Something Positive To Take From Tonight...

[skinsguy]

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[MTK]

The one positive from tonight, no injuries to any of our starting five offensive lineman.

Other than that, let's put this one in the rearview real quick and move on to next week.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

I honestly didn't think the game was that bad. The first-teamers had one bad play. Other than the play in which Brunell and Lloyd had a miscommunication which resulted in an interception and Portis' injury, I think the first-team offense looked okay. The first-team defense looked awesome.

Basically, our back-ups got totally outclassed by the Bengals back-ups. The second and third team offense linemen were God awful in run-blocking. While that makes me nervous about our depth, I'm not totally discouraged.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I honestly didn't think the game was that bad. The first-teamers had one bad play. Other than the play in which Brunell and Lloyd had a miscommunication which resulted in an interception and Portis' injury, I think the first-team offense looked okay. The first-team defense looked awesome.

Basically, our back-ups got totally outclassed by the Bengals back-ups. The second and third team offense linemen were God awful in run-blocking. While that makes me nervous about our depth, I'm not totally discouraged.

I agree with you SGG. Our depth needs to improve though. And i was impressed with that catch Lloyd made early on. Where have you been lately SGG?

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by mooby

I agree with you SGG. Our depth needs to improve though. And i was impressed with that catch Lloyd made early on. Where have you been lately SGG?

I was just working at a new job and had to neglect everything in my life for a while.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I was just working at a new job and had to neglect everything in my life for a while.

ah okay. Are you gonna be around for the season or is the job gonna take up your time?

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by mooby

ah okay. Are you gonna be around for the season or is the job gonna take up your time?

I am 100% back for the season and next offseason.

[SmootSmack]

I agree with SGG. I also think the Bengals added some hot fudge to the usual vanilla offenses and defense we see in the preseason and that threw the Skins off.

Overall though, I'm not freaking out. The important game will be in two weeks when the starters will play the majority of the game against New England. They don't need to win that game, just look sharp

[SKINSnCANES]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

I agree with SGG. I also think the Bengals added some hot fudge to the usual vanilla offenses and defense we see in the preseason and that threw the Skins off.

Overall though, I'm not freaking out. The important game will be in two weeks when the starters will play the majority of the game against New England. They don't need to win that game, just look sharp

Thats a good team to start testing your starters against. Portis wont play, but if Betts is in we should be able to run most of our offense

[steveo395]

well next week we'll be able to kill the jets and pick off ramsey a couple times

[offiss]

Here's the breakdown, I wouldn't worry to much about the outcome, starters play the games in the regular season, Brunell will be fine but he needs to play more in the pre-season to start to develope continuity with all the new players as well as a new offense before we kick off the season, Collins you can tell is really not anything other than a future coach who could never play the position, which means Campbell needs all the snaps he can get, we need to ware him out in the pre-season with repetition to get him comfortable and confident on this level, there is no way I want Collins first off the bench.

Our backup O-linemen are horrible!

I think we have a real player in Mcintosh.

Espy is going to supplant Jacobs you can just see it coming.

Dougherty is easily fooled out there chalk it up to lack of experience, shows good closing speed though.

Portis's comments after the game where interseting, kind of like he was sending a message to the coaches about playing him in the first pre-season game, he wasen't to happy about it.

Overall our second string O-line is so bad it's tough to evaluate the rest of the offensive players, but I am not cutting Collins any slack in that deptartment, theres a reason he's been riding the bench his entire career.

Our defense I believe is going to be top 3 this year, yes cincci completed some passes but remember Williams likes to put his guys in vulnarable type of coverages to see how they react, he evaluates through failure of worst case scenerio coverages and then picks the guys who find away to rise above [what I would call] handicap coverage schemes. He did it 2 years ago when we were all worried about our ability to stop people, but opening game it was a whole nother story.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by offiss

Here's the breakdown, I wouldn't worry to much about the outcome, starters play the games in the regular season, Brunell will be fine but he needs to play more in the pre-season to start to develope continuity with all the new players as well as a new offense before we kick off the season, Collins you can tell is really not anything other than a future coach who could never play the position, which means Campbell needs all the snaps he can get, we need to ware him out in the pre-season with repetition to get him comfortable and confident on this level, there is no way I want Collins first off the bench.

Our backup O-linemen are horrible!

I think we have a real player in Mcintosh.

Espy is going to supplant Jacobs you can just see it coming.

Dougherty is easily fooled out there chalk it up to lack of experience, shows good closing speed though.

Portis's comments after the game where interseting, kind of like he was sending a message to the coaches about playing him in the first pre-season game, he wasen't to happy about it.

Overall our second string O-line is so bad it's tough to evaluate the rest of the offensive players, but I am not cutting Collins any slack in that deptartment, theres a reason he's been riding the bench his entire career.

Our defense I believe is going to top 3 this year, yes cincci completed some passes but remember Williams likes to put his guys in vulnarable type of coverages to see how they react, he evaluates through failure of worst case scenerio coverages and then picks the guys who find away to rise above [what I would call] handicap coverage schemes. He did it 2 years ago when we were all worried about our ability to stop people, but opening game it was a whole nother story.

I think you're probably reading too much into Portis' comments. But otherwise, I...I....I agree with you about just about everything else! So I guess the apocalypse is upon us then.

Good point about Williams.

As for Espy, he looked good. But let's not forget about Patten

[offiss]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

I think you're probably reading too much into Portis' comments. But otherwise, I...I....I agree with you about just about everything else! So I guess the apocalypse is upon us then.

Good point about Williams.

As for Espy, he looked good. But let's not forget about Patten

I actaully did forget about him my bad.

I also liked what I saw from White as well reminded me a bit of Sellars.

[Oakland Red]

I was strutting cause I picked the Bengals to win 32-3 in another thread. They only got 19, but hey you have to hand it to me, I was close. So that was cool.

It's early, and it will take time for the team to come together and really find itself; once again we have made a lot of changes on one side of the ball and we need time to get into a groove on offense. The offense always takes more time to come around anyway.

[Beemnseven]

I don't take tonight's performance as any indication of what the season will look like, but you can certainly judge individual performances. Two that immediately standout:

Kenny Wright. He got toasted more than I would have liked tonight. He's supposed to be an improvement over Walt Harris. If that's the best we have at the 3rd corner position, well ... Let's just hope he, like the rest of the team, had a bad night and that's all there is to it.

Todd Collins. He did a masterful job at proving why he's a career backup and hasn't had any significant playing time for the last 8 years. There's no way in Hades he remains the #2 QB behind Brunell.