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The joint practices are much better than playing a series or three in a preseason game. On these practices you see film after you play and can go up against the same guys the next day to correct it. After games you either don't get a chance to play them again or have to wait weeks or months for a second chance. Hence the reason that playing a series or two in a preseason game is highly over-rated.

I wonder how many of the guys playing on the offensive line this game might become a starter by game 1.

I'm looking forward to seeing PJ with the 1s. Let's see if he is the real deal. And he gets to start against his old team. Great drama here. Let's see Tremble mix it up. Should be chippy as well with all the trash talking.

He did say receivers were dropping balls and running wrong depths so there wasn't separation. But he also said this wasn't live. Guys weren't going 100%. They weren't cutting people or taking them down as they would in a game situation. He said he got good film on lots of guys to review so they can try and be better tomorrow. That is how you avoid looking like today come your opening game.

I guess I misunderstood. I thought you suggested that Weiss installed his own system rather than put his own concepts into the larger Erhardt Perkins system he borrowed.

C'mon now stop being positive. You need to bitch and complain about how bad we were. Everything Rhule said was coach-speak just to shine the turd. Everyone knows that players don't get better over time.

Weiss installed his version of the Erhardt Perkims system which they still run today. It allows for a lot of variation and flexibility.. This article seems fairly accurate. https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/New_England_Patriots_strategy

Jones is the perfect QB for NE. Good football IQ decent arm, proven winner who is cool under pressure. He can run an Erhardt Perkins system smoothly. He isn't athletic and doesn't have a great arm but he can be successful without it.

It is possible to be optimistic and a realist at the same time. Being positive and looking for the good even in a bad situation is an attitude you assume despite the reality. You surely know what is happening because that doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the obvious. It is the ability to reframe things to avoid constant anger and disappointment in the team you chose to root for. Being positive the past 3 years has been difficult given the great starts and terrible finishes. For me it is remembering that the past had nothing to do with the present or the future unless it was the recent past. So each year I know that it is a do over and a chance to do better. So I stay optimistic and hope for the best. What you characterize as a type of naivete or blind allegiance, I characterize as supporting my team and giving them the benefit of the doubt until they deserve otherwise. And after last year's 3-5- 3 prevent defense and the reports today it would be easy to be critical of the defense but that would be ridiculous at this point.

I am really looking forward to seeing practice tomorrow. The Colts defense gave our offense plenty of bulletin board material. Hopefully we respond when it counts on Sunday. We'll not really counts but you know what I mean.

I was excited to see guys in pads getting some live action. Rhule is doing exactly what he said he was going to do. He is rotating guys everywhere evaluating their fit. The goal today was not to beat the Colts or look better or worse but try different guys at different positions to see how they do. All that reporting was by fans for fans of each team to create excitement. It was a healthy competition to evaluate individual players and develop film to evaluate and teach with. Hopefully wiffing on a pass block assignment onlt requires some technique adjustment rather than serving as a harbinger of portending events.

We are platooning guys in on offense every snap and people here fall apart because we don't look sharp. Of course we don't have any chemistry. We don't even have many guys who even played together last year out there at one time. And do you think our defense is going to.look great when we aren't blitzing and only going man coverage over and over again. Do we really have to have this extreme angst throughout the preseason. I thought folks here would at least have better perspective.

You guys do know that we aren't going to show much today and everything will be vanilla Sunday. To make much of today or this week is was premature. The over reactions are ridiculous

For me it depends how we play. If we play well but the Jets play better then I can accept a loss. If we play poorly then I won't be happy if we win or lose. Sure a win is a win but it won't give me that much hope for the future. On the other hand the measure of a team is how it handles adversity just as much as how they handle success. So even if we lose week 1, if we come back and smack NO I wil be much happier.

If no one is open and you try to make something happen that is what causes turnovers. Hopefully this year with a better scheme more guys will be open so Sam can play inside the offense and take what the defense is giving him.

Can't deny that film can make a difference for the defense but Darnold is also gaining experience and confidence as he goes and watching film gameplanning against that defense as well. So it very possible that his improvements will compensate for any disadvantage he gets from teams seeing him in our system. Something that Teddy didn't do last year when teams realized he couldn't or wouldn't throw the deep ball. That won't be Darnold's issue for sure.

I don't think you have to wait that long if he plays well. He isn't a rookie and if Pittsburgh plays like they normally do they won't be totally vanilla and will be sending blitzes and playing more like a regular season game. The first few regular season games are against teams that may not be very good. So that might not be the best test depending on how NO plays.

Can't wait to see how Darnold does against our preseason defensive opponents who were all in the top 10 last year with two of them in the top 3. That will be a huge test. If he struggles some that is expected but if he plays well, it could signal a big year ahead for Sam.

With all of the players we got in the draft coupled with who we picked up in the offseason should give us enough depth to make it through.

With an extra game to play with, it helps the odds. We could get to 8 wins and still have a losing record with 9 losses. If we had split our 1 score losses last year we would have won 8 games. With a better D and O I think they help us win some of those games in the fourth quarter we lost last year.

No one cares about a long snapper until he screws up. With all the extra picks we got this year I am amazed about all the angst because we used it on a long snapper who never muffed a snap.in his college career. I think he makes the roster. If he doesn't start right away then that is simply due to how good Jansen is not a knock on Fletcher. He is the future.

From what I have read Fletcher was the best LS in college and we wanted to make sure he wouldn't choose another team if he went undrafted so we used a 6th rounder on him. A guy who never had a bad snap in his college college starting all four years. For Alabama who was dominant last year. Versus a guard who was a high round prospect based on his talent who dropped due to injury concerns. We picked for need assuming that Jansen isnt the future and Fletcher makes the team. I would be unhappy if we try to stash him on the practice squad and he gets stolen like with Butker a while back. Then it becomes a wasted pick.

Christensen hopefully doesn't play this year and sits while he learns the game and improves his technique. Starting rookies is always a big risk especially early. By the end of this year he can get reps and be ready next year. Let's see how he does in preseason before deciding what happens this year.

Has nothimgto do with privlege. Racism by definition is about race. Tell me again how ragging an opposing fan in fun about their jersey is similar to hurling racial epithets. If you ate wearing a Patriot jersey or a Saints jersey I am not going to like you no matter what the color of the skin. I think you have prejudice and racism confused. You can be prejudiced about thousand of things like a fabric or an idea and not racist. Everyone is prejudiced about something. Not everyone is racist.

Has nothing to do with the media. More about comparing two things that are only tangentially connected.