Where can I buy a Mr. T Starter Set (TM)?

Michael Clayton . . . to think I almost bought one of his jerseys after his rookie year.
Then again, they're probably really cheap right now.

Gruden is trying really ahrd to be the new Herm.

And yes, Wade Phillips' daughter is smoking hot.

I really wouldn't have thought that I would have found ANY relative of Wade Philips attractive.

Tracy Phillips = 9.

I think I've been concussed - Herm made perfect sense to me this week.

If he has to carry 500 times for us to win a lot of games, he’ll carry 500 times.

That sentence has to make any 49ers fan scared. Although, in the story, Nolan seems to realize that more carries=shorter career.

Re #1 & Mr. T. Starter Set: Linked to my name!

Re Tracy Phillips: "Kind of Hot"?!?! Was your wife looking over your shoulder while you wrote that?

Mt. T pities the foo' who doesn't buy his starter set!

Mr. T would throw Herm hella far, then run a play where Larry Johnson doesn't get the ball.

Those quotes by Holmgren are awesome. Goodness gracious.

Re #9:
She's the dead ballerina in the My Chemical Romance video (linked in your SH link).

Even DEAD she's hot!

"Mr T Starter Kit"

Herm's in mid-season form already.

Not so interesting Mr T sidenote:
My restaurant features a "Mr. T" burger. "We Pity the Foo' that Doesn't Try This Burger!"

Burger from the ground up:
6" Bun
Guacamole
Pickles, Onion, Lettuce, Tomato
1/2 lb Pepper Butter Infused Ground Beef Patty
1/2 lb Pepper Butter Infused Ground Beef Patty
6" Bun
Special Sauce
French Fries (yes, ON the burger)
1/2 lb Pepper Butter Infused Ground Beef Patty
1/4 lb Chicken Schnitzel (chicken breast, pounded flat, breaded and fried)
1/4 lb Bacon
6" Bun

Oh, and there's 4 slices of Cheddar and 4 slices of Swiss cheese placed in there at various spots as 'glue' to keep it all together. It's over 3 lbs altogether. Stands almost one foot tall, before you have to 'lean' on it to make it a 'manageable' size.

There's a waiver. About 10% of the people that have tried to eat it have experienced horribly painful cramps in the muscle under their jaw when they try to get their mouth around it.

We also pity the foo' that has to digest this monstrosity.

She looks like she's got the physical tools that we're looking for in that position.

We'll need to bring her in for a private workout, just to be certain. Plus, we'll have to evaluate her on the field performance a little bit further.

I pity the family of da foo' who has to pay all the funeral expenses after the inevitably massive Mr. T burger coronary.

Things like that . . . Priest Holmes needs to recognize that the Chiefs "just want to be friends" at this point.

She's hot from the neck down, at least. I'm not sold on her face, though. Also, her granddad is the winningest coach in Oilers history. Not exactly setting the bar too high, are they?

Mr. T starter set=brilliant. I knew Herm wouldn't let me down.

BTW most of those pics of Tracy Phillips are old. Like, almost ten years old. I know this because I remember seeing them back in the day. Makes me wonder why she doesn't update the ol' resume more often.

I do like that she apparently specializes in burlesque dancing though :)

Tracy Phillips is so hot, I want to scream at random women, "Why aren't you that hot?"

Best part of the Tracy Philips interview, hands down is this caption:
"He produces high-powered offenses and vicious defenses that drive opposing fans crazy..."
He does what? I remember specifically one game when he was head coach in Denver where he had 2 quarterbacks ALTERNATING PLAYS! This was a regular season game. Yeah, sure, he drives OPPOSING fans crazy. Good luck with him, Cowboy Fan.

Re: #7.

Yeah., Nolan also basically said that while he will run Gore as much as the team needs this year, he'd love to run him less rather than more to get a couple extra years out of him.

I just had a heart attack while reading #14.

"WHAT A TERRIBLE THING TO HAVE LOST ONE’S MIND. OR NOT TO HAVE A MIND AT ALL. HOW TRUE THAT IS."

That quote from Dan Quayle is one of my all-time favorites.

"CONSISTENCY IS THE HOBGOBLIN OF SMALL MINDS"

There's nothing wrong with consistency per se. However, a foolish consistency is another matter. That is what "is the hobgoblin of little minds." Exhibit A in support of that proposition is Matt Millen.

It looks like Tracy Phillips develops php sites in her spare time (click my name).

Hers is the first IMDB page I've ever looked at that is missing a DOB.

