Can you stand the upside-downness of Mike Chick's NC vote on Jim Mora Jr. ? I can't. It's downright insane when players start offering opinions on whether a coach should return next season. I suppose that the future of the NFL will be filled with loser QB's weighing in head on coaching decisions. That is as long as bufoons like Arthur Blank are the future team owners.
Even more ridiculous was Ron Mexico's statement that he had a great season. But no, that wasn't enough, he had to take it a step further and blame everyone else around him for his inability to become an NFL QB. Nice work, Mexico. You're one new HC away from being the next Kordell Stewart. Stewart, more and more looks like Mexico's daddy for teaching him how to weigh in on coaching, but Stew didn't have the tug with Dan Rooney so he got a coordinator fired (Ray Sherman). Then, when the new coordinator was too effective to blame, Stewie deservedly got himself exiled to the Bears, and eventually became an emergency punter in Baltimore.
For Mora's sake, I hope he gets fired. I secretly wish he ends up in Pittsburgh. Who wants to coach a team with a numbskull for an owner who has financially cemented a loser/quitter at QB? Blank can delude himself that the problem is anything but Chick. But the fact is, it gets worse from here as long as #7 is taking off after his first read is covered and pitching junk the minute he faces a decent defense. Besides, if the players are choosing the coaches, then you don't have coaches. Note to Jim, take the money and run.
Next on the "mobile" QB hit parade is Kordell V Young in TN. The scoreboard makes it look much closer, but the NE game serves notice of what TN fans can expect in the future. The secret of Young's success has been, just like Kordell's, a running game that disguises his deficiencies. So Young puts up decent stats, makes the team look competitive with his sandlot moves and gives you a close game until it matters. Sure, he had yet another electrifying TD run to make it interesting. But the Pats D clamped down and made VY or KY or whatever they call him throw the ball. The result, a game losing INT. End 0f drea, end of story.
The measure of Young's career will be made with what he does with the information from that NE game. Will he stick to the idiotic notion that QB's win games with their legs or will he defy his intuition and find a way to play QB and get the ball to his team mates? My guess, if his wonderlic score is any indication, is the former. Another "Korkie" teasing (TN) fans into thinking they can win out until they face a decent defense that forces him to play the position he hasn't learned.
Whay mystifies me more than anything though, is the goo####ance Young has cooked up to delight (himself) the fans. Does he have any idea how #### he looks with all those stupid machinations? You'd think he'd spend his spare time learning the playbook instead of preparing to follow Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the stars.
youre an ####. he didnt 'offer' his opinion - at least by any normal definition of the word. the question was asked and he answered. i suppose you have an idea of what he 'should' have said.
"Will he stick to the idiotic notion that QB's win games with their legs or will he defy his intuition and find a way to play QB and get the ball to his team mates? "
another stupid and unfounded statement. he's never said anything of the sort. if you hapened to see any of those run plays, he took off when the rest of the play has broken down. the Titans dont have a great running game 'that cover his other deficiencies'. which scrub RB are you talking about?
your assault on the 'running QB' is pathetic. so was it Kordell or was it Cowher?
More and more you keep showing your true color(s).
Vick chose to offer an opinion. Just because one is asked a question doesn't mean one has to answer, unless of course they're insufficiently developed to control their responses.
As for the scrubs in TN, I don't think arguing that Travis Henry and LenDale White exactly qualify as scrubs. But check the stats (the ones you love to cite so often as a measure of excellence) on TN's running game during the KY streak, then get back to me.
"Who wants to coach a team with a numbskull for an owner who has financially cemented a loser/quitter at QB? Blank can delude himself that the problem is anything but Chick. But the fact is, it gets worse from here as long as #7 is taking off after his first read is covered and pitching junk the minute he faces a decent defense. Besides, if the players are choosing the coaches, then you don't have coaches. Note to Jim, take the money and run."
Chris,
You and broblong can count me among the converted. You are ####! Dead On!
Demon,
Here is my Ron Mexico defender mantle. Please take it and run with it. Actually I think I am going over to the bright side and that you are remaining on the dark side. Count me among the enlightened as well.
Chris - as Demon said, Vick answered a question. Sure, you don't have to answer one that is asked. But in this case, the same goes for Mora Jr. (who I kinda liked by the way). His comments just came at a very detrimental time for the Falcons organization. I still say that Vick can get it done. Of course, once he goes somewhere else and puts up big numbers, then Atlanta will be idiots for letting him go. There are WAY more problems with the Falcon's than just Vick. Sure, Vick can improve along with all the other players and coaches on the team.
And in this case, Vick is not choosing the Falcon's coach. Actually Vick has done nothing but support Mora since he came on board. Vick didn't turn his back on Mora, Mora made it CLEAR that he didn't want to be in ATL anymore. Whether it was a conscious or subconscious decision, it's one HE made with the help of Mora Sr. Pittsburgh can have him. Good luck with that one.
As Dan Marino said, "six years in, you know what you have".
Don't worry about Vick going anywhere and making ATL look bad. It took him six years to go backwards as a QB in ATL, just think of how much harder it will be for him to learn another system on top of the one he still doesn't know.
Vick is simply not getting better as a QB. Now that the better teams have his sandlot game solved, his best years are behind him. ATL would be wise to deal him and his egregiously inflated cap cost to any team stupid enough to pay 100 mil for an undersized running back.
"What happened? Was quitting on his team and his coach enough to show you what a piece of trash Vick really is?"
I think he quit on the team when he quit on his coach last week and on the field on Sunday. I am not calling him trash. I would like to know how much Ron Mexico cost him.
