anime gently caress pillow posted:

Foles was a flash in the pan. Mark Sanchez will be starting by week 8. The Eagles are doomed to a decade of mediocrity. Chip Kelly is going to Petrino us. Abort. Abort.

quote:

ESPN Panthers reporter David Newton said WR Tavarres King's "stock is rising."

King wrapped up a reportedly solid week of camp by catching all four of his targets for 50 yards against the Bills Friday night. A fifth-round pick of the Broncos last season, King has the talent to challenge Jason Avant for the No. 3 receiver job. He is a name to watch this preseason.

Chichevache posted:

drat. Well if he wasn't in then at least he wasn't loving up.

Thanks.

FizFashizzle posted:

A Pale Horse posted:

I watched some parts of the Bucs game after work this morning and holy poo poo is the O-line bad. I expected them to be bad, but not quite this dreadful. It wasn't just the guards either, I still have to go back and watch the first team play by play to determine who was the worst, but my initial reaction is they all were. They couldn't protect McCown at all and they couldn't do anything in the run game. The play that sticks in my mind was an attempted stretch play down the strong side where they couldn't seal the edge, couldn't open holes and in fact got bullied all the way down the LoS until they got pushed into the RB near the sideline resulting in a 1 yard gain. It was laughably dreadful to watch and if they don't figure out a way to improve that its going to be a very long season. I can't believe I'm going to say this but hire Richie Incognito Bucs. He's a huge rear end in a top hat and a bully but he'd be by far the best guard on the roster immediately.

McCown was loving awful as well. 2 sacks, 2 fumbles, one lost, and a pick 6 in just over a quarter of play. Some of that was the fault of the line, to be sure, but not all of it. On the strip sack, he held on to the ball way too long and on the pick six he made a terrible decision, rather than take the sack or throw it away he just casually lobbed it down the field to whoever could grab it. I really would hope a 35 year old QB would have better judgment than that, but its McCown so maybe not. Glennon was passable if not spectacular. He didn't throw a meaningful downfield ball and most of the yards came as YAC due to checkdowns and dumpoffs. He did a good job of avoiding pressure on several plays and stretching the play for some marginal success, which is a nice change from last year where at any hint of pressure he'd go into baby giraffe mode and stumble around like a day old foal(i think its foal for giraffes?) on roller skates. Still he was playing mostly against the 2nd and 3rd team defenses so you'd hope to see some production. The wide receivers couldn't get open (a recurring theme from last year) which forced a lot of those dump offs and check downs and the tight ends were mostly a non factor except for Sefarian-Jenkins having a few nice plays (again though, against the 3rd and 4th team D). The two slight positives were Bobby Rainey and Charles Sims who both had some very nice runs, Sims especially. Overall it was a pretty dismal offensive performance.

The defense looked good though and GMac is right back to where he left off last season. He blew up the first play from scrimmage, tackling the RB for a 5 yard loss and came back two plays later and smashed Henne forcing an incompletion on 3rd down. They also did a nice job of getting their hands up and batted a few balls at the LoS. The LBs did a nice job of closing down run plays and the secondary managed good coverage for most of their time on the field. Bowers looked versatile and competent, blocking a pass after dropping into shallow coverage from the 3-tech position and managed a few pressures even I think. I guess converting him to DT may be the way to go so good on Lovie for spotting that.

I've written too many words about a stupid preseason game now so I'll stop.

wheez the roux posted:

Start Jeff Tuel.

A Pale Horse posted:

I watched some parts of the Bucs game after work this morning and holy poo poo is the O-line bad. I expected them to be bad, but not quite this dreadful. It wasn't just the guards either, I still have to go back and watch the first team play by play to determine who was the worst, but my initial reaction is they all were. They couldn't protect McCown at all and they couldn't do anything in the run game. The play that sticks in my mind was an attempted stretch play down the strong side where they couldn't seal the edge, couldn't open holes and in fact got bullied all the way down the LoS until they got pushed into the RB near the sideline resulting in a 1 yard gain. It was laughably dreadful to watch and if they don't figure out a way to improve that its going to be a very long season. I can't believe I'm going to say this but hire Richie Incognito Bucs. He's a huge rear end in a top hat and a bully but he'd be by far the best guard on the roster immediately.

