bigdavis

@WOW!! You don't understand sarcasm, do you? (or maybe you just don't read to the bottom of a comment)

Jets 31, Panthers 6.There are a few things a lot of you don't realize -- things that haven't even been mentioned on the Huddle: Our OL has a lot of problems, and a HC that won't put the promising rookies on the field. Erving and Elf shouldn't be out there. CMC is injury-prone, and most likely won't make it into the 2nd half. Horn is a raw rookie, and will be flagged for DH 4 times. Our DTs can't stop the run. (Nah. We roll, 41-13. Sacks, picks, TD passes, the whole 10 yds.) Good times.

Are those the Jets, or Afghan soldiers?

Don't be silly. Of course they won't. Trolls gonna troll.

Touch of class. That's setting the tone for the rest of us. Let the pissing contest begin...

+ Glad you mentioned that. He did a fine job of evening out the mismatches both teams might have, and backed his opinions up with metrics that show deep analysis on his part, not just the usual. I enjoyed his takes. Many here jumped to the early conclusion that he was just a Jets' homer, writing a puff piece. Not so. He wasn't predicting a winner; I am. Big offensive performance for us, vs their overmatched corners and LBs -- Panthers 41, Jets 10.

IMO, this whole "happy feet" syndrome has been way overblown. It stems mostly from Steve Smith's on-air comments, early in the last broadcast. Maybe Smith should stick to critiquing WRs, CBs, and route running, about which he's an expert. He's never been a QB, never thrown a pass, to my knowledge, and has never stood in any pocket, under a rush. Try to recall the footwork of Peyton Manning. I think that would be described as "happy feet," when in reality, it's far better than standing flat-footed. Manning chose that method to be better prepared to launch in any direction. I'd describe it, not as "happy feet,' but as versatile and athletic footwork.

I like the way you talk.

I think you meant knob hobs...but, Yeah. Me, too. There will be much excitement here on the 12th, after we gob-smack the Jets.

Kudos for that to our GM and scouts.

I mentioned the audible because a lot of the hot takes around here seem to imply (or just flat out say) that Darnold's problems stem from slow processing of information. I see differently. I have just made a bet on his exceeding 23 1/2 TDs for the season, at 115-100.

Baldy has always been a respected film analyst, and he doesn't gush over everybody he studies. Darnold's velocity and location on those 3 throws couldn't have been any better. and apparently, the second, to Marshall, was an audible. Efficiency in scoring TDs in the final 1-2 minutes of a half is how games are won. We certainly didn't see that last year.

Some of you are a really tough audience. These are some of your comments: "he still sees ghosts and panics at the first hint of pressure" "seemed a bit panicked at times" "he has nerves and happy feet to work through" "still showed panic when pressured" "he is not the answer" Well folks, the man just completed 76% of his passes, for 162 yds and 2 TDs, in 30 minutes of play. That doesn't sound like fart on a hot griddle to me. Maybe Smitty's reliance on "happy feet" has some of you seeing ghosts. You'd have been all over the Fields thing again if Sam had had a bad night, and you still can't give him credit for a good performance. He's the Rodney Dangerfield of QBs.

That would be an interesting stat. Shorter kickoffs do allow for runbacks, but they also many times cause holding or block in the back penalties, which set the receiving team back behind their 25. Or muffs or forced fumbles.

That was the point I was making -- play vanilla, to make it seem we're the same pushover on defense, and dink/dunk on offense, as we were last year. Then Game 1: whammo! Therefore, don't be distressed (or "agitated") no matter what happens tonight.

Haha! Good one. (I can only lead you to the water...)

1) we won't see that much of the team personnel that will open the Real season. The staff has to make decisions which will lead to 27 cuts from the now bloated roster, and that can't be done without giving those guys one last chance to be fairly evaluated. And remind yourselves those decisions are in the hands of the coaching staff and GM -- NOT IN YOURS. Don't waste your energy disputing or ranting about things out of your control. When the regular season begins, and the roster is solidified, THEN we can complain about questionable play calls, botched assignments, and all the rest that give us armchair QBs a reason to care. 2) more important, ignore the play-calling altogether, and the outcome. Phil Snow has vastly new personnel to employ on Defense than he did last year. Not tomorrow, but starting against the Jets, he'll be relying far less on soft zone coverages, for one. And the versatility they've stressed in assembling front 7 pass rushers will incorporate more blitz packages than we've seen. You should fully expect the Defense to be dynamic this year. Same idea on Offense: Brady has shown opponent's NOTHING so far in pre-season (and you can bet it'll continue tomorrow night) that could help DCs have a CLUE as to how he'll use the unmatched assortment of play-making weapons he has to choose from. So watch the position battles with detachment, and don't get emotionally involved one way or the other. It's just the final dress rehearsal, before opening night.

Then what the hell are you posting scores of negative opinions for? Maybe if you followed it more closely, (or just shut up about it), you;d get more respect.

This isn't actually a Fan Base. The most noise, and the greatest repetition of nonsense, comes from trolls who like to see their names in print, and who have little life outside their basements. 15 pages of back and forth on whether these armchair GMs pass favorable judgment is an hilarious exercise in tongue wagging. I don't know enough about cap management to venture an opinion, which would question the man who's paid to do the job. Therefore, I simply applaud the way the team is being built, and look forward to a successful season, with an average of 30+ points being scored by this behemoth of an offense.

The easiest path to 30 points.

No biggie that a vanilla play in the pre-season didn't work. It was an experiment to judge OL blocking. They found out who couldn't cut it. These 3 games are more a process of elimination, rather than an effort to win meaningless games. As @Zodsaid, this one play might decide who plays where on the OL. If so, even better than had we scored. We went out and got 2 very tall play-making receivers, whose specialties are EZ catches. In regular game situations, look for play-action, then a pass to one of those boys, in the back of the EZ. 6 points. Fine with me if we convince the league that we've learned nothing, and will continue to run it up the middle.

The Huddle is a microcosm of how social media has led the dumbing down of society. "With all due respect..." is not a common phrase, anymore.

Some might think your complaining about complainers is equally lazy and unproductive. (I certainly wouldn't think that, but others might.)

Do you realize you just wrote a perfect summation of your own post?

Now, see right there you gave away your bias. That's a pretty superficial (not to say debatable) reason to criticize your HC. I suppose you were, after all, the Mod that was called out a few threads ago, for being so negative. Why can't you wait until some actual games are played, to see if you can work up a reasonable critique of play-calling, or clock management, or something that really matters? And for every "green" HC that came from college, and failed, I can name you two NFL HCs that stayed employed as such for years beyond their Use By date, and never accomplished anything. They weren't "green," bless their hearts; they were just...grey.