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Tzimisce
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| Billy Spikes wrote: | | I'm assuming that 6-1, 210 Ras-I Dowling will play the Tavon Wilson big nickel role against the Broncos while Wilson plays one of the safety spots. |
Let's hope so. Nate Ebner proved during his few snaps last week that he's not ready for prime time.
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Richter
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Tzimisce wrote: | | Billy Spikes wrote: | | I'm assuming that 6-1, 210 Ras-I Dowling will play the Tavon Wilson big nickel role against the Broncos while Wilson plays one of the safety spots. |
Let's hope so. Nate Ebner proved during his few snaps last week that he's not ready for prime time. |
To be fair, he was dropped into the game cold at a time that the Patriots were in firm control. If he was being coached up to start this week, I think the results wouldn't be quite so disastrous. That being said, he's not starting or playing much this week unless there's another injury or things get out of hand score-wise. |
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Tzimisce
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Richter wrote: | | Tzimisce wrote: | | Billy Spikes wrote: | | I'm assuming that 6-1, 210 Ras-I Dowling will play the Tavon Wilson big nickel role against the Broncos while Wilson plays one of the safety spots. |
Let's hope so. Nate Ebner proved during his few snaps last week that he's not ready for prime time. |
To be fair, he was dropped into the game cold at a time that the Patriots were in firm control. If he was being coached up to start this week, I think the results wouldn't be quite so disastrous. That being said, he's not starting or playing much this week unless there's another injury or things get out of hand score-wise. |
You may well be right, but the way he reacted on that Brad Smith TD was not encouraging.
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Richter
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| Tzimisce wrote: | | Richter wrote: | | Tzimisce wrote: | | Billy Spikes wrote: | | I'm assuming that 6-1, 210 Ras-I Dowling will play the Tavon Wilson big nickel role against the Broncos while Wilson plays one of the safety spots. |
Let's hope so. Nate Ebner proved during his few snaps last week that he's not ready for prime time. |
To be fair, he was dropped into the game cold at a time that the Patriots were in firm control. If he was being coached up to start this week, I think the results wouldn't be quite so disastrous. That being said, he's not starting or playing much this week unless there's another injury or things get out of hand score-wise. |
You may well be right, but the way he reacted on that Brad Smith TD was not encouraging. |
If this was a guy that had been playing football his whole life and had multiple years of college experience on defense, I might be concerned. As it stands, he's probably got about a high school sophomore's worth of meaningful snaps under his belt. |
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Sciz
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Richter wrote: | | If this was a guy that had been playing football his whole life and had multiple years of college experience on defense, I might be concerned. As it stands, he's probably got about a high school sophomore's worth of meaningful snaps under his belt. |
Yeah, I forget the exact quote and where I saw it, but it basically said that that the Pats coaches know that Ebner has no idea what is going on, but that his instincts are preventing him from being completely embarrassed. Once the game slows down for him, he'll be just fine. I think he's a future starter in a year or two.
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24isthelaw
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Yeah, I forget the exact quote and where I saw it, but it basically said that that the Pats coaches know that Ebner has no idea what is going on, but that his instincts are preventing him from being completely embarrassed. Once the game slows down for him, he'll be just fine. I think he's a future starter in a year or two. |
If that's true... how the hell did he play 3 snaps at OSU?
Watching him play in the preseason, his ability to fight blocks going downhill looked clearly above average for an NFL safety. I mean, a guy like Chung is considered a good "in-the-box" safety, and he has a pretty hard time getting off blocks.
Preseason might be nothing like the NFL, but all those guys were top-flight college players. You're telling me this big kid with 4.4 speed and supposed "instincts" couldn't even sniff the field? I get that he's not one of the booster binkies but still.
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NinjaZX6R
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| 24isthelaw wrote: | | Sciz wrote: |
Yeah, I forget the exact quote and where I saw it, but it basically said that that the Pats coaches know that Ebner has no idea what is going on, but that his instincts are preventing him from being completely embarrassed. Once the game slows down for him, he'll be just fine. I think he's a future starter in a year or two. |
If that's true... how the hell did he play 3 snaps at OSU?
