rayzor

This was one awesome moment. Had me filled with such pride. I just wish we had a better situation around Cam.

Damn Rivera.

not too crazy about this idea. i'd like to keep moton at RT because he's working there. i like not having a question mark at that part of the OL. you bump him over to LT and you put in an older beat up RT in and you are just causing more issues. 

any bodies we bring in on the OL should be taking care of a specific need. if LT is weak still, bring in someone who has experience playing there. 

but unless we have some stud that gets released from here on, i'd rather just roll with who we've got and try to get them to work....minus little. ready for that hurney pick to be in the past.

That's a whole lot of pointy elbows.

I kind of fixed it.

he's a keeper

4 hours ago, Smithers said:

I just don’t see the Saints as being a “brutal” matchup. Same with Tampa really - we will play them tough and Brady could still hit that wall at any time

Agreed, there's not a chunk of that schedule that makes me nervous.

8 minutes ago, Varking said:

I got here after that so I wasn’t aware of that. I think I was 2010 or 2012. 

Yeah, after an absolutely humiliating loss in ATL the board melted down so bad we had to start over. I think we were down for a day or two. That's why you don't see anyone with a join date earlier than 2008.

will probably be an AFC team with a young QB. probably ravens.

3 minutes ago, joemac said:

Our free agency efforts?  What does that mean?  They did great in free agency.  They also knocked the draft out of the park.  How can anybody objectively look at the roster today and somehow say it is worse than the end of the season last year?

From what I could gather, it has more to do with their faith in ATL and CHI being better than us and bumping them up ahead which dropped us. 

Screw 'em.

39 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

I don't think Hill has that much talent. 

Agreed. He'll be a flash in the pan.

2 hours ago, CRA said:

and not really a good memory but memorable…

A desperate Carolina team with no QB…called a 43 year old off his couch and with only a handful of days of prep….he became the oldest QB to ever win a NFL game. 

 

that season was a massive roller coaster. we, esp. jake, started off so good before tommy john attacked him. after that, the only shining spot was vinnie. 

i remember this moment so clearly...

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“When I threw the ball, I saw the defender stop and all I could think was, ‘I just overthrew Steve for a touchdown,’ ” Testaverde said. “But he caught it and ran, and I was looking at his feet to make sure he didn’t go out of bounds.”

Testaverde ran downfield to congratulate Smith, who told him, “I told you you couldn’t overthrow me.”

“So I believe him now,” Testaverde said.

i remember Vinnie had talks with Dwill that helped him take it up a notch. 

i also remember that last huddle of Vinnie's in our last game of the season playing in tampa (where he played his first game as a pro). He was sent in on the last play and the play call in his helmet to take a knee came from his son. 

All that stuff with Vinnie almost made me forget that stuff with david carr. i remember him getting booed off the field at home and then missing games being on the injured list with a fragile psyche. dude should not have taken a snap that year. 

4 hours ago, rayzor said:

In no particular order

X-clown

Pass to Rosario Dawson to beat the chargers

Pass to Olsen to beat the Seahawks

Beating the cowboys on thanksgiving

1 hour ago, Steves89 said:

Surprised no one has saidThanksgiving game against Dallas in 2015. Not my favorite, but dang good!

3 hours ago, Varking said:

It’s weird to see a guy whose made over 1000 posts in less than a year and hasn’t contributed anything of value to the site get on other people for posting a lot. Dudes been here since 2008. He’s an actual fan of the team. You’re just here, on this new alt at least, for David Tepper lol. 

He and a good few of us have been here for a lot longer than that. I can't remember when he started but I was in either '04 or '05.

In no particular order

X-clown

Pass to Rosario Dawson to beat the chargers

Pass to Olsen to beat the Seahawks

Beating the cowboys on thanksgiving

2 hours ago, MasterAwesome said:

I'd be pretty surprised if NE outright cut Cam before the season.  But I'd also be equally surprised if Cam is their starting QB at the midway point in the season.  He's their best known commodity at QB at this point, but Belichick obviously isn't committed to him by any means.

its almost like they don't expect newton to finish the season healthy.

Sammy, PJ, and Tommy make a good corps. All are good scramblers. Tommy is a good swiss army knife guy that gives you a few options and opens the door for some creativity. You could legitimately put him on the same field as Sammy or PJ when/if he fills in and all he would do is make the defense confused.

Grier, on the other hand, is a nice guy. He's well liked, but really offers not much more than that. He's going to be heading somewhere else.

i guess considering our choices, positional versatility in the personnel is essential....and apparently that leaves little with not much chance of being on the roster. 

yeah....i'm shocked. 

smells like a vote of little to no confidence.

16 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Yeah, that was honestly one of the biggest issues with our team in general. That was why I said we were the least talented roster I could recall before last season. It wasn't so much that we didn't have talented starters but I had never seen such a sorry lot of depth guys as we had.

That is what I really hope to get out of all these guys in this class. If we can shore up the depth on the roster alone, it will allow us to finally fix the OL in the next couple of offseasons and perhaps start looking for some upper end upgrades on our weaker spots.

It's definitely something not enough of our fans had an appreciation for. That's why all those injuries had such a huge impact last year.

we were super thin and the team and coaching staff was as raw as possible and we were still just a smidge from winning quite a few more games than we did. we got more talent and the coaching staff has a year under it's belt. we just need a bit more production from QB (which shouldn't be hard to pull off) and we could very well double our wins from last year.

52 minutes ago, X-Clown said:

I can't believe I'm seeing people name Beuerlein, Jake, Rucker, and Minter as "Just A Guy". Pro Bowlers/10 year starters are not part of this.

People who named Al Wallace, Tyler Brayton, Nick Goings, Fozzy Whitaker, Philly Brown, Kyle Love, those are good answers.

I'd add (at the stage of his career he was in) Jerricho Cotchery. I'll go to grave arguing that was a catch in the Super bowl.

 

tyler brayton. i loved the idea of bringing him in and having him on the other side of the DL from peppers. there was some great talent on that team. just too bad we had such sucky coaches.

i've got to admit being a fan of Geoff 'the hangman' Hangartner. he was always fun to watch in training camp because he was always good for a fight. but during the season he could be plugged in anywhere on the OL and know he wasn't going to suck.

also James Anderson. Dude was great depth. i didn't like the idea of him as a starter, but he was he kind of guy you wanted to fill out your roster.

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

He is a UDFA, so if he is just another Tyler Larson, I am okay with that too. Any UDFA that can hang on for quality depth for more than a 2-3 seasons is a win. Anything more than that is an absolute home run.

yeah that is kind of the brilliance of it. because of the limited success for late round picks there's very little risk involved, but the guys they've added from this class could, even with nominal talent, play significant roles for the next couple years...mainly because we were so depleted of talented depth. 

it's easy to have several home runs our of this draft because we had holes and they selected good players who, on a more stacked team, wouldn't have much of a chance. these guys will have an honest shot to make it and more than a couple will.

1 minute ago, DaveThePanther2008 said:

Including to excluding Moore?

i think moore will work his way into the rotation and will start a few games this year. he'll grow into a very reliable part of the OL. 

ceiling...ryan kalil 2.0

floor...geoff hangartner 2.0

premature, but probably on track.

i do think that the TE3 isn't one that is on the roster yet. we've got tremble and arnold and we'll likely find one that hits FA once other teams start making cuts.