McCown was loving awful as well. 2 sacks, 2 fumbles, one lost, and a pick 6 in just over a quarter of play. Some of that was the fault of the line, to be sure, but not all of it. On the strip sack, he held on to the ball way too long and on the pick six he made a terrible decision, rather than take the sack or throw it away he just casually lobbed it down the field to whoever could grab it. I really would hope a 35 year old QB would have better judgment than that, but its McCown so maybe not. Glennon was passable if not spectacular. He didn't throw a meaningful downfield ball and most of the yards came as YAC due to checkdowns and dumpoffs. He did a good job of avoiding pressure on several plays and stretching the play for some marginal success, which is a nice change from last year where at any hint of pressure he'd go into baby giraffe mode and stumble around like a day old foal(i think its foal for giraffes?) on roller skates. Still he was playing mostly against the 2nd and 3rd team defenses so you'd hope to see some production. The wide receivers couldn't get open (a recurring theme from last year) which forced a lot of those dump offs and check downs and the tight ends were mostly a non factor except for Sefarian-Jenkins having a few nice plays (again though, against the 3rd and 4th team D). The two slight positives were Bobby Rainey and Charles Sims who both had some very nice runs, Sims especially. Overall it was a pretty dismal offensive performance.

The defense looked good though and GMac is right back to where he left off last season. He blew up the first play from scrimmage, tackling the RB for a 5 yard loss and came back two plays later and smashed Henne forcing an incompletion on 3rd down. They also did a nice job of getting their hands up and batted a few balls at the LoS. The LBs did a nice job of closing down run plays and the secondary managed good coverage for most of their time on the field. Bowers looked versatile and competent, blocking a pass after dropping into shallow coverage from the 3-tech position and managed a few pressures even I think. I guess converting him to DT may be the way to go so good on Lovie for spotting that.

I've written too many words about a stupid preseason game now so I'll stop.

Eifert Posting posted:

This is Matt Scott's world.

Blitz7x posted:

Blake Bortles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gabCBhpw5EI

Chichevache posted:

Thank you for finding this.

I'm surprised by how good Bortles looks already. Granted this is a group of second stringers, but he was making pretty good decisions here (in a highlight reel, but I believe he only threw 11 passes total so we aren't missing much.) My only concern would be that his ball placement could use some work. A few of those passes were a bit off or could have been placed in such a way that they would have led the receiver away from the defender a bit, but otherwise I like what I saw. Hopefully he still gets more time to develop on the bench and they can find him some good weapons next season when he really gets a shot.

Go Jags.

Sour Diesel posted:

With their starting QB as Henne, Bortles might be starting by week 6.

zimbomonkey posted:

Is Brandin Cooks considered a starter in New Orleans? Why did he play so deep into last night's game? I was watching his highlights and realized he was burning rookies like Gaines and Joyner. Did he play with the ones too?

Blitz7x posted:

Derek Carr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ybJWL1ezU

Grozz Nuy posted:

That was a horrendous angle by the defender more than anything special that Cooks did tbh

Sour Diesel posted:

With their starting QB as Henne, Bortles might be starting by week 6.

Chichevache posted:

They said they would sit him for the season and I still really hope they do. I don't want him flaming out because I'm really hoping to see the Jags succeed as a team and I'd love for Bortles to be the man who takes them into the promised land.

Blitz7x posted:

The rest of the league really hosed up by letting Cooks fall to the Saints

pillsburysoldier posted:

RumbleFish posted:

The Panthers really wanted Cooks and I believe they would've taken him, but the Saints grabbed him only a couple picks before.

Chichevache posted:

They said they would sit him for the season and I still really hope they do. I don't want him flaming out because I'm really hoping to see the Jags succeed as a team and I'd love for Bortles to be the man who takes them into the promised land.

Grittybeard posted:

They said the same thing about Gabbert. I guess everything's different in Jacksonville now compared to back then other than the losing, but I won't believe it until I see it.

FizFashizzle posted:

I think gettleman might have still taken Benji tbqh.

D_I posted:

It's Brandin Cooks' world and we're just living in it.

FizFashizzle posted:

I think gettleman might have still taken Benji tbqh.

Eifert Posting posted:

I see Johnny Manziel had almost as good of a game as Matt Scott.