Bethea was awful. If he plays that bad again (there is a chance the Bills have some explosive playmakers) I make a statement cut. There is no use having a guy that makes terrible angles to the ball and leaves the middle of the field wide open. Might as well go with the rook.
This brings me to Ogletree. Fucking awful. Another guy I'd cut if he didn't have such a big cap number. He plays like that for the rest of the season cut his ass after the season. 3.5 million dollar cap hit would be well worth the price. LB is a major, major, need on this team.
Stupar flashed and I love his instincts. Might sturggle at this level making shoe string tackles, something I noticed he did all preseason because he'd shoot gaps so fast. Dak broke away from him pretty easily. Maybe that is an adjustment to NFL speed, just needs to clean up his angles fractionally.
Hamilton. Never want to see him on the field again, it is appalling the coaches said they have packages for him.
Deandre Baker. Wasn't that bad actually. He needs to learn to get a press at the line at this level because his makeup speed isn't good enough, but based on what I remember from him at Georgia shouldn't be a problem.
Pash Rush overall - I'm going to be easy on them here. The Cowboys have 3 all pro lineman. Lorenzo Carter showed some nice athleticism out there. I'll withhold judgement how bad it is till this week.
Offensive Line with the exception of Remmers was very, very good. Or at least comparatively to what we have seen. No breakdowns in assignments except for one on Solder.
Eli is completely gun shy at this point. It is pretty incredible. I think he has lost trust in himself. He doesn't even attempt throws anymore. The other thing that bothers the shit out of me is that he is doing with Saquon what he did with Odell. Locks on to these guys when he shouldn't. He needs to pull triggers, our WR crew isn't going to be getting wide open, but what is the point of trotting out an immobile pocket passer unless he can throw guys open. He is a game manager at this point. We are not good enough to have a game manager at QB.
Description sounds like Connelly.
I think he's watching Connely.
Lol it was tough, probably why I confused Stupar and Connelly with my rant. Defense looked like some peewee shit with all the missed assignments.
We can only hope that Baker gets better. I don't know what the plan is at LB outside of Connelly or EDGE outside of hoping Carter is good.
Our ownership situation is a disaster, with divided leadership.
We selected a system weenie wco coach TWICE.
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have a systematic problem....I don't think it's the players. I think Cleveland and Washington have the same issues
Our ownership situation is a disaster, with divided leadership.
We selected a system weenie wco coach TWICE.
It's still a question how much role Chris Mara has in picking players. When Reese and Ross were jettisoned, any other normal football organization would've dumped the Senior VP of Player Personnel too.
You have to extrapolate. The Randall Cobb TD was clearly cover 2 and was mostly on Ogletree. They ran a good play against it, but you have no chance to stop it unless he gets depth there. The Blake Jarwin td our two safeties had a miscommunication. Peppers was playing 2 and Bethea was playing 3 as the strong? It was weird because it was done to the one WR side. I don't know, what a clusterfuck. I singled out Bethea between him and Peppers because he is useless out there. Bad Angles and slow, not a good combo.
New D? It is Bettcher's system that he played under in Arizona. That was part of the justification in signing him as he would be able to communicate and get other's lined up properly. If he can't provide the veteran intangibles that were expected, then he is useless. Might as well take our lumps with Love.
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unless it is his initial read. Have no idea how he got a 22 on the wonderlic. Hopefully he is just overwhelmed with the new D.
New D? It is Bettcher's system that he played under in Arizona. That was part of the justification in signing him as he would be able to communicate and get other's lined up properly. If he can't provide the veteran intangibles that were expected, then he is useless. Might as well take our lumps with Love.
You’re thinking of Bethea. Peppers didn’t play in Arizona
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unless it is his initial read. Have no idea how he got a 22 on the wonderlic. Hopefully he is just overwhelmed with the new D.
New D? It is Bettcher's system that he played under in Arizona. That was part of the justification in signing him as he would be able to communicate and get other's lined up properly. If he can't provide the veteran intangibles that were expected, then he is useless. Might as well take our lumps with Love.
