Two Cents on Week One

With one more game to go before wrapping up Week One of Preseason I thought I’d share a few thoughts.

From my camp visits:

Looks like Philadelphia did a great job grabbing Mike Kakfa in round 4 on the draft as he will be a starter in this league someday and the #2 QB for Philadelphia next season (assuming there is a next season).  Kafka threw some tight spirals at the end of practice working with Alex Hall (which obviously paid off Friday when he connected on a  57 yard pass to Hall to set up Akers' go-ahead kick.)   Good luck to Andy Reid making his cuts as they are stacked at wide out and a few other slots so teams like Buffalo should pay attention to who gets cut…speaking of the Bills looks like they got a solid contributor in free agent and  former Auburn Tiger, Antonio Coleman, who will get some playing time this season for the roster challenged Buffalo Bills.    Another player who showed flashes in camp but went down with an injury was 4^th round pick, Marcus Easley who caught some bombs when I was at practice but looks like he’ll be lost for the 2010 season.

Thanks to the NFL Network and NBC

Since you can watch all the games live I did my best to catch as much of every pre-season game as I could and while I didn’t see all the action here are the highlights of the guys I did see so far.   Another guy lost for the season that looked poised to take the #2 TE position this season was John Phillips.  Phillips is fundamentally sound doing exactly what you want from a number two tight end, let’s just hope he recovers and is back playing in 2011 (hopefully everyone is playing in 2011).   Jimmy Clausen, certainly showed he is not about to go the way of Rick Mirer and Brady Quinn, and looks to push for a starting job by the end of 2010 if not earlier.  Also Dwayne Jarrett, showed some nice moves in the game against Carolina and hopefully continues that course for the Panthers.  Everyone knows he has the God given size and talent just needs to put it all together.   The Oakland defense looks like they will keep games close now they just need the offense to catch up.  The defensive line certainly showed they are going to bring the heat.  Doug Free showed why the Hotel went out of business.  Looked strong and balanced.  Early on the Cowboys certainly appear to have made the right selection by letting Adams walk.  Rex Grossman appears to have the #2 QB slot locked in D.C.  While never a true starter Grossman certainly is their best option behind McNabb.   Tim Tebow looks to have passed Brady Quinn by which likely mean Quinn will be a late camp cut as he has only taken steps back in his development. 

Last second shot

Glad Theismann isn’t on a major network anymore.  He was carrying on about the Redskins as if they just won the Super Bowl.  I want to scream Joe it’s the first game of the preseason and you just beat Buffalo, a team in contention for the #1 pick of the 2011 draft.   He sounded like McNabb is the second coming and that the team had no weakness.   Really a team with the record they had last season suddenly should be looked at as Super Bowl contenders. Wow!!.   It’s was really bad when Danny “I try to act cool but I’m not” Snyder came in the booth and I thought Theismann was like a 14 year old girl at a Justin Bieber concert. 

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