LdT was 'impressed' by Garappolo

wolverinejoe80 · Aug 13, 2015

I guess we've been spoiled by the GOAT. he thought Jimmy had a great pocket presence and I was like WTH was he watching? lol i mean really?

ctpatsfan77 · Aug 13, 2015

Did he actually have a pocket to be present in?

Ross12 · Aug 13, 2015

ctpatsfan77 said:
Did he actually have a pocket to be present in?

He was technically present within the pocket. But it wasn't like a cargo pocket, it was more like one of those little tiny pockets on girls' jeans, that you say "what are those for, you can't fit anything in there", and they say "oh I put some spare change in there sometimes", but you know they don't.

chumpchange · Aug 13, 2015

About the quarterback situation, think we'll be cutting Lindley and getting a journeyman backup, with big game experience who can see us through in case Garoppolo has a rough time? He may develop into something good someday, but Garoppolo looked pretty green and very young out there, and 0-4 would pretty much mean a lost season.

TBR · Aug 13, 2015

Irvin said he was impressed too

ctpatsfan77 · Aug 13, 2015

chumpchange said:
About the quarterback situation, think we'll be cutting Lindley and getting a journeyman backup, with big game experience who can see us through in case Garoppolo has a rough time? He may develop into something good someday, but Garoppolo looked pretty green and very young out there, and 0-4 would pretty much mean a lost season.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it wasn't half the talent he'd have on offense if he had to start Week 1.

chumpchange · Aug 14, 2015

ctpatsfan77 said:
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it wasn't half the talent he'd have on offense if he had to start Week 1.

I get that he had second stringers to throw to, but he was also playing against a second and third string defense. The dinking and dunking was not exactly pretty. And it's not like rave reviews are coming out of camp. I'd much rather have 1/4 of my season in the hands of a seasoned vet than a second-year small school guy.

JMC00 · Aug 14, 2015

Lets get a few things straight, take out Boyce and he was 18 of 21 for 140 yards to

James White (possible 3rd down/receiving back)
Brandon Gibson (possible #4 WR)
Jonathan Krause (2nd year, spent last year on the PS)
Chris Harper (Undrafted rookie free agent)

And for the most part a line of Baker-Mason-Andrews-Jackson-Fleming which maybe Mason or Jackson will be a starter this year

All that with probably no real offensive game plan.

Sorry if I'm not hitting the panic button on a 2nd year QB like some seem to be.

rochrist · Aug 14, 2015

chumpchange said:
About the quarterback situation, think we'll be cutting Lindley and getting a journeyman backup, with big game experience who can see us through in case Garoppolo has a rough time? He may develop into something good someday, but Garoppolo looked pretty green and very young out there, and 0-4 would pretty much mean a lost season.

he still completed 60 percent of his passes to 3rd, 4th, 5th and worse string players in front of an OL that might as well have not been there.

chumpchange · Aug 14, 2015

JMC00 said:
Lets get a few things straight, take out Boyce and he was 18 of 21 for 140 yards to

James White (possible 3rd down/receiving back)
Brandon Gibson (possible #4 WR)
Jonathan Krause (2nd year, spent last year on the PS)
Chris Harper (Undrafted rookie free agent)

And for the most part a line of Baker-Mason-Andrews-Jackson-Fleming which maybe Mason or Jackson will be a starter this year (barring injuries).

All that with probably no real offensive game plan.

Sorry if I'm not hitting the panic button on a 2nd year QB like some seem to be.

Not hitting the panic button, just saying why not get a vet for insurance? A month is a long time. (And come on now--this is football; you can't just erase the variables you don't like and give him new, imaginary numbers. His performance is what it is.)

Ross12 · Aug 14, 2015

I believe the team intends to re-sign Flynn once he is healthy. Lindley is probably just a placeholder.

rochrist · Aug 14, 2015

chumpchange said:
Not hitting the panic button, just saying why not get a vet for insurance? A month is a long time. (And come on now--this is football; you can't just erase the variables you don't like and give him new, imaginary numbers. His performance is what it is.)

What vet specifically? There isn't one out there who isn't hot garbage. I know, what about Mike Vick??

ctpatsfan77 · Aug 14, 2015

chumpchange said:
Not hitting the panic button, just saying why not get a vet for insurance? A month is a long time. (And come on now--this is football; you can't just erase the variables you don't like and give him new, imaginary numbers. His performance is what it is.)

Part of it is that said veteran will almost certainly not have a job come week 6, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to convince someone to come in under those circumstances.

PATS16N0 · Aug 14, 2015

Teboooooooow

Fencer · Aug 14, 2015

chumpchange said:
I'd much rather have 1/4 of my season in the hands of a seasoned vet than a second-year small school guy.

The last time a Patriots backup QB played important minutes, his previous experience was in high school.

shmessy · Aug 14, 2015

wolverinejoe80 said:
I guess we've been spoiled by the GOAT. he thought Jimmy had a great pocket presence and I was like WTH was he watching? lol i mean really?

There's a very important thing called "context".

Have you any idea with whom he was lining up tonight?

How many OL starters? Hmmm, let's also look.......no Blount, Edelman, Gronk, Chandler, Lafell.......

chumpchange · Aug 14, 2015

shmessy said:
There's a very important thing called "context".

Have you any idea with whom he was lining up tonight?

How many OL starters? Hmmm, let's also look.......no Blount, Edelman, Gronk, Chandler, Lafell.......

But he was playing against a scrub defense as well, and the passing game accomplished literally nothing all night long. Zero. I'm an optimist, but that is not promising.

SammyBlueCat · Aug 14, 2015

Never get too high or get to low emotionally when viewing pre-season games.

Deus Irae · Aug 14, 2015

JAG struggled tonight, no question. It's going to be about post-snap reads with him.

Joker · Aug 14, 2015

he's a clear 1/2 second too slow in his reads at least...to be honest, he looked WORSE in practice but, AFAIC, he's a JAG backup QB. I mean, yeah, he looks better than Cassel did at the same point in his career but...so what?. This team needs Brady to start from game one this season.

That head ref tonight was preposterous BTW. Never saw him before, but he was atrocious in person. What did it look like on the tube?

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