Donald LaFell

I perfectly content to watch a new squad take their lumps during a 2-3 year period while the coach settles in. Something about this team just looks plain lackadaisical and I sure hope it’s on purpose.

I feel like I’ve seen this everywhere around the internet, but the 2011 strike year seemed to be very friendly to passing offenses.

In my experience when the team looks bad in the preseason they look bad in the regular. I haven’t really seen enough individual efforts from guys to look excited. Right now they look pretty bad. I’d be surprised if they look much better in the regular season. I’m fine giving coaching 2-3 years to hit their stride but I expected a better preseason outing. Not really pessimistic about the team but I feel a little iffy.

How is Thomas firmly TE2

Hopefully just bad cramps

In all my years every time we suck in the preseason we suck in the regular season. IIRC we looked good in preseason 2006 but totally sucked in the regular season. That was the biggest surprise I think. I think they need to look invigorated and make some progress week over week. Mistakes are fine but I’d like to see them look motivated and make some plays.

That was 2013

RBs don’t need preseason anyway, bubble wrap till the season

Not sure if serious but any/everybody doesn’t want to get struck by lightning

Everyone was mad about the field too

Yeah seems like he’s petering out like a lot of 6th rounders do. NBD, happy he got to play some. I wish we took that huge OT on the 3rd day this year.

This guy has been on an impressive amount of practice squads. I hope he’s saving his money! Maybe he’ll finally break through.

It’s a lot nicer to mow the lawn or go for a walk and check the score routinely than be a die hard fan. I can never break away from my fandom but I’ve learned to have balance.

Teams who aren’t in the SB hunt should pay their RBs and trade them for a 1st. Buy a first round pick back.

I think most established guys shouldn’t play much. I feel like this focus on stubborn principles vs actual pragmatic decision making is what separates these old school drones like Wilks/Fox/Rivera from coaches who aren’t afraid to actually to think for themselves. You will have different rules for different players. Horn is the only legit CB we have and has bad luck for getting injured so don’t play him.

If they play him in preseason I won’t be optimistic about the staff’s decision making abilities.

Please just treat it like preseason, I’m tired of watching players like Stewart or Newton getting hurt. Young will get plenty of experience this year, he doesn’t need to get hurt in a scrimmage.

The first two drafts were pretty great too. Gettlemagic started off strong.

Yeah if it’s public money then there better be a lot of reqs attached. I’d rather zero public money be used.

I’ve never seen an infamous Jersey but I have seen St. Pierre and JJ Jansen jerseys

People keep saying this when plenty of college coaches did terrible in the NFL and didn’t skip a beat going back to college.

For real, any non contending team should pay their RB and trade them for high draft capital to a contender. I view it as buying draft capital.

I mean Fox drafted Williams and Stewart. Rivera keeping both signed was a bit dumb though lol. The spending spree in 2011 got a little dumb especially for some of the home grown players.

Yeah Jeffers had a beast of a year. I like how the author mentions Smith’s PR experience as a plus when he’s shockingly bad at fielding the ball

What’s disappointing is these franchises print money no matter what unless the entire NFL goes in decline. JR made asinine decisions about costs(indoor practice facility). But at least he prioritized the football team for the stadium.