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I know right - practice squad pickups need to be quality starters from day one otherwise it's a fireable offense. SMH

Between DeVito and Roman Anthony all the old Boston Italians are like "We're back baby!"

This is a good example of the "game" guys versus "practice" guys. Some players simply are not going to shine in practice, but get them on the field, under the lights and pressure and that's when they're showing out to their potential. Maybe that's their motivation? Who knows, but there are...

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

Unless it's Minecraft.

And I'll add that some people only see the potential of that future. "Sucking leads to greatness" I guess because I never understood it. Yes, the draft is the key component to cheap and manageable players in a cap system. But tearing down a year before its even started just to get more draft...

Spot on. Future draft picks can't play a single down this year. They are stored in a cloud server somewhere off Madison Avenue. They can't fill in when the starter gets injured or to give them a breather so they can come back fresher in the fourth quarter. They can either contribute or don't...

In this defense, which is much more attacking in nature than the bend dont break approach having multiple guys to trot out there is an asset. Specifically you send him out into the second quarter and later in specific situations where his "one move" the bull rush is more apt to work because...

Nice for who? The third preseason game has one redeeming quality - for other teams to evaluate guys your team is going to cut ANYWAY. That's it.

1000% Vieniteri and Gostkowski (I probably butchered those spellings) both struggled early in their careers. If you have no patience for kickers then be ready to outlay some cash in free agency. (or swoop in and scoop off someone else's practice squad)

Vrabel, when the teams fought.

I was going to agree 100% but then caught myself. The screen game, the crossers and multiple depth routes, and the zone gap "sit down at the same time/place the QB expects" concepts the WRs need to execute are all "potential" big plays if executed correctly. That said, I agree they haven't...

Is your argument that production against other team's depth players doesn't count as consideration for the final roster? There are a lot of variables. Even cap hit and draft position are considered - likely differently by different coaching and general managing regimes. I just don't rate past...

I forgot to add my hypothesis is that this is why QBs continue to make dumb decisions (especially younger ones) in early season games - the joint practice 11s on 11s give them a VERY false sense of the rush and it's impact on their processing speed to throw (how many times have you seen writers...

The joint practices are the third preseason game now - 11s on 11s. And we keep tuning in for the crap first two game product as these teams get used to hitting (and wrap tackling more importantly), being hit and the jump in speed and decision making. It's just like voting - we have seen the...

THIS! No team is 100% starters only AND with injuries guaranteed to effect the season having backups where the drop off is LESS than other teams' drop off is necessary. That's also why the argument of Chism just dominating backups therefore he won't unseat Baker or Bourne for the #6 receiver...

Starters likely are not playing THU. The 3d game is now the old fourth game - the end of the roster fills game.

And ZERO pre-snap penalties if memory serves. There were what 2-3 per game the last couple years pre- and regular season? Starting 1st and 10 versus 1st and 15 for a third of your offensive series per game makes a big difference.

He'll also not be the #1 anymore which he was by default last year. That alone raises his stock. He'll be better against #2 and #3 DBs.

Telepathic communication would make option routes way more reliable.