Tonight's Game

[VintagePanther]

For a lack of better terms . This teams just lacks “juice” . Nobody on this team gets me excited to watch . Been this way for far too long . No excitement. Just dull 

[Mr. Scot]

35 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

I don't care much about the final score.  Bryce and most of the starters played well when they were in.  And the second quarter consisted of a lot of penalties that cost us.  That can be cleaned up.

I do think that we are going to have to bring in a better backup qb next year.  I don't give a crap about the competing for position nonsense.  Bryce is the starter, we just need someone who can come in and give us a shot at winning if he goes out.   

I don't see how folks left this game without feeling excited after seeing Young and McMillan work.

[jb2288]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm already doing the apology tour.

I really enjoy keeping FS1 on in the background while I work throughout the day, but prob gonna need to skip that this week. Might get caught up on some podcasts or something... it's gonna be BAD lol

[Mr. Scot]

40 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

It appears they still do. The defense looked in midseason form tonight. 

I wasn't a fan of retaining Evero but I guess Canales believes he can improve.

We'll see 

[jb2288]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

I don't see how folks left this game without feeling excited after seeing Young and McMillan work.

Agreed. I'm really happy about tonight. Dalton and Plummer aren't gonna change that for me

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I don't see how folks left this game without feeling excited after seeing Young and McMillan work.

That one drive was nice. Everything else was rougher than a South Carolina highway.

[Mr. Scot]

34 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

Mr Scot. I respect you but you know the last 5 or so preseasons have revealed our biggest problems from Sept-Nov. 

This isn’t the Fox era 

I've seen over fifty preseasons from various teams and can't think of a single time they were strongly predictive of anything.

Heck, even the first few weeks of the season can be illusory.

[Mr. Scot]

9 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

That one drive was nice. Everything else was rougher than a South Carolina highway.

I expect that this time of year.

Hell, a ref said their ruling had been "conformed"

[PantherChris]

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

I've seen over fifty preseasons from various teams and can't think of a single time they were strongly predictive of anything.

Heck, even the first few weeks of the season can be illusory.

A good cue is when the only two 0-16 teams in NFL history were 4-0 in the pre season.

And four 0-4 teams have won the SB, 5 1-3 i believe?

 

So what does this tell us? The pre season is meaningless. It's about individual marchups there is no game planning, situational play calling ect for most coaches....

Those 0-16 teams? Yep you guessed it they were known to have coaches who did both in the pre season.

[Davidson Deac II]

16 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I don't see how folks left this game without feeling excited after seeing Young and McMillan work.

And Coker/Thielen and even XL.  I think a passing offense that has the guy with the best hands on the team (Thielen) being covered by the third best cover guy on the defense.  

Edited August 9 by Davidson Deac II

[PantherChris]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I expect that this time of year.

Hell, a ref said their ruling had been "conformed"

Lol the world is falling never fails to amaze me, The defense didn't have Jaycee Horn or Derrick Brown (the only two players on it who are not just stars but heck above average) 

No Damien Lewis on offense (not a coincidence that the fourth string scrub Carter ended our first drive.)

 

[PantherChris]

2 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

And Coker/Thielen and even XL.  I think a passing offense that has the guy with the best hands on the team (Thielen) being covered by the third best cover guy on the defense.  

It's grain of salt but Bryces field vision and command of the offense were encouraging 

[LinvilleGorge]

20 minutes ago, PantherChris said:

A good cue is when the only two 0-16 teams in NFL history were 4-0 in the pre season.

And four 0-4 teams have won the SB, 5 1-3 i believe?

 

So what does this tell us? The pre season is meaningless. It's about individual marchups there is no game planning, situational play calling ect for most coaches....

Those 0-16 teams? Yep you guessed it they were known to have coaches who did both in the pre season.

The final score is meaningless. Looking inept isn't.

[PantherChris]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

The final score is meaningless. Looking inept isn't.

Agreed but we already knew this team doesn't have any depth especially defensively the only two above average defnders we have didnt play. Now had the starters looked like complete poo like years past I'd be right there burning the wagons with you.

It's also an expectations thing, I know its been a a long time but fixing an NFL all time worst defense isn't an overnight thing. If Bryce can keep that kind of play up and we can win 7 games thats progress to me.