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Anywhere from 9th overall to 24th. No thanks to the Giants for losing so miserably to them.
Way early to project, but the 9th seems like the best we could hope for and LA is a team that could still go all the way, so 9th to 32 is more the early projection. And really, 9th is probably more like 15.
The home opener. That will set the tone. I don't care which away games we win. We will win some and lose some, but we have to start winning at home. I want to win away games, but until we start winning at home, we stand little chance of winning on the road.
Our fan base has become a bunch of whiners, but that is to be somewhat expected since we rarely win at home. You can't keep sending people home sad/mad after a home loss and expect much else. This will be my 20th season as a season ticket holder. In that time, the best season we had was when Derek Anderson was QB. I forget the year and the exact records, but we won maybe 6-7 home games. That was fun.
I know the nearly 600 mile drive home the morning after games seems much shorter after we win.
To me it doesn't matter either way.
What does "options elsewhere" actually mean?
Other positions, other players. Basically, they just don't want the guy. People loved Daren Chevrini. I don't think moving on from him is the main reason we haven't won many games.
It's always interesting to see where the initial cuts fall. I guess we already got the slam dunk cuts out of the way. Now it gets down to the tough cuts as it gets down to more familiar names and or guys who could have or maybe should have made the final cut downs.
It's funny how if I was a player in that position I wonder how I would react. I would be good if the coach told me I wasn't good enough to make the final roster. We all have opinions. If the coach tried to make it easier on himself by talking about it being a matter of numbers, I might be tempted to tell the coach to fuck off because he doesn't know how to count.
Our DLine and CB depth is scary thin.
A few select injuries could cause this defense to become very pedestrian.
It looks that way, but you never know how it ends up playing out. We still have the possibility of trades and FA cuts might produce something. Sometimes someone else's junk turns into our treasure. Some teams end up with a glut of players at a position of our need. I wouldn't rule out a trade or two between now and Sunday afternoon as teams seek to salvage something for guys they might be forced to place on waivers.
It's going to be an interesting year of college football this season regarding the QB class.
Who will be this year's Mendoza? At this point last year he was a guy that people occasionally brought up as a sleeper, then he exploded onto the national stage.
Who knows? If it happens at all, it will start to unfold by mid October.
Soon enough these players will begin to build their case.
Tomorrow there'll be some saying that he should be the starter. (the anyone but Watson crowd)
Tomorrow there'll be some saying that he should be the starter. (the anyone but Watson crowd)
No, Watson should start. You don't make that change at this point. Shedufus needs to be a bit worried. He didn't look very happy while standing by himself on the sideline. I'd keep Green over Sanders.
should we trade for a vet qb now to back up our rookie qb we get from next years draft. and more than likely need one to start this year,#4 can be cut at any time the money will be the same, the only difference is if we wait untill after next june 1st the money will be spread out longer. I say fuck it. cut his ass tomorrow
That is a thought. We will need somebody. I do know that if/when we draft a QB, Shedufus better not be on the team. If not him, his fans are a distraction. I am not sticking up for Watsons comments, but it was moronic to boo the guy when he 1st came out on the field in the 2nd half, as if his playing wasn't planned.
And we were having trouble making 1 yard gains against Chi. I was not encouraged.
You know that the O line is usually the last unit to finally pull together. It might take until week 17.
If we're going to have any kind of an offense at all we're going to need some decent OL play. We have Judkins and we'd like him to have some holes to run through...because we want to be able to run the ball so teams won't be able to focus all of their efforts on our passing game. We don't want any excuses for our QB evaluation(s) this season.
Good line play or not you know the excuses will be rampant.
IMO, you're over reacting a bit. It was the end of the 1st preseason game, with backups to the backups to the backups playing on both sides of the ball. Essentially the end of a practice against another team (like they'll be experiencing this week against Buffalo). Monken had seen enough at that point. The score was meaningless. I guess he could've put his starters back in and had them work some 2 minute stuff, but that would've been kinda' weird. - That's my take, but we're all entitled to our own.
I understand much of what you are saying, but I still feel it was a poor decision. I don't think the players on the field were happy about not having a last chance to impress a coach which might help them to make the team. As a head coach you are the head coach to every player on the roster, not just the top 30 or so players. I hope by this point he knows he fucked up.
He is “competing” against 2 guys who are not good. He should look better
Lot's of thing should be, but it is what it is. I don't disagree but if that is the best we have, that is the best we have.
Have a snickers man...You are panicking way too early. You can't base or value his ability to coach after one preseason game.. Yesterdays game was more about seeing who can do what in various situations... The Oline needs work.. The depth on defense is troublesome at this point. These Oline guys haven't played together before....give it some time..... It's gonna take a few games to gel. That's pretty much I thought this was going to go.... Our QB of the future may not be on the roster right now...
I am not panicking. I understand we don't have a QB and it is about evaluating at this point, but I include the coaching staff in that as well. I am interested in seing the team being able to punch it in from the short red zone. Evidently our head coach doesn't feel that way.
