Hook 'em

[Axecleaver]

The other half of that equation is that Parcells only has a couple years left, right? If he shored up his line, he'd get the benefits of it immediately. A QB would take a couple years to pay off. Plus Bledsoe isn't a bad QB, he just has a bad line.

[Zutroy]

It's almost a lock that the cowboys are going to draft an OL in the first round (if they don't trade down). True, Jerry does have some say in personnel, but Parcells is more or less running the show on draft day. The one big Jerry signing this past year, Peerless Price, got almost no playing time and was cut after the 10th week. If Parcells doesn't want a guy, he won't give him much of a chance to prove himself.

As far as Bill's future, I think it's mostly a year-to-year thing right now. He signed a new 2 year contract, which is basically a 1 year contract with the option of getting another extension next season. Bledsoe is going to be getting a new contract too; the one he has now is basically a 2 year deal so I think they're looking at extending him possibly another 2 or 3 beyond this season.

[Kirin]

If any teams need a QB.. they can always get Michael Vicks brother......

Lmao

[Rosslyn]

what i'm enjoying here in the Detroit area is the faction of know-it-alls in the media who have been screaming for them to cut Joey Harrington... yet they don't have a plan for who the next guy would be.  They keep saying to trade a low draft pick for someone like Billy Volek or Matt Schaub, but I'm guessing those teams aren't inclined to give those guys away.  Otherwise you have your pick of people like Aaron Brooks or maybe John Kitna, although Palmer's injury makes him a bit more valuable to the Bungles than he was just a few days ago.

[Zutroy]

I think Chad Hutchison and Quincy Carter are still available...

[Yazid]

Volek and Schaub are both too valuable to their teams behind McNair and Vick because of their injury history to merit anything less than a first day pick. IMO Joey is in the same boat as Carr (though I haven't watched nearly as many Detroit games as I have Houston games so I could be way off target) in that he's got a ton of potential and needs more blocking before he can do much. They also I think had a bad scheme, what with the three first round big, down-the-field targets at receiver playing a west-coast style offense.

Simms or Griese might be a good fit if they become available though...

As for Dallas, if not VY, I'd love to see them get that Matui guy or whatever his name was. The USC lineman was straight up mauling people.

[Rosslyn]

yeah, i think you're right.  basically, when harrington came back from being benched for jeff "moon ball" garcia, he pretty much said screw the scheme and the safe check-downs and started gunning it down the field.  He tossed 3 td's vs. the steelers in the last game, and that was a game that pittsburgh had to win to get into the playoffs, so it wasn't like they had their 4th string in there.  the guy was the two-minute-drill master at oregon, and even though that's vs. pac-10 defenses i can't imagine that he just forgot how to throw the ball.  I think he was conditioned to avoid the dangerous throws (and turnovers) and to get rid of the ball fast to avoid sacks, so we had tons of swing passes and 3 yard tosses to tight ends on 3rd and 8, which doesn't get you very far.  I'm personally in favor of  him sticking around here, if for no other reason than there's really not much else available that's any better (chris simms?  i mean, c'mon, really?), at least not without mortgaging your future by giving up a fairly high draft pick.  Still, I don't care if you have joe friggin montana back there, if you've got a bunch of matadors playing offensive line (or at least one on any given play), you're not going to have much success.

[Axecleaver]

I like the matador image.

[Zutroy]

gratuitous pic of jeff "moon ball" garcia's g/f:

(Edited by Zutroy at 7:48 pm on Jan. 10, 2006)

[Caohmin]

She's fairly attractive.

[Yazid]

Chris Simms is better than he gets credit for, though I do agree that Harrington's (potentially) better than him and Griese.

They need to draft a good lineman, and they need to bring in an offensive coach. If they could, whoever they get for a head coach, get Mike Martz for a coordinator (because let's face it, he can not manage a game and always needs a player to be a goat... whoever hires him to be head coach needs a good slap)... they'd be in much better shape.

While I'm throwing out far-fetched ideas... How about a Vince Young - Roy Williams reunion?

[Rosslyn]

did vince ever actually throw a pass to roy?  that would have been during VY's freshman year...

[Yazid]

Yeah, he started a few games his Freshman year.

He's 30-2 as a starter. 32 games total, 13 this year, 12 the year before (no conference championship game) and then the last (or I guess technically first) 7 his Freshman year.