McDaniels: Belijerk Jr

Anyone remember Bill Bilijerk's stay in Cleveland? He had an excellent QB in Bernie Kosar, the guy who held the record for most consecutive passes without an INT at 311 pick free attempts, and totally screwed Kosar over every chance he got because they didn't like each other.

Belijerk would rather play any scrub schlub just to screw Kosar, than win games. He was a no class scumbag.

McDaniels is Belijerk's little boy and is just like his daddy.

Wha'ts McDaniels done for Denver so far? Sign a bunch of nobodies, neverbeens and second rate half-assed camp fodder, try to bring in a one year wonder to replace a real deal wonder kid and in the process first alienate then run off one of the top QB's in the league.

You're a self-centered scumbag jerkoff just like your daddy, Josh. I hope you go down in flames, you arrogant scrotum licking, puke sucking piece of crap.

Old and Broken Down

Denver's going to the scrapheap for it's current round of free agent signings. As a fan that has to put a little hitch in my step. If anything can top rummaging through Cleavland's rubbish pile it's got to be this.

They sign a 288 lb DT (Darrell Reid) -- 288 lbs? DT? Maybe in college. Yeah, this guy is gonna beef up the middle of our D line. Whateva.

They dump a great long snapper (Mike Leach) for McDaniels' personal dingding sucker from New England (Loin Paxton). And what kind of a name is "Loin"? anyway? Or is that just a nickname because he likes to touch himself?

They add a 36 year old Safety (Brian Dawkins) with a so-so health record.

One RB who's too tall and too light (Correll Buckhalter), one who's got prototypical height but needs to spend some time a Jenny Craig (LaMont Jordan), and another who's been strictly a situational guy (J.J. Arrington).

Of that group, I like Arrington the most. He made big steps forward last year both rushing and receiving and I think he's ready to be The Guy.

Safety Renaldo Hill may not be a bad signing. Three of his last four years have been his best in the NFL and he should have 2-4 solid years left in him.

WR Jabar Gaffney doesn't seem to shine in any aspect of his career to date, except that he's already familiar with McDaniels' system. He doesn't seem like a threat to any of Denver's top three on merit alone. Of course, being the HC's bitch does count for something and McDaniels' is making that clear from the start, so Gaffney seems to have a good chance of accumulating some serious playing time whether he deserves it or not.

LB Anra Davis seems like a good but unspectacular prospect for LB and at very least adds quality depth.

DT Ronald Fields has good size but is otherwise a ho-hum signing and tells me that McDaniels and Nolan are so married to the notion of running a 3-4 defense that they don't really give a damn about whether or not they have personnel who can make it work. "Hey, we have us a 315 lb DT. We're good to go." and who really cares if the guy has the motor and talent to make chew up the middle all on his own.

Looking at the signing of Andre Goodman all I can think is, "WTF?" This guy has underwhelmed his entire career, so he's gonna come in and add what now? He's got 5 INTs last year which is about what the whole Denver D had together last season, so maybe he'll surprise me.

QB Chris Simms? A great back up. Probably the best backup QB Denver has had since Gary Kubiak.

I know a lot of you are saying, "McDaniels is implimenting New England's free agent philosophy. Sit back and wait. He knows what he's doing."

And that would be comforting if he was the mastermind and architect behind New England's FA success. But he wasn't. He's playing Monkey See, Monkey Do, trying to mimic his daddy Bill Belijerk. That doesn't make him Bill Bilijerk, though.

Bilijerk (or maybe it was Pioli) once said they most important thing they consider when signing a guy is, "Is this guy a football player?", meaning, regardless of talent and physical gifts, does this guy have mind, mentality and motor that would make him an asset to our team.

I don't think you can look at most of the guys signed by Denver so far this off season and answer "yes" to that.

Things

Things I'd love to see:

-- Al Davis drooling on himself after suffering a massive, but non-fatal stroke.

-- Peter King with his fingers trapped in the stair-mesh of an escalator.

-- Ed Hochuli added to the Broncos' Ring of Fame

-- Randy Gradishar in the HoF.

-- The explosion of a dirty bomb at a Raiders vs Cowpatties game.

Things I wish would go away:

-- Instand Replay (in any form).

-- The requirement to have both feet come down inbounds after making a leaping catch.

-- The requirement to maintain control when hitting the ground OUT OF BOUNDS after a catch.

-- The kicking out of bounds penalty on kickoffs.

-- Kicking with new balls.

-- Al Micheals.

-- Any attempt to return football to LA.

-- Matt Millen.

Change Is Good

Mike Shanahan had 10 years to get over the retirement of John Elway and did not much of anything positive with it. On top of that he had no business ever wearing the GM hat and many of Denver's woes over that stretch stem directly from the fact that his ego outweighed his ability to evaluate talent.

I'm not sorry to see him go, though I do hope that whoever replaces him has as much character.

I'm betting Marty Schottenheimer makes the short list of possible replacements and Bill Cowher has alredy said that he will not coach again next year. Joe Gibbs or Denny Green? Please not Mike Holmgren and thank you God that Norv Turner is not on the market.

I'm pulling for Marty. He'll coach, he'll do a great job, he'll keep his nose out of the GM's job.

Perfection!

Back to back perfect regular seasons.

New England went a perfect 16-0 last year.

Detroit goes a perfect 0-16 this year.

Detroit's record is a lot more impressive, because no other team in NFL history has ever gone an entire season without so much as a single win. Thank you Matt Millen.

I freakin' love it.