nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

did vick just get injured again

:/

i've started daydreaming about what if nick foles was good

Matt Leinart got his clock cleaned on Friday night...and somehow managed to injure his index finger on his non-throwing hand :/

But the Raiders have a new dude on defense called HeiNACHO which I mean, how can that not be good :D

the second string patriots defense just shut down the iggles first string offense and now their second string offense just marched on and scored against the iggles first string defense.

it's like watching a horror movie

oops wait IheNACHO

nb i'm told the preseason doesn't mean anything.

and yet.

Shhh.. It's okay

second preseason game in a row he came out way early w/ negative x-rays. i wonder if reid told him that if he has any pain whatsoever, he should come out to protect him for regular season (lol denial) bc otherwise idk cutler got a certain reputation for far less

idk if my heart can take a whole season full of x-rays. just start nick foles era already :'(

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kinda lol but mostly sad

the second string patriots defense just shut down the iggles first string offense and now their second string offense just marched on and scored against the iggles first string defense.

it's like watching a horror movie

― Mordy, Monday, August 20, 2012 8:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

seriously just stop watching preseason games -- they mean absolutely nothing

foles looked pretty good i thought. that drive at the start of the 2nd half in particular was great. patriots second string secondary isn't going to win any awards but he was dropping the ball in perfect spots for the receivers.

seriously just stop watching preseason games -- they mean absolutely nothing

i hear this all the time, but surely you just mean that they mean nothing for the final record? if eg vick gets injured and is out of the season from a preseason game, that means something! also the quality of the play - crispness of execution etc - also is telling. i don't think it matters that iggs put up a thousand penalties bc like iirc demarcus ryans said, sometimes you play sloppy in a preseason game. also, the final score doesn't matter (esp if a team keeps a ton of plays in their back pocket for the season) but you still want to see some basic stuff executed correctly ESPECIALLY in the dress rehearsal preseason game.

i hope you're right tho and that the only thing this game meant was that foles is a gem and someone to watch in the future

also it means something of course to a lot of the players playing who may be cut/kept based on game performance which can give u an idea while watching of the depth of the team's roster which is also not nothing

what he means is that they don't necessarily (or even most likely) reflect the way teams will be playing in any way. it's an interteam scrimmage televised for cash and guys get beat the fuck up stupidly but i gotta agree with jordan.
i watch them because i have a problem

well, sure, if vick gets hurt, it means something -- but you don't need to watch the game to find out that vick got hurt

yeah my FB went crazy after the Pack's 35-10 loss to the Browns and it's like...uhhh you guys

i watch it for the other reasons. like if foles ends up replacing kafka as backup of the future (and sorta heir to vick throne in kolb to mcnabb style) i wanna see some of the games that established that. freaking out over vick injuries is just gravy, i guess.

yeah i mean i watch the preseason just to see how guys "look" but i'm not freaking out if things don't look right. it's the preseason.

I just cannot even acknowledge pre-season football, it's one of the most worthless things in professional team sports this side of an 82 game NBA regular season. I'm sure there are some insane gamblers or scouts that could get something out of watching it for some edge, but I don't see how considering some clubs don't even TRY, which makes the fact the Eagles lost to NE kind of puzzling.

How good is my club or any club? Heck if I know, ask me in week 2 or 5.

I do check out some schedules and by looking at the Pats schedule, they could very well be setup to go 16-0, unless by some fluke the AFC or NFC West 'get good'. They got the Ravens in B-more in week 3, Broncos at home wk.5, Houston at home wk. 14 and SF at home wk. 15; the rest of their schedule look's pretty easy breezy to me. Even if they split those 4 and some how lose to one of the division rivals on the road - they are 13-3. Other than that, I think it would either be injuries or somehow someone like Miami taking off big, but they might as well give NE a first round play off bye now.

