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January 20, 2015
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Leafs season record with Carlyle as coach:
21 - 16 - 3 and battling for a playoff spot.
Leafs record after Carlyle fired:
1 - 6 and moving up the draft board.
Could Carlyle be the first coach in history to win Coach of the Year in the year he is fired?
Certainly appears he was getting the best possible out of the hand he was dealt.
posted by cixelsyd at 01:43 PM on January 20, 2015
Doug Marrone used his option to escape the Head Coach role in Buffalo, enabling him to take up an exciting new opportunity... as Offensive Line Coach in Jacksonville.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 02:29 PM on January 20, 2015
$4 million buys a lot of house in Jacksonville. And it's warmer there. Maybe the new Bills owner is a foot fetishist or something.
posted by yerfatma at 03:44 PM on January 20, 2015
If I understand Marrone's opt out correctly, he was going to get paid 4 mil this year for doing nothing.
That kind of money could go a long way toward taking the sting out of being passed over by the 49ers in favor of Demosthenes' pupil Tomsula.
posted by beaverboard at 03:44 PM on January 20, 2015
Yep, he gets the Bills' $4m for doing nothing. Or being an Offensive coach for Jacksonville. Whichever takes less work.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 04:21 PM on January 20, 2015
Fun in the sun toiling for the bumper magnate.
posted by beaverboard at 04:49 PM on January 20, 2015
Or being an Offensive coach for Jacksonville. Whichever takes less work.
I hear Kahn is bringing Felix Magath in as a consultant.
posted by yerfatma at 07:06 PM on January 20, 2015
The all-22 of the Morgan Burnett pick shows how wide open the field was ahead of him.
posted by rcade at 07:55 PM on January 20, 2015
Looks like he was told to lay down.
posted by NoMich at 08:58 PM on January 20, 2015
Julius Peppers did tell him to slide. Peppers should have been thinking runback and looking for somebody to block.
I think Burnett had a good shot at the end zone and an all but certain shot at putting Green Bay in field goal range.
posted by rcade at 09:08 PM on January 20, 2015
Peppers was prolly thinking, "HAY JUST LIKE IN CHARLOTTE I CAN TAKE THE REST OF THE GAME OFF!!!!"
posted by NoMich at 09:13 PM on January 20, 2015
Leafs season record with Carlyle as coach:
21 - 16 - 3 and battling for a playoff spot.
Leafs record after Carlyle fired:
1 - 6 and moving up the draft board.
The implosion of the Leafs, and the sudden struggles of the Raptors has quieted what used to be a fun task of trying to figure out how to schedule NBA/NHL home playoff games in the ACC.
(Sure, the Raptors have a LONG way to go before they miss the playoffs, but going 2-8 in the last 10 is a bit frightening.)
posted by grum@work at 12:09 AM on January 21, 2015
Sunday: "Roberto Martínez says Everton must satisfy ambitions of Kevin Mirallas." Tuesday: "Kevin Mirallas penalty miss: is it anarchy at Everton or no big deal?"