Looking ahead to cutdowns and waiver (EDIT: First names announced)

[State]

I was BSEE 1966. No friggin way I could get accepted there today with my 1962 application. I was a slacker my 1st 2 years. would have flunked out these days.
G.R did the avionics for the rocket club. Launched in Texas. Both her grandfathers were Tufts EEs. Dad MIT EE. She HATES Mahomes for some reason. Her big sister is MS Bioinformatics @ UCSD. All family are Pats fans of course.

The main reason the educational system is corrupt is its fanatical adherence to the blank slate theory of human intelligence. Total hogwash.

That’s some elite brain power being passed down. Gubmit should be paying people like this to have babies.

As someone who wanted to be an electrical engineering major and finding out I wasn’t smart enough, I am thoroughly impressed.

 

[Real fan 02]

Maye was staring down receivers, not looking to his left, and not progressing through his reads. Maye's footwork was worse than last year. None of those issues have anything to do with playing vanilla.

Drake has had a great camp, knows the offense and has grown his leadership.. if you're looking for him to be an all pro in the pre season then you'll be mistaken..

Week 1 and beyond is all that matters. Furthermore I don't think he could be worse than last season.. he was playing hero ball and suffered concussions in the YMCA offense.

 

[State]

Maye was staring down receivers, not looking to his left, and not progressing through his reads. Maye's footwork was worse than last year. None of those issues have anything to do with playing vanilla.

You can see. Unlike most fans.

But the hardest thing to notice is the most obvious. In Maye’s case, it’s that he’s not that special player who raises everyone around him. Like Larry Bird or Tom Brady.

Very few are.

That was why his play went down in college when a few talented players left. Like Josh Downs. And when asked to carry the team, his play gets uneven. His last college game was a stinker, for example.

Until he’s surrounded by sufficient talent, it’s going to be frustrating.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But we have a team where Ben Brown very well be your sixth best OL guy. That’s untenable.

 

[Ross12]

Maye was staring down receivers, not looking to his left, and not progressing through his reads. Maye's footwork was worse than last year. None of those issues have anything to do with playing vanilla.

I’m not as worried about him getting through his progressions well, because he has to read and watch the defense much differently than he had to last year, and that’s difficult - it’s fine if it takes him some time. But the “not looking to his left” thing, and the footwork, is a little concerning. He’s still young, and a work in progress, but they really gotta work on that.

 

[Real fan 02]

********. He looked skinny but threw an amazing ball. Everyone saw it from day one.

And everyone knew he was a winner in college. Basically, no one to this day realizes how amazing that Sugar Bowl win over a STACKED Alabama team was on 1 JAN2000.

So this time 25 years ago BB did the most peculiar, amazing thing. Total brilliance: He carried FOUR QBs on the 53 roster. He explained it that Brady was going to be claimed on the waiver wire.

Just like we’re going to do with a couple of offensive linemen.

So Brady never struggled in camp? Never struggled in preseason? That is what the post was about. The difference is 25 years ago social media wasn't a thing.. has nothing do to with what Brady was in college.. simply saying ALL QBs struggle at some point in camp/preseason going against thier own defense every day.. Brady couldn't trick ty law, Vrabel, Willie, Bruschi, Rodney in camp they knew his tendency.. same goes for Drake.

 

[Real fan 02]

Yes. We pick fourth. I fully expect two guys can be found on the waiver wire better than Caedan Wallace and Layden Robinson.

Why is that? Because Eliot Wolf phucking sucks.

It's laughable of who's likely to be left from this draft..

 

[Real fan 02]

at Miami has always been a tough win.

Brady was 8-10 there, and Miami was mostly horrible.

I know it's been a difficult place to place due to the south beach humidity.. we are long over due.. Tua has had our number.. hoping we can end this spell

 

[Sect140]

Drake has had a great camp, knows the offense and has grown his leadership.. if you're looking for him to be an all pro in the pre season then you'll be mistaken..

Week 1 and beyond is all that matters. Furthermore I don't think he could be worse than last season.. he was playing hero ball and suffered concussions in the YMCA offense.

Also a solid running game will improve Mayes development.

 

[Real fan 02]

Also a solid running game will improve Mayes development.

Agreed.. national football people are saying Henderson is the steal of the draft.. the guys special, even more importantly he's a great person off the field his head is on tight. He's the #1 option that DCs will focus in on.. and that plays exactly into what we want. Drake doesn't have to be a hero.. he will play of his intelligence, instincts and natural abilities that got him in the NFL. Let the running game take pressure of him and the OL.. he's a dual threat QB.. as we all know. He will aid the OL..

 

[Huckleberry1]

Also a solid running game will improve Mayes development.

