rayzor

we should be concerned because some drunk musclebound jocks and/or his wife has just noticed that young is smaller than the usual QB.

And for the record (and because that comment pissed me off a bit) ... Acting like a coward hiding behind the warning button? That "cowardly act" is meant to let people know when they are pushing things a bit too far so that they don't wind up doing something that will get them banned, but do it in a way that isn't calling someone out in public. It's fugging meant to keep people from getting called out in public because who loves that kind of poo happening to them? It's a fugging courtesy. Ain't no hiding going on and if you've been here and paying attention you'd know that I don't have a problem calling anyone out either through a warning (that's really no one else's business) or in the middle of the thread, so if you or anyone else gets a warning from one of us, be glad that we're not just banning you right out or calling you out publicly. It's no one else's business when you get a warning, not even those who have reported what you did drawing our attention. And when you get a warning, don't take it personally (or do, I don't really care), just comply and move on and let it go. It's not as serious as you think, but it definitely keeps it from getting too serious or too out of control. And now....

save those discussions for the tinderbox. keep it out of here. in other words....knock it off. we've got a thread over there for discussions just like this. but keep it over there. clear enough?

but it's a take that several very vocal posters have taken. the hot take, preseason does nothing but show that this team isn't good and we're in for a losing season and it shows that we hired the wrong coach.

your preseason record doesn't matter. and i don't care what harbaugh says. that might be his goal, but for most teams preseason is for evaluation. if going undefeated in preseason is important to you, then you're going to have an easy time of it because you're playing against teams who don't have it as their primary objective. but when you get to the end of preseason...what happens to that record?

Does he play LG?

this one has me a bit surprised. of all the scrubs on the team, they cut mccall?

not me. i still feel good about the team.

Not sure anyone has pointed this out, but.... It's just preseason.

It wasn't this bad last year. Not even close, imo. So the question I have is what caused the regression?

Agreed. And I did have a few years where I madey own bbq sauces and salsas. Not sure why I quit doing it. Lol I think i just lazy.

Good call. And yes, we're slacking. Spending too much time chasing down Internet marketers spamming about dinosaurs and potions made by real witches in the NFL forum.

But seriously 1) OL not looking like a bunch of lost and drunk puppies 2) defense showing that they know how to stop an offense 3) don't suck

1) stay healthy 2) don't suck 3) don't suck

i hope they implode.

yes, there will be no excuses.

this. it was a damn practice game. it was our first. it was an evaluation. and it was against a team that felt it needed to have a win before winning actually matters. the whole damn thing was basically a sucker punch. so congrats to the jets on their "win". i hope y'all fall flat on your faces.

Remember when we did this?

And I'll say again, I don't want preseason games to be treated like real games. If it doesn't count, don't act like it does. Risk of injury is too great for a meaningless game. Treating it like a real game is honestly just stupid.

Fans are paying for them, but they aren't for the fans. These aren't GAMES. They are preseason games. There's a big difference. What the fans want should not factor into what the teams decide to do. Fans being in attendance should be irrelevant to the goals of preseason games. Fans going should know that what they are getting isn't a real game, more just a glorified practice. If they expect more, that shouldn't be a concern of the team.

i think it was kind of obvious that the jets weren't in evaluation mode to the degree that we were. they schemed. we didn't. we had no need to. this is one of the things i hate about preseason games. it's rare that both teams have the same objective. one of the many things that made belichick such a punk was that preseason games were treated the same way as regular season games, which isn't fair to the team who is just wanting to do some evaluating. it was dangerous and they came after cam big time. repeating myself, we were shut out and blown out because the jets were in it to win and make up for a loss in the HoF game and for looking bad in the joint practices. jets also had to make it look good for hard knocks. we should have been better, for sure, but let's not pretend that the jets weren't much more motivated to look better than we were to look good against the other team.

pull it together, guys.

it just wasn't a level playing field. neither team was playing for the same thing. that kind of makes the game a bit dangerous. it's easy to be blindsided when you're focusing on something else than the other team.