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Richard Kimball

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  1. Salary cap was a factor, but dumping Johnson and getting Barry Switzer was the killing stroke. Johnson would have won four straight, cause he whipped Seifert every time they played, and Seifert took out Switzer every time they played. Only reason the Cowboys made it in 95 was cause the Packers took out the 49ers. Switzer was also the one letting players come in hung over and spreading rumors about Aikman. Guy was a cancer on the team. They won that third Super Bowl in spite of him.
  2. Yeah, but they're saying it from their living rooms this year. WHERE ARE YOUR EAGLES NOW?
  3. Good point. A little trivia: Weeb Eubank is the only coach to win NFL championships with two different teams (Colts and Jets.) He also coached two HOF QBs, Unitas and Namath, winning championships with both.. Shula is interesting. He coached three HOF QBs, Unitas, Griese and Marino, but only won championships with Griese, the least heralded of the three. Course, he had Unitas at the end of his career. Shula and Landry both had teams that peaked just in time to get raided by the World Football League. The Steelers gelled shortly after the WFL tanked, and didn't lose players, allowing them to keep their core together for their entire run. One thing that makes the Belichick-Brady partnership unique, is that they've hung together for going on twenty years, and the only people left from their first Super Bowl win are the owner, Brady, Belichick, I think one trainer, and probably the guy that sweeps the place out.
  4. Hadn't heard that. He's more honest than me.
  5. Sanders quit.
  6. It was a free play. QBs will make a more daring play when they know they've got a free five yards at the snap.
  7. Comes back to identifying talent and then coaching it. Also, one great offensive linemen and four guys named Irv doesn't do you much good. Pats don't have a weak link on their line, and apparently have enough good players to sub when a starter goes out.
  8. Not so sure that he would have been great anywhere. Brady was disappointed he wasn't drafted by the 49ers, cause he grew up as a fan, but they've been through nine coaches since he's been in the league. No way a quarterback maintains excellence changing coaching staffs every two years. Agree on your other point. Belichick has a theory that there are a few superstars, but a LOT of people who can perform adequately. He also has an uncanny knack for identifying the lunch bucket guys that perform well enough, and he doesn't have any big holes in the roster. He also jettisons players the second they become a distraction. Randy Moss would have a ring if he'd kept his mouth shut. Belichick will not overspend on any position to the detriment of other positions. Brady fit into the system, and although most people can't name another player on the Patriots roster, he takes less money than he could, compliments other players in interviews, and is the ultimate team guy.
  9. Mike Renfro, but yeah, it was a bad call. Renfro made the catch, but the refs called it incomplete, claiming they could see he had his feet down, but couldn't tell if he had possession, cause they didn't have position to see his hands.
  10. SIAP, but cool backstory to the Belichick hoodie story. He got pissed because he was required to wear approved NFL apparel on the sidelines (sell NFL merchandise.) So, he got a hoodie, cut off the sleeves and started wearing that. It became a hit, and people started buying the hoodies and cutting the sleeves off.
  11. Brady's been fortunate to have Belichick as a head coach. He also takes a lot less money than he could, although the $15 mil a year ain't chump changeThis year, he made less than Blake Bortles. He knows Belichick will use that money to ID offensive linemen and keep them happy. The most impressive things about him are his attention to detail, and frankly, the fact that he's never gotten bored with winning big games.
  12. Looks like the Andy Reid playoff magic is still alive. Pats held the ball for 43 minutes to 21 for KC.
  13. Yeah, it wasn't so much the fans abandoning the Rams. Georgia Frontiere made Rachel Dawes look like a lovable owner.
  14. Just imagine how far the Rams could have gone if they hadn't fired Jeff Fisher.
  15. Ten points to Gryffindor
  16. It wasn't cheap. You oughta know, you bought it.
  17. When you say Jason knows how to handle Jerry, do you mean like Rihanna knew how to handle Chris Brown?
  18. I liked the Rhino and the Scorpion, but they never seem to get much love. I'm talking the original Rhino, not the techno Transformer Rhino from the first Spider-man reboot . Agree on Mysterio.
  19. Ramis could play a ghost.
  20. Random neural firings: The stuff the John Wayne True Grit messed up, the Jeff Bridges True Grit got right. The opposite is true, also. Strother Martin was great as the auctioneer. Kim Darby and Glen Campbell were not great in their roles. Robert Duvall as Ned Pepper was better. Other traditional westerns: The Searchers, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Is that a western or a Southern? Made in 1948 and people still quote it. "Hey mister, can you stake a fellow American to a meal?" "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need to show you no stinking badges." Another one I'd never call great, but was a seriously fun watch was "El Dorado."
  21. In my day, Mary Jane was hotter than Aunt May.
  22. Got curious after seeing the thread bumped & looked up Smith. Last update I found was that he returned home on December 16, football future still in doubt, but apparently they got the infection under control. The article didn't say that but can't imagine they'd send him home if the infection was still a problem. https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/12/16/alex-smith-injury-update-exists-hospital-future-uncertain-redskins Weird side note: I did a search on the SI site for Alex Smith. The second article to come up was "Early 2019 Fantasy Football Breakout Candidates"
  23. I was just going to post on this. If you look at the number of jump cuts in movies now, and the number of plots they try to push into one movie, it's the rare older movie that doesn't seem to drag for younger people.
  24. Peckinpah's early work was more traditional. Through the fifties, he did the Rifleman, Gunsmoke, etc. Leone did the man with no name trilogy from 1964-66. He heavily influenced Peckinpah, who did the Wild Bunch in 69, and went on to get the reputation for ultraviolence. It could be Peckinpah always wanted to do that, but until Leone made the breakthrough, he couldn't get it approved.
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