Well... this Sunday could be worse than Green Bay

[SoCalRaider]

It's one thing to play a contender that's peaking.... It's another to play them with a freakin' chip on their shoulder and a fire in their asses.

Two playoff teams from the Sunshine State were basically told to stick their best players where the sunshine don't shine.

Specifically, no members of the Jaguars or the Buccaneers made the team.

Though it's all meaningless, bthe perceived indignity could help to motivate these teams to make some real noise in the postseason, since they'll now be able to claim that they're not being respected by fans, players, and coaches throughout the league.

But not every Florida team has been dissed. The 1-13 Dolphins placed defensive end Jason Taylor on the AFC roster.

At least our punter made it................

 

[poptart]

The score might not be as brutal as the Green Bay thumping was, but the beatdown will be about the same.

Something along the lines of 27-10 sounds about right.

 

[SoCalRaider]

I was really impressed with the way they took it to the Steelers on the road and in the snow.......... This Jags team kind of reminds me of that 2001 Pats team that snuck up on everybody when they won their 1st Super Bowl... A lot of good, somewhat underrated players... no pressure.... peaking at the perfect time. I haven't gotten a chance to watch them play much this year.... definitely looking forward to watching them on Sunday.... no matter how one sided it becomes.

 

[Abelardo]

Jags are a very tough team, as opposed to Indy, which is a finesse team. But sometimes your strenght becomes your weakness if it is not applied correctly. Brute force can be beaten with speed, and viceversa. There's no sure formula.

I wonder what were gonna do with Taylor and Jones Drew, a formidable 1-2 punch.

 

[SoCalRaider]

Some interesting stuff................

Hiram Eugene, who actually will start at safety, knows his run support will be key.

``Looking back at what we've been going through, teams have been putting a lot of rushing yards on us,'' Eugene said. ``We've got a pretty good game plan, good schemes, it's going to be who is better in the trenches.''

That being said, Kiffin has his own ideas about defense. In 2000, he worked on the defensive staff of the Jaguars under Dom Capers, learning the 3-4 system copied by several teams.

He spoke in glowing terms of the Tampa 2 approach Tony Dungy imported to Indianapolis, with its emphasis on speed and production, utilizing smaller faster players other teams might not want but who mesh perfectly with the system.

Kiffin's father, Monte, has rebuilt the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense with the same philosophy and his contract is up at the end of the year. Colleague Monte Poole floated a happily-ever-after scenario in which the father works for the son, revamping the Raiders defense in the process.

The economic reality is that Monte Kiffin made more as a coordinator this season than Lane did as the Raiders head coach, and the schematic reality is that Davis is a staunch four-man rush, man-to-man proponent and has long had the ear of his defensive coordinators more than his offensive play-callers.

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