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the problem with shula and the toys that he has is that he reminds me of a toy collector that hordes toys and dreams about all the wonderful things that can be done with these toys, but keeps them in a box on the shelf.

 

a toy kept in a box is useless, btw. i don't care how much financial value it has, it's true purpose is to be played with and that's where it's real value is.

 

all these toys that shula has now will be worthless unless they are used. he has to open up this offense and he's going to really have to work hard to go against that conservative nature of his to use them fully.

 

Are we still on for Legos later?

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Unlike last season, where LaFell, Hixon, and Ginn were all guys who needed to prove they could produce, this season's imports are vets with respectable stats. They may be new toys for Shula, but all you have to do is wind 'em up and they go where you want 'em to.

You take away Cotchery's 10tds from last year and their stats are those of career backups. Lafell has 2xs the tds as Avant in half the time. He will put up good numbers with Brady.

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Shula could have Brady or Manning at QB, Rice or Harrison at WR, and Sanders or Smith at RB, and still be mediocre at best as an OC. When the fug are the media pinheads going to wake up and realize if his last name was Jones or Smith and not Shula that he might be coaching high school ball if he was lucky.

will be interesting to see what happens to Shula next. His older brother, Dave Shula, was like Lane Kiffin in that they became NFL Head Coaches in their early 30's (31 and 32). Dave Shula did so bad (lost 50 games faster than any NFL coach in history) he left football and joined the family steakhouse business

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