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SEATTLE - Welcome everyone to your Week 9 of the Regular Season coverage on Extremeskins, it's TSO here up in the Century Link Press Box along with the top guy himself, @TK - who will be providing us wondrous pics of the action from the sidelines. We're both geared up and ready to provide you the best damn Skins' coverage on the planet! "Next man up!" "Injuries are just an excuse!" "Good coaches overcome injuries!" Sounds contagiously valiant, doesn't it? The go to phrases for fan machismo, if you will. But I'm here to say screw that, yeah right, and whatever. When your unquestionably elite starting LT is hurt, and the backup who can fill in for him admirably is as well, you've got a problem. When the guy who's started next to him for years now is also hurt, the guy with which ample amounts of chemistry has been built through experience, that just adds to it exponentially. But wait, there's more! The Center is out, too! Oh, the stud RG you drafted 4th overall a couple years ago? Yup, he's hurting. And the guy next to him? Two ankles. Yeah. It'd be enough to damage any positional unit's ability to succeed when its two best players are hurt. But when all the above is happening AND you even got those backups filling in getting hurt during the game on top of it... it's friggin ridiculous, suffice to say. When your stud rookie Dlineman - who you just picked in the first round to bolster what was an absolute terrible unit the previous season - is out with a Lisfranc, and then the guy who has emerged next to him as another stud while both turning the unit around so much so that it elevated the entire defense (as is the prerogative of a good Dline) also gets hurt with a broken hand, well, that's a problem. Again, the two best players on the unit HURT. When you lose your elite starting CB for a few games, and then also have your next best one starting on his opposite side getting hurt enough to miss at least one game (notice the trend here?), while the rookie Safety who has emerged can't stay on the field an entire game, and the vet Safety you just signed is also struggling with injuries, and one of the backups to those Safeties ends up on IR, and some of the backups to the aforementioned DBs are getting hurt during games, and... well, you get a run on sentence. When arguably your best pass catcher on the team, who happens to play at TE, is hurting all season (granted, to no one's surprise), but then your third TE also gets hurt, while your top two outside WRs are struggling, and you're relying on your slot WR who ALSO just got hurt and isn't going to play now... welp, yay for that. Season ending injuries. Nagging injuries that are significant enough for guys to miss games and/or playing time during games. Injuries guys can play on but are hampering their ability to perform at their best. Freak injuries. Injuries one can play on but might lead to significant future damage. It's all there. All the time. At every. Single. Unit. It isn't just an excuse to justify poor performances anymore, by the coaches or players. It's turned into THE story of the season, and absolutely justifiably so. Those who are unwilling to point to that while being lenient to all those involved in terms of criticism simply lack a shred of empathy in my mind. Frighteningly so. What's so frustrating about it is that this was the roster, going into the season, that was unquestionably the best one we've had in decades. This was the year we could've witnessed a significant leap, and did for a few glorious weeks. A scrappy win against a Rams team with a solid roster from top to bottom. A dominant win against a Raiders team that was as dominant themselves as any team in the league at that point, in prime time. Taking it to the Chiefs, who were arguably the best team in the league at that point, up to the last minute - also in prime time but at their place. Only to have one injury after another occur (we lost both Allen and Norman that game, with a litany of others to immediately follow as disgustingly described above) and destroy the momentum being built right before our very eyes. The bye week after did next to nothing to save us. So this game against a Seahawks team, looking like a contender (per the norm) and at their place where they rarely lose, is in the books already, right? All is lost, no point in suiting up, go home with our tails between our legs and save ourselves some embarrassment. But that's the beauty of it, isn't it? When human arrogance dares to call something contingent as necessary, it gets humbled real fast and often. When that same arrogance blinds one to the realism of hope, and they fool themselves into believing that being realistic excludes being hopeful, well... hope prevails much more often than they're willing to give it credit for, to put it nicely. So that's what I'm holding on to right now. And desperately so, because all indications point to a beating here. There's so much going against the team and for the Seahawks, even with them having some key injuries like Earl Thomas, as well. It's just not remotely as bad overall for them. But I'm hoping a team filled with guys who want to prove themselves - in what they surely know is likely an extremely small window of opportunity for them to do so - play their hearts out and shock the world. A team that has played hard for a good group of coaches more often than not. A team going through the struggle together and for each other. Those are the type that often surprise and, God willing, we get quite the pleasant, season-defining, one here today. Stay tuned for more coverage throughout the day from @TK and I, and Hail To The Redskins! 