Jerry's Offseason Purge

[Jangler]

Really had to bring that avatar back?

See, that's "the real deal" I bet somebody PMed him saying thank you for getting rid of Donny.

[Proudiddy]

Again, I had no problem with the guys we let go (other than not getting comp. back from Pep). My problem was sitting on our hands the rest of the offseason and not even making an attempt to get a guy like Boldin or a vet QB.

[Brooklyn Bully]

But if you are piecing individual stats from different guys on different teams playing different defensive schemes with different schedules and comparing them to the stats from our guys this year, that is beyond the realm of validity and reliability.

Pretty sure that's what he's doing. Damione Lewis has played in one game this season.

[Fiz]

i really dislike when people who barely get off the couch and don't have a job with a trace of responsibility talk about leadership amongst men they've never met playing a sport they've never played.

[CRA]

Combined Stats of Diggs, Peppers, Lewis, Kemoeatu and Harris

87 total tackles

2 sacks

1 INT

Combined Stats of Anderson, C. Johnson, E. Johnson, Landri and Godfrey

164 total tackles

6.5 sacks

6 ints

ZOMG YOU GUYS WERE SOOOO RIGHT WE LET TOO MANY GOOD GUYS GO!11!!!!

I should have listen to y'all's offseason predictions.

we purged guys at OL, DL, WR, FB......and guess what, those are our weak areas. The real issue is Jerry didn't address the issues. The purge alone wasn't bad.....it was bad in terms of not addressing those areas after the purge with new productive vet roleplayers.

[The Don]

i really dislike when people who barely get off the couch and don't have a job with a trace of responsibility talk about leadership amongst men they've never met playing a sport they've never played.

now isn't that calling the kettle black?

[Dpantherman]

Lewis and Kemo aren't even seeing the field

[Dpantherman]

the only guy on that list that is doing anything is Peppers (sort of)

[Swan]

Defense is on the field constantly. No sh*t we have better defensive stats.

If our offense could stay on the field for more than 30 seconds, our defensive stats would go way down.

[rayzor]

Here's a cool stat

1-6

you really think we'd be any better with those guys still on the team? lol.

[panthers55]

you really think we'd be any better with those guys still on the team? lol.

Absolutely. We ended the year 5-1 under Moore and were going to have an easier schedule. With that veteran leadership and continuity as well as Peppers, Moose, and Hoover, we would easily be looking at 4-3 at the worst. A team is a lot more than the addition or subtraction of the separate pieces of individual talent, it is how they come together and work together. The sum of the whole is greater than the addition of the individual parts. This team is totally devoid of any chemistry and cohesiveness. Zod told that from the first practice he saw.

Looking at each player as a separate entity and saying the replacement is better or worse is simplistic at best. This team had to totally develop a new chemistry and hasn't done it.

[CRA]

They're not getting offers.

Moose is retired, and Hoover said himself he hadn't had any prospects.

And while I'm as big a fan of veteran leadership as anyone, to think Moose and Hoover are the missing pieces in our offense is sentimentality, not reality.

Hoov is out of a job b/c NFL offenses have evolved. So many teams are running 11 man personnel. They don't use the old school blocking FB. The few teams that steadily use a blocking fullback are slim and some have absurd talent like the NYJ at the position.

Hoov is easily > Tony. Even as a guy on the last legs of his career. Letting Hoov go definately hurt the 2010 offense.

Considering we are a running team....I don't see how anyone can say letting Hoov go wasn't a big blow.

[SOJA]

This just in........the offense is losing us games this year, not the defense. There now you can go back to arguing about something else thumbs way up

[blackcatgrowl]

Combined Stats of Diggs, Peppers, Lewis, Kemoeatu and Harris

87 total tackles

2 sacks

1 INT

Combined Stats of Anderson, C. Johnson, E. Johnson, Landri and Godfrey

164 total tackles

6.5 sacks

6 ints

ZOMG YOU GUYS WERE SOOOO RIGHT WE LET TOO MANY GOOD GUYS GO!11!!!!

I should have listen to y'all's offseason predictions.

If last year's defense spent as much time on the field as this year's defense has, they would have 200 total tackles, 8 sacks and 7 or 8 ints.

http://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/average-time-of-possession-net-of-ot