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I don't know, Promo. It's not the officials handing these guys their collective *****.

Can't. Stop. The. Run.

Makings of a barn burner early on. Ohio doing their best impression of Army running the ball.

It's not the same reasoning at all. We are conflating the issue here. Just because Peterman wasn't able to seize his opportunity doesn't mean we don't understand that he needed more development time. That's rather obvious. But Peterman doesn't need the Dibiase's of the world trying to say that poor Nathan Peterman never had a chance when he was given the chance. Peterman prepared his entire career for that "chance"; a chance that any QB prospect worth his salt would want. Was Peterman being denied "proper" support when he won the job last preseason? Should he have told the coaches he wasn't ready? Of course not. But as good as he was in practice and preseason games, the real game situations were too big for him. Shame on the coaches for being fooled by those practice and preseason game performances, but Peterman's Jekyl and Hyde performance is on him, too. Peterman was not the first and he won't be the last QB to fail when given the opportunity. Could he have used more time and seasoning to become a better QB? Absolutely. But that's a different argument.

That may not be Dibiase's intent, but the intent doesn't matter. That's exactly how it reads. Like I said, the idea that Peterman was put in a position he "never should have been put in" is preposterous and the idea that, as a grown man who has spent his athletic life preparing for just such an opportunity should be coddled because he wasn't "ready for it" is an even bigger insult to Peterman. And coaches; smart, dumb, or in between do dumb things (in hindsight) all the time. In trying to give his struggling team a spark and a rallying point after another flat offensive performance, he tried something and it failed miserably. That's on McD. You know what's not on McD? Observing that Peterman was his best QB in camp and preseason who clearly won the job. It's on Peterman, and Peterman alone, for not being able to translate practice performance into game performance. He simply wasn't up for the task. It happens; that's as far as it goes. Dibiase et al should try to understand that instead of tossing out the idea that Peterman didn't have a "proper" opportunity. It rings hollow and doesn't serve Nathan Peterman one bit.

What a bunch sentimental crap. Peterman never should have been put in a position he spent his entire athletic life preparing for? Go to another team that will give him the "proper time and tools to develop?" Spare me. The world is littered with nice guys who just weren't good enough to cut it. There's no reason why Peterman ever should have become a national punchline, regardless of his ability as a QB or not. And that's on us as a society. But there's no reason to offer up excuses for his performance, either. That's the last thing Peterman needs and, given his apparent abundance of character, the last thing he'd ask for.

Not sure the staff can reduce it much more than KB decided to reduce it himself already. Regarding McKenzie, I think Daboll sees him as his Tyreek Hill/Tarik Cohen type player in his offense. He looked good on a couple of those sweeps on Sunday; an immediate infusion of speed that got the defense running around. I hear the knock on him is fumbles and if that's true if he doesn't clean that up he won't last long.

That's you on the left, correct?

John in Riverside says, "SCHWING!!!"

Legitimacy is a week to week proposition but I will say this defense is impressive given the amount of plays they’ve faced (8th most) vs. the yards they’ve given up. I don’t consider them a dominant defense and there is a ton of room for improvement, but the pieces are clearly there.

He was in one on one coverage because #40 was his key and the Jets split him wide. Teams have isolated him in coverage several times this year.

I suspect the video review wasn’t kind.

Almost identical to Polian’s formula except after the pass rusher who chases the QB, he proritized the OT that could protect your passer from the guy that chases your QB.

Like the old axiom says, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. Thank you Hutton and thank you goal posts. Good game to gauge where we are and, as suspected, we aren’t ready to compete with the big boys in this league. That said, I said I’d be happy to come away with four out of eight points against the next four teams we face beginning tonight and we are half way there after game one. Gotta be pleased with that.

He was losing ground before he got hurt, too.

Good point. Especially with that Jax front upcoming.

Coaches tinker, it’s what they do. But we are a team starved for secondary scoring as it is. I just don’t see how this move helps that situation. Especially because Reinhart appears to have warmed up a bit lately.

Any time you can get a 5th round pick for a QB that couldn’t beat out Nathan Peterman for the job, it’s a good trade. “AJ wasn’t who we thought he was”, speaks volumes.

HC always has final call, but the position coaches have a lot of input.

Lines from morning skate appear to indicate Reinhart replacing Pominville on the top line. The more I think about it, I’m convinced that hurts Sobotka and Rodriguez more than it helps Skinner and Eichel. Won’t matter if our D corp doesn’t get its collective heads out of their ***** vs. Tampa. Tonight is a four point statement game for this team. Eager to see how they come out. I don’t think there was any way Pommer could have continued his pace at his age. But I don’t think his “run” was over, either. If Reinhart does what Pominville did for that line, making his living at the net front dirty area, I think it can flourish. But Samson wasn’t doing that to start the year which is why Housley took him off that line after a few games. I love his game from below the red line, but that isn’t what Skinner and Eichel need. Then again, given Housley’s need to shake things up all the time, it won’t be long before another change is made.

I wasn’t aware that the Skinner, Eichel, Pominville run had ended. While I can understand Housley wanting to reward Reinhart’s good play over two games, I gotta wonder if putting Reinhart on the top line helps that line more than it hurts Rodriguez and Sobotka.

Please, football Gods. Make this so.

Well, we will have to agree to disagree as I think there’s a vast difference between missing an assignment vs. being manhandled and/or outfinessed when attempting to pass protect. I don’t fault the coaches at all for giving him some time to learn the game a bit and develop before playing him. Moot point a anyway as he has earned the coaches trust and is now in the lineup.

He was a disaster in pass protection in the preseason, both in games and in camp. That combined with the sheer amount of playbook digestion required of a rookie OLman and it's perfectly understandable why it took him a while to be inserted into the lineup.