The Ted Factor

[CaliforniaCheez]

Maybe the right candidate won't be available until after his team's season is over......

[Brohm]

Yeah we need another Simmons on this D. I can't remember the RB for the Vikings but I remember the play where he shot through a gap, picked up the RB and launched him in the backfield. I think it was a penalty as well but the intimidation factor was something :P

[Partial]

Yeah we need another Simmons on this D. I can't remember the RB for the Vikings but I remember the play where he shot through a gap, picked up the RB and launched him in the backfield. I think it was a penalty as well but the intimidation factor was something :P

Maulaluga!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fritz]

He may be doing things a bit differently now, given how he lost both Shurmur and Rhodes, but Holmgren in Green Bay was very hands off with the defense. No some of this may be more legend than fact, but do you remember the stories that were printed, circulated and regaled on TV after the Packers first deep playoff run, the year they beat San Fran in San Francisco?

Holmgren said for the first time he could remember, he spent as much time with the defensive coaches as with the offensive coaches. He spilled his guts scouting each 49er he remembered and the things that drove them nuts when he was O coordinator.

Then the mad genius that was Shurmur instructed Wayne Simmons to go off his meds and just knock people around. God, was that a fun game to watch. Poor Brett Jones got a whipping from Wayne Simmons that day. I wish I had a tape of that game. Everyone today has seen film of Al Harris knocking some poor unsuspecting receiver on his keister with his bump. Ever see a TE go down in a heap on the LOS? That was Wayne Simmons that day. Good times.

I'll have to make a pitch here for ol' Craig Newsome, too. For a CB he smacked guys pretty good, and before he got hurt he could cover pretty well.

But yeah, Wayne Simmons. One mean guy, always one wrong look away from going berserk. Kinda miss that. Not so Chuck Cecilish, though - where it's just stupid penalty stuff. Simmons just hit people. Hard.

[swede]

He may be doing things a bit differently now, given how he lost both Shurmur and Rhodes, but Holmgren in Green Bay was very hands off with the defense. No some of this may be more legend than fact, but do you remember the stories that were printed, circulated and regaled on TV after the Packers first deep playoff run, the year they beat San Fran in San Francisco?

Holmgren said for the first time he could remember, he spent as much time with the defensive coaches as with the offensive coaches. He spilled his guts scouting each 49er he remembered and the things that drove them nuts when he was O coordinator.

Then the mad genius that was Shurmur instructed Wayne Simmons to go off his meds and just knock people around. God, was that a fun game to watch. Poor Brett Jones got a whipping from Wayne Simmons that day. I wish I had a tape of that game. Everyone today has seen film of Al Harris knocking some poor unsuspecting receiver on his keister with his bump. Ever see a TE go down in a heap on the LOS? That was Wayne Simmons that day. Good times.

My son was a 6 month-old babe in my arms and I watched much of the game standing up rocking him. I swear I nearly spiked the poor lad when we forced the fumble and that D lineman scooped it up for a TD. I went to his high school orientation meeting last night, illustrating how far back into the past that era has slipped.