It’s also going to help Will Campbell. If he’s putting a beat down on his man it’s going to make it more difficult for them when they have to rush the quarterback. But he’s going to get tested hard right out of the gate, facing Max Crosby, Chubb, and Watt his first 3 games. Hopefully they run successfully at all 3 of them, and make their lives much more difficult.

 

[BennyBledsoe]

Dual-threats also have to know how to preserve themselves for the long haul. Don't bust out routine runs. Always slide, unless there's no other option. Head out of bounds, unless there's no other option. Only run when the lane is wide open. Make sure you know when to just dump the ball off rather than take unnecessary hits. The NFL season is tough on the body. If you are making yourself a target 100 percent of your snaps, you are not going to make it to the Super Bowl.

Last year was the first time a primary run QB won a Super Bowl. But they did it by treating the QB like a RB and spelling him with heavy doses of Saquan.

 

[Grogan14]

You can see. Unlike most fans.

But the hardest thing to notice is the most obvious. In Maye’s case, it’s that he’s not that special player who raises everyone around him. Like Larry Bird or Tom Brady.

Very few are.

That was why his play went down in college when a few talented players left. Like Josh Downs. And when asked to carry the team, his play gets uneven. His last college game was a stinker, for example.

Until he’s surrounded by sufficient talent, it’s going to be frustrating.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But we have a team where Ben Brown very well be your sixth best OL guy. That’s untenable.

Truth but painful

 

[Bill Lee]

I was BSEE 1966. No friggin way I could get accepted there today with my 1962 application. I was a slacker my 1st 2 years. would have flunked out these days.

These days it's so much more about money. When I entered UConn as an EE student at a branch campus in 1980 a year of tuition and fees was less than $1k and even I could get in with my meh public school grades. You literally could pay your way through school flipping burgers at McDonalds. When I went to the main campus, room, board, tuition and fees were $4k a year and student loans were easy to get. Yesterday I was talking to a guy who said his kid applied to Cornell at $90k a year and UMass at $40k a year and felt UMass was harder to get into because parents really wanted/needed their kids to get into a school they could hope to afford.

G.R did the avionics for the rocket club. Launched in Texas. Both her grandfathers were Tufts EEs. Dad MIT EE. She HATES Mahomes for some reason. Her big sister is MS Bioinformatics @ UCSD. All family are Pats fans of course.

You have a lot to be proud of. Great job!

 

[WhatJustHappened]

O'Connell will be out 6-8 weeks from what I just read- just had wrist surgery.

 

[DH523]

Dual-threats also have to know how to preserve themselves for the long haul. Don't bust out routine runs. Always slide, unless there's no other option. Head out of bounds, unless there's no other option. Only run when the lane is wide open. Make sure you know when to just dump the ball off rather than take unnecessary hits. The NFL season is tough on the body. If you are making yourself a target 100 percent of your snaps, you are not going to make it to the Super Bowl.

Last year was the first time a primary run QB won a Super Bowl. But they did it by treating the QB like a RB and spelling him with heavy doses of Saquan.

That's something I think a lot of these "running" QBs coming out of college mistake/struggle with when they get to the NFL: It's always going to be a pass first league as a QB. Running will definitely help your game but as a QB, you need to trust your OL/Receivers/RB Pass Pro and deliver the ball through the air rather than drifting left/right or just outright scrambling at the first signs of trouble. Too often QBs exacerbate a bad situation by running into a worse situation (see Maye's fumble as an example) rather than just eating the sack or dumping the ball off earlier in the play and recognizing that.

 

[Zuma]

 

[Love The Drake]

Eagles trading for Sam Howell,I kind of liked the idea of putting him with Drake.

 

[sb1]

Maye was staring down receivers, not looking to his left, and not progressing through his reads. Maye's footwork was worse than last year. None of those issues have anything to do with playing vanilla.

I expect improvement from him this season notably in ball security. Strip sacks should not be a problem for a well coached QB which he is now.

 

[sb1]

Eagles trading for Sam Howell,I kind of liked the idea of putting him with Drake.

Wish we drafted him.

 

[Steve102]

So Brady never struggled in camp? Never struggled in preseason? That is what the post was about. The difference is 25 years ago social media wasn't a thing.. has nothing do to with what Brady was in college.. simply saying ALL QBs struggle at some point in camp/preseason going against thier own defense every day.. Brady couldn't trick ty law, Vrabel, Willie, Bruschi, Rodney in camp they knew his tendency.. same goes for Drake.

You know, we talk about stats at practice and things like that. I went to one back in '09 when Brady was coming back from his injury. He was rolling out to his left and throwing on the run, and not looking very good. He was screaming and yelling obscenities, pretty much overall he just sucked that day. The consensus was that he sucked at rolling left and throwing on the run, and he was trying to get better. Today, the media would have said he was 3-12 with poorly thrown balls or some BS like that.

Camp struggles don't mean ****. That's where you work on **** you need to be better at.