BrianS

The **ONLY** silver lining here is that this will make it easier for coaches to go to CMC and say "Hey, we got this one wrapped up, have a seat". Everything else here is just awful for us.

I don't think you can mandate it, but I would love to see the NFL heavily incentivize natural turf. Prime time games only played on natural turf? I'm down for it.

TREMBLE!!!

Did Slye take Charlton's leg with him when he left? Inquiring minds want to know.

That's the kind of read option threat I can get behind. Not a QB power, just a great design that gives the QB one read to make.

Huddle is hilarious sometimes. We win two freakin games and the Huddle GM's are ready to trade the farm for one player. Insanity.

One day, we will learn our lesson regarding older players.

hahaha - I do remember all the "Everett Brown" talk when we drafted Burns - not saying you particular, I just remember all the grumbling.

He COULD be right, but two games into the season isn't the time for such hyperbole. Call me in December when we're still undefeated, and then we can talk about the comparisons to 2015.

He's gonna get David Carr'ed up there, and it's a shame.

That's just the 10 first year eligible. Here's the whole list: QUARTERBACKS Randall Cunningham, Jake Delhomme, Boomer Esiason, Jeff Garcia, Dave Krieg, Donovan McNabb, Steve McNair RUNNING BACKS Shaun Alexander, Mike Alstott (FB), Tiki Barber, Earnest Byner, Larry Centers (FB), Corey Dillon, Eddie George, Priest Holmes, Steven Jackson, Jamal Lewis, Eric Metcalf (also WR/PR/KR), Lorenzo Neal (FB), Fred Taylor, Herschel Walker (also KR), Ricky Watters, Brian Westbrook WIDE RECEIVERS Anquan Boldin, Troy Brown (also PR/KR), Donald Driver, Henry Ellard (also PR), Devin Hester (also PR/KR), *Torry Holt, Joe Horn, Andre Johnson, Chad Johnson, Derrick Mason, Muhsin Muhammad, Andre Rison, Jimmy Smith, Rod Smith, Steve Smith, Hines Ward, *Reggie Wayne, Wes Welker TIGHT ENDS Dallas Clark, Ben Coates, Brent Jones, Heath Miller, Wesley Walls OFFENSIVE LINEMEN Willie Anderson (T), Matt Birk (C), *Tony Boselli (T), Lomas Brown (T), Ruben Brown (G), D’Brickashaw Ferguson (T), Kevin Glover (C/G), Jordan Gross (T), Olin Kreutz (C), Jake Long (T), Nick Mangold (C), Logan Mankins (G), Jesse Sapolu (C/G), Jeff Saturday (C), Chris Snee (G), Brian Waters (G), Richmond Webb (T), Erik Williams (T), Steve Wisniewski (G) DEFENSIVE LINEMEN John Abraham (DE also LB), *Jared Allen (DE), La’Roi Glover (DT/NT), Casey Hampton (DT/NT), Robert Mathis (DE), Leslie O’Neal (DE), Michael Dean Perry (DT/DE), Simeon Rice (DE), *Richard Seymour (DT), Justin Smith (DE), Neil Smith (DE), Greg Townsend (DE/LB/DT/NT), Justin Tuck (DE), Vince Wilfork (DT/NT), Kevin Williams (DT), Bryant Young (DT) LINEBACKERS Cornelius Bennett, Lance Briggs, Tedy Bruschi, London Fletcher, Seth Joyner, Willie McGinest (also DE), *Sam Mills, Hardy Nickerson Sr., Takeo Spikes, Pat Swilling (also DE), *Zach Thomas, DeMarcus Ware, Patrick Willis DEFENSIVE BACKS Eric Allen (CB), *Ronde Barber (CB/S), Dre Bly (DB), *LeRoy Butler (S), Nick Collins (S), Antonio Cromartie (CB), Merton Hanks (S), Rodney Harrison (S), Albert Lewis (CB), Tim McDonald (S), Allen Rossum (DB), Asante Samuel (CB), Bob Sanders (S), Charles Tillman (CB), Troy Vincent (CB), Adrian Wilson (S), Darren Woodson (S) PUNTERS/KICKERS Gary Anderson (K), Jeff Feagles (P), John Kasay (K), Sean Landeta (P), Ryan Longwell (K), Reggie Roby (P), Matt Turk (P) SPECIAL TEAMS Josh Cribbs (KR/PR also WR), Mel Gray (PR/KR also WR), Brian Mitchell (KR/PR also RB), Steve Tasker (ST also WR)

