After the loss to the Bengals has your season outlook changed at all?

[EternalEnigma21]

Originally Posted by RiggoRules

The scoreboard last night was a non-factor.

Positives:

* Dominant 1st team D
* Rocky McIntosh
* Mike Espy
* Lloyd's big catch
* Jason Campbell's poise, arm and limited mistakes

Negatives

* Portis injury (which was led to by....)
* Lloyd's busted play (is that 700 page play book too complicated?)
* Todd Collins
* Backup O-Line
* Backup secondary

I have to be in agreeance. I thought our first stringers looked great, but there was a great decline when we put in our second string teams. Brunell has me a bit unnerved, short-hopping a couple of balls and the int..., but we'll see.

Todd Collins looked like danny werfull, only worse. They kept tearing up Kenny Wright... he looked lost and one step behind. Not a very fun night for football, but I was happy with Campbell's performance, at least against the third stringers. I'd really like to see him start a game and play with starters against starters (in the preseason) to see what he can do.

[djnemo65]

I remember two years ago we looked electric in the preseason opener against Denver, and then we ended up going 6-10. Last year we looked bad for a lot of the preseason and made the playoffs. That being said, it worries me that our unit doesn't loook more cohesive at this stage of the game. Disregarding the score, Cincinatti just looked much more polished. Granted, we are attempting to implement an entirely new offensive system. Still, the season is pretty soon....

[hooskins]

Guys we went 1-3 last preseason, and we made the playoffs. Granted the situation was a bit different last year, we continued to suck during the season till the later half, and this year the thing about the preseason is to gauge the new offense, I still feel this game doesn't have much we need to worry about except Portis's injury.

[RedskinRat]

No.

[NAVYSKINSFAN]

I think we'll be fine. As long as portis comes back ready to go. But even if he misses a week or two I think that Mr Betts is up for the job in his stead.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

I agree with everyone as well. I think we will be fine, as long as Todd Collins never ever has to take a snap in the regular season. He reminded me of Jay Schreader (dont think i spelled that right) or Rypien when he was still new. The first unit Defense is NASTY. They could carry us a long way alla The Ravens a few years ago. I think Brunnel and Campbell looked ok. Please everyone pray for CP's recovery. All in all a typical pre season game. I knew there was a reason I never really watched PRE SEASON. I think I might go back to my old ways and get ready to go to FED EX on the 11th and watch the guys who actually make the team.

Oh yeah , Epsy and Mcintosh looked good. Rocky will be starting by the 5th game of the year or so. HAIL

[Gmanc711]

As long as we dont have any major injury problems that linger throughout the season (obviously we'll have some here and there) but if there is nothing major, I think our starting 22 players could be a couple of the best units in football with alot of really good role players.

Our depth however, could kill us. I mean I know its early so alot of the guys that looked bad yetserday were either rookies, or still new. The one guy i'm concerned with is Kenny Wright. I think Ade Jimoh is going to push him a little bit to get better cause Jimoh played well last season.

That being said, I'm not too worried. The Bengals had all their sucess (outside of the Brunell pick) after our starters were out. I think the Campbell/Collins competition for backup qb could get heated, cause I was impressed with Campbell. I think with more time in the pocket, he could be deadly.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

AND if you give him a decent line.

[12thMan]

We'll be good to go. We could go 0-4 and I wouldn't feel any differently, unless someone went down for the season. In fact, without checking stats here, Gibbs has taken a winless preseason team to the Super Bowl. Makes you wonder. If we come out reasonably healthy, we'll be good.

The defense got penetration early and often. Taylor will be a beast. And suprisingly Holdman looked like he knew where he was supposed be to as did Rocky.

Man - Campbell, what a hose. This kid could very well crack the line up this year, injury to Brunell or not. The more reps gets, the better he'll be.

[dmek25]

im not worried at all. the only negative was the injury. our first teamers, both offense and defense, played fairly well( other than the brunell interception)

[memphisskin]

Injuries are the only concern, aside from the need to get Kenny Wright a flame-retardant jersey. That said, he played decently. I think the team competed, and the offense showed just enough. I'd feel better if they were able to finish off some of those drives, but it's early.

[bridaman51]

Brunell was trying to throw that ball out of bounds but was also trying to avoid the sack. he will learn and we will be okay I beleive, up to that point our offense looked pretty good.

[Daseal]

We simply have little to no depth on our team right now which is a huge cause for concern. Can we win if some important cogs go down? It hasnt changed my outlook on the season, of course I refuse to call any team that's made the playoffs once in how many years a Super Bowl contender till I see some regular season action.

[Manusky91]

Originally Posted by Daseal

We simply have little to no depth on our team right now which is a huge cause for concern. Can we win if some important cogs go down? It hasnt changed my outlook on the season, of course I refuse to call any team that's made the playoffs once in how many years a Super Bowl contender till I see some regular season action.

I think our depth is indicative of the parody of the league. We see how shitty our second stringers are, because we follow the Skins. I think you'd be hard pressed to find teams in this league that are happy with their depth. That being said, our lack of O-Line depth got exposed last night

[JWsleep]

Gibbs press conference at 5:45 PM today. All our questions will be answered. (?3?)