Khyber53

It's shameful.

Small and slow are apparently two of our scouting goals. Everyone on the team is one or the other -- a few standouts are both. Most undersized LBs ever, slowest DEs, tiniest QB, slowest WRs... Really, I think this team could be whipped by 53 Todd Sauerbrun clones, especially if he was still taking the testosterone supplements. And yeah, Evero... is Tepper punishing him or just us?

Tepper's fault is not knowing enough to hire or retain people who know football. But you have to lay the blame on the hucksters that have talked him into hiring these coaches. This team looks completely unprepared, just as they did in the pre-season. You practice how you play. There's no hunger in this team. There's no bully. There's no mean. There are no balls. fug these soft ass coaches.

Time to blow the whole thing up. I know it's just the first game but when the milk smells spoiled, you don't have to drink a couple of glasses to make sure before throwing out the jug.

It is appropriate that we wore white shirts and white pants for this game, because that defense was a bunch of marshmallows. Little pressure, most of the tackling done by the DBs. Got pushed around by a meh team. We keep waiting for that defense to get better. And waiting. And waiting.

This is not a professional football team from ownership on down to trainers. Half of the teams will lose in the first week. Roughly a quarter of the league will be 0-2 at the end of next week. And we may still be looking for a win by November at this rate. At least we got a TD.

It's still early. And apparently will be for a while today.

Well, in 2003 we had Rodney Peete and had just snagged some Cajun dude who'd spent time on and off New Orleans' bench and practice squad, had played a bit in Europe. Moose was being considered kind of a guy that hadn't lived up to being a WR1 and Smitty was interesting but hadn't really evolved yet. And then there was Ricky Proehl, an aging, not-so-fast white guy with good hands. Our RB corps was a rookie out of UCLA with a lot of question marks and an aging guy who'd just been jettisoned by the Deadskins. Our o-line was suspect and our offensive play caller was a former head coach of the Falcons. Of course, we had this monster of a player at DE named Julius Peppers. The league had gotten a glimpse of him the year before but they had no idea. No idea at all what they were running into. In 2015 we lost Kelvin Benjamin in the pre-season to injury and we were ready to hang it up right then and there. It would take 15 regular season games and one really pissed off Falcons team before someone would hang a loss on us. So, maybe, just maybe, we can find a spark of magic this season, the conditions seem eerily familiar. Sure would be nice.

In this roster's defense, neither the 2003 or 2015 rosters screamed anything but another lackluster season. Sometimes, you just catch the magic. Sure would be nice again. Of course, both of those teams had established, game setting linebacking corps. And we've got... errr...

I can't wait for this game. I do worry about the outcome, though. We're going to learn a lot about things very quickly.

None of the wipes are really flushable. There's news stories a couple of times a year about this and how they are destroying municipal waste systems. And if you have a septic system.... oh man, that's going to be gross.

I wouldn't drop David Moore, honestly. Moore, while long in the tooth and light in production, is about the only veteran presence in the WR room now and the only one with extensive experience with what Canales wants and needs. And that's probably why he made the roster. Still, aging safeties who might make a decent gunner just aren't where you want to spend your money and roster spots. Even at vet minimum, he's not going to be as cheap or maybe as trainable as some UDFA who would run through a brick wall for a roster spot for rookie league minimum and a chance.

If the Saints, a team arguably worse than we were last season, with a similarly bad defense (although not as historically bad as we were) let the guy go... ... there's a reason. The only thing we could gain from grabbing him is some insight into the Saints' special teams efforts. And that's just not worth a roster spot.

Not trying to say it, but...

I've got hopes for this season. And I want to see Bryce hit his potential this year. He's in a better position than before to do it, but it's also a training wheels off situation now that AT has gone back to the land of Skol! I'm still worried about our defense, but that's scheme as much as players. Still, I've been wrong before. Maybe there will be a certain magic that happens this year. Sure would be great. Either way, it's my team, whether it's cheers or tears.

You don't have to have a legendary or great QB to win the SB. It does take a good one on a solid team. There are some really legendary QBs without a Super Bowl ring, many with gold jackets. And then there are some solid but modest QBs with one or sometimes more rings. Still, that QB spot is the most important on a team, by a fairly sturdy margin. It's just not as steep of a margin as they want you to think. Dan Marino has no ring. Eli Manning has two. Trent Dilfer has one.

I like him, he's from here in Greensboro, never really got the chance because of injury at end of senior year and then was sitting behind a suddenly and impressively reinvigorated Goff. Practice squad signing here is a really good move. Maybe he can grow into the roll a bit more and take over back-up QB duties after Dalton hangs up the cleats. If not, maybe he can just be a really good player to run practice drills here. Either way, a good kid gets to keep living the dream for a while longer and get a paycheck. I've got no problem with that!

Oh yeah, I admit that I just came up with that one out of thin air. No idea how he did here, but honestly he was pretty good on the field. I just fired that one off mainly because he was cracking on a guy who really was putting it all out there and performing, even when it looked like no one else was.

Well, I mean, if he just hit the line and produced two yards a carry that'd be a problem. Like Mike.

I can't say safe for a few more seasons. If this goes bad enough, like a total retrograde, this thing is going to get blown up, and hopefully completely.

Man, we got screwed. Looks like Morgan did learn a lot from Fitterer. We're going to regret this. Good luck to AT, though and thanks for all the hard work here.

That depth chart is full of holes and who?s. Lord, I hope there's a plan.

I wish him the best in whatever comes next for him. Not right now doesn't mean never, it also doesn't always mean this thing. Guy could take everything he's learned and move into coaching.