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As someone in the game-day thread pointed out, the outcomes of preseason games are meaningless. What's not meaningless are the man-to-man matchups and how the rookies play. The former wasn't great, the latter was.

That's business, and let's not forget, it is a business first. The new ticket pricing & PSLs will spell that out quite clearly for anyone not understanding that. Why shouldn't the players get what they can when they can get it. Per the above, that's what good GMs do, they manage that ala good business, or conversely, don't. It helps when you effectively backfill positions in preparation for that via your drafts, and again, conversely, hurts when you don't. Having said that, Poyer will be above-average this season. He's at the top of the profession in terms of intellectual understanding and reacting. That's worth a lot.

Anyone that's honest knows that Beane's drafts haven't been good and that he's not gotten expected value in them. Having said that, this year's crop of day 1/2 picks all played well and came out promising. That's a positive. I'm hard on Beane, but nothing's going to change during the season. It's not even a half of a preseason game so let's let the season play out. The time for discussing Beane will be after the season. I all but guarantee you that if things don't go well this season both he and McD will start seeing their honeymoon be over. I'm expecting our D to be around average this season. Having said that, offense is what carries teams in this league. Dawkins can still get in shape in a few weeks. Can't speak to Brown's issues, he is looking more and more like a bust. Kincaid looked the part, upon asking I was told that both Torrence and McGovern played well, which is cause for optimism. As I see it, our offense should be explosive assuming we can get even average OL play. If coaching doesn't !@#$ it up we should be fine. The skill position talent is more than there.

1. The top rookies looked good out-of-the-gate for a change. 2. If anything holds us back this season it's going to be coaching.

He'll be fine, but on the outside at WLB. He'll back up Milano this season.

One point of interest, I've heard Allen and several other players say fairly often this preseason that they were just "having fun." It might be time to have less "fun" and start working a little harder and taking things more seriously. Just a random thought.

So McGovern and Torrence looked good. That's encouraging!! Thanks!

How did McGovern look at LG while he was in? Anyone ...

Even the NFL is fed up?

AHHH, the humor here!!! I'm dyin' over here!!!

Here's my take, it's good to see the top rookies playing well, that's incredibly important, particularly this season. Hopefully the other starters are just duffing it because it's only preseason. That would hardly be the first time that's been the case. IDK, glass half-full kinda thinking. I can't imagine that they won't be ready for the opener and will come out like this.

Let's hope it goes better than that. If not, then yes, hopefully.

LOL, on the radio, Tasker I think, said that McD's glasses looked like construction glasses or that he was going to the gun range. LOL

JUGS flag machine?

LOL, not as bad as the talk, but yeah, WTH!! Blueblockers? LOL Maybe he's crossed an age barrier in his life where he simply doesn't give a siht anymore.

Waiting for someone to post a pic.

Damn, I'm busting a gut over here! ROFLMAO!!! The humor here ...

Lifestyle change? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe McD will patern the OL on his D sans a MLB and go w/o a Center this season. We'll see.

Well, we'll see. We're told that McD has a plan on D and Beane's got it all down otherwise, and that we don't know what it is and that he's a genius or something along those lines. The notion that he's bit off a little bit more than he can chew apparently isn't a possibililty. Neither is the fact that his entire senior D staff from Carolina is now in charge. So we'll see. Not saying we're screwed, it's preseason, I discount everything. But like someone said, at least the fundamentals and man-on-man stuff should be positive, and it isn't.

Dude, I'm tellin' ya!!! This is better than a comedy club! For real.

Well, if ever a time there was for that, this is the season, eh.

LOL ... Thanks!!

How's Torrence doing? Anyone ...

Agreed. On the flip side, if you are going to put them out there, have them prepared and playing 100%.