1st Half Notes: - Kelley and Perine out returning kicks. - Brian Quick out there consistently. - Doctson and Grant starting two WRs in base formation with Sprinkle and Davis as two TEs. - DHall starting at Safety. - Perine doesn't open up enough for handoff, paying too much attention to the blocking. Fumbles after a great pass from Kirk to Davis. - Lanier in on third down nickel defense. Provides a nice rush and hit on Wilson. - Arthur Jones playing mostly at LDE. - Defense keeping us in it big time. Dline started strong getting consistent pressure on Wilson, then Seahawks started running more with success. Hood playing better than last week early on, but regressed a bit in the 2nd quarter. Surprised to even see Hood rushing the passer well. Lanier has shown up in a big way. Pass rush after pass rush. Really impressive stuff. Holds and false starts on the Seahawks Line also a product of the front's play. - I have no idea how this offense is going to move the ball. No Oline to either run block well or pass block well. Kirk is freaking out. TEs can't run block as usual. RBs automatically have to make moves in the backfield.a Receivers not getting open against this secondary. It's just, ugh. That drive in the 2nd quarter featured some quicker throws to Davis and nice running. Seems like that's the only way at this point. - Seahawks are a 2nd half team. We've got to come out firing, as crazy as that sounds right now. Love the defensive performance, and the offense seemed to have found something there in the 2nd quarter, notwithstanding the final drive. Hopefully they can maintain. 2nd Half Notes: - Lanier continues his solid play with another good pass rush on the first drive and hasn't stopped since. Just relentless. He's caused a bunch of bad throws from Wilson single-handedly. It's been super impressive. - Seahawks clearly going back to what they were successful with in the first half, rushing the ball. Our pass rush has been unstoppable though. - As usual, just nothing you can do about Wilson scrambling and finding receivers outside of the play. Otherwise, constant pressure on him has forced errant throws. - Started bootlegging Cousins more. Some limited success there. - Cousins definitely had some bad throws this game, but he is also facing consistent pressure and going against one of the best secondaries in the game. Guys are just not getting open down the field. One clear poor throw to Davis on a wheel route in the third quarter. - Kendall Fuller displayed his closing speed a few times. One was a TD saving pass break up. - Another bad snap from Roullier in the shotgun formation, this time high. Last week he had one low. - They didn't score, but that 2 point conversion with Norman and Swearinger playing catch was fun to watch. So close, yet so far away. - We had too many first downs that were losing yards, be it due to sacks, bad snaps, or TFLs. Can't recover against this defense like that. Was worried the Seahawks would take away the quick game that worked on that one drive in the first half and we wouldn't have an answer. We don't. People can claim injuries aren't an excuse, but they make you one dimensional as a play caller. It's not easy to be dynamic when your options are limited personnel-wise, and you've got guys who aren't in tune with every aspect of the offense on the field. - It's okay to allow your defense to win you a game. It's actually allowed, last time I heard. Especially when you're in an environment like Seattle, against a team that plays consistently great defense, with an Oline ravaged by injuries. It's. OH. KAY. That won't stop many from making this some kind of treatise on Kirk or Jay, I know. Nothing will. But it needs to be said. - Defense played valiantly. Can't complain about them, even with the final drive from the Seahawks. Seahawks only scored twice on the day, with an offense that had only one drive for a TD, and tough field position throughout. The pressure they applied on Wilson was amazing, suffice to say. - Overall, I know this'll be an opportunity for people to pile on Jay and Kirk. But I'm not going to and I don't think anyone should. Kirk didn't play well. Yes. As is the case with so many QBs going up against this defense in their place. But that last drive was glorious. Two absolute strikes to Quick and Doctson with the Seahawks playing super aggressive. So many use phrases like "he's not a gamer" and "he's not clutch", yet, that's EXACTLY what he proved he is there. - Huge opportunity for Dunbar to finish the game with an INT on Seahawks final drive. McClain does it for him with a huge sack on Wilson. Game over. HOPE IS ALIVE, THANK GOD!!!!

