Quote: @MaroonBells said:
Preseason games seem to become more and more meaningless with every passing year. A few years ago, the 3rd game was the game you could see the starters for a series or two. Now very few teams expose their starters or their schemes in any of these games. Since we're talking about 90 man rosters that means about half of the players on the field last night will not make NFL rosters.
Cut it to two games or eliminate it entirely and do this shit in joint practices.
Joint practices dont bill season ticket holders for 1-2 extra games a year.
Quote: @AGRforever said:
@ MaroonBells said:
Preseason games seem to become more and more meaningless with every passing year. A few years ago, the 3rd game was the game you could see the starters for a series or two. Now very few teams expose their starters or their schemes in any of these games. Since we're talking about 90 man rosters that means about half of the players on the field last night will not make NFL rosters.
Cut it to two games or eliminate it entirely and do this shit in joint practices.
Joint practices dont bill season ticket holders for 1-2 extra games a year.
Exactly. It's why it will never happen. It's just what I would do.
As a season tix holder I hate paying for pre-season. I just give the tix away, not going to give that caliber of play/player my valuable time to park, drive etc.
As far as Chandler goes, can you really tell s hit behind that OL?
I suspect he'll be just fine as a #2 behind the starters.
Honestly, I have more question marks about MAttison bringing explosion to the running game with Cook gone.
Quote: @purplefaithful said:
As a season tix holder I hate paying for pre-season. I just give the tix away, not going to give that caliber of play/player my valuable time to park, drive etc.
As far as Chandler goes, can you really tell s hit behind that OL?
I suspect he'll be just fine as a #2 behind the starters.
Honestly, I have more question marks about MAttison bringing explosion to the running game with Cook gone.
Agreed. We will lose the explosive factor that Cook brought. But I think what KOC also wanted was to run the ball more effectively in short yardage in order to sustain drives and keep the defense off the field, something Cook wasn't especially good at.
We'll just have to wait and see on that. Vea, Gaines and Kancey week one is a tall order and will tell us a lot.
Quote: @StickyBun said:
Again I ask: what the hell good is preseason for? You can't tell a damn thing about anything. Its a shit show.
Revenue generation. Filling out the bottom half of the roster. A chance for marginal guys to earn a job (the practice squad pays $12,000/week, somewhat better than stocking shelves at the local Safeway).
I barely watch any preseason most years and never really feel that I missed anything. Hyped up guys in August mostly are looking for a job in September.
The team that opens up in game one of the season never resembles what you saw in preseason in the slightest way, especially now that starters don't even take a snap before then. Which is why people getting in a tizzy about the upcoming season based on August action is just comic relief. We'll know what we really have around early October.
I was shocked that Mahomes and Allen actually played yesterday and that Rodgers is going to play in the Jets final preseason game.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ purplefaithful said:
As a season tix holder I hate paying for pre-season. I just give the tix away, not going to give that caliber of play/player my valuable time to park, drive etc.
As far as Chandler goes, can you really tell s hit behind that OL?
I suspect he'll be just fine as a #2 behind the starters.
Honestly, I have more question marks about MAttison bringing explosion to the running game with Cook gone.
Agreed. We will lose the explosive factor that Cook brought. But I think what KOC also wanted was to run the ball more effectively in short yardage in order to sustain drives and keep the defense off the field, something Cook wasn't especially good at.
We'll just have to wait and see on that. Vea, Gaines and Kancey week one is a tall order and will tell us a lot.
Was he not especially good at it, or in reality were we just having a lot of the same interior run problems along the offensive line that we've seen in training camp and preseason thus far? Dalvin has never been a dancer and I'd say I saw more of the latter last year. Mattison better buckle up his chin strap...
Quote: @supafreak84 said:
@ MaroonBells said:
@ purplefaithful said:
As a season tix holder I hate paying for pre-season. I just give the tix away, not going to give that caliber of play/player my valuable time to park, drive etc.
As far as Chandler goes, can you really tell s hit behind that OL?
I suspect he'll be just fine as a #2 behind the starters.
Honestly, I have more question marks about MAttison bringing explosion to the running game with Cook gone.
Agreed. We will lose the explosive factor that Cook brought. But I think what KOC also wanted was to run the ball more effectively in short yardage in order to sustain drives and keep the defense off the field, something Cook wasn't especially good at.
We'll just have to wait and see on that. Vea, Gaines and Kancey week one is a tall order and will tell us a lot.
Was he not especially good at it, or in reality were we just having a lot of the same interior run problems along the offensive line that we've seen in training camp and preseason thus far? Dalvin has never been a dancer and I'd say I saw more of the latter last year. Mattison better buckle up his chin strap...
Don't know. No one has seen either Mattison or the starting line yet this year.
But if I need a yard and I'm running wide zone behind Darrisaw, I'm going to prefer a runner who doesn't spend a lot of time behind the line of scrimmage.
Quote: @1VikesFan said:
I was shocked that Mahomes and Allen actually played yesterday and that Rodgers is going to play in the Jets final preseason game.
I think it is a good idea to have the starters suit up and get a series or two in, it gets everyone on the same page and ready to play a football game as a team. I really do not like what I am seeing on the sideline with players who are not playing, it does not look like a football team, feel bad for the guys who are trying to make the team and play a football game while the rest of the guys are laughing it up.
I can understand teams not wanting to play their QB, but it has gone way too far with all these marginal starters not playing as well, these guys need the reps and many are not much better if any than the guys playing.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ supafreak84 said:
@ MaroonBells said:
@ purplefaithful said:
As a season tix holder I hate paying for pre-season. I just give the tix away, not going to give that caliber of play/player my valuable time to park, drive etc.
As far as Chandler goes, can you really tell s hit behind that OL?
I suspect he'll be just fine as a #2 behind the starters.
Honestly, I have more question marks about MAttison bringing explosion to the running game with Cook gone.
Agreed. We will lose the explosive factor that Cook brought. But I think what KOC also wanted was to run the ball more effectively in short yardage in order to sustain drives and keep the defense off the field, something Cook wasn't especially good at.
We'll just have to wait and see on that. Vea, Gaines and Kancey week one is a tall order and will tell us a lot.
Was he not especially good at it, or in reality were we just having a lot of the same interior run problems along the offensive line that we've seen in training camp and preseason thus far? Dalvin has never been a dancer and I'd say I saw more of the latter last year. Mattison better buckle up his chin strap...
Don't know. No one has seen either Mattison or the starting line yet this year.
But if I need a yard and I'm running wide zone behind Darrisaw, I'm going to prefer a runner who doesn't spend a lot of time behind the line of scrimmage.
Dalvin is one of the quickest, most explosive backs in the league (and a wide zone specialist). My concern is if we are allowing penetration and Cook was getting tackled in the backfield regularly, what do you think happens to Mattison who is the more lumbering player? Going to be interesting to track the running game this year
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