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Peyton Manning, just coming off his first Super Bowl, would move salt and pepper shakers to make a point. Bill Belichick, who was coaching the AFC team, would move ketchup and steak sauce bottles like chess pieces to counter. Around them, napkins were scribbled with X's and O's and the secret language the two men understand.
It was like chess masters Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer getting together for a beer summit.
From another forum...Best thing for the Colts. Moving out of the AFC East. Manning couldn't have padded his stats against weak teams like the Jags, Texans, and Titans if he was still in the East and had to play the Pats, Jets and Dolphins twice a year. I don't understand why they moved the Colts, though. Miami is in more South that Indianapolis, so technically it should have been the Dolphins that went to the South.
Three teams over .500 and Tennessee has won three straight.
And once again, the AFC East is the AFC LEAST. Three teams with losing records.
Best thing for the Colts. Moving out of the AFC East. Manning couldn't have padded his stats against weak teams like the Jags, Texans, and Titans if he was still in the East and had to play the Pats, Jets and Dolphins twice a year. I don't understand why they moved the Colts, though. Miami is in more South that Indianapolis, so technically it should have been the Dolphins that went to the South.
As I recall they were trying to keep as many older divisional rivalries intact as possible. The current AFC East has been in the same division since Miami was an expansion team in the AFL. Actually if you wanted to keep it strictly geographic, move Baltimore to the AFC East, Indy to the AFC North, and Miami to the AFC South. Dallas in the NFC East makes even less sense geographically. Actually the pre-merger NFL was even worse with teams like Baltimore and Atlanta in the Western conference.I don't understand why they moved the Colts, though. Miami is in more South that Indianapolis, so technically it should have been the Dolphins that went to the South.
Best thing for the Colts. Moving out of the AFC East. Manning couldn't have padded his stats against weak teams like the Jags, Texans, and Titans if he was still in the East and had to play the Pats, Jets and Dolphins twice a year. I don't understand why they moved the Colts, though. Miami is in more South that Indianapolis, so technically it should have been the Dolphins that went to the South.
From another forum...
I'd say it's the other way around. Brady would be average to slightly above average in the AFC South, whereas Peyton Manning would be even more dominant eek in the CFL-like AFC East.
Right. You have heard of a little thing called weather? here in the Northeast we play real football outside in November, December and later...
BTW (that's by the way for you people in Indiana) Do you know Brady's record is against those teams on the AFC South (Tenn,Jax, Houston)??
He's 9-1 including playoffs with the last loss in 2002......Is that slightly above average??
The average DIII QB could be 9-1 against those teams if he knew the play calling before hand, the way that Brady and the Patriots almost certainly did.
"If a player has talent and doesn't succeed, that means that they either don't want to be successful, I have failed as a coach, or the battery went dead on the camcorder." - Bill Belichick
I went ahead and fixed that quote for you. See? I'm not such a bad guy.
I wouldn't go so far as to say what Bill B. said because the Titans and Jaguars usually have pretty good defenses. But to say "Brady would be average to slightly above average in the AFC South" is flat out ridiculous. Even if your assertion about the rest of the division being bad was true, ten games are played outside the division every year.I'd say it's the other way around. Brady would be average to slightly above average in the AFC South, whereas Peyton Manning would be even more dominant eek in the CFL-like AFC East.
Jimmy Johnson learned of the videotaping practices from Tony Dungy's staff, which accompanied him to Indy. What say you, ******?