Tracy Phillips: not hot. Way too angular and my God, that hair is not normal. (She's especially bad in those photos where she's trying to look enticing. Geh.)

Herm Rules! TWIQ should be renamed "The Herm Zone"

I'm gonna do something unthinkable to you sheep and say that your jokes about Herm Edwards say worse things for your sense of humor than they do for Herm's coaching. I'll be the first to admit that he's an awful strategist and shouldn't be a head coach, but he got where he is today by being able to relate to players and getting them motivated for every game. He gets full effort out of them, which is an asset many excellent head coaches would kill for. Just because you guys wear lab coats when you watch games doesn't mean everybody has to speak in terms of adjusted value over average. Good coaches keep it simple for their players: don't turn it over. If you turn it over, don't let that lead to points.

Warren Sapp, way to make Gerard Warren feel the love! Of course, he was a Bronco...maybe there still does exist some animosity between those two teams despite the Broncos' dominance of late.

I like Eli (based on the things I hear at Giants home games... I'd say more than most), but when during Tiki Barber's 1662 yard season was his calling out the coach and retirement talk affecting anyone? If those are the numbers a guy puts up with no heart, would he have reached 2200 yards with heart? While Tiki could've handled his comments in a classier way, no one can ignore that Coughlin would be unemployed if not for him and Eli would be mentioned amongst the Akili Smiths of the world if not for those 2 playoff appearances... gained mostly on the back of Tiki Barber.

I would tell Eli, "Just shut up and play better."

Hemlock, your point is well made. Herm gets a hard time, I think, because his hype does not match his performance. [And he talks...a lot]

"I remember specifically one game when he was head coach in Denver where he had 2 quarterbacks ALTERNATING PLAYS! This was a regular season game. Yeah, sure, he drives OPPOSING fans crazy. Good luck with him, Cowboy Fan."

Which also happened in 1971 with Staubach and Morton.
Staubach played in 13 games, Morton in 10.
Also that was the year Duane Thomas apparently played in silence, not much of a distraction there....
and they still won the Super Bowl!

#27

Motivating players is an important skill and nobody would suggest otherwise. That being said, coaches who have all sorts of important skills become head coaches. Those who have some important skills become assistant coaches. Herman Edwards' ability to motivate does not overcompensate for some of his other problems, like clock management, general strategy, and realizing that you shouldn't run Larry Johnson 40 times a game when there are nine guys in the box trying to stop him. "Not a good head coach" "incapable of doing anything in coaching".

"If I have to run the ball 500 times to win a bunch of ballgames, I'm getting January off" - Frank Gore, or basically any NFL RB

Herm Edwards: Keepin' it simple since 1988

Am I the only one who found Eli's "response" to be basically something someone else told him to say? I don't think he's a bad guy, but he just seems like someone who has had a role thrust upon him, and while he seems fine with it in general, transcending it just isn't part of the deal. His response sounds like "you'd better say something" so he did and just hopes it'll go away. Sort of a shame he wound up in NYC, where just doing a day's work and clocking in and out will never be good enough.

OTOH, for 1st pick money (and hype, expectation and scrutiny), expecting to just be a generic team member is a fundamental failing on his part. Blame his brother's example if you want, but he followed the trail of bread crumbs.

#10: Holy god, I almost died laughing.

#14: Fries on the burger is the best! Especially if the fries are good enough to maintain their consistency under the ketchup and cheese.

... now I'm hungry.

Re 22, I'll see your heartattack, and raise you an erection. That burger is now number 3 on my list of ways I want to die.

The only name worse than Tracy is Tracy-Ann.

Best Mr. T? I pity the fool that don't eat my cereal.

Oh, and, by the way, your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

I was waaaay late on the Mr. T quote.

#38 - what about Candi. Dotted with a heart. Or a star.

41.
It would indeed be very, very unethical to name your girl after a '70s sex magazine.

The end-all on Tracy Phillips:

On the binary scale she is definitely a 1.

On the 1-10 scale? I'd giver her a 7... 7.5 maybe.

I don't see what the big deal is; Herm makes perfect sense to me.

27:

Imo, there's a difference between simplifying potentially complex ideas, and stating the blatantly obvious. An NFL player who has presumably played at the high school and college levels needs a coach to simplify "turnovers are bad"?

Then again, some guy got a lot of press making a movie about how shocked, shocked he was to put on weight after eating nothing but McDonalds for 30 days straight, so maybe the obvious isn't that obvious these days.