Watching him play in the preseason, his ability to fight blocks going downhill looked clearly above average for an NFL safety. I mean, a guy like Chung is considered a good "in-the-box" safety, and he has a pretty hard time getting off blocks.
Preseason might be nothing like the NFL, but all those guys were top-flight college players. You're telling me this big kid with 4.4 speed and supposed "instincts" couldn't even sniff the field? I get that he's not one of the booster binkies but still. |
Guess you didn't see any OSU games in 2011.
As much as I like Luke Fickell and Mike Vrabel, the entire coaching staff looked like it was run by clowns.
It took them 11 games...11 games to finally put a stud true freshman WLB Ryan Shazier (who will be a future 1st rd pick in the NFL) on the field vs Michigan. He had around 15 tackles while playing with a sprained MCL. It took them 4 games to put Braxton Miller over that disgusting turd of a QB who, for a minor league pitcher, absolutely had no accuracy whatsoever to throw a ball.
Also, aside from the Akron game where he got 3 snaps at Nickel CB/S, OSU, when they won games, barely beat those teams. Therefore he couldn't get snaps in during garbage time. |
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Richter
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| 24isthelaw wrote: | | Sciz wrote: |
Yeah, I forget the exact quote and where I saw it, but it basically said that that the Pats coaches know that Ebner has no idea what is going on, but that his instincts are preventing him from being completely embarrassed. Once the game slows down for him, he'll be just fine. I think he's a future starter in a year or two. |
If that's true... how the hell did he play 3 snaps at OSU?
Watching him play in the preseason, his ability to fight blocks going downhill looked clearly above average for an NFL safety. I mean, a guy like Chung is considered a good "in-the-box" safety, and he has a pretty hard time getting off blocks.
Preseason might be nothing like the NFL, but all those guys were top-flight college players. You're telling me this big kid with 4.4 speed and supposed "instincts" couldn't even sniff the field? I get that he's not one of the booster binkies but still. |
You know, I see questions like this all the time surrounding football, and it baffles me. Football is one of the most ritualized, regimented sports in existence, and people have to wonder why logic-defying decisions take place with alarming regularity? Part of Belichick's success is that he is far less of a slave to these forces that are so prevalent in the culture of football. He realizes more than most that tradition and orthodoxy are just nooses someone else tied for you to hang yourself by; that so many in the coaching ranks kick their own chair out, willingly, in service to these precepts is not surprising. College coaches are probably the worst of the lot, so when a kid that might not have even touched a football before arriving on campus is in line for some snaps with the defense, it's easy to see why his opportunity might have been scuttled by the coaching staff. |
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Billy Spikes
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| Quote: | | More of the media attention has been focused on when tight end Aaron Hernandez might return for the Patriots, but I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Belichick and his staff are actually more concerned about Rob Gronkowski from a health perspective. It's my understanding that Gronkowski has been dealing with significant pain these last two weeks. He's listed on the injury report with a hip ailment, and we know of the back problems from his college days at Arizona. He had his snaps scaled back last week in the win over Buffalo (he had an uncharacteristic lost fumble in that game), and was limited throughout this past week in practice. Gronkowski is as tough as they come, but this is something I'll be watching closely. |
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4731587/quick-hit-thoughts-around-nfl-pats-124
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broncosfan07
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If Gronk or Aaron couldn't go today that'd be huge for Denver, both of them abused Denver last season.
Looks like Chris Kuper could be back in the starting lineup today.
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Dalton
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Richter
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| Hmmm... poor weather, a tough injury situation and an opposing QB that is best beaten by playing to win the field position and time of possession game. Stevan Ridley, I hope you're ready. |
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Sciz
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Hernandez is inactive, as expected.
Hightower, unexpectedly, is as well.
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Billy Spikes
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| Quote: | | #Patriots inactives against the #Broncos: Edelman, Gregory, Hightower, Hernandez, Tennant, Hoomanawanui, Bequette. |
http://twitter.com/NFL_RealUpdates/statuses/255019259271446528
| Quote: | | Broncos inactives against the #Patriots: C. Hanie, C. Davis, S. Siliga, S. Johnson, D. Ihenacho, J. Thomas, K. Moreno. |
http://twitter.com/NFL_RealUpdates/statuses/255019853717585920
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