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2011-12-05 10:31:12 AM
Bleacher Report AND a slideshow....no thanks.
 
2011-12-05 10:32:32 AM
Bashatizin' Smashmaster: Bleacher Report AND a slideshow....no thanks.

That's why I didn't RTFA, but I hope Ochocinco is on there.
 
2011-12-05 10:32:45 AM
Next up: Five Fark sponsored link generators delivering the worst article return on investment
 
2011-12-05 10:33:32 AM
Hm, only two players from Philly? Well, the season isn't over yet.

I'm looking at you, DeSean.
 
2011-12-05 10:35:32 AM
Honorable Mention: Chris Johnson
Nnamdi Asomugha
Zach Miller
Chad Ochocinco
Kevin Kolb
Michael Vick
 
2011-12-05 10:36:07 AM
If the Bears are paying Roy Williams $3.50, they're not getting their money's worth.
 
2011-12-05 10:42:41 AM
I'm not sure about Zach Miller being a bad investment. He's been injured more often than not, and Seattle lost John Carlson early in the year. The TE has been a forgotten position ever since, used primarily for run blocking. It's game planning and injuries that is currently keeping Miller down.
 
2011-12-05 10:43:52 AM
Have the Skins turned the corner so as to not be featured in one of these articles?

No worries, it seems we now have drug problems to fill the drama void.
 
2011-12-05 10:45:51 AM
I think No Script makes some slide shows appear all on one page . This one was all on one page , others have been too.
 
2011-12-05 10:51:53 AM
No Kyle Orton?
 
2011-12-05 10:54:26 AM
Peyton Manning?
 
2011-12-05 10:57:56 AM
Nnamdi Asomugha: Rivals Revis in man-to-man coverage and the Eagles put him in zone and even played him at safety. Poor performance is more a matter of being out of position and a terrible DC. He'll be fine if they use him properly.

Zach Miller: Horrible QB play, run-based offense, and Seattle tends to like to have the TE stay in to block. They overpaid to use someone improperly.

Chad Ochocinco: Over-the-hill, definite bust. He'll probably be cut.

Kevin Kolb: High risk, high reward trade. Whisenhunt did it to try and save his job, but he probably cost it instead and saddled the franchise with a bad contract. Kolb may develop into a solid QB, but he is being paid like a star. How the hell do people keep falling for Eagles backup QBs?

Michael Vick: He's always been injury-prone as a result of his play style. Who would expect this to change as he gets older? Oh, Andy Reid.
 
2011-12-05 10:58:14 AM
1) Matt Cassel
2) Matt Cassel
3) Matt Cassel
4) Matt Cassel
5) Matt Cassel

Honorable Mention: Matt Cassel
 
2011-12-05 11:02:52 AM
Droog8912: Chad Ochocinco: Over-the-hill, definite bust. He'll probably be cut.

Actually I don't agree. I've seen 4 or 5 NE games and I've yet to see Brady give Johnson anything remotely catchable on a consistent basis.
 
2011-12-05 11:04:15 AM
bhcompy: Droog8912: Chad Ochocinco: Over-the-hill, definite bust. He'll probably be cut.

Actually I don't agree. I've seen 4 or 5 NE games and I've yet to see Brady give Johnson anything remotely catchable on a consistent basis.


That's because Ochocinco's not running the right routes. He's not where he's supposed to be.
 
2011-12-05 11:05:04 AM
I tried like crazy to trade for Michael Vick in my fantasy league earlier this year. I'm glad I was shot down multiple times. I lowballed a guy on Andre Johnson, and he was pissed at me for doing it. Now offering him some used edamame shells would have been too high for AJ...and MV for that matter.
 
2011-12-05 11:07:07 AM
AdmirableSnackbar: bhcompy: Droog8912: Chad Ochocinco: Over-the-hill, definite bust. He'll probably be cut.

Actually I don't agree. I've seen 4 or 5 NE games and I've yet to see Brady give Johnson anything remotely catchable on a consistent basis.

That's because Ochocinco's not running the right routes. He's not where he's supposed to be.


Unless he's running option routes exclusively, there is no reason that Brady overthrows or underthrows Johnson as consistently as he does. Brady's timing based throws are to two people: Faulk and Welker. The rest are primarily read and react
 
2011-12-05 11:08:03 AM
From the writer's comments on Vick:

"When a team calls itself a "Dream Team"" .. Lazy writers still keep using this stupid phrase - when it was NOT the team or the fans using it. It was ONE lousy backup QB that was signed who said it, and then the press ran with it.

I just hate seeing it repeated so much, especially from someone calling themselves a 'writer'. But then I remember - it *IS* just Bleacher Reports, which means the person who 'wrote' that was just spouting nonsense they read somewhere else and calling it their own article.

lazy Writers are Lazy.
 