And the other Texans receiver is 6'3". Not a good matchup for Donte.

If things are still going well at mid season with Sam, great, we may have found the answer in the second round. Two games in is still too soon. It's promising, agreed, but still too soon.

We didn't cut him. He was on our practice squad.

We are capable of winning this game. But it won't be easy. Our roster is too thin, too young for us to anticipate any easy games. I think the loss of Tyrod Taylor is what made us such solid favorites here. We are a promising, young team right now. That's all. This is the first of many traps we can fall in to. We have to keep that one week at a time attitude this year.

Baldy lookin to fill that John Madden sized void in broadcast. I'm ready for it.

It wouldn't make me cry to see Deonte get some snaps this week. Obviously he isn't ready to start, and his position flexibility is non-existent. However, this might be the best chance he has this year: get on the bench when someone is injured and grabbing a few snaps here or there. Maybe he turns some heads in those reps, best case scenario.

Is Bouye better than our third best CB? If the answer is yes, this is nothing but positive for our team. I am not sure, but on paper it seems like he probably is.

Scheme and talent work hand in hand. If the talent isn't there, it doesn't matter what scheme you dream up. Likewise, having a ton of talent without a strong scheme / identity is equally ineffective. If we had tried to run this scheme last year with the talent we had on hand, we wouldn't have been as worried about all the close games. We simply wouldn't have had any. Eventually opponents will catch on, and it won't look that good. We'll have injuries. Rooks will make mistakes. This defense isn't the finished product yet. What we're seeing now is simply an early preview of it. I'm very optimistic for the future, even if I don't think this is our window yet. The good news is that this team is eminently more watchable than the teams of the late Rivera era. Great to see our team really putting out the effort.

I can get behind all of that except the finding a kicker part. That's Fitterer's problem. Blackburn can only coach the guys who are there.

I usually give folks a chance to have a conversation in good faith, but yea, people who aren't willing to do that I don't continue to bother with. No loss. Good apples, bad apples, every forum has each. The trick is learning which is which.

If you truly believe that then we should have kept Hurney. "Rhule is the GM" right? The GM builds a roster of 90 players that he thinks fit what the coaching staff are asking for. He has final say on the draft and FA. The coach evaluates that roster and picks the 60 players he think will get the job done. He has final say on the in season roster. That's how it works. This doesn't preclude massive collaborative work between the two. It's very clear that happens. But each has final say in certain situations, and it seems to be working out pretty well.

Saints bottled CMC up in the run game . . . and we're really expecting production from a 4th round rookie in the same game? Come on. The way I'm seeing it is that today Chuba took 8 hits that CMC didn't have to. Over the course of a season, that's gonna be 120-150 hits our star back doesn't absorb. I here for it.

Real numbers are . . . Defense: Offense:

This is exactly it. Gano was always a top kicker, but when he missed that kick, that's when all the talk about "overpaid" and "choke artist" started. Turns out, he just missed a kick. It happens. We forget all the times he made kicks to win games, tie games, keep us in games, get us points. GG has been one of the better kickers in the NFL since 2012. Ironically, the first year he came to Carolina. Prior to that year, he had been very inconsistent and on course for a Joey Slye of his own. Cutting Graham Gano while he was injured, after seasons of 96% and 88% FG's made . . . stupid. But hey, we saved a couple million.