BobbyC81

No confidence in Ryan Fitzpatrick vs the Saints? No respect!

They should’ve had an injury-based incentive bonus

I don’t know. I wasn’t at the Texans training camp nor did I watch their preseason games. I’m just saying O’Brien may have decided to give Watson a few games to watch. Savage’s poor play may have made Watson the starter quicker or it was close to the plan. Only those involved know.

Why not? It’s done all the time, and just last season. Do you think anybody really thought Tom Savage gave the Texans a better chance to win than Watson? There would be benefits for Allen to sit and watch for a few meaningful games.

Sullivan gone and still same behavior by media?

Well the English rule is “ I before E except after C” so give him a break

Do you really want to watch a few weeks of sloppy regular season games?

His list has only 51 players. So, I would add an O-lineman that can play multiple positions, and keep Logan Thomas as a 4th TE.

He makes me yearn for the days of Carl Mauck.

That's the problem with part-time officials, although the NFL did take the first step by making some full-time employees. Pre-season games should be used as training tools. If they were all full time, they could gather during the week to review films of games in the prior week and have the head of officials tell them which were correct calls and which weren't. You still have the calls that are subjective though so it's hard to have a perfect system but taking the extra time for clarification would only help.

Likely Anderson since he was in Carolina. Where is Joe Webb?

Players can be cut any time.

I really get annoyed when they do these interviews during regular season and playoff games for all of the 4 major sports while the game action is going on.

Haley in the 1st half of the episode had me thinking "Man, he's a no nonsense guy." By the end though, including that segment about the name Carl (What, is he 12?), I decided he's just an a$$&@! I remember watching that Browns/Giants game when Callaway broke the long one thinking why, if he's now considered first team, is he still in there late in the 3rd quarter? It was "punishment"? So, if he ended up getting hurt because he played the whole game, would they just say "Next man up!" and/or "Let's sign Dez"?

I remember reading that GMs and coaches liked delaying the cuts til the end of preseason but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Sure they have longer to evaluate who's already on their roster but with the cuts on that Saturday, if they need players to fill slots, they have a week to identify players cut by other teams, get them signed and ready for the 1st game. It isn't likely to affect any team's starters but backups and special teams players. Maybe there just won't be much movement at that point, especially since most guys playing the 4th game aren't making the team anyways. It could mainly be the moves to fill practice squads.

It's a conundrum. With the CBA limiting practices and those with pads, the players aren't getting enough hitting in before these preseason games. Then you have the injury concerns so coaches aren't playing starters enough. The last couple years this has resulted, in my opinion, in a lot of sloppy play in the 1st couple weeks of the season. Starters rarely play in the 4th preseason game but I bet if they reduced to 3 preseason games, the coaches would treat the 3rd one the same.

Doesn't fit the culture and do you really want our young QBs to be yelled at to "Throw Me the Ball!"?

They also seem to have done away with Chris Brown’s Fan Friday.

Maybe they could talk Matt Leinart into leaving his cushy studio job.

Do they deduct the cost of the helmet from McCarron's paycheck?

As long as Allen can stay healthy. He was last year but has a spotty history.

I recently saw a photo of the top QBs of the draft sitting in chairs in a half circle for some show. They were in t-shirts and shorts. Rosen and Darnold both have skinny legs while Allen and L. Jackson looked solid. Rosen also has narrow shoulders while Allen was the thickest. In the photo, Darnold looks puny compared to the others.

No, last year was a cut to I believe 70 or 75 after the 3rd preseason game.

I remember playing a pickup game a while back with a guy who was a high school starting QB. When he threw it deep, all of us tended to slow down or stop and try and jump for the ball. He kept telling us to keep running. I got another shot and kept running and he laid it in their perfectly. Tasker was right that Foster slowed down because he was looking back. He probably would've got to it if he kept running hard.