2011-12-05 11:16:45 AM
Boy I bet Zach Miller regrets being so butthurt about Cable being let go. And Al might get a beyond the grave repreive for Nnamdi walking. Tim Hightower and Sidney Rice aren't exactly making their GM's breathe easier.
 
2011-12-05 11:21:49 AM
ItsJustJake: From the writer's comments on Vick:

"When a team calls itself a "Dream Team"" .. Lazy writers still keep using this stupid phrase - when it was NOT the team or the fans using it. It was ONE lousy backup QB that was signed who said it, and then the press ran with it.

I just hate seeing it repeated so much, especially from someone calling themselves a 'writer'. But then I remember - it *IS* just Bleacher Reports, which means the person who 'wrote' that was just spouting nonsense they read somewhere else and calling it their own article.

lazy Writers are Lazy.


I thought the same thing when i read it. So sick of hearing this phrase uttered over and over. And it came from the guy that has 9 Interceptions this year as a back up.
 
2011-12-05 11:27:30 AM
stop feeding the bleacher report monster. their writing is usually piss-poor and misinformed, and every one of their articles is a slideshow.
 
2011-12-05 11:28:00 AM
Cut Ocho some slack, Brady lost all his arm strength and can't throw the deep ball very well anymore. He's just a dump-off specialist like Sanchez for the rest of his career.
 
2011-12-05 11:34:12 AM
udeng01: Have the Skins turned the corner so as to not be featured in one of these articles?

They should be. Aintsworth's contract was so huge and his play was so bad, the echoes of it are worse then the players in the article.
 
2011-12-05 11:40:21 AM
Bashatizin' Smashmaster: Bleacher Report AND a slideshow....no thanks.

I thought all Bleacher Report entries were slideshows, like it's their default template or something.

Anyway, I came close to clicking on it until I saw the logo.
 
2011-12-05 11:46:12 AM
I was def. scratching my head when they gave Vick that long contract for so much cash.
 
2011-12-05 11:48:07 AM
List fails without Dunta Robinson, worst signing in the past 3 years.

The only thing he leads the league in is getting defensive TDs called back for penalties.
 
2011-12-05 11:52:06 AM
baufan2005: I was def. scratching my head when they gave Vick that long contract for so much cash

Well the length of the contract is relatively meaningless, it's guaranteed money that matters. And there has been some discussion of how much of Vick's "guaranteed" money is in fact guaranteed.
 
2011-12-05 11:52:29 AM
baufan2005: I was def. scratching my head when they gave Vick that long contract for so much cash.

As a falcons fan I was laughing, Vick was over rated, sure he shows flashes of "WTF, How the fark did he do that?" moments but his mental fark ups are a lot more common.
 
2011-12-05 11:56:28 AM
tallguywithglasseson: baufan2005: I was def. scratching my head when they gave Vick that long contract for so much cash

Well the length of the contract is relatively meaningless, it's guaranteed money that matters. And there has been some discussion of how much of Vick's "guaranteed" money is in fact guaranteed.


Well it looks like $40 million is but $20 million only if he gets injured which means $40 million, no way the NFLPA lets them get away with that just because he got injured, I would be willing to bet thats more of a "fark up" clause than an injury clause.
 
2011-12-05 12:15:35 PM
Incomplete list is incomplete.

No mention of the failure that is MATT CASSEL!

/DIAF
 
2011-12-05 12:22:49 PM
Why isn't the entire roster of the New York Jets on this list?
 
2011-12-05 12:24:16 PM
Hey Philly, we'd gladly take Aso back. We know not to use a square peg in a round hole. You don't take the best man-to-man cover corner in the NFL and try to fit him into zone coverages.

It's like signing for Reggie Bush and using him as a short yardage power back.

/Raider fan
 
2011-12-05 12:25:14 PM
qsblues: Why isn't the entire roster of the New York Jets on this list?

Better question would be why isn't their coach on this list?
 
2011-12-05 12:29:23 PM
Brubold: qsblues: Why isn't the entire roster of the New York Jets on this list?

Better question would be why isn't their coach on this list?


Oh, the agony of defeet.
 
2011-12-05 01:21:59 PM
Hey, Oh-So-Stinko almost caught a pass yesterday.
 
2011-12-05 01:47:00 PM
Really submitter? A slideshow? What are you some kind of Sandusky?
 
2011-12-05 01:47:28 PM
whizbangthedirtfarmer: I'm not sure about Zach Miller being a bad investment. He's been injured more often than not, and Seattle lost John Carlson early in the year. The TE has been a forgotten position ever since, used primarily for run blocking. It's game planning and injuries that is currently keeping Miller down.

I still think Miller was a good buy for Seattle. No matter the stats, he does the little things that do not show up on the stat sheet. Just like the FB position, the TE is a forgotten position and the stats will never be what they were when Tony Gonzales was in his prime.

