08-20-2023, 01:35 PM
(08-19-2023, 10:55 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Yeah gonna have to disagree on that one. Not really sure what you are basing the Dax is more physical that Bates argument because we've barely seen him play. But having said that we haven't really seen this group play an actual game so we will just have to wait and see either way.
Daxton Hill was known as an extremely fast, physical, great tackling, versatile Secondary player at Michigan.
Jessie Bates was known for his poor tackling at Wake Forest, his range and coverage were his strengths, he has never been
known as a physical player. Don't know why you would disagree on this one, these are facts.
(08-19-2023, 11:34 PM)RegularGuy22 Wrote: I'm not be too sure about that. Remember the last 2 years and all the 3 and outs? We'll be punting plenty. We were stopped plenty with 4th and whatever on the wrong side of the 50.
That was because of poor OL play, sure, if the OL continues to play THAT poorly we might have a ton of 3 and outs and have
to rely on Punting and great Defense to win. But I think most think that our OL at least the starters, should be much better this
year as the IOL have chemistry together, we added Orlando Brown Jr and Jonah is looking good at RT.
(08-20-2023, 09:47 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Preseason doesn't really matter outside of getting some playtime and group cohesion for the guys who will make the roster and getting a look at fringe guys to see who will make the final cuts... but you'd still hope to not look like complete dogshit.
KC is has scored 24 and 38 points mostly with Blaine Gabbert and Shane Buechele at QB looking good with no Kelce and only 3 catches for 27 yards from their top-3 WRs.
You don't have to look terrible just because you are playing backup QBs, backup WRs, and are in preseason, so it's a bit silly to say this is how championship caliber teams run the preseason.
Again, I am not worried (so long as Burrow is on the field), but it'd sure be a lot nicer if it wasn't a complete dumpster fire without him.
All true, it would be a lot nicer if it didn't look so bad in Preseason. But it IS preseason and we should be healthier entering this
season than last year and we should have much better chemistry and better ST's. In the end we all know that the regular season
is where it counts.
Hopefully we do look a lot better in this last preseason game and Burrow is practicing the week before the opener. If so, I am not
concerned at all yet. Hell we started out 0-2 last season and still were on the doorstep of another SB appearance.
