I seriously can't with you guys and your preseason hot takes right now

[Jon Snow]

4 minutes ago, ladypanther said:

People have certainly turned on Reich pretty quickly.

And I don't know why. He's told everyone and anyone who would listen exactly what he was going to do in these games.  Yet they are shocked and dismayed that he actually does it. 

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, Manna said:

Well we were told that our coaching staff had 200+ years of coaching. We were told that our o-line was a strength of the team. We were told that Bryce walked on water. So we expect total domination. 

I mean, how many teams would you be afraid of because they hired 70 year olds in Dom Capers and Jim Caldwell to help a John Fox/Ron Rivera type coach. 

I mean, it's a solid old school staff.  That landed a super exciting young DC.   But the extent to how great this staff is had more to do with being compared to Rhule than the rest of the league. 

 

[Mr. Scot]

8 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

And I don't know why. 

There's actually a pretty simple answer to that

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

There's actually a pretty simple answer to that

Yes, but I was trying to be nice.

[CRA]

6 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

And I don't know why. He's told everyone and anyone who would listen exactly what he was going to do in these games.  Yet they are shocked and dismayed that he actually does it. 

 

“Obviously, wanna have some success out there, wanna move the ball, make first downs, score some points,” 

“Just play more consistently as an offensive unit. And then as an offensive unit—this isn’t just Bryce—obviously, be better on third down. And then, get our run game going a little bit. Yeah, just overall on offense, we just need to have a better outing.”

not sure you can hang a mission accomplished sign up for his first team offense and what he wanted. 

3 and out on the first drive. 

Next drive, Giants took a roughing the passer on 3rd down to keep the Panthers in it.    When we got down to the Giants 11 we took a sack and followed that up w/ back to back penalties leading to the FG. 

 

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, CRA said:

 

“Obviously, wanna have some success out there, wanna move the ball, make first downs, score some points,” 

“Just play more consistently as an offensive unit. And then as an offensive unit—this isn’t just Bryce—obviously, be better on third down. And then, get our run game going a little bit. Yeah, just overall on offense, we just need to have a better outing.”

not sure you can hang a mission accomplished sign up for his first team offense and what he wanted. 

3 and out on the first drive. 

Next drive, Giants took a roughing the passer on 3rd down to keep the Panthers in it.    When we got down to the Giants 11 we took a sack and followed that up w/ back to back penalties leading to the FG. 

 

That doesn't change what he wanted to see. Just because the players didn't execute the plays the way they were supposed to do doesn't change what the goal was.  Unless you think it was part of the play design to screw it up?  If you hadn't noticed everyone is making mistakes. Even the coaches. It's a work in progress. 

[bythenbrs]

22 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

Yes, but I was trying to be nice.

 

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

lol

[TheBigKat]

On 8/19/2023 at 2:27 PM, Ricky Spanish said:

This is a public service announcement for you all:

Chill the fug out chicken littles.

They aren't playing these games to win. They aren't even calling plays to necessarily score or get first downs. They are calling plays to see certain players in certain situations.

Players will always play to win because that is how they are wired. Coaches don't coach to win in the preseason.  They spend 20-30 hours making a list of things they want to bring out in a player/play.

They will call plays with the purpose of getting a heatmap of offensive linemen's footwork in order to correlate number of vertical steps with sacks, hurries, or tips.

They will call plays to track a specific WR's release/separation against certain defensive looks.

They will call run plays to the Left against a stacked box that have no chance of success just so they can see how the RG moves laterally and compare it to another guard who played a different set of downs.

They will call plays that put the safety at the line of scrimmage in order to track how much ground he can cover in x seconds if the WR in the slot on the opposite side of the line runs a go route.

The preseason, in general, is for data collection purposes.

The only game that has any relevant correlation to regular season success used to be week 3 of the preseason where the starters would play the entire first half and run a half game plan with vanilla looks across the board. I don't know which game is considered the "preseason week 3" game anymore because there are only 3 preseason games now, because it's the preseason and it doesn't matter.

There is absolutely zero reason to get as aggro as many of you are about the preseason.

Chill out.

My god.

Chill.

If we are at week 8 and still look like Matt Rhule's team, then by all means, panic but I'm not sweating any of this poo in the slightest because we all have WAY more important stuff to worry about in our lives than preseason football.

This

 aged

well