Pre Season Game 1 - Impressions

[DickolausJ]

I'll try and not overlap what Mr. Scott said but no promises.

First of all the rain was coming down hard and expectantly sloppy back ups looked even sloppier.

Did our team wear the wrong cleats?! Because we were slipping way more than Baltimore.

Despite Munnerlyn giving up that TD he did prevent one earlier that was destined to Boldin in the endzone. Even on the TD he was in perfect coverage until he slipped at the last moment. I was cool with him but you could tell Baltimore was definatly testing him with Gamble out.

CJ Wilson made a great break up but also got beat on another 3rd down. He just looks to lanky to be a major factor as a DB in the NFL. Can't turn them hips fast enough. He reminds me of Ken Lucas a little.

Dwayne Jarret looked like the best WR to me but the zone coverage on most of his completions looked sloppy in general. It was interesting watching a depleted secondary cover a bunch of rookie WRs.

Lafelle looked physical in limited action. Gettis needs to learn when to break on his routes and Armanti looked like a player learning a new position but I was happy with him. Kenny Moore had the best catch of the game. I don't think Wallace Wright caught anything but he looked good and physical.

Armanti looked tentative returning kicks, he needs to learn to pick his gap and shoot it. Then again the Baltimore players didn't have too much trouble getting off their blocks.

Our special teams is my biggest concern in general. We almost never made the first tackle, blocked poorly, and on that play were their returner broke 7 tackles it looked like our guys just didn't want it. I hope Foxy chews some guys out for it.

I hope Tyler Bratyon doesn't have any lingering issues because he looked by far our best D-lineman.

Everette Brown needs to stop spinning so godamn much. He had one good pressure against the first teamers but was underwhelming overall.

Greg Hardy needs some work with the 1st team defense. He was just absolutely blowing up the poor guy who had to block him. He just looked to good to be playing against a 2nd or 3rd team O-Line man.

I know Ditka shot down our D-lineman during the countdown show but after this game I think its our linebackers who need the work. Davis, we miss you buddy. Connor doesn't get sideline to sideline nearly as quickly as Beason and Beason looked underwhelming at the weakside, he was held on one play though. I thought Mortty Ivy played well.

Moore should have known that Blitz was coming on 3 & 10. He didn't adjust and then got rid of the ball a little to fast. Him and the co-ordinaters have to work that out.

Jimmy needs a little arc over his ball but made some clutch throws and showed good decision making.

Once Hunter came in it was raining so hard and our O-line looked so makeshift that I didn't hold too much against him. He can't hold on to the ball nearly so long though. Had an absolute bullet to Armanti that was broken up.

Looks like we are trying to hide Pike, but I'm not sure how that is going to go down.

Overall I feel way better about this team then last year.

Sutton looked like the player of the game. Also mad props to Fiametta.

[DickolausJ]

Crap I meant to post this on Scotts thread. Thats twice I've failed with this post...

[Future of the Funchise]

good stuff tho. i enjoyed the read.

[Wither]

Glad everyone is noticing Sutton and Fiametta.

[Future of the Funchise]

yea they were very impressive

thought vaughn looked good too

[Wither]

yea they were very impressive

thought vaughn looked good too

Yep. Not sure who was playing on defense against Sutton and Vaughn but they looked good.

[PandaMan]

Yeah Sutton impressed me, so did Fiametta. If Sutton didn't fumble that one ball then he probably would have been the person who impressed me the most. But regardless of the fumble, he still had a good night. Same with Fiametta, he had some nice blocks and catches.