Something Positive To Take From Tonight...

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Originally Posted by offiss

Here's the breakdown, I wouldn't worry to much about the outcome, starters play the games in the regular season, Brunell will be fine but he needs to play more in the pre-season to start to develope continuity with all the new players as well as a new offense before we kick off the season, Collins you can tell is really not anything other than a future coach who could never play the position, which means Campbell needs all the snaps he can get, we need to ware him out in the pre-season with repetition to get him comfortable and confident on this level, there is no way I want Collins first off the bench.

Our backup O-linemen are horrible!

I think we have a real player in Mcintosh.

Espy is going to supplant Jacobs you can just see it coming.

Dougherty is easily fooled out there chalk it up to lack of experience, shows good closing speed though.

Portis's comments after the game where interseting, kind of like he was sending a message to the coaches about playing him in the first pre-season game, he wasen't to happy about it.

Overall our second string O-line is so bad it's tough to evaluate the rest of the offensive players, but I am not cutting Collins any slack in that deptartment, theres a reason he's been riding the bench his entire career.

Our defense I believe is going to top 3 this year, yes cincci completed some passes but remember Williams likes to put his guys in vulnarable type of coverages to see how they react, he evaluates through failure of worst case scenerio coverages and then picks the guys who find away to rise above [what I would call] handicap coverage schemes. He did it 2 years ago when we were all worried about our ability to stop people, but opening game it was a whole nother story.

I think you're probably reading too much into Portis' comments. But otherwise, I...I....I agree with you about just about everything else! So I guess the apocalypse is upon us then.

Good point about Williams.

As for Espy, he looked good. But let's not forget about Patten

[offiss]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

I think you're probably reading too much into Portis' comments. But otherwise, I...I....I agree with you about just about everything else! So I guess the apocalypse is upon us then.

Good point about Williams.

As for Espy, he looked good. But let's not forget about Patten

I actaully did forget about him my bad.

I also liked what I saw from White as well reminded me a bit of Sellars.

[Oakland Red]

I was strutting cause I picked the Bengals to win 32-3 in another thread. They only got 19, but hey you have to hand it to me, I was close. So that was cool.

It's early, and it will take time for the team to come together and really find itself; once again we have made a lot of changes on one side of the ball and we need time to get into a groove on offense. The offense always takes more time to come around anyway.