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VICTORY!!!! Welcome everyone to your Preseason Week 3 coverage on Extremeskins, it's TSO here in the Press Box with my man @Spaceman Spiff, who will be providing his usual assortment of magnificent pics from the sidelines, ready to provide you the best damn coverage on the planet! So here we are, as usual, placing way too much emphasis on a preseason game. We just can't help ourselves, can we? Especially not when the team has come out looking uninterested, flat, emotionally disconnected, or whatever amatuer psychobabble we find fitting to describe something we probably shouldn't. Alas, that won't stop us! It's been pretty frustrating to see the offense sputter as much as it has. And while there are legitimate reasons for some of it (like the lack of practice time with Reed and Crowder - who are arguably the most important pass catchers on the team - as well as Doctson pulling his hamstring after starting out camp on fire), some of it has seemingly been inexplicable (like the generally poor play from the Oline as a unit, and specifically Brandon Sherff who's more often a massive positive than not). The defense, on the other hand, has generally looked okay. Not great, by any means, and definitely not after Rodgers did what Rodgers does to people... but "looking great" is not something that truly matters during the preseason, anyway. We've seen solid play from Dlinemen like Anthony Lanier II, AJ Francis, Stacy McGee (outside of his two brain farts that resulted in penalties that gave both the Ravens and Packers first downs during otherwise stalled drives) and our beloved first rounder Jonathan Allen, while we've seen excellent play from Phil Taylor Sr. (who's just been an absolute wonderful surprise) and Matt Ioannidis (who seems primed to take a significant leap from his rookie year). We've all been relieved to see both Foster and Brown starting at ILB the last couple weeks. The secondary hasn't been tested so much, but they didn't look too good against Rodgers (specifically Breeland going up against Nelson), so hopefully we get a better showing there. In the end, I think it's safe to say we're all just looking for that spark. That glimpse into the potential of this roster and what they can do as a team. It's been too disappointing of a preseason to really feel good about anything, but there is no doubt that this roster has talent. Arguably more than it ever has during Snyder's tenure as owner and maybe even before that. But they need to start getting in sync; the players we've become accustomed to watching perform at a high level need to start, well, performing at a high level; the coaches need to show the fans they've got a motivated team with positional units working in concert with each other; and it'd be nice if some of the new pieces stepped up and showed us why they were added to the team or what the hype is all about (perhaps none more important than Chase Roullier, who will be starting for an injured Spencer Long at Center). It's time. I don't feel like we can afford another ugly outing. The anxieties about Gruden's methodology during the offseason will be hard to not view as legitimate. The concern that it'll leak into the season, as it arguably did last year, will be overwhelming. They need to show up today and send out some good vibes. Stay tuned here on the ES Coverage Blog as well as the ES Gameday Thread and let's find out if they do together! ES EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS BY SPACEMAN SPIFF ES EXCLUSIVE ONE ON ONE INTERVIEWS OTHER INTERVIEWS PRE-GAME TWEETS AND GENERAL INFO Half Time Analysis Alright. So, terrible first quarter, better second quarter. It was really nice to see us finally get our running game going for the first time this preseason. Kelley and Perine both looked sharp once the offense got going a bit in the 2nd quarter. Roullier has looked really good out there. Sherff started out looking terrible again, but then really picked it up in the 2nd quarter. Can say that about the entire Oline, really. It's been frustrating to watch Pryor have as many drops as he's had, but fortunately he also picked it up with a great catch. Kirk has been inaccurate, consistently pressured, and just generally looking out of sync with his receivers, but again, he picked it up. The pick six was just woeful, though it seemed to light a fire since after that the offense started moving the ball. Defensively, they looked good after that pathetic first drive. Our Dline hasn't looked good, but hasn't looked bad, either. Seeing Taylor go down was depressing, especially since he's been having the best preseason on the line. Hood is still an issue, but he had some good plays. Allen looks like he has looked... flashing potential but definitely not really impactful yet. A rookie, basically. Ioannidis didn't look as good as he has in the previous two games, but not bad. McGee had a nice rush, and McClain was just okay. Both Francis and Mbu looked good. The secondary is a little scary right now. That first drive was just horrendous, everyone off, no tight coverage, easy completions galore. Frustrating crap. But they picked up a bit, as well, and it was great seeing Norman make some impact plays. Alright, be back after the game with our usual locker room interviews and awesome pics from Spaceman Spiff, see you then!