In defense of Herm, despite his flaws, making the playoffs in 4 of 6 years coaching in the NFL is pretty impressive, given that you can only average overall 1 of every 3 years. Gruden is only 4 of 9, Billick 4 of 8, Coughlin 6 of 11, Mariucci 4 of 9, Fisher 4 of 13, yet those guys don't seem to get the abuse Herm gets.

Herm is 50-52 as a coach.

NYJ

NYJ2000: 9-7 5.3
Record DVOA
NYJ2001: 10-6 9.8%
NYJ2002: 9-7 12.9
NYJ2003: 6-10 -5.6
NYJ2004: 10-6 26.4
NYJ2005: 4-12 -20%

Chiefs
Pre Herm:
KCC2005: 10-6 27.5
Herm
KCC2006: 9-7 4

Other than the wierd 2004 season with the Jets, Herm pretty much drove that team into the ground. It looks like hes doing the same with the Chiefs

45: I don't think he pretended to be shocked he gained weight; that was the point. I think he was shocked he almost died from his liver shutting down.

31: I wasn't aware of that piece of information. I didn't know that changing QB's on alternating plays had ever worked in the NFL, so it just seemed like a good shorthand description of Phillips' futility in Denver. Thanks for the new information. I have nothing against the guy personally, I've just been pretty underwhelmed with him as a head coach. Excellent D-coordinator, though.

45 & 48

Perhaps he wouldn't have gained so much weight if he hadn't forced himself to eat until he vomited. If you continue to eat nearly anything until you vomit you will gain weight.

Also, not hot at all.

The Mr. T starter set quote was on Hard Knocks, that's not a good find, that's avoiding preseason football by any means necessary.

47. Hemlock, and Herm doubters. Obviously you didn't pay attention to the Jets, ever.

2003 10 games with Pennington, 9 starting, broken wrist preseason,
2005 3 games with Pennington, the rest was Brooks Bollinger, and nearly any other scrub

Which is why they ALSO drafted a QB in the 2nd round for 2006

Mangenius was just lucky Mr Glass,was uninjured. Even Tony Kornheiser was aware of this fact. Much to the chagrin of Joe Theesman.

2 playoff wins makes him the best coach in Jets history.

"2 playoff wins makes him the best coach in Jets history."

Weeb Ewbank also won two playoff games as Jets head coach and he's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Walt Michaels also had two playoff wins as Jets head coach.

Yes, and?

So, you really think Edwards is the best coach in Jets history?

Re: 20, 31, 49

Saturday, December 12, 1992
Denver 17 at Buffalo 27

Shawn Moore and Tommy Maddox alternated at the QB position for Denver.

As a Pats fan I cried the day Herm left the JETS.

#1 Not hot. I'll bet $100 that she's 30 lbs heavier now than the day those pics were taken. (you have to look forward, guys) If they are indeed 5+ years old, make it 40.

#2 Walt Michaels has 2 playoff wins for NYJ? Wasn't he the one always caught by the cameras with a finger up his nose on the sideline, or was that Joe "Joe Must Go!" Walton...? Either way, that guy took the "I live for the green" thing way too seriously.

#3 In my 20s and maybe my 30s, that Mr. T burger would have been an exciting challenge. Maybe if I ever go back to 8 workouts a week I can say that again. But I've come to like my heart just the way it is--beating. If I tried it today I'd get halfway through the burger and my wife would kill me on principal.

#4 Insancipitory (37) What are the other two ways? Let me guess: shot by a jealous husband when you're 99 and.... crushed by a mountain of Lombardi trophies when you visit your team's HQ? Or maybe taking a bullet as part of your job in Herm Edwards' Secret Service detail when he's running the country?

#5 I second the name The Herm Zone for TWIQ.

Yes, Michaels had two playoff wins. He beat the Bengals the year after they won the AFC title and he beat the L.A. Raiders the year before they won the Super Bowl.

Walton was the nose picker.

47:

The Chiefs were going down no matter who took over. Their impressive offensive line is aging (or totally gone), they lack WR playmakers, Priest Holmes at his prime backed up by LJ was just sick (and not happening again), and their defense was never that great in recent times. Now they've lost an old Trent Green (good call) and are replacing him with a career backup or a rookie that isn't panning out (bad call). None of that is Herm's fault. That team's problem is its GM.

That said, I too was very sorry to see him leave the AFC East. I could always count on Herm to do at least 2-3 really stupid things per game when the Jets played the Patriots, and now I can't count on that anymore.

Commissioner Goodell sez "We obviously want to be careful not to overprice our fans."

Really? And what price are you putting on your fans? More importanly, who's buying them, and are they complaining about the expense?