You’re thinking of Bethea. Peppers didn’t play in Arizona
You're right. I didn't read the Subject line. My comment applies to Bethea.
Huge misconception: high intelligence or wonderlic doesnt necessarily correlate to processing things quickly on a football field during live game action.
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unless it is his initial read. Have no idea how he got a 22 on the wonderlic. Hopefully he is just overwhelmed with the new D.
Huge misconception: high intelligence or wonderlic doesnt necessarily correlate to processing things quickly on a football field during live game action.
I clearly was describing Connelly and had brain fart, but sure let's focus on that.
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unless it is his initial read. Have no idea how he got a 22 on the wonderlic. Hopefully he is just overwhelmed with the new D.
Huge misconception: high intelligence or wonderlic doesnt necessarily correlate to processing things quickly on a football field during live game action.
The NFL uses the wonderlic because it measures the speed at which you process information. It is only a pseudo IQ test.
Can you please point out where I was mistaken? I'm open to criticism.
It's a glaring mistake. He was referring to Connelly. The one mistake does not render the entire post moot.
He clearly just used the wrong name since he was talking about the LB being young and needing to grow. Obviously no one would say that about the 31 year old Stupar
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Setting aside the open troll question, writing up a summary about a game that includes released players is a pretty glaring mistake. No?
It's a glaring mistake. He was referring to Connelly. The one mistake does not render the entire post moot.
Honestly, I just rewatched, with some extra attention to the glaring plays, because I wanted to see if our defense truly was that bad and in my disgusted rant crossed up some names. Honest mistake, but the fact people can't look past that leaves me scratching my head.
What I came away with was it was impossible to tell because of all the crossed up assignments. I singled out those three because it was extremely apparent they did not turn in even NFL level performances.
Marty....yup Ogletree fools people because he is an athletic playmaker, just all the other shit you need a linebacker to do, he doesn't.
Eli has been same player for at least 4 years - not going to get better - Mara owns that - it’s been sad to watch our team be humiliated and humbled - where does our record over last 3 years put us in ranking ? Hard to argue with all the crap we get. Our ownership ruled over the failures and then doubled down on Eli after our former couch concluded he was done
I was at 6-10 for this year
Still hoping but a loss to bills would set us on fire
I can't imagine Eli playing like he can't make a mistake. Years of scheme, coaching changes have probably removed some of his just play and let it loose.
I thought Peppers was wholly unimpressive and at least for that one game, was not near the ability of L. Collins.
On Eli, while it is clear he has lost a step, I’m not sure you can judge him if the Giants second rate receivers can’t get open.
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Setting aside the open troll question, writing up a summary about a game that includes released players is a pretty glaring mistake. No?
It's a glaring mistake. He was referring to Connelly. The one mistake does not render the entire post moot.
Honestly, I just rewatched, with some extra attention to the glaring plays, because I wanted to see if our defense truly was that bad and in my disgusted rant crossed up some names. Honest mistake, but the fact people can't look past that leaves me scratching my head.
What I came away with was it was impossible to tell because of all the crossed up assignments. I singled out those three because it was extremely apparent they did not turn in even NFL level performances.
Marty....yup Ogletree fools people because he is an athletic playmaker, just all the other shit you need a linebacker to do, he doesn't.
What's interesting about a post such as this is that fifteen guys are reviewing what you wrote and one error was found. We all make mistakes and an error is bound to be found when fifteen people are reviewing it. Question is, could any of those who found the error write a post such as this with no errors?
I expected a heavy dose of missed assignments, givenj new p[ersonnel...especially the number of rookies. However, they were almost never in agreement over assignment and coverages---that made me disappointed at Bethea and Peppers.
I expect better Organization as a unit...I believe there's enough talent to be more competitive, but tehre's a lack of RUSH Talent and a general lack of Depth on the defensive front.
If they can stay in assignments on D, and run some clock on O, they have some chance at progress and some wins.