and Bill Clinton said he did not have sexual relations with that woman and Nick Saban said he will not be the coach at Alabama and.... you get the idea. PR damage control. He said "I don't have any plans to coach next year" plans can change. clever wording.
The performances of the Rams and the Dolphins really do show that most NFL players just don't have tanking in their DNA. Dolphins give away their second timeout. Sigh. Bradshaw hurt for the Giants. Good news.
Or I could list a thousand other people who said that I'm not doing something and then didn't. Like Jon Gruden as a recent example. Or he probably meant, I'm not coach that shitty fucking team in Miami.
Bradford won more games last year because the NFC West was fucking putrid, and he never even came close to putting up the kind of numbers that Newton has.
Sam Bradford is a better QB than Cam Newton. This will become obvious next season when the Rams actually have an offensive line to protect Bradford. Team's will adjust to Newton's play style by forcing him to stay in the pocket and fit passes into tight windows (which he still struggles to do consistently).
It's not players who tank. It's management and coaches. Basically, owner tells coach he has job security, and will be there to coach the #1 overall pick if he tanks the season. Plus a shiny new contract and bonus. So, the coach goes out there and does questionable things during a game, picks the wrong plays, puts his team in position to lose games. Done.
I'd say Bradford is a better QB in the traditional sense. But, Newton appears to have the potential to be the better playmaker overall.
There's no such thing as tanking in a league where contracts aren't guaranteed. Nobody is going to intentionally play poorly and risk getting cut in the hope that their team will get a high draft pick, and that the high draft pick won't suck.
Newton will have to become a better pocket passer to have prolonged success in this league. See Vince Young after his rookie season. Michael Vick is the only QB to really be able to transition from being a scrambling QB to more of a pocket passer but he still struggles with his consistency.
Management yes, coaches virtually never. It's a very rare circumstance for a coach to have job security after a terrible season unless crucial players go down (and even then it doesn't necessarily happen - ask Jim Caldwell).
I thought that was an incomplete pass to Manningham, but Miami didn't challenge since they only have one timout, something Dierdorf apparently can't figure out.
