I was impressed with Miami yesterday .. Flores comes into a dysfunctional organization, loses a fair amount of talent while cleaning house but still fields a competitive team. I loved his emotion at the end of the game after his team got royally screwed by the NFL officiating idiots. It will be interesting to see how they recover next week.
I had them pegged for 0-16 this season as did many others.
Jomal Wiltz, Nik Needam, and Steven Parker are 3 first year undrafted starters in their secondary. They have had 6 different leading rushers this year, 2 no longer even on their roster.
And they are still competing better than Shurmur's squad every single week.
That said, all those guys they got off the street seem more talented than DG's big FA signings.
That said, all those guys they got off the street seem more talented than DG's big FA signings.
And they have a boatload of high draft picks coming from all of the trading off talent. They do still need a quarterback. Obviously Fitzgerald is not a long term answer and they do not seem to have faith in Rosen.
If I'm an owner, and I see what Flores is doing with a team that was trying to tank games and putting the effort they are giving these last 2 months and I have a team with better talent that is mediocre. I have to ask my coach what is going on before I consider firing him.
Steelers are without Ben, Bell, Brown, benched their backup, traded their third string, playing without their starting RB (Conner), starting WR (Smith-Schuster) and are 8-5 after starting 0-2.
If I'm an owner, and I see what Flores is doing with a team that was trying to tank games and putting the effort they are giving these last 2 months and I have a team with better talent that is mediocre. I have to ask my coach what is going on before I consider firing him.
Steelers are without Ben, Bell, Brown, benched their backup, traded their third string, playing without their starting RB (Conner), starting WR (Smith-Schuster) and are 8-5 after starting 0-2.
They actually were 1-4 at one point. Think tgey are 7 -1 since with the one L at Cleveland. My god they had better can at least Shurmer and hopefully Gettledouche too
Jomal Wiltz, Nik Needam, and Steven Parker are 3 first year undrafted starters in their secondary. They have had 6 different leading rushers this year, 2 no longer even on their roster.
And they are still competing better than Shurmur's squad every single week.
They started the season with Avery Moss and John Jenkins(still starting on the DL along with UDFA rookie DE Jonathan Ledbetter.
Devante Parker has finally stayed healthy and is playing up to his draft status just in time for free agency.
It is pretty incredible that they have 3 wins with so many UDFA's, waiver claims, and rookies starting. When you look at their starters the only players who you can say are starting caliber players are CB Xavien Howard, WR Devante Parker, TE Mike Gesicki, LB Jerome Baker, and LB Raekwon McMillan. Howard is the only great player they have on their roster after trading away Tunsil and Fitzpatrick.
My buddy is a Phins fan and he is very excited by the draft. He wanted Tua but now because of the injuries he would prefer that they wait until 2021 for Fields or Lawrence unless Tua can be had with a pick out of the top 6.