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Week 12 NFL thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Nov 19, 2013.

  1. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    No reasonable football fan ever thought Ditka was a coaching genius on the level with Johnson and Parcells.
     
  2. H.L. Mencken

    H.L. Mencken Member

    I think the fact that the players carried Buddy Ryan off the field in the Super Bowl is proof not even the players thought Ditka was a genius.
     
  3. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    Ryan didn't exactly set the world on fire at his later coaching stops. Can't remember if he ever won a playoff game as a head coach or not.

    Point is, just because a guy has success in one place is no indicator of how he'll do somewhere else and I think we're seeing that with Shanahan now.
     
  4. joe king

    joe king Active Member

    "Reasonable football fan" is an oxymoron on the level of "jumbo shrimp" and "government intelligence."

    I don't know that anyone thought Ditka was a coaching genius, but I seem to recall fans in New Orleans hailing him as the guy who could take the Saints to the Promised Land (pun intended).
     
  5. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Dwayne Bowe has got to be the most underachieving wideout in the game.
     
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