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Landover, MD - Greetings to all my fellow ES'ers and ES'ettes! It's your neighborhood friendly TSO up here in the Press Box at FedEx Field along with the greatest photographer in the universe (verified fact, he has a plaque stating such), my man @Spaceman Spiff. We're here to provide you the best Redskins' coverage you'll find on the planet and, perhaps, in the universe - though I must admit Planet X5567 from the Controria Quadrant does a pretty good job of it themselves. Sorry for that, news of an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie in the making clearly has me overly geeked out. Anywho, does this feel like just another preseason game to you? Not if you're as hardcore as we folk here on ES are. We had talk of Jay's "soft" approach to Training Camp, of which arguably cost us big time last year when the team came out and laid a massive goose egg against the Steelers during the season opener, all week where some felt last week's game against the Ravens was another indication of such an approach. Jay himself, to his credit, admitted during his presser on Wednesday: Also, this: Not to mention the anxiousness that exists within the fanbase to see our Defense show signs of real, identifiable legitimacy - if it exists at all - where every gaffe is honed in on and nitpicked to death. I'll also be continuing my intense focus on the Dline that started with last week's game here. Then there are the players we haven't seen yet due to injuries. Of course, that starts first and foremost with none other than Josh Docston. We've seen such a minimal amount of live snaps from our 2016 1st rounder it's cut a deep gash in our fan souls. He's a game time decision so we'll find out soon enough if we'll be given some much needed healing. Preston Smith should be playing today along with Jamison Crowder, who will both look to get their first snaps of the preseason. And don't forget some of the young'ns who finally started practicing this week which leads me to the final proof of this game's heightened meaning... The still strong and remaining excitement regarding the potential of this year's draft picks. Whether it's our early picks in Allen and Anderson (another game time decision) or the later round guys like Sprinkle, Harvey-Clemons and Holsey... every player has buzz surrounding them. And as alluded to above, our mid-round guys in Fabian Moreau and Montae Nicholson should finally be getting some snaps for us to dig into. So, yeah, suffice to say I'm certainly excited. Preseason or not, I can't wait to see what goes down! Stay tuned for more tweets, notes, player interviews and general coverage all throughout the day, pre-game and post-game! As usual when I do this, I'll be focusing in on the trenches (well, mostly) since everyone will be following the ball. Got the binoculars ready to go. 1st Quarter Notes -Shawn Lauvao driven back on first snap for offense. No gain for Rob Kelley. - Moreau, first snap in the NFL, causes fumble on punt return! - Ty Nsekhe gives up pressure to Matthews on following snap, 4th offensive snap of the game. - Oline holding up well outside of those two gaffes. - McGee, Hood and McClain starting on the Line, nice pressure first snap from all of them. - Nothing much from any of the DLinemen the next two snaps. Allen and Ioannidis were in the nickel defense on 3rd down. - McGee, Hood and McClain again on following play after penalty. McGee with a nice run stop. Gets off his man, makes tackle. - Next play, Hood pushed back, allowing 5 yard gain from RB. - Allen over pursues, leaves gap on run play following a few quick plays from Rodgers. - Ioannidis follows with a good run stop. - Ioannidis with a good pass rush on following 3rd down. Rodgers does Rodgers' things and runs for a first. - Terrell McClain with a good rush on 2nd and 6. - Hood and McClain are the linemen in near the goal line. Do a nice job on 1st and goal after penalty to allow Foster to get the run stop. - Zach