SmokinwithWilly

If you take away the 200 yards rushing we gave up on big plays we held them to 2.6ypc.

I just look at that round and what we did. We took a long snapper with an obvious need for a guard, as evidenced by taking Brown later in the round. Regardless of what any other team did, even not knowing how Smith would turn out, it made more sense to take Smith, a day 2 prospect at that pick, and a LS later if we had to have one. I know we're only talking about 6th round picks and most of them bust anyway. I just really liked Humphrey and Smith coming out of college and was really disappointed we didn't get either when we had prime opportunities. I watch offensive linemen closer than any position going into the draft.

Does stumbling out of a bar drunk count as attending?

It's in comparison to taking a long snapper. Which is the more rare talent at that point in the draft? A long snapper or a day 2 prospect with a medical condition that MAY affect his ability to play at a position we had need to fill? I liked any other pick except LS. It could have been another guard or center. LS just didn't make any sense.

I wasn't trying to insult you. I was saying, in a gm role, if you watched the games, IOL was a obvious need. And I said before, during and after the draft we needed a center and a guard. Creed was always on my wish list as a top 2 center and Smith was a plug and play guard talent I wanted as well. I thought he would go in round 5 after the medical. Rounds 2 and 3 are like round 1 for IOL. I had wanted McCoy the year we took little. But really, it comes down to we needed IOL, had the opportunity and failed to seize it.

It wasn't really hindsight. We needed a center because Paradis was ass. WR was a luxury pick. Bad pick. Long snappers are available as UDFA by the dozens for a reason. Take a risk on a day 2 guard that fell because of a medical concern. Bad pick. You didn't need to be a NFL gm to make those 2 picks. If you watched the games it was pretty obvious we needed to invest in our IOL.

Rhule did more to neutralize him than opposing DCs ever could.

Still a better block than Little ever made.

Baker wasn't good the first half but that first half was written on the wall in preseason. Bullshit oline rotations just to end up where everyone with half a brain knew we'd be except for Elf, team lacking fire and being prepared, not playing your brand new QB in actual game situations but instead playing your golden boy 4th string CFL qb, ignoring your all pro RB. Come on. This is on Rhule 1000%. It's just fuging pathetic at this point.

I'm not so sure. Jerry Jones wants to run that franchise on whatever whim he feels like atm. That doesn't strike me as very compatible with Payton.

You could do all that. Bust I'm busting out this at midfield...

Are you sure? I feel like one of us could have made a wildcard.

Does it even matter? You can fire any number of clowns but the one driving the car is still here.

Bisaccia - what he did after Gruden was pretty amazing Flores - wanted him already Leftwich. - for reasons we already know

Please don't put down the mentally handicapped by putting them in the same category as Rhule.

Well according to me, Rhule needs to stfu.

If Marty Hurneys gut had a face.

The refs screwed us after we set a record for the world's biggest gangbang. Seriously, at that point, what's one more.

It's not necessarily practice, more setting his tone. Run blocking is more aggressive. You know the timing. First contact is yours. Garrett is all pro but run D isn't his strength. Ickey has a mean streak. Run blocking lets him embrace it. Good thing for a rookie LT vs an all pro.

5-102. I thought you were predicting Rhule's record before he's canned.

1-7. Rhule is fired but re-hired when no one wants to step into the mess he created. Fired at end of season at 3-14

1000%

Run blocking is what guys like Ickey do best. It's what he's most comfortable doing. It's his first game. Get him going doing what he does well before throwing a ton of pass blocking into the scheme.

Because you need to wait until game 15 to realize that the guy you have starting at a vital position on the oline sucks and should be replaced by someone else. Or you could read the Huddle and have known it week 1 of preseason.