NFL 2022

[The Buscher]

Wink Martindale’s gotten a lot of praise the first 2 weeks but tonight is showing the obvious drawback to his usual strategy of rushing 6 or 7 guys every other play.  If the QB can time out the blitz and consistently get the ball out quick as Rush has, you’re screwed.

[Maxx]

Daniel Jones, still bad

[The Buscher]

And the game ends with Sterling Shepard reinjuring his knee doing literally nothing.  Poor guy.  That’s probably the end of his career.

Meh.  Didn’t expect to win this.  Team sucks as expected.  Dallas probably should’ve won by more.  It’s whatever.

[GhostMachine]

Welp, my third favorite Cowboys player to wear #88 did pretty darn good.

[Maxx]

#1 is Antonio Bryant, right?

[gunnar hendershow]

 

[The Buscher]

Amazing to think of how happy the fanbase was with that signing, myself included admittedly.  They needed a big-bodied receiver who was great at catching contested balls.

I honestly figured if the signing would bust, it'd be because he hurt himself again.  I can't even hold 2021 fully against him because Garrett's scheme was a joke and by the end they were left with Mike Glennon and Jake Fromm throwing the ball.

But I never could've fathomed the signing was gonna be this big of a disaster.  And they can't even cut him because they'd actually lose so much cap space they wouldn't be able to afford to operate this year.

[gunnar hendershow]

I truly thought he'd bounce back this year but he's just finished it would appear. Pretty incredible.

[The Buscher]

And it's been confirmed that Sterling Shepard has torn his ACL.  Worked so hard to come back from a torn Achilles last year and now this.  His career is probably over at this point.

Not sure how many more non-contact knee injuries have to happen at MetLife before the NFLPA launches an investigation on the horrible turf they use.

[gunnar hendershow]

1 hour ago, Jacob deBusch said:

And it's been confirmed that Sterling Shepard has torn his ACL.  Worked so hard to come back from a torn Achilles last year and now this.  His career is probably over at this point.

Not sure how many more non-contact knee injuries have to happen at MetLife before the NFLPA launches an investigation on the horrible turf they use.

Ju'wuan James tore his Achilles there in week 1 planting while blocking too. Definitely an extremely sketchy surface.

[Krabby]

I watched the game last night (most of it anyway) and I can't really say that Daniel Jones played bad @Jacob deBusch I mean he has had long enough to show if he's next level, but I thought he played good last night especially in light of him having to run for his life like a record amount of times, getting sacked a ton, and his receivers dropping a ton of balls. That one interception came when his own receiver slipped and diggs made an insane play on the ball. The amount of receivers slipping to was another issue. The fact that he kept them in the game and had a chance to drive down to tie or win I think says a lot about him. Golladay said he let him down, other players were saying similar things. 

Lots of other worse QBs starting out there right now than him it feels like. 

[gunnar hendershow]

Daniel Jones will settle in somewhere as a backup/emergency starter. Maybe get a run on a tanking team as their QB for a season. Not what you spend a 1st round pick on but it's not like he has no business being in the NFL.

[GhostMachine]

15 hours ago, Maxx said:

#1 is Antonio Bryant, right?

LMAO.

Michael Irvin and Drew Pearson.

[The Buscher]

38 minutes ago, Krabby said:

but I thought he played good last night especially in light of him having to run for his life like a record amount of times, getting sacked a ton

This is the part that alarms me.  The offensive line has been a black mark for this organization pretty much since their last Super Bowl.  Multiple regimes have gotten it wrong with largely terrible drafting.  The one exception to this is Andrew Thomas, who after struggling in the first half of his rookie year actually looks like a legit franchise left tackle.  Somehow this might be the one Gettleman pick worth keeping long-term.

But the rest of the line?  It's all Joe Schoen.  LG Ben Bredeson was a Gettleman pickup but that's only because the rookie the Giants drafted this year hasn't played well enough to earn a starting spot.  Schoen and Daboll had familiarity with Felciano in Buffalo but he's not looked good.  Glowinski was praised as a signing who on paper should've been their best RG in years and he looks like he's now completely washed at 30 years old.

And then you have Evan Neal who just looks...oof.  Not gonna go crazy about him after 3 games given Thomas also struggled initially but Neal's looked a lot worse than Thomas ever did.  Guys are just running around him and making it look effortless.  Could it be that his sheer mammoth size is making it tough to adjust to NFL speed?  Hopefully he figures it out.

2022 was always gonna be a tough year for the Giants record-wise but priority #1 to even attempt to rebuild this franchise was to get a competent OL in place.  If this group looks bad all year my faith in Schoen will drop pretty fast.

[Krabby]

Do we all think that Dallas will be getting any asks on Cooper Rush at some point?

[Lint]

On 26/09/2022 at 21:24, Lineker said:

 

3News Investigates: Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett stopped 6 times for speeding prior to crash

[gunnar hendershow]

Ronnie Stanley might be back just in time for the Ravens to go back to MetLife where his career will surely end.

[The Buscher]

Down goes Tua again.  Had to be stretchered off.  

[Pooker]

That was a scary hit. 

[Szumi]

Tua never should've even been out there in the first place is the fucked up thing too