Mark Long Beach

Agreed. It was a good toss. Foot further ahead would have made it a little more difficult (and obvious) to interfere with. But it was definitely dead square with the receiver. And it was definitely PI.

nice punt by moorman to the 4 in the corner. course our coverage wasn't so great so they got it back to the 17. But it was still "better" than it's been in this game...

sweet! nice out to Parrish. using the run to set up the pass. who'd a thunk

We look... erratic. Some real nice stuff followed by some confused stuff. The only consistency has been kick coverage, which has been very poor.

I thought the same. A couple heartbeats longer than I would have liked to see in an ideal world. He might have held up a little to make sure exactly which angle Lee was taking. But the pass was on the money.

21-14 in the FIRST Quarter?? man I was thinking it was already halftime and was still thinking it was high-scoring!

yuck. special teams look poor AGAIN. I sure hope they can tighten this up by the start of the season.

LOL! All the bitching about Trent, and the next play he throws a TD. man, what a place.

Nice play by Peyton. He was out of time, but he had enough.

Moorman! Still one of our best players. sigh.

Dang! I was too busy typing and missed it!

Is it wrong to feel this excited that we manage to force a punt?

To be fair, he's supposed to be able to step up into the pocket. (which is what he did there and got creamed)

Ooooooooh BABY! taking advantage of mistakes!

LOL "that offensive play was so bad that not even the defense was ready"

O didn't look so hot, but trent sure didn't have much of a chance there. got crunched both times he tried to throw.

poz sure looked a step or two out of place on that series.

I think his heart just hasn't been in it. Pro football is brutal on the body. He wanted to play for at most one more year, but he's demonstrated that he hasn't really wanted to play this year. It clearly hasn't been about the money since he could have collected a crapload for taking a physical back in March(?) and a lot more if he just mailed in this season. It's tough to retire from something you're good at and have devoted your life to. I think that if Houston has a rash of injuries at DE in the season he could be coaxed back to play for a few games... But that's just a total guess.

(copied from Buffalo Rumblings) John McClain of the Houston Chronicle is reporting that former Buffalo Bills defensive end Aaron Schobel has decided to retire. Twitter link: http://twitter.com/McClain_on_NFL/status/21327695498 But, But we should have TRADED him! Nevermind that he has a huge contract and stated many times that he would play for the Bills or retire. No GM (not even Matt Millen) would have traded for someone who was that likely to retire.

Disagree. He's absolutely NOT a lock. At some point you have to move on if you don't think the player will improve significantly. There is a new GM and a new coach neither of whom have any loyalty or responsibility towards Hardy. There's also been several reports about Hardy making the same mistakes over again and not learning well... If true that doesn't bode well for his future. Don't get me wrong, he's got a good shot to make it because we have a weak, young WR corps. But this is his third year from a previous regime and he is by no means a lock.

and if you were willing to wade through it, it was pretty good. Looooooooong, but good.

I think that they mentioned a couple days ago that he came in as #4 corner to be nickel back and Drayton stayed outside instead of moving into the nickel slot like he usually does. The implication being that DF is better on the outside than RC. Also interesting that they've felt that DF is better in the nickel than LM who comes in and goes outside pushing DF inside. I think Reggie is ahead of the two pretty decent corners behind him: Youboty & Lankster. It may be because of his better skills at the nickel position. Shrug.

Excellent post! I very much agree. Keep it up. I think that it's important to remember that we have a new set of player evaluators in charge. New people with a new philosophy. No more mediocre to poor free agency signings at an inflated salary (hopefully). I REALLY won't miss John Guy. The draft day decision makers are also different with Nix in charge. Finally the SCOUTS have the final say as to who the best draftee is. It looks like this regime drafts the best available player more than the previous ones appeared to. I hope that they're right! Also that some of our young guys step up and develop into quality players.

Only if he was on the roster at the start of the season.

Good article. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writ...ight/index.html Excerpt relating to olden days: Personally I agree that most training camp fights are harmless or can be even good. Tucker says essentially the same thing.