11-14-2015, 01:37 AM
Is there a buzz phrase that the players say around the locker room? I know Marvin has done a few over the years such as "do your job".
“Revival” is the theme of this year’s team, but ‘do your job’ remains.
Also, do the guys just kind of know which matchups are going to be the more important ones in the next game or do the coaches emphasize those? (I think everyone can see the JJ Watt matchup as being big vs. Houston). If a player is going to be a big part of that matchup do the coaches coach them up more than normal?
They know the names and how good they are, but there isn’t really an additional focus of any kind. They’ll help if needed – but they rarely gave Andre Smith or Marshall Newhouse much help vs. J.J. Watt last year. Guys like Justin Houston or Michael Bennett or Khalil Mack get their respect but honestly – and it’s cliché – but they feel what they do has got them there, so they’ll just do that and expect it to be good enough. Now, they’re not dumb enough to let one of those guys beat them, so you’ll see help in scheme, maybe quicker drops and passes, chips, a back sliding over, etc. But week to week, they all feel their matchup is the big one that can win the game.
maybe but (Uzomah) didnt do anything in preseason for me to see that warrents a roster spot even inactive. i see the potential But the highlights i remember from him were drops. That doesnt get you a job very fast. plus there has to be some guys out there with experience playing that would get called first. the TE we have on our PS looked better imho
Uzomah is a project and he’s way better than Lengel. They’re doing him a solid keeping him on the practice squad. They won’t a drafted rookie this year. And he doesn’t have to get a job quickly – they’ll sit on him for three years like Kirkpatrick, or Dennard, if warranted.
Who on the team would you least want to meet in a dark alley.
Not going there, but we did ask the kicker, the punter and the long snapper a similar question in a poll of the locker room on for a family feud-style game on Beyond The Stripes. It’s at the 44:24 mark of the video, if you’re impatient!
“Revival” is the theme of this year’s team, but ‘do your job’ remains.
Also, do the guys just kind of know which matchups are going to be the more important ones in the next game or do the coaches emphasize those? (I think everyone can see the JJ Watt matchup as being big vs. Houston). If a player is going to be a big part of that matchup do the coaches coach them up more than normal?
They know the names and how good they are, but there isn’t really an additional focus of any kind. They’ll help if needed – but they rarely gave Andre Smith or Marshall Newhouse much help vs. J.J. Watt last year. Guys like Justin Houston or Michael Bennett or Khalil Mack get their respect but honestly – and it’s cliché – but they feel what they do has got them there, so they’ll just do that and expect it to be good enough. Now, they’re not dumb enough to let one of those guys beat them, so you’ll see help in scheme, maybe quicker drops and passes, chips, a back sliding over, etc. But week to week, they all feel their matchup is the big one that can win the game.
maybe but (Uzomah) didnt do anything in preseason for me to see that warrents a roster spot even inactive. i see the potential But the highlights i remember from him were drops. That doesnt get you a job very fast. plus there has to be some guys out there with experience playing that would get called first. the TE we have on our PS looked better imho
Uzomah is a project and he’s way better than Lengel. They’re doing him a solid keeping him on the practice squad. They won’t a drafted rookie this year. And he doesn’t have to get a job quickly – they’ll sit on him for three years like Kirkpatrick, or Dennard, if warranted.
Who on the team would you least want to meet in a dark alley.
Not going there, but we did ask the kicker, the punter and the long snapper a similar question in a poll of the locker room on for a family feud-style game on Beyond The Stripes. It’s at the 44:24 mark of the video, if you’re impatient!
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