Who is this loser?

offseason.

 

Interesting topic. I've downplayed Foster's late season performance because the stats came primarily from two games against Atlanta, who had the worst YPC allowed in the NFL last year, and a Giants team that was missing four members of its front seven. That said, they don't pay a guy $5 million a year if they don't think he can get the job done, so I definitely think that Foster gets the role until he hurts himself or proves to be a disaster (hard to think the latter will happen given how much they tolerated S. Davis last season). Can he carry the load? I'm not optimistic, but I'll give the man his shot. I'm curious to see how a better push up the middle will affect things as well.


LarryD:
The reason I discount that theory is that people are still talking, they just aren't interested in talking about the Panthers. The opportunities are there, but the nihilism in R&R really has started taking over everything.

 

Seems like it was slower this year than the last couple I've been around but really, just about everything that could be said has been said ten times over. That changes very soon though. Already picked up this week.

 

Personally, I think the amount of speculation and pontification about football is laughable. The games are played, and things happen. There will be a team or two that emerges that few predicted, just as there will be a few teams that slip off the radar, without fair warning.

Last season, who thought Mike Martz would end up with a cardiac infection, forcing him to walk out on the Rams, leaving the Greatest Show on Turf (the final frontier) in the trusty hands of..........Joe Vitt?

No amount of July 27th speculation would lead to such an insane scenario. I mean, who the fuck is sitting around right now, predicting that around week 7, Bill Belichick will get hit by a bus (well, Tony Dungy wishes it, but that doesn't count). Or, dining with said Dungy, Bill Cowher loses his life, choking tragically on an unchewed piece of sirloin (Dungy: "If I only knew the heimlich, I swear.....)

People speculate b/c, well....it's all we can do. It bridges the gap from the Sibearian month of February, to these glorious humid days of late July. So, personally, I don't waste a great deal of time being a pundit. I'll leave that the pundits (so called).

 

See? Nihilism.

 

Maw-maw....get out my wikipedier!!!

 

It just seems like so much of Foster's issue is effort. If he wants to put his head down, he puts his head down. If he thinks he's going to bust one, he's upright. It's like he knows what to do, but just doesn't always do it, or is misreading the situation.
If he wants to protect the football well, he does. It's not like he can't, but when he loses it, it's almost always carelessness.

And that's just frustrating.

But DW, Goings could probably carry the load if they had to. Shelton being a wildcard, that's not awful either, assuming he would only have to play backup roles unless/until he showed more.

 

Oh, undoubtedly. And yeah, to the Vitt thing, too. But the idea of talking about football isn't about ...now brace yourself, because people will be shocked I'm saying it ...about being right. This isn't, to me, a score keeping tally. Though it happens, definitely.
What it's about? talking about football. Because I really, really fucking love football. Which is why I'll talk about nearly anything with nearly anybody. Hell, I'll engage Thelt in an argument about Eddie George v/s Tshimange Biakabutuka. It's football. The worst football discussion, even if I had to give myself a lobotomy and give Dukey a fair fight, beats the most epic soccer or basketball situations.

 

gesundheit

 

I think Foster is gonna be focused, it's the first time he is the man, and he knows he's gonna get pushed. He has the talent. If only he can avoid the season ending type of injury...

I'm one of the few that blamed a big part of our running woes on the OL last year, and I believe that will be better. Especially with Key helping out.