leave
Overall it took us six weeks to get to the point personnell wise where we should have been week one. We are now going through the shooting the foot phase that we seem to go through every season. Thisd usually lasts about a month and then we start playing up to our abilities. We'll probably win some meaningless games later in the season and finish 5-11. The prioblems now are more psychological than physical. If we can survive this season without going into Titanic mode, and follow that up by firing Mularkey and adding some talented freeagents and having a good draft again we may be ok for 2007. This year has been rough and the sooner its over the better but lets view it for a preview of 2007 because this is the first time this season we have the best personnell on the field
By the way, Mularkey sucks!
It is long. I always wait until week 6 is over before I analyze the NFL. Dont worry, I'm done for now, maybe one when the season is over