The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V2

Diarmuid1995 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/KimJonesSports/status/937719105372737541

Looks like the giants are kicking off black monday a few weeks early this season

Not before time either

Jerry Reach was lucky to be kept on for as long as he did thanks to his awful drafting

McAdont I never want to hear his name again

He's been rattling out stupid sound bites since before the opener week 1 vs Dallas. He's just impossible to take seriously.

Think his handling of the Eli situation was the last straw

He got completely off message from what Mara meant

Giants have been really dysfunctional this year and players have quit on him at various stages

The Eli situation has damged the Giants brand with fans, former players and I'm sure current players

They badly got it wrong

The firings today will mean that the riot that would have been Sundays game is a lot tamer than it would have been

No it was def not McAdont alone. Mara did broach the subject with Jerry Reach. Reach and McAdont had been discussing other QBs for a while

There is a huge disconnect between Mara's thoughts and what McAdont delivered

Mara wanted Manning to continue to start with no definitive limit on how much he would play. Such as: If the Giants led the Raiders 21-3 at the half on Sunday, then it wasn’t a given Geno Smith would start the second half. But McAdoo screwed it up and alienated Manning by saying he would start the first half in Oakland and Smith would start the second half. Manning had no interest and Mara said he understood.

“I was hoping that he would continue to play and then we’d work out at what point the other quarterbacks go into the game,” he said. “It was presented the way that Ben thought it ought to be presented and could we have done it differently? I guess you could argue we could have. Yes,” Mara said. “The point was we did not want him on the bench. We wanted him to start the game and play some portion of the game and at some point work the other guys in.”

McAdoo could not even find the right way to bench a legend.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/fo...icle-1.3666410

Mara also said that McAdont was not good at communication

Mara hopes that fans will move on now ... but i think he is still underestimating the anger out there

He will get a calmer reception Sunday but as much as McAdont was an idiot in the way he handles Eli, it was Mara's conversation to have really

Never let a boy do a mans work

I’m not sure the reaction would have been quite the same if he had played Webb instead of Geno Smith. Geno Smith like. What’s to evaluate?

Webb may be part of the future. Geno never was going to be
Not having Webb game ready also falls on coaching

Gronk definitely deserves a suspension:

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Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah they are alright. It's why I was hoping the eagles would keep winning.

Keep ye under the radar?

Hococop wrote: »

Keep ye under the radar?

No keep a lead over them.

phatkev wrote: »

people probably wont agree with this but I think his suspension should match however games Tre'Davious White misses due to the concussion.

Not really a viable option to be fair, while it was a nasty thing to do I doubt he thought he would concuss the guy. I think 1 game is probably about fair but an extra one or two games wouldn't have surprised me.

Poor form to appeal it IMO, it was cowardly & had the risk to really hurt someone.

Hazys wrote: »

I've seen Pats fans on twitter joking that they were disappointed that the suspension was only one game and that they wanted four games! Just so they can keep Gronk healthy for the playoffs!

in fairness the afc is that bad they could probably rest half their team for the remainder of games and still stroll the top seed