Cleo Lemon - All Pro (against the Ravens)
So yes, your team has been decimated by injuries, I get that. But you just lost to the Dolphins. You've just lost your 8th straight game of the season. Your wins this year are squeakers against the Cardinals, the Jets, and the 49ers, and you did pound the Rams pretty good. The only upside to your situation is that you just likely clinched a top-5 overall pick. As I suggested to J-Red, I hear that Isaiah Gardner is coming out of Maryland. You should shock the world and take him in the first round to boost your secondary.
Oh, and the good news to come out of this is that I've at least clinched a push with my brother-in-law regarding our bet as to who will finish with more wins. I took the 'Skins, he took the Ravens.
But if this was any other team in the league, Billick would be gone. And he still very well might be, despite the most assuredly legally non-binding "vote of confidence." And even if it was legally binding, most legal types could argue that a loss to the pitiful, horrible, putrid Dolphins is such a material breach that it would be unconscionable to hold Bisciotti to the contract and not excuse his performance.
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First, thanks to Jeremy for posting this. I was a weird combination of homicidal and sucidal after the game.
This is the most embarassing loss in the 12-year history of the franchise. The result itself is not embarassing so much as the way in which it was accomplished.
When you are 4-9, you are down 3, there are 12 seconds left, and you are on the road, you do not kick the field goal.
When all 11 members of your offense are looking at you like you're crazy and actually arguing with you, you probably should run a play and not just take a concession field goal.
When your rookie Heisman-winning QB says after the game "I fought with the coach, and I should not have done that," it's his way of saying "Note that I disagreed with this decision," because it reminds people why he had a reason to argue with the coach.
Let's go back to the end of regulation. You're 4-9. The 49ers lost, so a loss means you'll have a top-five draft pick most likely. You're really good at top-five draft picking. You have the ball half a yard out with 12 seconds left and no time outs. You have infinite options. You can run a cheap fade, any other pass play or you can utilize your balls and run it in.
Or you can kick a field goal, hope you win the toss, hope your rookie QB can avoid shitting the bed, and hope your long snapper, Matt Katula, doesn't have the first poor snap of his career. Those chings didn't happen.
I'm in now way done being a Ravens fan, but I do feel like I know how it feels to be a Redskins fan.
"I fought with the coach, and I should not have done that."
Where did you read that he said this? Or did you see it on TV?
Good for Troy. Billick needs to go.
Heard it on 98 Rock immediately after the game.
I lost in my fantasy football by two points.
I have Brian Westbrook on my team.
Don't tell me about hardship!
i am so mad. i am so mad. i am sooooo mad.
i wrote something about this today.
kgooncp.blogspot.com
I literally wanted to see Billick dead yesterday afternoon. One opportunity to man up and feel good about something this season.
And legal types would also tell you that unconscionability (2-302 in the U.C.C. of course) is by far the weakest contract defense. It's even weaker than laches.
It was a truly stupid game. But as a die hard long suffering Dolphins fan, I can only be thankful that we crossed paths with Billick this year...otherwise 0-16 would have been a real possibility.
The 0-13 1986 Colts won their final three games. Seeing as how Miami and New England meet up this weekend, I would like to see a repeat of that.
me too
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