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Yes, We are the laughing stock of the league

Geez....another we suck or laughing stock or fire Jeff Ireland,how about we are a joke of a franchise...seriously...this doesn't get old? I guess there isn't much else to talk about at this time of year
 
I would be VERY upset as a Jaguar fan at not making more of an effort too sign Tebow. He would have fit there perfectly.
 
Good points, Locke. I have my own issues with Ireland for what he has and hasn't done here. But every dip**** you mentioned above deserves to be called out nationally for their actions, too.

A lot of them have, though, to be honest. I knew about Millen from the national press, not the local Detroit media. Smith in San Diego has burned a lot of bridges out there, I'm 3000 miles away and have never picked up a CA newspaper in my life and I knew that. Not sure why people are treating the Saints with kid gloves to this point, it's the worst NFL scandal in most of our lifetimes. Until the players themselves are named and punished specifically, it kind of has a "waiting for the other shoe to drop" feel to it. Hopefully, the full truth about that mess will come out so that it's more difficult to ever occur again.

In the meanwhile, we have a billionaire owner who has as many gaffs as dollars to his credit. The Sparano/Harbaugh thing will prove hard to live down. Getting rebuked by so many high profile coaches and players isn't helping. FA has been a yawn. Landing a few studs in the draft who garner face time on ESPN highlights--not to mention Ws in the win column--is our best hope to turn the perception around that our team shows up at the stadium in a clown car. If we're winning, Philbin will be a person more of the media will want to hear from. That can only help us, compared to the alternatives who don't speak well in public.
 
andyahs said:
Well said. I guess winning will help all of this go away we will see.
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I'm not so sure it will. For some reason, Ireland is being targeted here. I get the impression someone is trying to get him blacklisted. He has done a so-so job, but it is hypocritical to blast the guy for his people skills when you've got AJ Smith sitting there on the other coast being just as big of a prick. I'm a clinical psychologist by trade. That certainly doesn't make me an expert on anything, but it does make me a qualified observer of human behavior. I can confidently say that something is going on behind the scenes here...
 
Myles Fynch said:
Good points, Locke. I have my own issues with Ireland for what he has and hasn't done here. But every dip**** you mentioned above deserves to be called out nationally for their actions, too.

A lot of them have, though, to be honest. I knew about Millen from the national press, not the local Detroit media. Smith in San Diego has burned a lot of bridges out there, I'm 3000 miles away and have never picked up a CA newspaper in my life and I knew that. Not sure why people are treating the Saints with kid gloves to this point, it's the worst NFL scandal in most of our lifetimes. Until the players themselves are named and punished specifically, it kind of has a "waiting for the other shoe to drop" feel to it. Hopefully, the full truth about that mess will come out so that it's more difficult to ever occur again.

In the meanwhile, we have a billionaire owner who has as many gaffs as dollars to his credit. The Sparano/Harbaugh thing will prove hard to live down. Getting rebuked by so many high profile coaches and players isn't helping. FA has been a yawn. Landing a few studs in the draft who garner face time on ESPN highlights--not to mention Ws in the win column--is our best hope to turn the perception around that our team shows up at the stadium in a clown car. If we're winning, Philbin will be a person more of the media will want to hear from. That can only help us, compared to the alternatives who don't speak well in public.
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Agreed on all counts. However, do you recall Millen or AJ Smith persecuted like this? Ireland has every single sports media outlet on his case. I don't remember anyone having it as bad off as he has. I mean, they would be talked about, but it was part of the program, not the main point. This is something else. The Saints thing is a black eye on the NFL as a whole, so I can understand everyone trying to let that fade away. I don't agree with it, but I can see why that's happening. But in an objective industry, Ireland's issues would force a magnifying glass on every GM in the league that has done things like this. All of them have, at one point or another, but nothing is said about it...
 
it's always going to be an uphill battle for Miami as long as the major sports media outlets are based in the Northeast
 
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