This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
watching the 
continue...........
It's all his fault, global warming, inflation, etc.
It's on. From Rotoworld.
They should name a toilet at Invesco Field after him.
The job Nolan did in Baltimore was really exceptional. Marvin Lewis coached the defense until 2001, and it was an elite 4-3 unit. After 2001, Baltimore's front office had a massive cap purge. Baltimore lost both of its starting safeties (Woodson and Harris), one of its CBs (Starks), one of its LBs (Sharper), and 3 of its 4 Dlinemen (Siragusa, Adams, and Burnett). Making matters worse, Ray Ray only played 5 games in '02. Basically, the entire defense was decimated. Nolan stepped in and the defense predictably struggled in 2002, but they were back to an elite, dominating unit in 2003 and 2004 (and remained on autopilot after he left). Nolan basically took an elite defense, purged all the talent, switched from a 4-3 to a 3-4, and had it back to an elite level within just 2 years. Really impressive job.
Except for the fact that Angelo is an idiot.
Can't really blame McD if this is what went down.BusterTBronco said:
could the big rift between Nolan and McDaniels be because Nolan refused to implement the cheating techniques used so successfully in NE?
You might be right, but Nolan runs a 3-4 scheme that the Bears simply don't have the personnel for. If they hire Nolan, their defense would not improve much, if at all, in year one. Since Lovie is obviously coaching for his job, and Angelo might be in the same boat, the Bears won't be making radical, slow developing changes this year.
I suppose you can't blame him for letting Nolan go, but you can almost definitely blame McDaniels for why Nolan so desperately wanted to get the hell out of dodge. Coordinators making lateral moves is pretty rare in the NFL, and almost surely is due to McDaniels incompetence, ego, or inability to manage players/staff.
Would love to see the proof you have to back the bold statement up?
A bit of arrogance can be a good thing if you can back it up, but too much alienates other good, competitive people. It's also interesting that the claims of "tampering" appear to be a cover for tampering with Pees by McFail. He clearly had him lined up and was planning to can Nolan, which is what prompted Pees to quit his job without apparently having a new gig lined up, something that Assistant Coaches never do.
A bit of arrogance can be a good thing if you can back it up, but too much alienates other good, competitive people. It's also interesting that the claims of "tampering" appear to be a cover for tampering with Pees by McFail. He clearly had him lined up and was planning to can Nolan, which is what prompted Pees to quit his job without apparently having a new gig lined up, something that Assistant Coaches never do.
As soon as Peas left NE everyone knew he was going to DEN.
So your saying you have nothing to back up the statement. That's what I thought.
It's like a random guy asking you to backup your opinion that "TO is a selfish ########." I suppose I could provide a dissertation detailing all of the obvious things that most on a fantasy football forum are already aware of and accept, or I can just not allow myself to be baited into wasting my time when most people can already plainly see that McDaniels has established a track record of not playing well with others in Denver. For a head coach, that can pretty clearly be interpreted as incompetence, ego, or inability to manage players/staff. Sorry, random guy.
Ditto. When you do a job like he did in one year with what was a sorryass D, you get employed easily.
I had no idea Josh McDaniels posted here.BusterTBronco said:
You're saying that Brian Dawkins and Vonnie Holliday are the reasons why the defense got so much better? Vonnie Holliday was signed on September 5th. He's such a good player that no team in the entire league even invited him to Training Camps (including the Broncos, who only signed him because Le Kevin Smith suffered a season-ending injury). As for Brian Dawkins, go read what Eagles fans were saying about him last season. I distinctly remember words like "major liability in coverage" and "on his last legs" and "a shadow of his former self" being tossed around. Then Dawkins comes to Denver and is a second-team AP All Pro. You don't think the career resurgence was the teensiest tiniest bit related to coaching, to Nolan specifically designing schemes to get the most out of Dawkins, to cover his limitations and emphasize his strengths?Denver acquired a bunch of players whose former teams didn't want them, a couple more players who NO TEAMS wanted, some former backups, and a few rookies who are either terrible or don't fit the scheme. They assembled the oldest starting secondary in NFL history. They added those guys to what was one of the five worst defenses of the past 10 years, and suddenly they became one of the best defenses in the entire NFL. The only talent upgrade from last year to this year was Champ Bailey getting healthy, and while I'm as big of a Bailey fan as anyone, Champ isn't the difference between "historically bad defense" and "one of the better defenses in the entire NFL" all by himself. I said several times during the season that the #1 difference between last year and this year is that this year, our studs actually played like studs. Last year, Dumervil, Williams, and Bailey were invisible. This year, they were all over the field making plays. That's a sure-fire sign of good coaching, imo.BusterTBronco said:
I completely disagree. If anything, Nolan did a great job with a suspect front 7 that wore down by year's end. Nolan's scheming and his ability to make adjustments and shut down offenses won Denver a few games early in the year. I don't know if offenses caught up to Denver's defensive style or the players wore down at the end of the year, but the fact that Denver was blitzing so much against the run (and getting burned on those blitzes) tells me it probably had a lot to do with a suspect front 7 getting worn down. Nolan was as big a pickup as anyone else last offseason and it's going to be hard to fill his shoes in Denver.BusterTBronco said:
So can we not point out facts that the defence did not do much better at the end of the season. The same problem that Denver has had the past few seasons. The problem with Denver is that they are going on what their 6th D Cord in 6 years.I think on this board. Instead of blaming Bush for everything it has been replaced by blaming McDaniel's for everythingNow you are taking shots at Nolan, his ability, and the job he did in Denver?BusterTBronco said:Nolan was on board Jan 12th... who do you think picked out the "pegs" to fill the "slots"?
Hey, if it walks like a duck...
I would love to see your proof to back up this statement!
Cutler might be a baby, but this guy is a piece of work.
