will the Miami game tell you anything? if so what?

Its gotta really suck for the vets, who’ve seen this rodeo before.

Not sure how to discern the difference between a perceived lack of heart, or an attempt to just get through the <meaningless> game without anything else bad happening.

The game will tell me who goes on IR before the final cut down.

The first stringers need 3, maybe 4, series. Hill needs the work with the first team at game speed. As far as getting someone hurt, there is no more chance of that than there will be in game 1. They are football players. They have to play.

wv wrote:

I would probably like to see Jake Long
get plenty of reps. I want that guy ready to play.

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v

Who says he has anything left in the tank?

I have yet to see him demonstrate pass blocking skills above replacement level.

Now he comes off of an injury and everyone says “rust.” What if it’s more than rust? What if he just doesn’t have the juice any more? To play LOT in the NFL you better have feet, agility, power, and the ability to put them together. Honestly, I suspect that he doesn’t have the package any more.

We need a Plan B at LOT.

I would just as soon put Jason Smith, er Robinson out there. 😉 j/k

rfl wrote:

wv wrote:
Well, I have to hope Boudreau knows what
he’s doing.

Its possible its just ‘rust’.

Thats all i got.

w
v

LOL. Not much here to hope in.

You know, Boudreau is a good coach. But he can’t manufacture talent. A good coach can lift a player’s ceiling by, what, 10-12%? Right now, I doubt that’s enough. I am not willing to just say “In Boudreau we trust.”

Right now, with Long suspect and Saffold gimpy we got virtually nothing at LOT.

And you know I must say that Long himself seems to have a teflon reputation. People talk about him as if he’s a quality player. But I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone take a realistic look at his pass blocking. It ain’t pretty. It wasn’t great and it’s now pretty awful.

We can hope that it’s “rust,” a very slippery term. I think it’s generally a weak way to look at things. Hundreds of players come back from injury and are never the same. Long has been repeatedly injured–we got him coming off injuries. And I’ve never seen him look good in a Rams jersey–especially pass blocking.

Jake Long really is not playing well. To me, it is a serious concern, and I am not mollified by the magic word “rust.”

Well, he’s not Teflon. There’s plenty of posters that think
he’s essentially broken-down (Laram for one)

I thought he was up and down last year. Played
excellent at times, mediocre at times, and awful at times.
I dunno what to expect this year. Maybe more of the same.

But i haven’t seen enough of him yet
this year to form a strong opinion.
He’s a Key player, thats for sure.

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v