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Which is a pretty good description of his mentor Andy Reid in his Iggles stint. Reid got a LOT better at the in-game stuff through the years. No reason McDermott can't improve in them as well. (And, he really should, if he doesn't already, have a "clock/situational" expert on his coaching staff to help him avoid stuff like the final Jest drive of the 1st half of that game in the Meadowlands (or whatever the heck they call their new mausoleum).) One thing that hasn't been brought up in this discussion is in-game adjustments. I would say McClappy is better than most at that. A disastrous opening drive or two doesn't mean the Bills are out of the game. By the second quarter he's often made adjustments to stabilize play and during halftime he frequently makes better adjustments than the opposing HC.

They thought an old has-been QB could lead them to the promised land but it takes a lot more than that to build a team. I could almost go so far as to say Rogers has held up his part of the bargain but he just doesn't have a team around him that is capable of winning.

They totally outclassed the Seahawks lines on both sides of the ball.

...although Lindy has already dipped into the roster reserves. I see that as a good thing; playing with depth players and still winning is encouraging.

Because at this point I love the tradition of you complaining about it. Every. Single. Time.

You love to see it.

Mistakenly Waterboarded

And how about James Cook? Once he got going, every run was 8-10 yards... seemed that way anyway.

And yet here you are. You can't quit us. You can't.

Holy cow: Canucks down 2-0 to Pens, then scored 3 times in 65 seconds. Wow. Edit: Canucks win 4-3 in regulation.

I think there's much more structure to Lindy's system than Granato's. The offshoot is that as long as a player is executing the system, he's not hurting the team. Once a player gets comfortable in the system, the talent will show through. I think Cozens and Quinn (and a couple others) just aren't quite comfortable in the system yet. They're executing it and defensively they're okay, but they're not comfortable enough yet to be able to create within the structure. Moving Zucker to their line, I think, is an attempt to give them better guidance in the system and how to create within it. In general, the more I see the bottom sixers play, the more I like them. They seem to be forming a good backbone to the team that's (as someone else mentioned) elevating the play of the bottom two lines. I suspect these players were specifically discussed with Lindy; perhaps even recommended by Lindy. They last few games they're looking pretty good. Sooner or later the Cozens-Quinn connection will click and this team will be scary good.

If Kane hits the net instead of the pipe, you're absolutely correct. But that's not what happened. Cozens and Quinn have stuff to work on and a lot of it is confidence. Quinn getting that empty netter should boost his.

Yes, very noticeable.

Like bombin' womp rats back home.

We're winning.

I'm watching Detroit coverage. Lurv me some Mickey Redmond.

Well I guess the Sabres won that trade...

Really? Rebound point blank? You're not gonna like the next 30 seconds.