Comments on: TSF Football Friday

By: Doc's Sports Picks Guru

Doc's Sports Picks Guru — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:00:53 +0000

They shouldn’t shorten the preseason. Osi Umeniyora got injured and Carson Palmer broke his nose in Week 3. Well, that’s two guys. And there were 32 teams playing 22 starters on both sides of the ball. That’s 704 players, not counting backups, and maybe 20 people - and one All-Pro caliber player - got put down. So we need to scrap the preseason or make it shorter? I don’t think so.

This whole “shorten the preseason” thing is just whiny bobblehead ESPN nonsense. I mean, has anyone of these bobbleheads ever WATCHED a Week 1 NFL game? They’re pretty gross. Penalties, turnovers, general sloppiness. It’s a mess. So they want to shorten the practice time and make these guys play earlier? Hug? And when a starter goes down in the regular season, wouldn’t you want teams to have the next-best guy ready to step in? And how do you find that guy: in the preseason vetting process. I say leave the preseason alone.

By: HarveyDent

HarveyDent — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:12:09 +0000

The Giants are just salivating waiting for the Eagles’ cuts because any way it’s sliced they’re going to get a solid replacement for Osi be it Clemons or McDougle. Clemons because he’s still a young player with good upside and McDougle because he’ll have a previous relationship with Spagnoulo from his Eagles days.

Eagles in the SB? Yeah, right. I want to know the reasons SI gives for that one because the WR by committee ain’t gonna be the answer but if the D comes along especially with the top three CB’s in the backfield then the season will be solid.

Don’t do it, Lights Out, don’t do it.

By: Mizzo

Mizzo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:47:22 +0000

Shawn has one person to think about before he actually does the dummy move and plays and his name is Reggie Williams.

By: kos

kos — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:57:07 +0000

I think they’ll eventually add 1 or 2 games to the regular season and shorten the preseason to 2 or 3 games. There’s been too many complaints about the length of the preseason from players and coaches. Then, there’s the injuries that happen to star players in the preseasons. Of course, the downside of shortening the preseason is that a young, unsigned rookie free agent may never get the chance to prove that he can play it in the league. Watch out when the next CBA contract comes up. I have a feeling that’s when they’ll try to negotiate the length of the preseason and regular season.

CoCo -
I have to shake my head about Merriman, too. There is life after football, and he’ll never be the pass rusher that he should be this year, so it doesn’t make sense for him to play.

By: thebrotherreport

thebrotherreport — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:55:21 +0000

I think they may take 2 preseason games and add 1 or 2 in the regular season.

By: Co Co

Co Co — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:43:45 +0000

They aren’t going to shorten the preseason because they get to charge full price for the tickets so we may as well accept that. Coaches need to be smarter and just not play their starters…. I’m shaking my head at Shawne Merriman. I don’t think he’s thinking long term. This isn’t a broken pinky or something like that. Your knees are pretty important for football and life after football. This is not a good look. At all.