Joe Public
Gabibbo's Finest
First let me just say that in the big picture of things I believe the most meaningless games in all of professional football for the vast majority of teams are:
1. Your final preseason game.
2. Your first presason game.
3. Week 17.
So these things below are certainly intended just to be noted, not treated as gospel and written in stone for the season.
I caught a few minutes of the Redskins/Titans game and the thing that jumped out at me honestly is how old Mark Brunell looks.
He looks Bledsoe-slow, and the commentators were saying that Gibbs has to be unhappy with the way his O-line performed tonight. Assumedly they were consistently bad. God help that team if Campbell goes down. As it is he might not be very good, but unless Brunell is just wildly out of game shape (possible), if I were a Skins fan I would be extremely worried about him being under center this year should Campbell go down.
I also caught the beginning of the Raiders/Cardinals and two things sort of jumped out at me.
One, the Cardinals offense will at least be interesting this year. Whiz was running a lot of misdirection stuff and getting the ball to Boldin in open space sort of like he used to do with Randel El in Pittsburgh. They should be fun to watch.
Two, that all said, Matt Leinart is nowhere close to ready for the season. He looked awful through most of the first quarter. I tuned out after that, so maybe he got better, but yikes. He should have been picked off at least twice. Balls were behind guys, they were five yards over their heads and wide, I'm not sure if he is still worried about whether he caught something from Paris Hilton or not, but he did not look good.
Actually, now that I think about it, another thing caught my eye from this game.
The Cardinals seemed to get to the edge on the Raiders with remarkable ease tonight. What's interesting to me about this is that with Warren Sapp losing all that weight coming into this year, if teams can get to the edge, and teams can run on the Raiders, that whole Donovan Darius/Michael Huff/Asmenguaoi-whose-name-I-can't-spell thing in the secondary may not matter much.
Now, I realize Burgess wasn't out there tonight, but it was interesting.
Last, the Browns.
Ugh.
I didn't get to watch this game, and I know they won (nice kickoff return) but what in the holy hell is Romeo doing with his QBs? He alternated them from series to series.
Why?
Why?
I mean, honestly, WHY?
Give them quarters if you want to alternate them. Start Frye, give DA the second and fourth.
Next week, start DA, and give Frye the same. If you want to incorporate Quinn, give him the fourth and the guy who was better in the first half the majority of the third.
But from series to series, especially if you're not going to play Quinn, neither guy has any chance to establish a rhythm.
Good stats for Charlie, but really just . . . ack.
1. Your final preseason game.
2. Your first presason game.
3. Week 17.
So these things below are certainly intended just to be noted, not treated as gospel and written in stone for the season.
I caught a few minutes of the Redskins/Titans game and the thing that jumped out at me honestly is how old Mark Brunell looks.
He looks Bledsoe-slow, and the commentators were saying that Gibbs has to be unhappy with the way his O-line performed tonight. Assumedly they were consistently bad. God help that team if Campbell goes down. As it is he might not be very good, but unless Brunell is just wildly out of game shape (possible), if I were a Skins fan I would be extremely worried about him being under center this year should Campbell go down.
I also caught the beginning of the Raiders/Cardinals and two things sort of jumped out at me.
One, the Cardinals offense will at least be interesting this year. Whiz was running a lot of misdirection stuff and getting the ball to Boldin in open space sort of like he used to do with Randel El in Pittsburgh. They should be fun to watch.
Two, that all said, Matt Leinart is nowhere close to ready for the season. He looked awful through most of the first quarter. I tuned out after that, so maybe he got better, but yikes. He should have been picked off at least twice. Balls were behind guys, they were five yards over their heads and wide, I'm not sure if he is still worried about whether he caught something from Paris Hilton or not, but he did not look good.
Actually, now that I think about it, another thing caught my eye from this game.
The Cardinals seemed to get to the edge on the Raiders with remarkable ease tonight. What's interesting to me about this is that with Warren Sapp losing all that weight coming into this year, if teams can get to the edge, and teams can run on the Raiders, that whole Donovan Darius/Michael Huff/Asmenguaoi-whose-name-I-can't-spell thing in the secondary may not matter much.
Now, I realize Burgess wasn't out there tonight, but it was interesting.
Last, the Browns.
Ugh.
I didn't get to watch this game, and I know they won (nice kickoff return) but what in the holy hell is Romeo doing with his QBs? He alternated them from series to series.
Why?
Why?
I mean, honestly, WHY?
Give them quarters if you want to alternate them. Start Frye, give DA the second and fourth.
Next week, start DA, and give Frye the same. If you want to incorporate Quinn, give him the fourth and the guy who was better in the first half the majority of the third.
But from series to series, especially if you're not going to play Quinn, neither guy has any chance to establish a rhythm.
Good stats for Charlie, but really just . . . ack.