Brown played that well on the TD, just a good throw and good catch by Rodgers and Bennett. - Nsekhe and Sherff struggle on pass off, Sherff gives up pressure on second snap of ensuing offensive drive. - Fabian Moreau again doing a great job on the punt, first guy there and finishes the tackle. - McGee, Hood and McClain your starting linemen. - Sack was mostly Preston Smith, but McGee does a good job getting immediate push. - Allen and Ioannidis in. Allen with great awareness on screen. Sniffs it out immediately and gets in on tackle. Ioannidis did well to get immediate pressure on QB, but he was essentially allowed a free release since it was a screen. - Not much of a rush on following 3rd down from Allen or Ioannidis. - Offense back out. Moses is in. - Just no movement from Lauvao on run play, Moses pulling inside also nothing. - Following 3rd and 1, Moses and Sherff do nice job getting some push to allow Kelley to get the first. 2nd Quarter Notes - Oline doing well first two plays of 2nd quarter. - 1st down after penalty by Packers on 3rd down, Lauvao pulling but finds no one. Kelley still got a couple yards. - Ensuing 3rd down, Oline all do a good job in pass protection. - Lauvao pulls again on 4th down, not finding anyone. Surprised they didn't get the first, though. Seemed like it was enough. - Ioannidis, Francis and Hood in now at Dline. - Francis pushed back on the first play, run picks up a chunk. - McGee and McClain in the nickel. Nothing much from either. - Same on the next play near the goal line. - I'm dying right now, some Packer's media in front of me all excited, fist bumping after every TD. Probably some fan bloggers, it's annoying though. - Offense back out. - Oline does a great job on 2nd down. As clean a pocket as all night. - Again, on 3rd down, nice job. Kirk with a dime. Finally. - Lauvao on following play with zero push, but Trent gets it. Kelley with decent gain. - Thus far, the Oline really looks exactly the same as last year. Good at pass protection, but just no push in the running game. Frustrating. - Lanier and Taylor out on the DLine now. Both do a good job on first down run. Pick up of 4 not their fault. - Following play, Phil Taylor destroys his guy and gets into the QBs face quickly, great pass rush. - Following play on 3rd down, both are stymied and don't generate any rush. - Following play, Lanier with a decent rush, but took a while to get off his guy. - Play after the next, 3rd down, Phil Taylor with a great rush, beats his guy immediately, and finishes with the sack. He just looks the part. - Offense back out. - Following big play to Vernon down the sideline, Lauvao gives up pressure. - Following 1st down pass to Doctson, Lauvao gives up another pressure. - 1st and Goal, no push upfront on run play. Thompson loses two yards. - 2nd and Goal, do a good job in pass protection. - 4th and Goal, good pass pro, TD. Half Time Analysis Welp, another frustrating preseason outing so far, but thankfully the first team offense scored their first TD of the preseason at the very end. My major takeaways regarding the lines are: 1) The Oline seems to be exactly the same as last year. Strong in pass pro and unable to get any push in the run game. They're still too high, too often, and Lauvao is a liability. 2) As for the Dline, it was also a bit disappointing in comparison to last week when they played much better, but they weren't necessarily a negative. Phil Taylor looks great. Everyone else was just... meh. As for the game, it was nice to see Fabian Moreau out there making plays on Special Teams. He looks the part, and even the bomb he gave up wasn't necessarily bad coverage on his end. Seeing Spaight get that big hit in the backfield was sweet. Montae Nicholson looked good, as well. Breeland struggled against Nelson, which is becoming a pattern for him at this point. The TD Zach Brown gave up was simply a great throw and catch from Rodgers to Bennett, and otherwise he looked good out there along with Foster. Compton actually had a nice play blowing up an OLineman. Kirk was on and off, as was the entire first team offense. Not sure what is going on with them, but they've always got one or two guys failing. It was great to see Doctson out there towards the end, and he should've had a TD, but the moment he came free Kirk looked the other way, panicking in the red zone. But, yeah, can't help but get excited by Doctson. Alrighty, let's see what happens the following half. Hopefully we get to see better overall play from the second teamers. 