NFL Week 14: Tebow > Rivers > Kevin Hart

[Demosthenes11]

Marion barber with his 6th td this season. Remember when I said he was the biggest p/u for the bears in the offseason? Me too

A+ would read thread again

[Bregor]

Dear Dallas,



Love,
Breggy

[Bregor]

Also, that Julio Jones guy is pretty good.

[Headspace]

Also, that Julio Jones guy is pretty good.

Must be nice to be single covered by the 2nd and 3rd corners for Carolina while playing second fiddle to Roddy White.

Real men beast double coverages against top corners like Joseph.

[Diamicles]

Dear Chicago,



Love,
Breggy

ftfy

I had a feeling they would need more than a 10 point lead deep in the 4th to beat the Teeboners

[Bregor]

Must be nice to be single covered by the 2nd and 3rd corners for Carolina while playing second fiddle to Roddy White.

Offset by having Ryan for a QB.

ftfy

no

Once Cutler and Forte are back and Lovie is fired, Chicago will be fine. Dallas is just terrible.

[Rhinox]

A+ would read thread again

Great. Still mean it.

Btw how's it feel to have to be bailed out by stupid redskins mistakes to win? Sexy rexy torched your defense which tbh isn't new.

[Bregor]

The Browns should build around Colt McCoy, not draft a quarterback in 2012 to replace him. I'd seen snippets of McCoy flailing around this year, but hadn't watched every throw of a game. And so I watched Thursday night to get some sense of the near- and long-term prospects of the former University of Texas quarterback. And I came away thinking the Browns should stick with him and use a rich 2012 draft to finally build the kind of offense around McCoy that any quarterback would need to succeed.

Mike Holmgren is a disciple of Bill Walsh. I remember when Walsh was shown a few plays of Charles Haley rushing the passer at James Madison; he told his scouts he really wanted him. "If we see him make a few plays like this, we can coach him to do it all the time,'' Walsh said, and he was proved a prophet -- Haley became a top NFL pass-rusher for San Francisco and Dallas.

Well, on Thursday night, I saw McCoy, with limited help from grade-D skill players, make enough plays to convince me he's not the problem. Now, I realize he made two or three idiotic throws in the second half -- and you're not going to win doing that consistently. But one of the bad throws came after he was concussed and should never have been put back in the game. And those throws have to be addressed.

But he did enough good things that I came away thinking: Use the three picks in the top 40 next April (Cleveland has its own first- and-second-round picks, plus Atlanta's first-rounder from the Julio Jones deal last April) to help McCoy, not replace him. Three plays showed a mature quarterback making good decisions:

1. On the first series of the game, using play-action, McCoy set up, looked over his options and found tight end Evan Moore down the left side on a crossing route with a step on linebacker Lawrence Timmons. The high-arcing pass settled into Moore's arms. Gain of 33.

2. Also on the first series, Josh Cribbs found a gap downfield in the left seam and McCoy made a great touch pass over cornerback Ike Taylor. Gain of 25.

3. In the third quarter, on third-and-eight, down 7-3, McCoy faced a five-man rush and moved up in the pocket. Feeling pressure, he threw the ball about five feet to the right of tight end Alex Smith, because that was the only window open to make the throw -- Troy Polamalu, Ryan Clark and William Gay converged on Smith and seemed ready to pancake him. But the throw was zipped in perfectly, Smith made a diving catch, and the Browns had a first down. Good judgment, great throw.

Of course, we wouldn't be talking about any of this if McCoy didn't make some brain-fart throws. But I believe he can be coached out of those -- it's what Bill Walsh would believe, watching him -- and I believe some of that stems from the fact that the Browns are a poor offensive team as a whole.

McCoy has holes. He also has a coach, Pat Shurmur, who can correct those, and is in an offense he's so well-suited to run. He's well-liked and respected in the locker room. If I'm Browns GM Tom Heckert, I'm looking for an offseason upgrade at wide receiver (the Browns need two), guard, running back and tight end ... before I even think about replacing the quarterback.

HEE-HAW

[Conrad]

eagles goin to the super bowl

[Headspace]

HALEY NOOOOO

[Bregor]

eagles goin to the super bowl

You know what's coming.

Spoiler: show

No, not that one.

Spoiler: show

http://i846.photobucket.com/albums/a...1-02-Dance.gif

[Bregor]

HALEY NOOOOO

And so passes an above average beard.

[tyven]

i think it would be jawsome if eagles made it to the playoffs

[Tyche]

Two coaches have been fired before Sparano. Legitimately surprising.

[Conrad]

And yet, Caldwell still has a job.

Spoiler: show

Because we all know Peyton is secretly the Colts coach, yet is unable to teach Curtis Painter a cot-damned thing

[AidenCarby]

Great. Still mean it.

Btw how's it feel to have to be bailed out by stupid redskins mistakes to win? Sexy rexy torched your defense which tbh isn't new.

But you still got Tebowed.

[Cleverness]

First win in awhile, feels good man.

[Demosthenes11]

Great. Still mean it.

Btw how's it feel to have to be bailed out by stupid redskins mistakes to win? Sexy rexy torched your defense which tbh isn't new.

this just in: teams play close games against teams much worse than they are on the road every year

the sign of an actual good team is coming out on top.

[Bregor]

the sign of an actual good team is coming out on top.

I totally read that in Trent Dilfer's voice.

[archibaldcrane]

I still can't believe Marion Barber fumbled that ball.

I don't know why it shocks me so much, it was the obvious conclusion to that game.

But I still can't believe it.