Redskin4ever

This I agree with. If the younger guys stay healthy, then as the season goes on they will be the ones getting the touches. What that ultimately means for Peterson, we shall see. I just don't want them putting all their eggs into the "I hope he stays he stays healthy" basket.

I disagree with that assessment. You have perennially injured Guice and Love who has never played a snap because of injury. So you are putting your faith in those two guys? Peterson is still better than Barber, even at his age. So why would they cut their only dependable and known quantity at running back? I just have no faith in Guice to stay healthy and you know nothing about Love. It's just a risky proposition to have him be the one you let go. Maybe in training camp they see something in Love and Barber plays great. So then they take a gamble on Guice, which I expect them to do anyway, and that could leave Peterson out. But at this point, that just seems unlikely.

Reading this thread, we should probably keep a list of names he's already being compared to. Jerry Rice Calvin Johnson Julio Jones Hines Ward Alshon Jeffery Niles Paul Josh Doctson Robert Davis Cam Sims Did I miss any?

Yeah, I've seen that and I agree. I just don't want fans to think he's a bust or the coaches aren't using him or Sweat correctly if they don't see them out there on the first snap of the year or of any game. They are going to rotate the guys and with Del Rio I expect him to utilize their abilities to the max. It's going to be awesome to watch.

I could see Kerrigan starting the year for either Sweat or Young, but it won't last. Eventually, Kerrigan becomes a sub or a 3rd down only package guy. I was at Sean Taylor's first game and he didn't start nor did he play a lot. It takes some time for rookies to get adjusted, and you can see Sweat last year. You have to play who is better for the team at that moment. It could end up being Young and Sweat. But part of me thinks that early on, it could be Kerrigan before the younger guys just start playing better.

@98ORAKPO98 Yeah, what this team needs is to over pay an over hyped defensive lineman and his 3 sacks.

That looks to be the most exercise JR has done in a few years.

2131 on ESPN right now. Cal just homered in the bottom of the 4th. Top of the 5th right now. Getting chills knowing what is next.

It was like winning the Cup again! And yes, I was nervous watching too. Got excited when they scored. I did forget about the clock issue though. It's pretty awesome watching them celebrate.

I'm still getting chills watching this game. That pass by Backstrom to Ovechkin for the power play goal. Absolutely beautiful.

Game 5 is on NBCSN right now.

Next year will be interesting. I'm surprised he doesn't have any better players coming in. He has done a really good job recruiting talented players. Next year's class is just meh at best. They have no big men coming in, but you would expect some late signees now that the Mitchell's are gone. But how good will they really be?

The good news is we get to imagine that it would have been their chance to shine. We don’t have to live through the disappointment that would have come. So now we can talk about how there best chance to win was cancelled by a virus.

I just read that story. I’m glad things look like they will work out for him.

This sucks for him. I’m hoping it’s not a big deal, but I fear it is. I remember just a little over 20 years ago when Eric Davis had colon cancer. Maybe Davis didn’t care if people knew. But putting that into perspective and knowing how they talked about it, I fear that with Mancini it’s something worse. I just hope I’m being paranoid though.

I missed the game today but was so glad to see they won. Now on to the B1G tournament.

I had to go somewhere today and listened to the 2nd period in my car. It was XM, so it was the Penguins radio. All they did were talk about the calls that were missed on the Capitals. Which to be fair, I saw the Caps get away with a few things early in the game. But I also know some of these interference calls and tripping calls can be called a lot more than they are. So when it's this lopsided, they aren't looking to call it on both squads, just one. I guess when you get all the calls, you expect to get every single call. It was great hearing those crybaby announcers whine about every call they didn't get.

That was a great period of play. My only knock is what in the world was Ovechkin doing with a free lane to the goal and wating for the defender to get in the passing lane then trying to pass. OV, you aren’t paid to pass the puck.

I didn’t get to see the game last night since it wasn’t on here, but are they still playing the 3 Russians on the same line together? What bothers me about that is you have zero forwards who play defense on that line. None of the three are disciplined with the puck. And they are usually slow to react to get back on defense since that’s not their main concern. It would be one thing if they were such a scoring threat that they could make up for their lack of D. But from what I’ve seen that isn’t the case. I’m hoping to be proved wrong about this, but I’m not liking that Kovalchuk at all.

They might be looking at a 4 seed in the B1G tournament. They could potentially be in a 4 way tie for 1st heading into the weekend.

Michigan St was the better team tonight. They executed offense, made shots, and played good defense. MD looked lost for the majority of the game. I was disappointed (but not surprised) that MD didn’t make a single defensive adjustment until there were 9 minutes left in the game. They started pressing the backcourt and it slowed Michigan St down. Ultimately, they still made the shots they had to make whenever MD made a run, but you could see it made a difference. Why wait until that point to do that? MD will always get in trouble against a team that plays good defense. They don’t really run plays to get guys open. So if Cowan or anyone else can’t beat their man on the dribble, the offense is generally going to take a tough shot and hope it goes in. I know at times they do run plays, but they generally have nothing when they get in trouble and need a basket. It’s frustrating to watch at times.

Izzo took Turgeon to school to start the game. It was a great rally in the middle of the half, but Michigan St just looks like they wanted it more that half. @abdcskins, I was telling my wife the same thing on that shot by Winston. All Cowan has to do is just stay in front of him to make that shot a little difficult. It’s not a jump shot where he can adjust and make it over good defense. It’s a heave. Cowan just stood there and watched him take a good run at it like it was the halftime shot by a fan. Just stay in front of him there. What else do you have to do on that play.

I thought Perreault was only good for this:

Huge shot by Morsell. Just huge. I was not happy for most of the game, but what I liked was that on a night when nothing went right, they showed resiliency and won. Minnesota couldn't miss early on. Maryland couldn't shoot most of the night and early on missed a ton of shots right around the basket. The refs were atrocious in the first half. It was probably the worst half of basketball they played all year. Yet they fought and fought the whole game. You can't control when some guy on the other team makes 3s when that's not his thing. You can't control when the other team can't miss. You certainly can't control the officiating, even more so when it's terrible. But you can control how you play. I'm always impressed with teams that fight through all that stuff and win. It would have been easy for them to just throw in the towel and blame the refs or just say it's Minnesota's night. But they didn't. They gave it all they had until the final buzzer. I'm still too wired to sleep.

Good win for the boys today. What I really liked was all the goals in the game except 2 were gritty, hard working goals. Wilson had a beautiful skill play, and that goal by Malkin was ridiculous. I think there are about 10 players in the world who can make that play. All the rest were all about who wanted it more. Too many times, I've seen the other teams score those goals and not the Caps. Today was one of those days the Caps were right there getting those goals. They really needed that win today and not just for the points. But to remind them of what it takes to win these types of games.