3rd Quarter Notes - Lanier and Mbu the Dlinemen - 2nd down, Lanier with a great pass rush, generates the hold! - 3rd down, Mbu with a great pass rush, spinning his way to a sack. He had a terrible game last week, so this is good to see. - Your 2nd Team Oline: Nsekhe, Kalis, Roullier, Catalina, and Painter. - They do a good job on first down run to the left. Perine gains 4. - 2nd down run, Catalina doesn't get the push you'd like, but everyone else does a good job. - 3rd down, they do a decent job in pass rush. Nsekhe and Catalina pushed back a little bit, but maintain. - Middle of the line does a great job getting push on ensuing run. - Ensuing throw, Catalina gives up a pressure. - 3rd down, Painter lost on the outside, but McCoy gets it off quick. - Lanier, Francis and Taylor out at Dline now. - 3rd down, Lanier with a nice pass rush. - These guys in front of me are actually flipping out about the way the Packers are playing right now. What the!? - 1st down, Roullier, I believe, falls down and gives up a pressure. May not have been him, happened fast. - 2nd down, they do a good job run blocking except Catalina who ends up on the floor. - 3rd down, good job all around. Big run by Perine to the outside. - Following play, Catalina gets no push, everyone else does but only slightly so. No gain from Perine. - 3rd down, Kalis loses his one on one, but McCoy throws quick to Paul for a TD. - Francis and Mbu are your Dlinemen. - Mbu looks really good today... beat his man right away, but run was away from him. - Aaaand then he follows it up with good penetration, playing a role in the near sack fumble. - Offense back on. Bootleg, but Roullier doesn't seem to find his target, who almost gets McCoy. - Next play, great double team from Painter and Catalina, good push in general from the rest. Perine for a nice gain. - Next play, most get push, Roullier does a great job getting to the second level. - Following play, good pass pro from the entire Line. - Few plays later, last play of the 3rd quarter, Line does another great job in pass pro. 4th Quarter Notes - Mbu, Francis and Lanier are your Dlinemen. - 2nd down, all three get pushed back slightly. Not very good, but only a gain of 3 for the rush. - 3rd down and short, again all three get pushed back. - Following 2nd down, Francis with a good run stop. Maintains leverage, sheds, makes tackle on run to the outside right. - Same OLine out, but Sudfeld and Matt Jones in. - 2nd down, good push from all except Roullier, who gets pushed back slightly. - Mbu and Banks are your Dlinemen. - 2nd down, Banks beats his man for a nice rush, but QB gets it off quickly. - 3rd down, no pass rush from either. - Not much from either of them the next few snaps, as well. TD Green Bay. - 3rd string Oline in now. Not much to note here. - Lanier, Pipkins and Banks in on the Dline. - Few plays into the drive, Lanier beats his man soundly but running back too far outside of him to affect play. - 3rd down with about 2:40 on the clock, zero rush from the Dline. - Offense back out. Kuandjio just got beat badly, Sudfeld hit hard but gets the ball out and Davis makes a great play on it. - Play after the roughing penalty, Kling just did a crap job on the speed rush. Sudfeld sacked. - 2nd and 17, good pass pro from all involved. - Good pass pro again on the following 3rd down. Entire Exclusive ES Photo Gallery by @Spaceman Spiff found here: Player interviews found here: Highlights from ES Exclusive Interviews: Pre-Game Tweets

