Officall Overall Game thoughts

I like the fact that we WON the game!

All in all it was a classic preseason game. Although, the skins struggled against the broncos starting D. Sean Taylor might just live up to the hype they talk about with last nights preseason performance. However, guys like Payton, Brady, & Farve are not that easy to read.

W/o Jansen the O-line with struggle all season :(

My thoughts (I have not read through the game thread, so I apologize if I repeat anything)...
- Jansen's injury absolutely sucks! But consider the fact that the original "Hogs" were mostly late round or undrafted no-names until Bugel got a hold of them. I am hoping that Buges can work his magic with someone, at least for this year....no, not hoping....I am counting on it!!!
- Hasselbeck played well. He played like a guy with nothing to lose, which he pretty much is. The two "starters" could learn something from him! There's a reason Gibbs has praised him a lot recently. I think it is a) because he IS playing well, and b) to push Ramsey and Brunell.
- Taylor is a gamer. He also had a pick on Sat. during the scrimmage. Seems that he is adjusting to the NFL. Did anyone notice that his INT for the TD was on a boot-leg play....just like the ones that burned our D numerous times last year!!! :)
- Both offenses looked sloppy as hell. It was the first pre-season game. Clinton seemed to look like he was just starting to get comfortable when he was done for the game.
- Brunell and Ramsey looked about even....as Gibbs would say, "very rough." Yeah Ramsey got hit more, but consider the fact that the O-line was not the starters for him, except maybe his first couple plays.
- Did anybody notice that until later in the game, about 3/4 of the penalties were against Denver? I was very happy about that.

All in all, being an extra 5th pre-season game, away for both teams, it was really not much more than a glorified scrimmage. Gibbs got to see what mistakes need to be fixed. Should be very interesting to see how they progress throughout the pre-season.

I paid particular attention to Brandon Noble, (well I hope it was him I did not catch the name was not in much but the number was 99 or 96 and he had one hand wrapped pretty well so I assumed that was the broken one). If that was not him whoever it was had a decent game albeit against the second and third string but he did bring down Mike Anderson twice the back field. He did not play much but when he was in, Denvers running game was nothing. I really would like to see how many yards and how many times they ran with him in there. He was in the back field making a tackle atleast twice while i was watching.

Noble didn't even make the trip, he's #75. Griffin is #96 and may be who you are referring to.

That is possiblity, but I thought it was a second string guy. Does Griffin play some with the second unit?

Noble didn't even make the trip, he's #75. Griffin is #96 and may be who you are referring to.


Maybe it was Salvea'a....he's number 99. I think he started.

Salvea'a did start with Griffin