PS game 2 scattershooting

[jterrell]

Brandon Carr and Mo Claiborne are gonna make this defense top shelf.

Whipping boys Arkin and McGee left plenty for their detractors to pick on.

Arkin actually blocked quite well most of the night. His problem was committing penalties at a rate that would get noticed on the 1980 raiders.

McGee made a couple athletic plays but generally wilted under insane pressure.

McGee looked terrible with some of those throws but no where near as bad as Jeff Adams or Shaun Chapas who should turn in their uniforms today and save themselves the long lines on cut down day.

Adrian Hamilton is interesting but needs a year on the PS. He reminds me a bit of Erik Walden. Solid, explosive athlete. Not quite ready for regular duty.

Orie Lemon is a hard worker who is seldom out of position. But he is limited athlete. Don't think he sticks here.

Mario Butler looks good as a run stuffing CB. For a young guy having a plus in some area is better than nothing. He isnt a great cover guy nor is he very good at safety but there is hope with him.

WRs: If I am brutally honest I dont care about any WR except Dez. Any throw to someone else is basically a waste. Dez is a physical freak. He is absolutely one of the ten most gifted Wrs in football. 2 or 3 years from now he may well be considered the overall best.

Big RB: This kid I like and think he can earn a spot.

Felix: Not sure what is up with the guy but he doesn't look anything like the weapon he was as a rookie. He looks slow and uncertain now. Very strange.

Leary: This guy was the second worst OL I saw on the field. Jeff Adams had him by a good margin but Leary blocked air on a few plays. And he never got out of his stance on a couple murders of McGee. Any talk of him being NFL ready was woefully inaccurate.

Hopefully game 3 is the dress rehearsal and we see some more starters back. I have had enough of watching over-matched guys with the same NFL future prospects as me play.

 

[Teague31]

agree on leary, he is awful. not sure what all the hype was about.

 

[Hostile]

JT, you have to know I love you calling this Scattershooting.

Blackie would be smiling huge. Thanks man.

 

[baj1dallas]

I think Lemon will take one of the final spots. He's versatile and seems to be productive when the put him in. I think Olawale and Hamilton will make the team. There will be a fifth CB, not sure if it will be Butler or somebody else. I think Leary could be the 9th lineman, I think they'd rather keep a cheap developmental guy than somebody like McQuistan.

 

[igtmfo]

JT, you have to know I love you calling this Scattershooting.

Blackie would be smiling huge. Thanks man.

OT - I wish Blackie would publish a collection of his "2 Cents Worth." (they were little observations and jokes). He used to do it a few times a year in his regular newspaper column. It would be like Xmas morning when the paper landed. Always hilarious.

 

[Hostile]

OT - I wish Blackie would publish a collection of his "2 Cents Worth." (they were little observations and jokes). He used to do it a few times a year in his regular newspaper column. It would be like Xmas morning when the paper landed. Always hilarious.

Co-sign.

That is something I would love to have.

 

[xwalker]

Brandon Carr and Mo Claiborne are gonna make this defense top shelf.

Whipping boys Arkin and McGee left plenty for their detractors to pick on.

Arkin actually blocked quite well most of the night. His problem was committing penalties at a rate that would get noticed on the 1980 raiders.

McGee made a couple athletic plays but generally wilted under insane pressure.

McGee looked terrible with some of those throws but no where near as bad as Jeff Adams or Shaun Chapas who should turn in their uniforms today and save themselves the long lines on cut down day.

Adrian Hamilton is interesting but needs a year on the PS. He reminds me a bit of Erik Walden. Solid, explosive athlete. Not quite ready for regular duty.

Orie Lemon is a hard worker who is seldom out of position. But he is limited athlete. Don't think he sticks here.

Mario Butler looks good as a run stuffing CB. For a young guy having a plus in some area is better than nothing. He isnt a great cover guy nor is he very good at safety but there is hope with him.

WRs: If I am brutally honest I dont care about any WR except Dez. Any throw to someone else is basically a waste. Dez is a physical freak. He is absolutely one of the ten most gifted Wrs in football. 2 or 3 years from now he may well be considered the overall best.

Big RB: This kid I like and think he can earn a spot.

Felix: Not sure what is up with the guy but he doesn't look anything like the weapon he was as a rookie. He looks slow and uncertain now. Very strange.

Leary: This guy was the second worst OL I saw on the field. Jeff Adams had him by a good margin but Leary blocked air on a few plays. And he never got out of his stance on a couple murders of McGee. Any talk of him being NFL ready was woefully inaccurate.
I reviewed the game and didn't see a problem with Leary (#65).

