NFL 2021 season - Belichick Strikes Back
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So I wasn't able to get this out last night (too emotional) but this win has special meaning for me.
One of my oldest and dearest friends, someone I've known since we were 5 years old, was my Rams Football buddy. We grew up next door to each other in Los Angeles, and have been Rams fans since we were kids. We went to many games together over the years.
He died of cancer at the age of 53 right after the Rams lost to Green Bay in the Divisional Round last season. Our last text exchanges were while watching the game on TV at our own houses. He died 10 days later.
I'd like to think he was looking out for us this season, and I'm gutted that he missed this Super Bowl win. But he was with me in spirit.
RIP John. We made it.
A great win for The Rams.
Orlando thinks so.
Torry agrees.
One of my oldest and dearest friends, someone I've known since we were 5 years old, was my Rams Football buddy. We grew up next door to each other in Los Angeles, and have been Rams fans since we were kids. We went to many games together over the years.
He died of cancer at the age of 53 right after the Rams lost to Green Bay in the Divisional Round last season. Our last text exchanges were while watching the game on TV at our own houses. He died 10 days later.
I'd like to think he was looking out for us this season, and I'm gutted that he missed this Super Bowl win. But he was with me in spirit.
RIP John. We made it.
A great win for The Rams.
Orlando thinks so.
Torry agrees.
Rams could collapse quicker than any other Super Bowl winner.
Matt Stafford got his ring, but could quickly find himself on Detroit 2.0.
- McVay isn’t sure if he’s coming back.
- OBJ is a free agent.
- Aaron Donald is contemplating retirement.
- Andrew Whitworth is contemplating retirement.
- The Bengals badly exposed the Rams offensive line.
- Rams don’t have a first round pick until 2024.
- Jalen Ramsey looks like he has lost a step.
Matt Stafford got his ring, but could quickly find himself on Detroit 2.0.
The Rams basically pulled a Saints, badly mortgaging the future in exchange for current hopes. It's paid off for them, obviously, but they're going to be in pain probably after next year.
He's not retiring, his contract with NBC is up. ESPN is badly trying to get him back for Monday Night Football (I guess they realized the Steve Levy experiment isn't working), and Amazon is throwing all the money in the world at him to do their Thursday Night Football telecasts, since they now have the exclusive rights.
Same thing happened to the Broncos after Peyton (wisely) retired. A slow downward spiral into oblivion. The irony here is that one of the few remaining real playmakers left on that team (Von Miller) was let go earlier this season in exchange for a couple of draft picks to go to the Rams and be a major contributor to their success. Elway is such a fucking idiot. 
It wasn’t Elway, George Paton made the Von Miller trade. As far as the Rams go, they might stumble to 6-11 as soon as next year. $15 million over the salary cap and no 1st, 2nd or 3rd round pick. Have a compensatory pick between the 3rd and 4th round.
Paton may have made the final decision with the numbers on paper for what they could get with the trade, but there was a highly political subtext to all that as well. It is no secret anywhere in Denver that Von Miller refused to bend the knee and kiss the ring of Jolly Old Saint Elway, who is still considered by some to be a State Treasure of Colorado for some perverse reason. 
While the team he was tasked to rebuild collapsed and burned at his feet in the past 6 years, he went out and did multiple local-channel advertisements with his football metaphors and his crooked toothy smile, while representing the team. Those are done now - they've hired Peyton Manning to do a lot of those kinds of ads now and Elway has been slowly moved into obscurity, and rightfully so. #FireJohnElway has been trending for the past 2 years. There were even recent rumors that the Mannings would enter into a bidding war against Elway for ownership of the team, which has been floating in limbo since Pat Bowlen died back in 2019. That all went away when Byron Allen smoked them all with his bid and it looks like he's going to get it.
Prior to Miller's departure, in recent years Elway had been making veiled threats that Miller had to start "stepping up" or be let go. This left everyone scratching their heads in confusion, as Miller was one of the few genuine playmakers left on the post-Peyton roster, who was basically the linchpin of the Fangio Denver defense (this was back when everyone thought that Fangio was a defensive "guru"). Shit, Miller WAS the Denver defense.
Paton made the call (to be fair, that was his job to do so as GM), but Elway was definitely whispering in his ear the whole damn time. Miller's performance in LA on Sunday washed away any doubts in anyone's mind whether or not he was still a top-shelf baller and that the Paton/Elway show can suck it.
While the team he was tasked to rebuild collapsed and burned at his feet in the past 6 years, he went out and did multiple local-channel advertisements with his football metaphors and his crooked toothy smile, while representing the team. Those are done now - they've hired Peyton Manning to do a lot of those kinds of ads now and Elway has been slowly moved into obscurity, and rightfully so. #FireJohnElway has been trending for the past 2 years. There were even recent rumors that the Mannings would enter into a bidding war against Elway for ownership of the team, which has been floating in limbo since Pat Bowlen died back in 2019. That all went away when Byron Allen smoked them all with his bid and it looks like he's going to get it.Prior to Miller's departure, in recent years Elway had been making veiled threats that Miller had to start "stepping up" or be let go. This left everyone scratching their heads in confusion, as Miller was one of the few genuine playmakers left on the post-Peyton roster, who was basically the linchpin of the Fangio Denver defense (this was back when everyone thought that Fangio was a defensive "guru"). Shit, Miller WAS the Denver defense.
Paton made the call (to be fair, that was his job to do so as GM), but Elway was definitely whispering in his ear the whole damn time. Miller's performance in LA on Sunday washed away any doubts in anyone's mind whether or not he was still a top-shelf baller and that the Paton/Elway show can suck it.
Nahh... Burrow wants badly to stay in Cincinnati. Plus they have more cap money than almost anybody else to spend on those OL guys.If they get better protection for Burrow, they should be a contender. Or Burrow might just decide that the Bengals don't want to win and move on to another team...like Patriots
You're being naive if you think he isn't already aware of that cautionary tale.gblews said:Joe Burrow tweets like a guy who thinks he has lots of Super Bowls in his future. Someone should tell him the Dan Marino Story.
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They also have the historically cheap Mike Brown and family running the show.
Maybe, but they’ll be able to look at a shiny new Lombardi if they do have reason to be depressed in the near future.
it ain’t about “the future,” it’s about winning championships.
To some degree, yes. But, they aren’t going to have much success building a fan base if they follow that trophy with a bunch of mediocre seasons.
It’s not quite as dire as all that…
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...make-a-run-at-a-repeat-in-2022/?partner=Yahoo
o/c I am a long suffering Bengals fan, but...
o/c I am a long suffering Bengals fan, but...
Someone did this joke for the Packers already, which works better considering they have Breitbart Starr as their starting QB.