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    Jay Rosen: DEAD!

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by Delusional Bills Optimist

    This thread reminds me of the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones......

    Tremendous. I often forget that there was a time when The Simpsons was good.

    Dinged up Zach Miller anyone?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by Delusional Bills Optimist

    http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/06/seahawks-release-te-zach-miller/

     

    Failed his physical, and the Seahawks are looking at Orange Julius.

     

    He's 29, coming off of two ankle surgeries. If he gets well, anyone wanna kick the tires? I didn't see a lot of his games in Seattle, but he seemed to be pretty solid as recently as a few seasons ago. Is he an upgrade over Chandler?

    Can QB accuracy improve?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    That is the question. EJ is making the right reads. He is seeing the open guy most of the time. He is just not delivering the ball accurately too often. He looks better than last year but still not good enough.

     

    I just don't know if experience and time improves accuracy.

     

    I have to disagree with you a bit here. Even Solomon Willcotts was able to spot the several times today when receivers were running open, or had settled into a vacant area, and EJ straight up missed them.

     

    Either (1) EJ is being told just to scan a certain portion of the field, for whatever reason, or (2) he just cannot read an NFL field, or worse, (3) both. In the latter case, we should move on immediately, because the staff knows for sure that their QB is inadequate and don't trust him to improve. In the case of #2, this may be something that a QB could improve (unfortunately for us fans) IN TIME, if someone can settle him down. And in the case of #1, either the staff should be fired because that offensive philosophy is not going to be productive in the NFL, or they know they have an inferior talent at QB and have to put the training wheels on (again, here, if that's the case, we should just move on). None of these options is very heartening for a team that, by all appearances, should have been able to beat the Chargers and the Texans with even average QB play.

     

    In my opinion, the BEST case scenario is that EJ is showing the coaches in practice that he CAN scan the field and make the right reads, but is just too rattled when the real bullets are flying to do it when it matters. It goes without saying that that is not something you should take any solace in, given that we have been told that "this is our time," and management has chosen EJ as their hill to die on.

     

    Man, this has been a long couple of decades...

    Sammy admitted to taking a play off in the 4th qtr

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    I remember that play and it looked like he just knocked it down with one hand. Smart play by him. He would have been killed on the play as deep defenders were rapidly closing in on him and he would have been hit harder than Goodwin's play. Would have had broken ribs for sure or worse.

     

    That was exactly my reaction. If I'm recalling the correct play, Sammy seemed to spike the ball down with the defender closing quickly. I believe my exact words were, "if he doesn't do that, it's six going the other way." I actually thought it was a savvy play, that kept the small flicker of hope we had alive.

     

    I am way more concerned that we can't consistently put the ball in spots where our WRs can catch it in stride, or at least where they won't get their heads taken off if they do manage to reel it in. Yesterday, I found myself telling myself that EJ just needs more practice throwing into the RWS wind. I am a delusional optimist after all...

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