Ochocinco really isn't a bad ROI just yet either. He has struggled, yes. But this isn't the same scheme he played in Cincinnati. Belicheck's offense is a very complicated mess and through it all Chad has been working hard to learn and improve.
 
2011-12-05 02:05:48 PM
steamingpile: Well it looks like $40 million is but $20 million only if he gets injured which means $40 million, no way the NFLPA lets them get away with that just because he got injured, I would be willing to bet thats more of a "fark up" clause than an injury clause.

I've read $35.5 million, with $3 million of that amount only for injury (kind of like an insurance policy). So more like 32.5 million.

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And he's getting 20m this year, 12.5 next, the majority (if not all) the guaranteed money.

Still overpaying -- but it's not like they're going to have him for the 6-year, 100 million advertised. He'll have another year there and likely "restructure" or be gone.
 
2011-12-05 02:07:50 PM
Well, in Chad Ochocinco's defense, he's never payed on a real NFL team before.
 
2011-12-05 02:10:01 PM
Leave it to a team coached by Andy Reid to take one of the best corners in the NFL and turn him into a "meh" player.
 
2011-12-05 02:26:08 PM
1 Kerry Collins
2. Kerry Colins
3. Kerry Collins
4. Kerry Collins
5. Kerry Collins

$4 million for 2 TDs.

Ouch.
 
2011-12-05 02:36:41 PM
scotty3281: whizbangthedirtfarmer: I'm not sure about Zach Miller being a bad investment. He's been injured more often than not, and Seattle lost John Carlson early in the year. The TE has been a forgotten position ever since, used primarily for run blocking. It's game planning and injuries that is currently keeping Miller down.

I still think Miller was a good buy for Seattle. No matter the stats, he does the little things that do not show up on the stat sheet. Just like the FB position, the TE is a forgotten position and the stats will never be what they were when Tony Gonzales was in his prime.

Ochocinco really isn't a bad ROI just yet either. He has struggled, yes. But this isn't the same scheme he played in Cincinnati. Belicheck's offense is a very complicated mess and through it all Chad has been working hard to learn and improve.


Oh, he's good, and a TE in Seattle's system where both the TE and the QB is healthy (and above average), and they do quite well in passing situations. Take a look at Carlson's only healthy full year; Hasselback loved having him. With Tarvaris showing signs of Grossman-itis, though, there's little wonder why Seattle leans on the run.
 
2011-12-05 02:38:15 PM
Wel what do you expect when the Eagles defense is run by an offensive line coach and the team is handled by a guy who is a good gm but horrible head coach.

/eagles fan
//disgusted with the season
 
2011-12-05 03:13:49 PM
Bashatizin' Smashmaster: Bleacher Report AND a slideshow....no thanks.
 
2011-12-05 03:20:47 PM
List and thread fails without fatty, fat, fat, fat, Albert Haynesworth.
/unless I missed it
 
2011-12-05 03:49:53 PM
Mentat: 1) Matt Cassel
2) Matt Cassel
3) Matt Cassel
4) Matt Cassel
5) Matt Cassel

Honorable Mention: Matt Cassel


You can't blame this year on Matt Cassel. He has a terrible line, no running back, and an idiot for a head coach.

He was a pro-bowler and took them to the playoffs last year, that's not too bad.
 
2011-12-05 04:19:51 PM
mitchcumstein1: You can't blame this year on Matt Cassel. He has a terrible line, no running back, and an idiot for a head coach.

He was a pro-bowler and took them to the playoffs last year, that's not too bad.


Yeah they are blaming him but they should blame the entire front office of the team.
 
2011-12-05 04:38:22 PM
I think we're overlooking the obvious.....Tim Tebow. He can't make it
in the NFL
as a starting QB
as a winning NFL QB


I got nothing else
 
2011-12-05 04:47:09 PM
whizbangthedirtfarmer: I'm not sure about Zach Miller being a bad investment. He's been injured more often than not, and Seattle lost John Carlson early in the year. The TE has been a forgotten position ever since, used primarily for run blocking. It's game planning and injuries that is currently keeping Miller down.

Yeah. And Beast Mode is making up for it with very high return on investment.
 
2011-12-05 05:07:21 PM
stappawho: whizbangthedirtfarmer: I'm not sure about Zach Miller being a bad investment. He's been injured more often than not, and Seattle lost John Carlson early in the year. The TE has been a forgotten position ever since, used primarily for run blocking. It's game planning and injuries that is currently keeping Miller down.

Yeah. And Beast Mode is making up for it with very high return on investment.


It will be interesting to see how Seattle handles Lynch in the offseason. They are very aware of RB salary demands after Shaun Alexander burned them (I think they are still paying a part of his salary); Seattle will probably franchise Lynch, but will be reluctant to break the bank, especially considering the first few years of subpar career performance.
 
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