FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS, PART QUINCE

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SUBLIME

This Old Dog Beat The Young Pup

Super Bowl 50 featured "Superman", who all the pundits were calling the best quarterback in the game today - see what happens Aaron Rodgers when you give up that mantle - and "The Sheriff", who was called the worst quarterback to start a Super Bowl by FoxSports - who we know is the bastion of truth, justice and the American Way.

When the dust settled Peyton "The Sheriff" Manning was standing on the podium with the Lombardi Trophy while Cam "Superman" Newton was doing his best Marshawn Lynch and Bill Belichick impressions answering - and I say that while laughing out loud - questions before abruptly getting up and ending the post-game interviews in mid-question showing the real Cam Newton and not the fake modest Cam Newton who answered question after question after question even though it did get tedious and he said so during the week before the game.

Six Degrees of Separation Packers Style

Mike Holmgren's 1992 Coaching Staff
including Jon Gruden (top) and Andy Reid (4 down on the stairs)

Coaching Carousel  

The NFL coaching carousel began October 5 when the Dolphins fired their head coach and ended with a total of 7 head coaches losing their jobs and another 8 surviving to coach another season.

1. Miami Dolphins

Joe Philbin

The Dolphins fired former Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin after a 1-3 start.

Interim head coach Dan Carpenter (5-7) was not retained and the only man who has been able survive Jay Cutler with his reputation intact (I think if he had stayed another season the Cutler Curse would have got him too) Bears offensive coordinator Adam Gase has been hired to take over the Dolphins.

I Give Up

Dom Capers cheering my giving up

One of my missions in my Green Bay life is to see Dom Capers on another team or at the very least not the Packers Defensive Coordinator any more. I have stated that fact over and over and over again, but now I am stating a new fact that this will be my last word on the subject until I can sing to rooftops, "Ding, Dong, the Dom is Dead."

 

I may not like Capers and his too complicated schemes, but I do give credit where credit is due and the defensive game against Seahawks last Sunday night reminded me of one of my favorite defensive coordinators Fritz Shurmur's games and that is the highest compliment I can give.

 

The hallmark's of Capers reign of terror in Green Bay has been the inability to stop the run. the inability to cover a tight end and the inability to play coverage overall. Against the Seahawks the scheme Capers used stopped Marshawn Lynch (however, age and hubris may finally be catching up with him like Brett Favre suddenly turning old between January 24th and September 9th of 2010) and for the most part played good coverage.

 

The game I'm referring to was played on January 6th, 1996 in San Francisco - the year before the Super Bowl. The 49ers had one of the best passing attacks in all of football (channeling Chris Collinsworth again) with Steve Young, Jerry "NFL's All-Time Leading Receiver" Rice and John "The Catch" Taylor.