Agreed. Luck always plays a big part in anyone's plans. No team has ever won a championship without a fair amount of it regardless of the sport.
NFL 2018 Season
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Not sure what Gruden is doing is even relevant to what we are talking about. He's not over-reaching to try and stay relevant, he's just burning down the roster that the previous admin built and grabbing picks so he can rebuild it the way he wants to. Apple and Oranges. He's blowing it up and tanking, not blowing the future on incremental (maybe) upgrades.
7-9 to 9-7 is the worst place to be in the NFL, check out the Dolphins or Bills lately (just familiar AFC east examples for me). You're not making the playoffs, you're not drafting top 10 to snag a good talent. You're always desperate for a big talent or new QB, so then trading away draft capital to move up. But you blew so much that you can't fix everything, so stay 7-9 to 9-7 and repeat the cycle again. Gotta either make a run or suck, no man's land is where franchises go to die...
7-9 to 9-7 is the worst place to be in the NFL, check out the Dolphins or Bills lately (just familiar AFC east examples for me). You're not making the playoffs, you're not drafting top 10 to snag a good talent. You're always desperate for a big talent or new QB, so then trading away draft capital to move up. But you blew so much that you can't fix everything, so stay 7-9 to 9-7 and repeat the cycle again. Gotta either make a run or suck, no man's land is where franchises go to die...
You misread my post. I wasn't using what Gruden is doing as an example of sacrificing the "future" for "now". I was using what Gruden is doing as an example of one of the other methods of building a contender, sacrificing winning now, for the future.
That was partially in support of the fact that there is more than one way of building a winner in the NFL. Your original post on the subject seemed to imply that there was only one way of getting it done.
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Gase to re-evaluate everything. Hopefully, Miami will re-evaluate the head coach position in the off-season.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ase-going-to-reevaluate-everything-after-loss
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ase-going-to-reevaluate-everything-after-loss
Texans Will Fuller done for the year with a torn ACL.
https://www.profootballrumors.com/2018/10/texans-wr-will-fuller-done-for-season
A shame. They had the look of a team making a ton of progress.
https://www.profootballrumors.com/2018/10/texans-wr-will-fuller-done-for-season
A shame. They had the look of a team making a ton of progress.
It seems like the Texans are always dealing with injuries to key personnel. Not that it's any different from any other NFL team, but when it's your team it's always the "football gods hate us" thing. I'm used to it with the Texans, normally half their starters are injured by the middle of the season, or playing through their injuries. JJ Watt missed almost two years before coming back this year.
In all honesty, if the Texans do make the playoffs they won't last long.
Gruden is definitely making things entertaining in the NFL...
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...ruden-said-raiders-should-draft-amari-cooper/
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...ruden-said-raiders-should-draft-amari-cooper/
Y'know, Mark Davis isn't exactly living up to his father's insanity, but now he has Chucky to help out. As a Bears fan, and all we have to go through with the McCaskeys, I really feel bad for Raiders fans. They were an epic team once upon a time.
I was happy when the Raiders took Amri as well, but for the most part, he never really lived up to the hype and never came close to hitting his considerable potential considering his immense athletic gifts. He definitely did not become a "young Tim Brown". He was rarely clutch, and I thought, seemed to play well only when the rest of the team was playing well.
Even before Gruden arrived I was thinking this was likely a make or break year for Amari, so I'm really not too surprised by the trade. If you want a receiver with star potential, Amari is your guy. You just have to find a way to unlock that potential.
Even before Gruden arrived I was thinking this was likely a make or break year for Amari, so I'm really not too surprised by the trade. If you want a receiver with star potential, Amari is your guy. You just have to find a way to unlock that potential.
I'm starting to wonder if Jameis Winston belongs on an NFL roster, his performance today was on par with a typical Nathan Peterman game. Fitzpatrick nearly brought them back to win after Winston threw four INT's and the Bucs were down 18.
Feeling sorry for Baker Mayfield. He is going to be asked to learn a totally new offense next year. He hasn't even learned Hue Jackson/Todd Haley's, taking way too long to make reads and get the ball out.
Is it me, or has Jared Goff seemed a bit off the last couple of games? Not "bad", but not quite hitting receivers the same way he was earlier in the season.
Feeling sorry for Baker Mayfield. He is going to be asked to learn a totally new offense next year. He hasn't even learned Hue Jackson/Todd Haley's, taking way too long to make reads and get the ball out.
Is it me, or has Jared Goff seemed a bit off the last couple of games? Not "bad", but not quite hitting receivers the same way he was earlier in the season.
Wow...The Packers/Rams game is pretty wild. Very tight between two really good teams. And I'm quite shocked - I don't think I've ever seen players of a visiting team motioning the crowd to get loud against the home team - there appear to be more Green Bay fans in the stadium then L.A. Fans!
Yep, a W is still a W, even with a magical game-ending field goal. 
My Skins beat the poor downtrodden Giants today. I'm actually starting to feel kind of bad for them. Not much of a challenge, but it's still a division victory which is worth much more than anything else.
My Skins beat the poor downtrodden Giants today. I'm actually starting to feel kind of bad for them. Not much of a challenge, but it's still a division victory which is worth much more than anything else.
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