Smashmouth Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 falcon124 (1/5/2008)Nobody on our D stuffed the run up the middle like Grady...nobody. Lewis is quicker but he doesn't command double teams on every down.Pigtrino sabotaged our team :crazy: Zimmer made a bad move by facilitating that decision which thereby put it in Pigtrino's hands to begin with. If Zimmer didn't like what Grady was doing all he/they had to do was bench him :ermm: In retrospect, the way that was handled probably sealed the deal for Zimmer being over looked as a H.C candidate. Cutting Grady was waaaayyyyyy outta line. And to think... some of these MB Knuckleheads thought it was a good idea :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
july425 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Smashmouth (1/6/2008)falcon124 (1/5/2008)Nobody on our D stuffed the run up the middle like Grady...nobody. Lewis is quicker but he doesn't command double teams on every down.Pigtrino sabotaged our team :crazy: Zimmer made a bad move by facilitating that decision which thereby put it in Pigtrino's hands to begin with. If Zimmer didn't like what Grady was doing all he/they had to do was bench him :ermm: In retrospect, the way that was handled probably sealed the deal for Zimmer being over looked as a H.C candidate. Cutting Grady was waaaayyyyyy outta line. And to think... some of these MB Knuckleheads thought it was a good idea :blink:Well.....right now Grady agrees it was a good idea too! I think they get $35,000 for the wid-card game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashmouth Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 july425 (1/6/2008)Well.....right now Grady agrees it was a good idea too! I think they get $35,000 for the wid-card game.Good for Grady... Bad for us... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_winger Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 cblack (1/5/2008)Waiting for the rants to match the we let Kearney get away rants :Whistling: Even though the bum chose to leaveActually, I am sure Kerney would still be here if the Falcons paid him what he asked for. I didn't think he would recover from his injury like he did. Nobody else could have, either. #97 was coming on a couple serious injuries, and had a pretty average (contract, to boot!) year, so it was a good move at the time.Without Miss Cleo to advise us that this, the Schaub trade, and hiring Putridino were bad moves, the Falcons just have to make the best decisions based on the facts at the time.Don't forget we had about 20% of our cap space tied up in a guy that had an illegal hobby.Hindsight is 20/20, and our fans have eagle eyes when it comes to second guessing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconwes42 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 falcon124 (1/5/2008)Thanks again, PeSucko!!!!!! Glad Grady's doing well in the playoffs.Its his first year with the Jags, don't worry he'll get a contract extension in the offseason then become an avg DT again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
july425 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 john_winger (1/6/2008)cblack (1/5/2008)Waiting for the rants to match the we let Kearney get away rants :Whistling: Even though the bum chose to leaveActually, I am sure Kerney would still be here if the Falcons paid him what he asked for. I didn't think he would recover from his injury like he did. Nobody else could have, either. #97 was coming on a couple serious injuries, and had a pretty average (contract, to boot!) year, so it was a good move at the time.Without Miss Cleo to advise us that this, the Schaub trade, and hiring Putridino were bad moves, the Falcons just have to make the best decisions based on the facts at the time.Don't forget we had about 20% of our cap space tied up in a guy that had an illegal hobby.Hindsight is 20/20, and our fans have eagle eyes when it comes to second guessing.Well the Schaub trade is one that was worth it.....his back-up proved to be the better QB for the Texans. There is nothing to suggest Schaubie would have done anything differently here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukfalc Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Who cares. The settlement reached in his legal dispute with the team resulted in a large signing bonus being written in to his contract - a signing bonus that we had no intention of paying and that would therefore have resulted in him being cut and becoming a UFA.Grady had NO LONG TERM future with this club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_winger Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 There is nothing to suggest Schaubie would have done anything differently here.I sure wouldn't have traded him away and went with Harrington/Leftwich/Redman if I knew what was going to happen. Do you think any of those three are honestly better than Schaub? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcndave Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 falcon124 (1/5/2008)Thanks again, PeSucko!!!!!! Glad Grady's doing well in the playoffs.Really, just let it go. Grady may not have been the problem, but he certainly wasn't causing us to win. Was cutting him a mistake? It most likely was. The impact the move had on the veterans was greater than the loss of Grady imho.He's 34 or so. His absence won't be felt as we move forward. I'm just happy for him that he landed in a good situation and that things are working out well for him.If he plays the full season with us I'm thinking our record would have ended up right around 4 and 12 or so. If you like Grady, good for you. However, as a Falcons fan, his absense wasn't a tangible loss to this team. The way he left was in the short term, but now that Petrino is gone the sour taste will leave with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
july425 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 john_winger (1/6/2008)There is nothing to suggest Schaubie would have done anything differently here.I sure wouldn't have traded him away and went with Harrington/Leftwich/Redman if I knew what was going to happen. Do you think any of those three are honestly better than Schaub?Sadly Schaub's stats are strikingly similar to Joey's....Joey - games started 10 - 2215 passing yards - 7 TDs - 8 Ints - 32 sacks - 0 fumblesMatt - games started 11 - 2241 passing yards - 9 TDs - 9 Ints - 16 sacks - 7 fumbles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkman Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 july425 (1/6/2008)john_winger (1/6/2008)There is nothing to suggest Schaubie would have done anything differently here.I sure wouldn't have traded him away and went with Harrington/Leftwich/Redman if I knew what was going to happen. Do you think any of those three are honestly better than Schaub?Sadly Schaub's stats are strikingly similar to Joey's....Joey - games started 10 - 2215 passing yards - 7 TDs - 8 Ints - 32 sacks - 0 fumblesMatt - games started 11 - 2241 passing yards - 9 TDs - 9 Ints - 16 sacks - 7 fumblesWow. I didn't even know that. Maybe we dodged a bullet with that Schaub trade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headshot Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 cblack (1/5/2008)Waiting for the rants to match the we let Kearney get away rants :Whistling: Even though the bum chose to leaveThat quote is from Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, BTW;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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