I think I'm the only person who likes preseason

i hope so

otm

two more weeks

iggles beat NE but the winners of these things are the least interesting parts

TWO MORE WEEKS! TWO MORE WEEKS!

on a play by play basis there are always interesting things to see in a preseason game. disdaining the value of these games totally is no better than leaping to conclusions based on them. i can tell you now, for example, that the eagles o-line is looking average at best, and the pats' depth on o-line is practically non-existent, that is unless the respective coaching staffs told their o-line personnel to go 50% because it's a preseason game and it doesn't matter if the qbs take a few hits. i didn't know thing 1 about foles before the game and i couldn't tell you now how he'd perform in a real game, but i at least know that he has the acuity to make a good read and the technicals to drop a pass into a nice spot at different levels. by contrast, i got to see that hoyer and mallett are both terrible decision makers at this point in their development, so i can be pretty confident that if brady goes down week 1 this year, i can safely unplug my tv on sundays.

unless the respective coaching staffs told their o-line personnel to go 50% because it's a preseason game and it doesn't matter if the qbs take a few hits

see, this is the confusing thing to me. i understand not wanting to show all your tricks in a preseason game but a hit on a qb hurts the same preseason or during the season

yeah that was rhetorical

i mean, i don't know this for a fact, but you have to believe if any area of the team is asked to play with full intensity in preseason it is the pass protectors

preseason is fun, i like all the weird preseason heroes that emerge and then don't even make the special teams unit...plus it means football is back!

The good thing about preseason is that it gives you a look at the new guys and does give you a small preview of what to expect from them later on, since the young dudes may well be fighting for a roster spot and will give 100%. For Packer fans watching Rodgers in the preseason in 2009 was huge, everyone just holding their breath and thinking "please be good".

the good thing about preseason is it means real football starts soon

like how thanksgiving is practice christmas with food & no presents

when belichick talks about preseason he basically says he gameplans to get matchups on tape - like if he has a rookie and he wants to see how he looks against a bunch of different types of players, he does what he can to scheme him up against as many guys as he can. theres no value in gameplanning to exploit another teams weaknesses in preseason

i hadn't heard that but it makes sense

i think other coaches probably have different approaches, but it was interesting because yeah, i hadnt thought of it that way before.

you guys don't like checking out the 2nd teamers and dudes and seeing who's going to make the team?

like in the vikings game this dude name Audie Cole had TWO interceptions returned for a touchdown in the 2nd half, was fun for the kid...

just makes me sad when they get cut in week 4 of the preseason and then never seen again...

holy shit this is amazing

from sapp's new book

In preparation for [the 2002 NFC Championship Game] Jon Gruden have the single best motivational speech I've ever heard. In reality, most coaches' speeches aren't like in the movies, where the coach builds up and up the momentum until the team charges hell-bent onto the field ready to rip down the entire stadium. If a coach does give that type of speech it's usually Saturday night. The Sunday speech is the matter-of-fact review of what we need to do to win the game. All business. Gruden gave this speech at the beginning of the week. He stood up in front of us and explained that there were 10 things we needed to do to beat the Eagles. Ten Things! He went down the list one by one, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, we'd heard it all. But then he got to the number one thing we needed to do, and he started talking about their kick returner Brian Mitchell. "I want Brian Mitchell's ass on a plate," he said. "And once we finish with the Philadelphia Eagles we are going to go to San Diego for the Super Bowl..." he paused, grinned and concluded, "Where the coach is gonna get two hotel rooms for all my bitches!"

The room erupted. Exploded. That was it, that was the greatest motivational speech ever. There isn't even a second place. "The coach is gonna get two hotel rooms for all my bitches!"

I said to Gruden, "Yes, you are one sick fuck! Let's go get this done."

awesome

haha chuckie omg

lol chucky

If I ever met Chucky I would totally fist bump him for that

is he bros with jimmy johnson? they seem like they should be

Kevin O'Neill ‏@KevinBuffalo
So far the #Jets offense looks so pathetic, #NFL Films is playing Sarah McLachlan songs during slo-mo replays.

bwahaha

Omg