Patriots Joint Practice Day 2

[TheCasillas]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

Part of me wonders if this year's "enforcement emphasis" would ruin that play in a regular season setting.

I read somewhere that the refs at practice are supposed to be enforcing this pretty heavily to help teams with the rule transition. 

Edited August 17, 2022 by TheCasillas

[Jackie Lee]

 

[Proudiddy]

1 minute ago, Jackie Lee said:

 

Fitt needs to put an end to the bullshit.  After Darnold's showing today, the team steadily and progressively gravitating towards Baker as the leader and QB1, they just need to dump Darnold and give PJ and Corral those reps.  A lot more meaningful.  As many of us have been saying, there is no hope for Sam.  He is what he is.  Perhaps he can latch on somewhere as a backup or #3, but it shouldn't be here.  He is useless.

[CRA]

Just now, Proudiddy said:

Yeah, I didn't think he was out of bounds either from the first zoomed out video angle...  so, on one hand, I don't feel that warranted a scrap.  On the other, I love for our team to scrap regardless, and it's the Pats, so fug em.

All that being said, in a game it's legal, but if I'm not mistaken, depending on the drill, in practices don't they usually stop the play at a wrap up and generally don't pop the RBs?  Maybe that's what we were pissed about?

Well they are doing kickoff drills and lighting players up.  So the coaches are allowing the tone to be for people to get rocked.   Hard to set up a practice with all that nonsense and then think people will pull out the kids gloves on a RB after all that IMO. 

don’t really like the way the reporting has sounded on of these joint practices. I’d rather they just do the preseason game and thump in an officiated setting where there is no confusion on how hard to play personally. 

[TheCasillas]

3 minutes ago, CRA said:

I only care about salary cap.  That’s what impacts a team.   That’s why I was using cap numbers.    And Robbie ranks really high there. 

I dont think players and their agents are getting paid based off of a teams salary cap ranking. They want to get paid based off of their market value. Now, if the NFL were to go to a fixed salary cap approach, then your position would make sense. However, we are years away from that. 

[ncfan]

 

[Davidson Deac II]

2 hours ago, Pakmeng said:

I think that's what he's saying. However he was running exactly what Warner said he needed to be running when the ball was released.

Not exactly.  He turned almost parallel to the oline for just a brief second, and then turned again to move downfield.  I guess Kurt is saying he should have been running at more of a 45 degree angle down the field and it would have held the safety for a brief but important moment.  If Kurt is right, just go to show how small the difference is between a successful pass and one that is knocked away.

[Proudiddy]

Just now, CRA said:

Well they are doing kickoff drills and lighting players up.  So the coaches are allowing the tone to be for people to get rocked.   Hard to set up a practice with all that nonsense and then think people will pull out the kids gloves on a RB after all that IMO. 

don’t really like the way the reporting has sounded on of these joint practices. I’d rather they just do the preseason game and thump in an officiated setting where there is no confusion on how hard to play personally. 

Yeah, it also concerns me that it escalates the chances for revenge taken out when we actually play the game Friday.  Just doesn't seem to be a good idea at all.  I like that we seem to be the ones bringing the dog to the fight, but it just doesn't seem like a good idea knowing we have to play them Friday.

[Jackie Lee]

This analogy makes no sense but he tried

 

[CRA]

3 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

I dont think players and their agents are getting paid based off of a teams salary cap ranking. They want to get paid based off of their market value. Now, if the NFL were to go to a fixed salary cap approach, then your position would make sense. However, we are years away from that. 

Yeah, I don’t care how an agent gets paid.  I don’t care how much a player puts in his pocket.  I care about their cap hit on the roster.  That’s all that matters if you are a fan of a team.   And Robbie has had one of the biggest cap hits on a roster for a WR the past 2 seasons.  

Top 15 the past 2 years.  That’s a lot to cap space for a Robbie caliber WR.  
 

 

[Proudiddy]

1 minute ago, Jackie Lee said:

This analogy makes no sense but he tried

 

Yeah...  no.  That wasn't even what the crystal ball reference was about.

[ncfan]

 

[TheCasillas]

Just now, ncfan said:

 

apparently even the radio guys were shocked by this throw and catch

[TheCasillas]

our run defense is getting kudos from the pats radio guys right now