Well way to just completely ruin the entire blog entry. Debunked. I'm deleting this now, it's over. I'm still trying to figure out what he ate to get to his listed 267 lbs.

Alrighty fellow ESers, I'll be doing the ES coverage up in the press box at FedEx for the next two preseason games with my main man @Spaceman Spiff taking awesome pics of the action as usual! As I did last year, I'll be focusing on players (or in this case entire positions) that have intrigued us all offseason. I'll go through what I saw in the previous games and, as we journey through the preseason, who improved or regressed along the way. And what has intrigued us all more than the Dline this offseason? So, first, a quick primer as to how I've approached this. I've uploaded a bunch of videos I took of the Dline's snaps to twitter since that seems to be the easiest method to embed stuff here. The videos I took are essentially snaps that I thought either had a clear win or a clear loss by any single Dlineman or more. I judged wins/losses more off of the initial movement generated, or ground given up, from the player so as to keep it as basic as possible and avoid schematic context. The snaps that occurred where neither a win nor a loss necessarily occurred (player did nothing impactful either way) were omitted in this count. However, that only happened on a few occasions, the majority of snaps held some intrigue for us. At the end of this, I'm going to compile the number of wins and losses for each player, and then I'll continue to do this throughout the next two preseason games. Click on the videos to see the line of text detailing said wins/losses. Shall we begin? (Apologies for the small text size of the chart, wanted it to fit properly in a mobile format, as well) Player Wins Losses Snaps Accounted For* 63 Brandon Banks 1 1 2 69 AJ Francis 7 1 8 72 Anthony Lanier 8 1 11 73 Ondre Pipkins 1 1 2 78 Joey Mbu 0 8 11 90 Ziggy Hood 0 3 6 92 Stacy McGee 5 2 7 95 Jonathan Allen 2 0 5 97 Terrell McClain 2 0 2 98 Matt Ioannidis 3 1 4 99 Phil Taylor 5 0 5 *Total snaps accounted for is just a tally of snaps where a win/loss occurred on the Dline, and not a total snap count. That being said, the number somewhat reflects total snap counts since the majority of snaps had a win/loss occur. So what did I learn from this? Let's go down the list. -Brandon Banks didn't play many snaps, only coming in towards the end of the game (along with Pipkins). So his competition was weak, as well. He had 1 (slight) win and 1 loss, while the 2 snaps accounted for were pretty much all that he did. -AJ Francis had a great game, tallying 7 wins to only 1 loss. He played early on and often, but mostly after the Ravens' first-stringers came off the field. That was out of 11 snaps accounted for, so only 3 of those snaps were ones where he wasn't impactful either way (again, that doesn't include other snaps where no Dlineman won or loss, but it shouldn't be much more than that). -Anthony Lanier also had an excellent game, tallying 8 wins and only 1 loss. His 1 loss came after a snap in which you could see he was clearly tired after the whistle, so it was almost expected. He played a lot, but like Francis came in after the 1st stringers for the Ravens went off the field. That was out of 11 snaps accounted for, so 3 of those snaps were ones that were neither negative nor positive along with those unaccounted for. -Ondre Pipkins, as mentioned above, came into the game late with Banks and didn't have many snaps overall. Like Banks, he had 1 win and 1 loss, though his win was certainly a better one. - Joey Mbu didn't perform well at all. It's surprising considering he opened up TC as the guy getting the most reps with the first team at NT and had a decent amount of buzz surrounding him all offseason. But you can totally see why he lost ground to both Taylor and Francis. He ended up with 8 losses and a whopping 0 wins out of the 11 snaps accounted for. He played a significant chunk of the game, but like Lanier and Francis it was mostly against the Ravens 2nd and 3rd teams. - Ziggy Hood also had a poor game. 3 losses to 0 wins on 6 snaps accounted for. He played mostly against the first team of the Ravens. With Hood, there was a decent amount of snaps he played more than what was accounted for, but that only means he did nothing impactful (negative or positive) in any of them including the other 3 that were. Let's see how it goes the rest of the preseason, but overall he had more plays than not that neither were positive nor negative, and he had 3 clear losses. - Stacy McGee had a solid outing, winning 5 snaps and losing on 2 out of the 7 snaps accounted for. He got a decent amount of time in against the first team, as well. His wins weren't necessarily big time ones, but he was a net positive overall - Jonathan Allen was an interesting case. The consensus opinion was that he had a good game, and I agree with that to a degree, but his plays mostly came against the 2nd team of the Ravens. He got a decent amount of snaps against their first team, but those neither ended up as wins or losses. Either way, he had 2 wins and 0 losses overall on the 5 snaps I accounted for (so you can see he had a bunch of plays where he was more inconsequential than not). Not too shabby for his first outing as a pro, either way, and he got himself one of the better "wins" of the night with a sack. He shows great awareness for a rookie, as well, which is why he's always around the ball. - Terrell McClain had a solid outing. Which was a surprise because after the game it seemed like most were down on him. He didn't play against the first team of the Ravens, but he finished with 2 wins and 0 losses on the 2 snaps I accounted for with him in. One of his wins was one of the better ones of the entire night. - Matt Ioaniddis had a good outing, with 3 wins and 1 loss on the 4 snaps I accounted for with him in. He got a significant amount of reps against the first team Ravens as well as their 2nd team, and the good news is that 2 of his wins came against their first team. - Finally, Phil Taylor came in with a solid performance. He mostly played against the first team of the Ravens and finished with 5 wins and 0 losses in the 5 snaps he was accounted for. 4 wins against their first team. We might just have a Nose Tackle ladies and gentlemen. In summary, Hood and Mbu were the only two who clearly had bad games. Not enough for either Banks or Pipkins to go off on. The rest played really well, with Lanier and Francis having the two best individual performance (granted, against 2nd and 3rd stringers). I'm genuinely excited about the prospects of this Dline moving forward. Can't wait to continue focusing on them the next couple of weeks and finding out where they all go from here!

