I think after this season, Shaub will be the Falcons' starter and Vick will be shipped elsewhere. Mora's system does not fit for Vick and he should either change his system or get rid of Vick.
Who do you think will take over the Cowboys in 2008 after Parcells' contract runs up and he will inevitably retire? I think Weis because he is a Parcells desciple and by then he will probably have an NCAA Championship ring. Weis sais that he is staying at Notre Dame but I can't believe that he would never make a comeback to the NFL and I think that there are only 2 jobs that he would accept, the Cowboys or the Patriots.
I think that this is Gibbs' last hoorah because after this season I believe that Washington will be in poor financial state for the 2007 offseason because of the salary cap. That means that they would have to make some major cuts and trades and that means the Skins will probably be the worst team in the NFC East in '07. If thats true, Gibbs will retire.
Dick Jauron isn't going to last long in Buffalo. I didn't think he was a very good coach in Chicago or Detroit and he had more talent at both of those places than he has in Buffalo. After 2 or 3 years, Marv Levy and Ralph Wilson will fire him and I think Levy wants to get back into coaching so he will convince Wilson that he is the only man for the job.
After watching the Rose Bowl, I have no doubts on Young's abilities. He can run like Michael Vick and pass like Matt Leinart and he will carve up NFL defenses the same way he carved up USC in the Rose Bowl. I don't give a **** about some test he failed, he probably didn't even try on it. He knew he would be a high NFL draft choice either way.
The Dallas coach is a good question. I'd like Charlie Weis to stay at Notre Dame. But if your prediction is right, Cowboys fans will be very lucky to have him.
I think Joe Gibbs will retire if he wins the Super Bowl this year, which is a very realistic possibility. Daniel Snyder brought him back to get a Lombardi Trophy. I think he retires if he reaches that goal this year. If not, he'll come back barring health issues.
I don't think Dick Jauron will succeed in Buffalo, but that has more to do with management than his coaching ability. He took the Bears to a 13-3 record in 2001, and didn't have enough time to work with the Lions.
Vince Young is extremely talented, but the knocks on him are his inaccuracy and inability to read defenses. That's much more important in the NFL than it is in college football. He won't be able to run wild like he did against USC. Remember, the Trojans' defense was terrible. There will be a 260-pound linebacker with speed waiting for him in the pros.
I have mixed feelings on the Charlie Weis thing. Part of me wants him to stay with Notre Dame and keep them good for a long time since they are my favorite college football team. The other part of me wants him to come to Dallas so we can have a Super Bowl contender year after year. If he comes, I can just see the headline for some Super Bowl in the near future, Cowboys v.s. Browns- Charlie Weis' offense versus Romeo Crenell's defense.
I think Joe Gibbs and the Redskins go 11-5 this season and get eliminated in the Divisional Playoffs against Seattle again just like last year. In 2007, I think the team finishes with 5-7 wins and Gibbs leaves football.
Vince Young ran wild against an NFL quality defense in Ohio State as well.
Ohio State was not an NFL-quality defense. No college defense is an NFL-quality defense. The guys who play in the pros are the cream of the crop in college, who have matured and become stronger.
Sure, the Buckeyes had A.J. Hawk and a few other quality defenders. But half of those guys won't play the NFL.
My point is that you insinuated that Vince Young couldn't play well once he played a good defense which isn't true. Ohio State had probably the best defense in college last year and he moved the ball with ease on them. The year before he did the same against Michigan. Now that is the best that college football has to offer. Now you can say that he can't play against an NFL quality defense because we haven't seen that he can yet but what we have seen was that he has done it against all the great college teams that he had an opportunity to beat. I don't think that there is anything to tell us that he won't do the same in the pros.
I just question his ability to READ defenses. He'll have to do that in the NFL, whereas NCAA QBs don't really have to. That's why Akili Smith was a bust. He didn't have to read defenses in college, and just couldn't do it when he got to the pros.
You can't teach someone how to read a defense when the play clock is running down, and you're not sure who is going to blitz. That takes some brain power...
The questions on those tests are in no way affiliated with football. You dont have to be book smart to be football smart. Look at John Madden and most football players that are graduates of the University of Miami.
Yeah, all Vince Young has been able to do with little time remaining on the clock is maneuver wins over Michigan and USC at the Rosebowl and a win over Ohio State at the horseshoe.
But those aren't NFL defenses. And Weis didn't teach Quinn how to read an NFL defense.
It's much different in the pros. That's why a lot of promising college QBs flop in the NFL.
And that test asked common-sense questions, like "what is the eighth month of the year?" I don't care what offensive linemen score on the Wonderlic, but it's inexcusable for any quarterback to score less than 20/50.
I really dont think it really matters what he scored on a test, I KNOW that he can play football.
Football is Football. Vince Young has succeeded at everything so far that he has done and I wont doubt him now. You probably didnt think that he would win at Ohio State, but he did. You thought he would get blown out against USC, but he beat the Trojans and snapped their winning streak. Now you dont think that he will be an NFL star, but he will be.
You're right about my doubting him against USC. I guess we'll have to see.
However, there have been lots of other quarterbacks who succeeded at every level prior to the NFL. Some of those guys are Akili Smith, Ryan Leaf, Cade McNown and Joey Harrington.
I'm not comparing Young to them, but I'm just saying that he'll have to learn how to read defenses as an NFL quarterback. I'm not sure if he is capable of doing so. He won't be able to run all over a pro defense like he did against USC.
It won't be as easy. Half of Ohio State's defense won't be in the NFL. The other half will be marginal players in the pros. NFL players are much faster, bigger and stronger than the best the NCAA has to offer.
But Walt, if you use that logic then you can say that any player in College Football is doomed to fail because they never played against an NFL defense. Come on! What Im saying is that when he played the best defensive team on the schedule last year, he torched them. You can say that he will fail miserably in the pros but you dont have any credence behind those words because he has done all that you can do in College Football.
You make a good point, but I'm just saying that Vince Young won't be able to run wherever he wants in the pros. And I'm also saying that he'll have to learn how to read defenses for a change. Quarterbacks don't have to do that in college, not against any defense. But they must do that in the pros.
I'm just saying that the NFL is much different game than college. That's why so many players flop in the pros.
Vince Young has Michael Vick's ability to torch the defense with his legs, and he will always have that. But, if he can learn to read a defense as you say, he also has Matt Leinart's arm. I think he is going to be a Randall Cunningham-type NFL quarterback only better at running than Cunningham was and better at throwing than Cunningham was.
Okay, my statement about him being like Vick was wrong but he still is a great running quarterback and he will be effective in that in the NFL. He's a perfect fit in Tennessee- think about it. Warren Moon to Steve McNair to Vince Young. They are all very similar quarterbacks.
How can you say that Young doesn't have accuracy? I remember him having one of the highest passer ratings in college football last year.
Point granted, if he is elusive, but not as elusive as Michael Vick. And accurate, but not as accurate as Matt Leinart, then I'd say that means that he is elusive and accurate. Add those two together and I think that he is going to be a great NFL quarterback.