Any chance you were looking at the wrong guy?

Leary played LG starting in the 2nd half and was replaced by Novikoff late in the 4th quarter.

Can you point to specific plays were Leary was terrible?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just curious to see if I'm missing something.

Hopefully game 3 is the dress rehearsal and we see some more starters back. I have had enough of watching over-matched guys with the same NFL future prospects as me play.

 

[jterrell]

JT, you have to know I love you calling this Scattershooting.

Blackie would be smiling huge. Thanks man.

I grew up reading that and the paper still tries to pull it off today with far lesser talent.

Blackie could have written about anything. The fact he chose sports was amazing for us all.

So whenever I go stream of consciousness I use the term with the utmost respect but no hope of hitting the original's high standard.

 

[jterrell]

Brandon Carr and Mo Claiborne are gonna make this defense top shelf.

Whipping boys Arkin and McGee left plenty for their detractors to pick on.

Arkin actually blocked quite well most of the night. His problem was committing penalties at a rate that would get noticed on the 1980 raiders.

McGee made a couple athletic plays but generally wilted under insane pressure.

McGee looked terrible with some of those throws but no where near as bad as Jeff Adams or Shaun Chapas who should turn in their uniforms today and save themselves the long lines on cut down day.

Adrian Hamilton is interesting but needs a year on the PS. He reminds me a bit of Erik Walden. Solid, explosive athlete. Not quite ready for regular duty.

Orie Lemon is a hard worker who is seldom out of position. But he is limited athlete. Don't think he sticks here.

Mario Butler looks good as a run stuffing CB. For a young guy having a plus in some area is better than nothing. He isnt a great cover guy nor is he very good at safety but there is hope with him.

WRs: If I am brutally honest I dont care about any WR except Dez. Any throw to someone else is basically a waste. Dez is a physical freak. He is absolutely one of the ten most gifted Wrs in football. 2 or 3 years from now he may well be considered the overall best.

Big RB: This kid I like and think he can earn a spot.

Felix: Not sure what is up with the guy but he doesn't look anything like the weapon he was as a rookie. He looks slow and uncertain now. Very strange.

Leary: This guy was the second worst OL I saw on the field. Jeff Adams had him by a good margin but Leary blocked air on a few plays. And he never got out of his stance on a couple murders of McGee. Any talk of him being NFL ready was woefully inaccurate.
I reviewed the game and didn't see a problem with Leary (#65).

Any chance you were looking at the wrong guy?

Leary played LG starting in the 2nd half and was replaced by Novikoff late in the 4th quarter.

Can you point to specific plays were Leary was terrible?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just curious to see if I'm missing something.

Hopefully game 3 is the dress rehearsal and we see some more starters back. I have had enough of watching over-matched guys with the same NFL future prospects as me play.

Definitely was looking at 65. I am at work thus not at the dvr but on a couple plays he stood there looking like a skinny Andre Gurode and blocked literally no one.

One of the things I am surprised by is how often a guy grades OL out and ignores players who block absolutely no one. At Tech in film review if an OL blocked no one they were given an unflattering and unrepeatable name.

Yet many reviewers such as Sturm seem to far harsher on guys who get a poor block than on one who get none.

If I get a chance I'll run through the dvr and pull out a couple examples.

 

[xwalker]

Definitely was looking at 65. I am at work thus not at the dvr but on a couple plays he stood there looking like a skinny Andre Gurode and blocked literally no one.

One of the things I am surprised by is how often a guy grades OL out and ignores players who block absolutely no one. At Tech in film review if an OL blocked no one they were given an unflattering and unrepeatable name.

Yet many reviewers such as Sturm seem to far harsher on guys who get a poor block than on one who get none.

If I get a chance I'll run through the dvr and pull out a couple examples.

Gurode and Bigg were bad about looking left (or right) while blocking nobody, meanwhile, an unblocked defender was looping around to their right (or left) sacking the QB.

It's a different story if there was actually nobody to block on a play, which is what I saw on one play from Leary.

 

[jnday]

I don't think Hamilton will make it thru waivers to the practice squad. It is not worth taking the chance. Jeff Adams had the perfect size to play tackle and his footwork is not that bad, but he needs some serious time in the weight room. He is a project much like Arkin and I wouldn't mind seeing him on the practice squad. Leary was Callahans project. Good size and strength, but I question the Cowboys' third round grade. Callahan was wrong about him being a plug and play lineman as well.