Hmmm, haven’t listened to Yes in a while. they were a fun band back in the day. Saw a great show at the Coliseum Arena in like 1978. Halfway through the show, Rick Wakemen’s keyboard miasma caught on fire, and they had to stop the show for 45 minutes while they put out and reassembled the plethora of keyboards, Moogs, and wires galore. Still a great show.
Speaking of great shows, we are getting closer to the real thing. The Jimmie Ward injury prompted the signing of Tashaun Gipson. And also the reincarnation of Dontae Johnson as he is now getting time at safety. He’s the guy that just doesn’t go away. He’s sometimes in the right place at the right time, but more often than not he’s a penalty or a burn waiting to happen. Hope Gipson catches on fast.
Other than that, the defense looks great. Should be dominant.
The offense is hard to gauge as we haven’t put the real guys on the field yet. I suppose we think we are good enough to treat the Bears game as a tune-up for the offense, as Chicago is pretty much a mess all over the place. We shouldn’t have too much trouble with them running or passing. But then again, anything can happen in the NFL these days. And this is more true now than ever.
Teams fly up and down the good/bad charts faster than shit through a goose, so last year’s turd is this year’s diamond. Shit, we were a dropped pick from the Super Bowl last year, and I don’t think anyone thought we were for real. Including me. The only time I felt comfortable in the playoffs was when we were to face the Rams. The game we fucking lost. Then again, it was still pretty sweet to knock both the Packers and the Cowsills out of the playoffs.
We are better defensively. That is certain.
The O is the Q.
Forty Niners Forever 
The Raider that hit Stingley never reached out to apologize During all this time.
Jack Tatum. Brutal fucking hit. Stingley’s been gone for some time now.
Preseason game to boot for Stingley. We don’t have very many guys out there
None of this bothers me but for the interior line terrible play.
Fuck, another false start. That is bothersome.
Yeah Jack Tatum’s nickname was “The Assassin “ for his hard hits and that one on Stingley who was defenseless on that hit was brutal!
Wasn’t Tatum the guy that hit the Steelers receiver that the ball ricocheted to RB Harris for the Immaculate reception? Karma got him in the end..
Wow the Texans were 4-13 last year, they don’t look like a 4-13 team this year
If this is a tune up for the regular season, it’s not very impressive.
Yeah being shutout and 10 penalties for 100 yards can’t make anyone happy LJ..
Thank God they get 17 days before the Chicago game. Jesus. What a shit show.
Not too geeked about it but the penalties show a lack of discipline. It was mainly backups but still. That and the interior line worry me. The couple passes Lance threw on the move were hit and miss. The one he bounced to Aiyuk should have been made. That was the worst one. But this was more an indictment of the O line more than anything. Lance had a clean pocket on 2 of his 11 throws. And the run game was non-existent.
Womack continues to impress. BS PI call on him. Purty was looking good till he threw that Godawful pick. Sudfeld looks worse than Purty at this point.
Ouch. I can’t really add anything that y’all haven’t said yet!
Sermon is gone. Which is fine, but why did we waste a third round pick on him? Eesh, this regime….
17 days until the start of the season. We’ll be ok. I know it was the Texans that made us look ugly, preseason or not, and that’s concerning. But we open with Chicago and Seattle and those can be ugly wins, but they’re great tune-up games.
Trey better not let this get his head. I think the one thing he is missing, the one trait that can elevate any QB, or player for that matter, is swagger. Trey needs to have that attitude that when he walks into a room, his dick has already been there ten minutes. And I worry that a performance like this will rattle the young kid and make him scared.
Yeah, Trey didn’t look very confident.
Not worried about Trey. The O line was horrible, and this was a good reminder of the speed of the NFL compared to college. If our line plays this bad in the regular season, we aren’t as good as we thought.
New thread is up.
New thread is up.