Feverdream
Club Member
I want to vent a bit more about those posters who overreact to an early season practice win by the defense.
Let's break this down a bit... In the modern NFL, most of the players who play on the front 7 of a defense tend to rotate in and out. Very few players play every down-- and even the ones who do, tend to get a few downs off during a game so they can stay fresh. This creates a situation where chemistry between defensive players means less... MUCH LESS than it does on an Offensive Line
Athleticism means so much more to a Defensive player than reps... or knowing what one's teammate is going to do on a particular play, or even... dare I say it, intelligence. Yes, many defensive studs on the front end are as dumb as rocks, and it's always been that way. For as long as I can remember, I have seen Offensive linemen on the academic all-American lists, and defensive guys on the police blotter-- it's just how it has always been.
Defensive guys tend to pin their ears back and explode into spots, and on a day like today when the PUBLIC practice showed only the most vanilla of plays, the Defense has a huuuuuuge advantage, and Boyer sent the house all day long. Then he put in the backups and set them too.
Jet sweeps by the offense? Nope.
Screen passes? Nope.
A lot of quick hitters to Waddle? Not in evidence.
Swing passes? Un-uh.
Then there was the constant switching of QBs, with three guys working and no one getting to settle into any kind of rhythm. Eight or nine different WRs going in and out, when a real game might see 4 guys playing 98% of the snaps.
...and some wonder why the defense looks good in a situation like this? Hell, we have a VETERAN defense with only a couple of youngish players playing, and the offense in a merry-go-round vanilla cluster? In Armstrong's first practice? When Williams is mid-position change and Adam Pankey (of all people) is our 2nd string Center???
C'mon. Just stop it.
Some of y'all are just too desperate to hang on to your narrative that we should have spent EVEN more money on FA linemen, or in protecting your 2 year's long rant that this or that player was a bad pick.
Breathe... say, "oooooooooommmmm".
Then stop whining.
Let's break this down a bit... In the modern NFL, most of the players who play on the front 7 of a defense tend to rotate in and out. Very few players play every down-- and even the ones who do, tend to get a few downs off during a game so they can stay fresh. This creates a situation where chemistry between defensive players means less... MUCH LESS than it does on an Offensive Line
Athleticism means so much more to a Defensive player than reps... or knowing what one's teammate is going to do on a particular play, or even... dare I say it, intelligence. Yes, many defensive studs on the front end are as dumb as rocks, and it's always been that way. For as long as I can remember, I have seen Offensive linemen on the academic all-American lists, and defensive guys on the police blotter-- it's just how it has always been.
Defensive guys tend to pin their ears back and explode into spots, and on a day like today when the PUBLIC practice showed only the most vanilla of plays, the Defense has a huuuuuuge advantage, and Boyer sent the house all day long. Then he put in the backups and set them too.
Jet sweeps by the offense? Nope.
Screen passes? Nope.
A lot of quick hitters to Waddle? Not in evidence.
Swing passes? Un-uh.
Then there was the constant switching of QBs, with three guys working and no one getting to settle into any kind of rhythm. Eight or nine different WRs going in and out, when a real game might see 4 guys playing 98% of the snaps.
...and some wonder why the defense looks good in a situation like this? Hell, we have a VETERAN defense with only a couple of youngish players playing, and the offense in a merry-go-round vanilla cluster? In Armstrong's first practice? When Williams is mid-position change and Adam Pankey (of all people) is our 2nd string Center???
C'mon. Just stop it.
Some of y'all are just too desperate to hang on to your narrative that we should have spent EVEN more money on FA linemen, or in protecting your 2 year's long rant that this or that player was a bad pick.
Breathe... say, "oooooooooommmmm".
Then stop whining.