The offense was bad and the team tapered off after a 7-1 start.  He has never had an offense rank higher than 23rd in his Chicago years.  I think he gets hired in Cleveland as I'm not sure Buffalo will pay out the cash for an established NFL coach.  I know SD won't as the Spanos are cheaper than Bud Adams.  Smith has already been contacted by 4 teams already.  I think the new Cleveland owner would want to make a high profile hire.  Not really sure about the Bills being a good defense, they had problems with against the run and probably need LB and S along with their QB and WR issues.  I figure one of the QB's goes in the top 5 and another one might go before Buffalo's pick at #8. 

Andy Reid is supposedly going to interview in Arizona.  I'm slightly surprised at that one since the Bidwells are another member of the cheap NFL owner group and they have to pay a lot for an established guy like Reid.  Well that and I'd assume that Ray Horton would get the job after the Whiz got canned.  If Reid somehow gets the job, I bet Kolb is kept and they go OT with their #9 pick.

Eagles definitely going for an offensive mind to replace Reid.  The leaked list of candidates: Penn State coach Bill O’Brien, Falcons offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter, 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, and Oregon coach Chip Kelly.  Kelly I think is the favorite since I've read rumors that they were going to offer him a ton of cash.  Bill O' Brien is a slightly surprising name since I had assume he would stay at Penn State.  I take that back as Jason LaCanforna (never a reliable source) say that several teams are interested in Bill O' Brien as their head coach.

The "hot names" seem to be Broncos OC Mike McCoy and Falcons OC Dirk Koetter. 

And I'm still upset that Munchak survived the firing squad and they only canned the team president.:flame:

And this one's for you misterid:  Jeff Ireland will be back with the Dolphins for next year.

He gets a free pass for this year because of the playoff appearance from last season.  However, the seat will be a little warm next year.  Having seen his defenses in action for a long time, I'm not surprised with some of the fourth quarter meltdowns.  Lions defense depends on getting a pass rush from the front four with minimal blitzing.  If they don't get there the secondary is exposed.  The Lions need to improve their secondary in the offseason badly.  They also need a 2nd WR to take heat off Megatron.  Titus Young Jr.  was an awful pick and Broyles blew out an ACL for a 2nd straight year. 

Nope.  Alreadly far ahead of you on that one since the Titans have gone into the toilet for the last month or so.  I'm hoping for Star Lotuleilei or Deontre Moore from A&M.  I'm still not sure how the Titans destroyed the Dolphins coming out of the bye week.

Jarvis Jones might fall a little because of his spinal stenosis and could be around when the Dolphins pick.  But what they need most of all is a game breaker at WR.  The other 2 guys (Hartline and Bess) are good possesion guys but they need someone that can take the top off a defense.  They could sign Bowe or Greg Jennings as a FA.

Lot of shitty teams won this week which helps the Titans.  No one is catching the Chiefs for the top pick though.  Philly will grab the best available OT on the board unless they sign Jake Long who is supposed to be an UFA after the year.

Can't wait for the MNF game next week vs the Jets.  If the Titans get destroyed at home on national tv, Munchak will probably be fired.

NFC East is suddenly an interesting division.  That season finale between Cowboys vs Redskins could be important if both teams are at 9-6.  I can't really see a 10-6 missing the playoffs.

Surprised no one has talked about the offseason moves so far.

Everyone is waiting on Greinke to sign in either LA or Texas.  He signs in Texas and Hamilton goes off somewhere else.  Seattle, Boston, New York have been mentioned as possible destinations.  Greinke signing also affects Annibal Sanchez as the Dodgers will probably go after him hard if they lose out on Greinke.

Justin Upton was getting pursued hard by the Rangers but the trade fell apart for whatever reason.

Boston signed several players in the last month--David Ross, Shane Victorino, and Mike Napoli.  Ross was signed as a backup which is fine.  Napoli got a 3yr deal to play first base at market value which is ok since they needed another hitter after trading Adrian Gonzalez.  But they paid Victorino 13 million.  I can't figure that one out if Victorino doesn't bounce back and supply some sort of offense.   I don't really like paying outfielders 10+ million dollars just for defense and intanglibles.

Twins weren't kidding when they said they were looking for pitching.  Traded Span to the Nationals for Alex Meyer.  Traded Revere to the Phillies for Vance Worley (Twins own his rights through 2018) and propect Trevor May.  I think they did well in both those trades especially the Phillies one.

Phillies acquire Michael Young from Texas for a reliever and a pitching prospect.  Ugh, even with Texas paying 10 million of Young's salary why do the Phillies feel the need to get older?  They'd better win something in the next two years otherwise that team is going to go downhill fast.

Rays acquire  Yunel Escobar from the Marlins for a minor league IF.  The minor league IF (name escapes me at the moment) seems like the Marlins got a good player.  Escobar is an enigma he seems to be a good player but he's been traded several times and you hear the same stuff each time.  He's a bad teamate seems to be the common theme.  The Rays got very little production out of SS so this works for them too.  Rays also willl probably move one of their young pitchers not named David Price for a young hitter.

Mariners are looking for anybody who can hit.  They signed Jason Bay as a reclamation project and are pursuing Josh Hamilton.  They're not going after Michael Bourn which is a good move since they need more power and Bourne doesn't provide that.  They're probably gunshy too after wasting a whole bunch of cash on Chone Figgins a few years ago.

BJ Upton signed a five year 75 million dollar deal with the Braves.  It seems like the Braves overpaid a little for him.

The only thing I have to say about the Marlins is that I wish the voters of Florida gave the Rays a new ballpark instead of the Marlins.

Pirates overpay Russell Martin and I'm really close to picking another MLB team (or just another one in addition to the Pirates) to root for.  This type of signing is a typical Pirates signing that will blow up in their face.

ARod will be out for a while after hip surgery.  Yankees are interested in Youkillis which makes for a very interesting signing and plotline.  Back to Arod, he has 647 HR and I don't think he'll reach 700 at the rate his body is breaking down.  He's also signed through 2017 although I think I read somewhere that insurance will cover part of the contract.

I liked it but if you're buying tv series make sure you want to watch it more than once otherwise you'll probably be throwing your money away.

You answered part of the question in the previous post:

I'd add that most of the GOP votes were 50 and over people.  You just cannot win without getting a decent amount of votes from the younger generation.  The GOP immigration efforts over the last few years turned off a lot of Latinos as well.  Bush Jr.  was smart enough to not ignore or piss off this voting block, probably because he was Texas governor.  Romney didn't do himself any favors with blacks over his "47% comment."  And the numerous dumb things said by Republican candidates about rape led to women overwhelmingly voting for Democrats.

Also, Obama had a far superior GOTV operation and local ground game.

Last sobering thought:

There was a total of 892 million spent on this election.