jerseyguy

I really don't see where there is any need to lose any of our young talented players in a trade to bring in a LBer that we really don't need. I also think that Tuck is an untouchable player on our team and definitely shouldn't be included in any deals...

Personally, I don't care about what an individual football player does with his own time and wouldn't mind a player with off field problems, as long as he's a team player and has some skill. I don't see why we tend to put football players under the microscope for years and even whole careers for character flaws they may have displayed as a younger player. People learn lessons, I guess, is how I feel. Mistakes are mistakes, you learn from them and I would hope never commit them again...and hopefully your career doesn't suffer for indiscretions. Unfortunately, that definitely isn't the case.

I fully agree, I would hope that PacMan has learned his lessons and is ready to get on with his pro football career. I also hope that our front office is open minded enough to realize that young guys make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. I'd like to see us give PacMan a contract full of language that would allow the team to cut him with no loss to the team for any violations, remember if it did work out we would have one hell of secondary. As long as a guy makes plays on the field for my team I don't care what he does off the field, thats managements problem not the fans...

I'll answer no and no. I don't think you're being crazy, but I'm not exactly breaking into cold sweat worrying about replacing Joseph, either. We didn't have him last year, since he was IR.

 

Cofield is going into his third season already, and is a proven commodity. Alford is going to improve, and Robbins still plays well. It wouldn't shock me to either see a DT drafted in the first few rounds, but I could also see us signing someone after the draft. But I don't see any urgency to get it done sooner. We're talking at most a rotational player.

I'm still holding out hope that Manny Wright turns out to be what was expected of him when he was in college. At 6'5 and 345 pounds he could be the runstuffer we need and he's only 23 ...

What doesn't make sense to me.....is that they don't have enough money left to sign their draft picks as it is. If they try to trade up for Long, then they've got to cut the hell out of the team in order to make room for the cash to suit him up.

 

I have no idea what is going through Davis head? I'm glad my team's execs understand "value" and "holding the line on outrageous contracts".

from what i understand about what our cap is now. we only have around 5 million left and we still need money to sign our draft choices and a little left for emergencies during the season so there really isn't much money to do anything ...

No doubt that was what he was thinking. The problem with that though is that he absolutely has to be aware of the first down marker. There was a couple of times that he had the first down, then doubled back and lost it because of it.

 

Breakaways are great, but priority one is getting that first down.

 

I still believe he's going to show enough to make the team and then he's going to have a bustin out party down the road. Sure hope so.

hope you're right because if he doesn't make a showing this season it will just be another 2nd round WR who was a busted pick .

I think the title of this thread really says it well, Willy Joe was a first round draft choice that the fans never really got to know. He got off on the wrong foot with the fans before he ever touched the field by holding out from training camp as a rookie. Every body kept saying he was showing flashes of being a good DT, but thats all it ever was , flashes ..

I always felt that the reason Moss moved backwards after he caught the ball was that he was looking to find some running room so he could make something happen. Lets just hope that he's a late bloomer and steps up his game this year because if he can't beat out Michael Jennings or possibly somebody we draft this year he may have a tough time making the roster...

Lewis deserved to be a head coach after what he did in Baltimore, but honestly, his reign in Cincy has been underwhelming to say the least. His specialty, the defense, has never been solid and they've had problems stopping anybody. Plus you can't overlook the discipline problem, that's just a disgrace and it was palmer that had to speak up about it.

 

Lewis has a say in the personnel they draft, and their drafts have been pretty even on both sides of the line, so there's no excuse. He'll be fine as a def coord somewhere else.

I think Marvin Lewis is a good example of a guy getting promoted one level too high, good assistant coaches don't necessarily make good head coaches . I do however think Lewis would be a good addition to any team as a DC .

Your join date.

I spent 6 years on the NYG message board, too many kids for me now...

New dude....but not so new....welcome.

how do you know I'm not so new

Peter King was right, Davis has become Dan Snyder West.

Al Davis seems to have become the NFLs poster boy for early senility..