Gruden said "4 to 5 days" and that was on Sunday. So I guess we'll know within the next 2-3 days. Hopefully he's out there practicing by Friday at the latest. Can't wait to see him play, I think he's an absolute stud, but it's probably smart to keep him out for one more game. Or not. Would be nice, lol.

You would post a link that has "lol" in it.

Yeah, but he's our douche. Wait, aren't you guys used to rooting for douches? And not just douches on the field, but total scumbags off of it, too. Teach us how to cope with that since you've undoubtedly become an expert at it. Should be easier for us since we don't have to worry about the off field stuff that's even worse. I mean, "boys will be boys", right?

Yeah, it does happen to me, as well. I started to put fewer tweets in every post than I did before and that has helped me, at least. It's been awhile since it's crashed on my phone. For me, it only seems to do it when there's a bunch of tweets all on one page and we're getting close to a new page. Not sure there's a fix because the setting to change the amount of posts per page we used to have is no long available with the board update. That would've helped.

@wilco_holland That was hilarious, and I know it's mostly harmless satire, but there's no politics in The Stadium, including this thread. There's a Random "Thot" Thread in the Tailgate for stuff like this, among the political threads themselves. Please post it there if you'd like, thanks.

Slap on the wrist for the walkie talkie thing, as well. It's not a conspiracy theory anymore, in my mind. The theory has been proven, the conspiracy is real. The Giants get away with more than anyone else in the league.

I know I'm reading it on twitter now. Never got this many notifications in my life there, lol. Funny stuff. The one thing that consistently happens once someone gets banned from here is they dress up what they did to others. There's no way he got perma banned for quoting one pic in the Tailgate. There had to be a lot more to it than that. I won't believe it.

That's funny. But what are you trying to say? He only said nice things about me cuz of the @, but otherwise they're untrue!? Shut your coach-hating mouth!

Who's this guy? I like him. I don't think there's been a single instance where someone got perma-banned for one quoted pic. Or were you joking? Did someone actually say that, lol?

Lol, just checked my twitter feed: That's it, you're getting perma-banned @SWFLSkins , I'm way too uptight to let that **** slide!

It sucks because all that it means is that they generate ratings, so it'll likely never change until that does. Sometimes I wonder if all Redskins fans could get on board and immediately change the channel if any discussion about Dallas takes place, maybe we can affect the ratings significantly. I know, I know. Ridiculously wishful thinking. But one can dream...

I think we all just feel bad to tell her no, lol. She's a nice lady and one of the good ones on the local media scene. I PM'd her before when it first started to start posting the threads like she used to in BRBN, assuming it was a mistake on her end. I don't think she responded. Ever since the update she started doing it in The Stadium.