NFL Week 2: Nobody any good wore this number

Yeah, but he's Denny Fucking Green.

 

Crown his ass

 

Do the Broncos/Falcons beat the over/under (50) by halftime with those no-huddle offenses?

 

If you line up Green's NFL career compared to Petrino, Spurrier, Saban and the other college coaches who shit the bed in the NFL, he deserves to be crowned.

 

Is he what you thought he was?

 

No complaints, either. The think that stood out to me about Walsh was the scheme, the whole West Coast Offense bit, and how he took ordinary players (check out the 1981 roster that won their first Super Bowl) and made them work together to achieve a lot.

Still have a The Sporting News NFL preview issue from 1985. The 49ers were coming off a 18-1 season and Super Bowl XIX win over Miami. Walsh is quoted as saying of his rookies "I'm not sure any one of them can make our team". The 49ers drafted a little-known wide receiver from Mississippi Valley State named Jerry Rice in the first round. Rice did, in fact, make the team and went on to have a respectable NFL career.

 

Agreed. The 49ers' defense those years doesn't get the credit it is due, either.

I wonder how those '85 Bears really would match up in today's game, with even more liberal rules to help quarterbacks. Part of the reason they lost even one game was they ran into a quarterback who could get the ball away quickly and make them pay for blitzing so much. If anything, I think current offenses might give them more trouble by spreading them out and attacking them with short stuff.

 

To be fair, everyone knew who Jerry Rice was -- hell, everyone knew who Willie Totten was, too, because that offense put up ridiculous numbers and became a national story. The issue was many believed Rice wasn't fast enough to be an NFL receiver, never mind a star.

 

John Robinson of USC had a decent pro coaching stint.

 

Considering he traded up to get him, I'm thinking he felt pretty good about Rice making the team.

 

Wonderful analysis of all facets of the game.

 

He did provide the biggest reason to favor those 49ers teams over the '85 Bears, though I agree, that reasoning alone is too simplistic.