LinvilleGorge

At first glance I thought that OSB was brick and was like what in the hell is going on here?

Yep. Anytime you're trying to project talent to the next level of competition it's gonna be a crap shoot. A lot of 4 and 5 star recruits bust in college while a lot of afterthought recruits become All-Conference and All-Americans. A lot of high draft picks bust in the NFL while a lot of mid to late round draft picks and even UDFAs become good pros. It's always been the case and it'll always be the case.

The most annoying thing about Florio for me is that he always feels like he's auditioning to be the President of the NFLPA. Yeah, we get it. You were labor lawyer. We don't care.

I was fine with Bryce, Stroud, or Richardson. I was most intrigued by Richardson though. Maybe it's just because of the success we had with Cam. I don't know. I could just most easily translate his talent to the NFL. With Bryce you're HEAVILY relying on him being the smartest guy on the field. Hopefully he is.

I'd deal with triple digits before dealing with NYC and I hate heat. But I hate big cities a lot more.

Oof. This is not encouraging.

What if we had done that but then Reich and company still wanted "their guy" then Howell was way outplaying Bryce? Oh wee mayne. What a poo show that would be.

Yeah, that's brutal. My business partner lives in College Station and he sent me this on Sunday when I was bitching to him about the "heat".

Pretty standard for preseason. You talk about what there is to talk about.

Meanwhile, Chris Simms on Sam Howell...

He's not exactly wrong. Now with that said, there's a very small sample size and the OL has been atrocious. So I'm not exactly panicking yet but I also haven't seen anything to get excited about yet either. So yeah, I get where he's coming from here.

I'm not sure if it's the chicken or the egg. I do know this new pressure treated wood oftentimes rots out around the screws. That might be what's eating up the fasteners. The wood starts rotting and retaining moisture and that corrodes the fastener.

Smitty is by far the best WR in the two units but I think this year's unit has significantly better depth of talent.

Yep, pressure treated lumber went to poo when they stopped using CCA to treat it. That was about 20 years ago. I've seen stained or painted pressure treated lumber rot out in 6-7 years if it's uncovered in a heavily shaded area. UV smokes it too. I've seen raw wood decks splitting all to hell within 5 years on uncovered south facing lots in CO.

I could've replaced all the uncovered decking boards but with lumber still high I just spot replaced boards. None were rotting. I just replaced a few that were cupping or curling. I replaced the front steps be sure they were in considerably worse shape than the covered porch and with it being raw wood I wanted to use a transparent stain. If I was using a solid stain on the front porch like the back I would've let them ride.

I don't know how I do this, but every time I do deck work it's guaranteed to be hotter than the devil's taint. When I rebuilt my front porch and built the patio in CO it was the hottest stretch of weather I endured in my 14 years out there. Mid-90s at 8000 feet elevation. Now here my ass is again out here slaving away on the low-90s but absolute swamp ass humidity. Not as involved this time, mostly just power washing and re-staining. Replacing a few decking boards and rebuilt the front steps. Sweating buckets. Had to take a break. Ignore my awful mess. The back deck doesn't have steps so I'm just working around everything instead of hauling it all through the house. As Matt Rhule would say, it's a process. I promise it'll look good when I finish. I'll pile everything over to one side to stain half, then pile it all on the other side to stain the other half then put it all back together. One board on the steps in the pic below is stained for the wife's approval. The front porch is just 10 year old raw wood that's never had anything out on it.

Looks about the same to me. I wonder if the "QB competition" down there was real or if it was a Rivera QB competition where everyone already knows the outcome but he feels the need to play lip service to it.

This. I want to see if the escapability and arm translate. I'm not saying it won't, we just haven't had much of an opportunity to see it so far. This OL has to play better, period.

I've been encouraged watching him get up from some pretty good hits but discouraged with the frequency of those hits. Size be damned, if any QB is getting hit with the frequency he has been in limited preseason snaps it's gonna be tough to make it through 17 games.

Yeah. All of that dude's screws are loose.

Can y'all knock it off with the personal bickering?

I'm not concerned about the scheme. I don't think we've seen much of it. What I'm concerned with is simple assignment football. Our gap discipline in the run game has been largely terrible and we've seen blown coverages by the starters in both games.

I wouldn't say very good but probably better than you'd expect. They're gonna lean very hard on Bijan and run the style of offense that John Fox has erotic dreams about at night.

We'll see how he develops there. Even if he remains just a gadget guy he'll be worth what we gave up for him. Having a guy like that out there that the defense always has to account for is a nice chess piece.

That's largely a scheming thing and something I would expect us not to show in preseason.