CrazedDogs

Stick with the run, they said. Pound the rock, they said. Lol. Air Jones!

Finally seeing some fire from the interior DL, and look - a 3 and out stop.

Agreed.

Okereke has been a truly bad player so far.

A lot of blown coverages today, open space everywhere.

The defense is unbelievably poor.

Finally, that’s the offense we expected.

Yeah, or time it so he draws the PI.

Saquon kind of sucks.

Last we at least it was a lot of weird stuff. This week it’s just a straight up ass kicking.

This is a worse ass kicking than last week.

Haha and McKinney thought he was going to get paid this off-season. That won’t happen now.

lol, I understand, but you did say that his ability to run is what makes him 'good'. I think if the QB's most effective trait is his ability to run, then he's not a good QB at all. A thought experiment ---- an average passer, but the very best QB in the league due to his ability to run; just how good a runner is he? We've seen Mike Vick out there, motherfucker was a half step shy of Gayle Sayers, and still not a good (enough) QB. This hypothetical QB, who's he run like? Jim Brown? Would even that be good enough?

oh, and here's a concerning observation about Dallas's defensive scheme: their edges gave zero fucks about respecting the hand off. They were basically daring Barkley to find the cutback lane (which he never did), and instead committed to hitting Jones at every opportunity. In a way, it was validating to see a team take what I've said for years is the way to attack a run-focused QB --- just hit the fucker, hit him when he runs with it, hit him when he hands it off and fakes a bootleg, just fucking hit him. Its in the game, if he's a runner or pretending to be a runner, he's a fair target. Finally, I see a team put that game plan in effect, and of course, its against the Giants, and of course, it worked. Way too well. To me, it looked like a blueprint for taking apart the Giants offense. Barkley doesn't have the vision to punish a D for that level of aggression, and Jones, well WTF is Jones supposed to do if the D doesn't bother to respect the other options on offense and we're running a scheme based on misdirection? Hopefully that's a game plan that only works when you're like four or five talented edge players deep, including Parsons. But I don't know, every NFL team has athletes.

sure, doesn't matter how you get there, but its more likely to be able to do that via a pass than a run. I remember when Randall Cunningham 'changed the game', we all said this same shit back then too. Before that, my older football fam enlightened me that back in the '70s we said the same shit about Bobby Douglas and Archie Manning. The mobile QB isn't a new thing, it was just something that went out of fashion because its relatively ineffective. And its still relatively ineffective. When the day comes we're seeing most championships going home with QBs that are better runners than passers, then my view on this will change. As of today, there has never been a single one. Despite being twenty some years into the era of the 'mobile QB'.

well, if its outdated thinking then we'll see players with those sorts of tendencies begin to succeed at the highest levels. And I'm not talking regular season awards either. (Lamar Jackson, LOL.) The exception that proves the rule: Steve Young could have played running back, but he didn't win shit until scrambling was an afterthought in his game. The ability to run is a nice bonus, but look at it like this: the worst athlete you know --- not the worst athlete in the NFL, but the worst athlete, period ---- can throw a football faster than the fastest person in the NFL can run. Talking up the ability to run in a QB is like talking up bayonets on guns.

eh, the running is a crutch. A QB that isn't good without running isn't really a good QB.

I thought it might have happened on the first drive, when he drew the personal foul while sliding. A teammate picked him up immediately, and Jones had a bit of a dazed look in his eyes.

I thought the rookie corners far exceeded (my low) expectations. If we’re blaming any aspect of the D, let’s point fingers at the non-existent pass rush. Dex had like two pressures, and everyone else did nothing. like I mentioned on the game day thread, I think footwear was a factor. There were matchups vs their OL that favored the Giants - backup guard vs Leo Williams? Bitch please - but we saw none of it.

yeah I don't think it truly impacted the outcome, but qualitatively it seemed there was a difference in how the two teams were moving out there. Usually when its wet the pass protection has the advantage, so all else being equal, the wet weather should have been a good break for the Giants. Dallas looked like they were running a track meet at thew snap. No issues whatsoever.

correct me if my eyes deceived me, but there was one observation I had throughout the game that I don't think I've seen noted elsewhere: seemed like the only guys I saw slipping and sliding out there were GIants.

Toney alone was responsible for what, like a 14 point swing in the outcome? Rarely seen a part time player wreck a game for his team like that. Got to wonder about the Chiefs too; granted they've been THE team lately, but what is going on with them that they took a look at the ~2021 Giants receiving corp and said, yeah baby, we want some of that!

This, that dude is a grade A asshole. Although, it does warm my heart that the greatest coach in Eagles history didn't deliver a single ring to Philadelphia.

My expectation is improvement, but not necessarily a better win-loss record. Last year’s schedule was very favorable, it’s not likely to work out so well this season. If several draft picks exceed reasonable expectations this is a solid playoff team. Otherwise, they’ll be fun, but ultimately average.

just one ACL this pre-season, I think it worked.