LinvilleGorge

I don't think Shi Smith ever returned punts at SC. Newsome would seem an ideal fill in for Smith while he's out and a better practice squad WR than our current ones once Smith is back.

Yep. It's the NFL. Those other guys are pros too. Sometimes they're gonna make some plays despite your best efforts.

That was scary. Like, damn. This kid is a talent and the Jets have let him get broken in half in his very first game.

I don't think he was frustrated by the question as much as the reporters trying to talk over each other and some idiot wandering Joe Person style in front of the camera. He's a stud. Studs want the ball. Sometimes studs have to be protected from themselves. You're never gonna have a guy worth having asking for less touches. That's just not how these guys are wired.

That was nuts. He was punting the poo out of the ball.

We should consider plucking Dazz Newsome off of the Bears' practice squad. Solid punt returner and slot WR. Very similar to Shi Smith actually. I had them graded virtually identically.

The Nakamura of LBs. He's slower than an offensive lineman! He tackles like a kicker and covers like a cheerleader! He's.... TAHIR WHITEHEAD!!!

It's so cringe. Feels like something Rivera would come up with. "Well guys, we're up 3 in the 2nd quarter. You know what to do now! Time to get conservative and hang on for dear life! Remember... Don't. Beat. Ourselves."

Carter was third on the team in tackles with 5. But yeah, oddly I barely noticed him too. That's fine. He's a JAG. When you don't notice the JAG the JAG is doing his JAG job.

It was straight trash. Teams are gonna start kicking the laces off the ball at us if we can't threaten any type of return. Don't exactly have to worry about out-kicking your coverage.

Griping about 40? Yikes. Might wanna dial the expectations back a tad. We aren't the Chiefs.

Teddy looked good here early on too. He had five good games, then a bad 6th game, bounced back in week 7, then the wheels fell off week 8. But, the whole time he looked "good" he was also failing to deliver in the clutch. Let's see him in a competitive game once teams have film on him in that system. The truth will reveal itself... again.

We had a goalline fumble and two misfired passes to open receivers in the end zone. That's not Joe Brady's fault. No one would be complaining if we put up 40 yesterday and that's what we should've had.

He's always looked like a standard starting LB. That wasn't "standard starter" play yesterday.

Listen, I don't wanna get ahead of myself after one game, but... he looked like Luke Kuechly out there yesterday. That was DPOY caliber play. Straight up.

Byron Bell the superstar?

Yeah, they're smoking that real good poo. Becton looked like the worst OL on the field yesterday, period.

Other than Paradis, seems fairly spot on. It is what we thought it was. One stud and four problem spots.

Arnold can't block at all and Thomas is a subpar blocker. Honestly, I thought Thomas looked better as a receiver than Arnold yesterday. Arnold basically looked like a slower Funchess. Big dude that plays small. He played more like a big, slow WR than a TE. Now I see why Thomas was kept on. But yeah, hoping to see more of Tremble soon.

Hopefully for them it was just first game jitters.

I definitely agree that the over-reliance on CMC is a concern. Honestly, it's by far my #1 concern from yesterday's game. I'll give Darnold some time to settle into a new offense with new teammates before I hammer him too hard for those types of misses. Yeah, they were misses and it would've come back to bite us against a better team but fortunately we had a warm up game in week one against possibly the worst team in the league.

Not sure there was a type of pass he didn't drop yesterday.

If you put your arms up all you're doing is basically signaling to the ref that yep, I was holding.

I don't think "they" did. I think Elijah Moore did. That guy had bricks for hands yesterday.

Elijah Moore had worse hands than Ginn yesterday.