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Pouha's been struggling with injury this year. It's made a huge difference.
Any chance you've heard about him playing this week?
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Great to hear Lloyd seems fine.
On the topic of Bolden it just highlights the Vereen disappointment. His injury had a major negative effect on the run game Sunday as Ridley was mostly ineffective. Why can't the guy get reps whatsoever, at the very least he should be able to return kicks where we probably have one of the worst KR games in the league.
Of note, Pryor returns so clock is ticking for badly needed help in interior pass rush.
My assumption is that they still feel way more comfortable with the other options over Vereen, particularly in the hurry up too.
I think he is still behind in learning the nuances of the offense, as it is obviously quite complex.
Blitz pickup is certainly another issue, but IIRC he was supposed to be halfway decent in that aspect of his game..
The KR game is something that I honestly expected to improve. McCourty and Woodhead both look kind of tentative coming out from the endzone to me, of course that may just be my personal opinion too. It just doesn't seem like they hit their stride with much authority.
Surprised to see the Jets 28th in the league in run defense.
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Wouldn't mind seeing Bolden in there, do some damage. Wear 'em down with the 1-2 punch.
Jeff Howe with clarification
Quick note: Pryor can watch practice w/o being activated from PUP. If he participated today, the clock would start. Otherwise, it hasn't.
So basically the Pats can activate him off PUP at any time now, but the window as to when they must make a decision to either activate him or leave him off the roster for the remainder of the season has not yet begun, as I understand it.
I still have faith in vereen. Also, our KR game would improve if Slater would actually let somebody run it out for once lol. I love slater(look at the punt return after he got hurt), but he would shut down devin hester if he was our kick returner as well.
I didn't like the 2 RBs in 2 consecutive picks thing (I had 5 positions of need that I thought each merited a high selection) and, if they wanted to double up on a position, they could have drafted two of the Titus Young/Torrey Smith/Randall Cobb trio and essentially rebuilt the WR corps in one swoop.
Titus Young kinda sucks, no?
I was responding specifically to what patsinthesnow, which was about the "glaring hole" from round 2 of 2011, and the team sure didn't need to draft 2 RBs. Other positions had obvious needs, as well. As people here are so very fond of saying, you can get lucky with a running back in any round.
My mentioning the receivers, though, was just to point out that the entire corps could have been made over. This team could currently have a group of
Welker
Smith/Young
Cobb/Young
Edelman
WR5/WR6(?)
for example, which would not only be solid for now, but would be strong for the future, as well. Instead, we've got Dowling and Vereen, two players who have been more brittle than flowers dipped in liquid nitrogen.
I heard A Hern was not at practice today (source PFT)