Boomer reminds me where Kawicka was in his 1st year. Relying too much on speed and not enough on technique.

Oh, and Bober is just gawdawful bad.

Bober is bad, but fortunately, we have a guy named Brian Waters to play LG for a few years to come.

Who were the safeties at that point in time that you refer? I did not see the game.....

Bell looked pretty bad in coverage... It almost looked like they had the perfect game plan for us....

I was impressed with Reed again... got a sack I think? Manning had a very good outing... I agree.... and ohhh how I hate those Manning boys.... who else wanted to see a bomb go off in the middle of that commercial with Peyton, Eli, and Pops...?

Wesley and Knight........Wesleys to stupid and Knights to slow.

I think Boomer's problem is short arms. maybe I'm crazy, but I think his arms are short and it hurts his ability to wrap up and hold his tackles.

Another thing I noticed is that while Key Fox is around the ball to make plays, he's a weak tackler. Guys are slipping him off a lot. Hopefully it's rust from last year's injury, but at this point he reminds me of a guy like Fujita, who has to rely on slowing the guy down enough for others to finish the tackle.

Reed reminds me of what we were getting for a good chunk of last season with Dalton.

I agree with most of what you've said. Here are my differences:

Our defensive tackles still got no push up the middle (including later on when Sims and Dalton were in the game)-Dalton did penetrate twice.

Our scheme not only has the safeties playing deep but the linebackers are constantly 5 to 8 yards behind any receivers in front of them.

Turley will be fine. He did get pushed back often but I think he'll gain some weight and catch back up to the speed of the game.

I didn't think Sampson played that bad.

Vanilla or not, when we did blitz we didn't sniff the quarterback.

I watched the game a second time only and am not freaked out just yet. Next week we need to get that vanilla crap out of our heads and gain some confidence. (Hard to with Printers playing the majority of the game- he is not even close to being in the NFL, get rid of him now, Smoker looks like he has more promise after just one week of practice.

Yeah, Jordan black sucks at OT, but he's a better guard than Bober. Has Bober beat him out for the backup spot?

Absolutely no doubt remaining.... No point in trying to defend him this time... Hicks just can't cut it anymore....

Now you have to remember we are grading Turley on a serious curve here because Umenyiora is really good, hell the Giants backup DE's would complete for starting jobs on our team. They're loaded at that spot.

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Did the safety play improve when the rookies stepped in? Been hearing alot about the rookies, but have yet to see them play.....

I don't know.... I have a feeling this is going to be one of those years where we will need someone who knows how to handle being 1-3.

I haven't been all that impressed with them to be honest but they are rookies. Of course I guess we could read into the fact that they're playing in the 4th quarter against scrubs who will probably be cut and they aren't standing out.....that could be a bad sign.

I don't have TIVO, but the next time you have it going with a Chiefs game, tell me where Fox's arms are when he tackles. I've always thought he had his arms too low on impact.