DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Preseason Gameday vs New England What I Saw...

Well, I never start this thread, but it wasn't up, so here goes:

For starters, I actually got to see the game. I was unable to catch anything substantial in the other two.
I actually liked what I saw.

Obviously, individual players shined a bit, big props to Gabriel, but what I most liked was that it was a REALLY clean game for us.

I don't recall many penalties. I don't recall ANY false starts or procedure flags. We pretty much never shot ourselves in the foot.
The offense was simply efficient under both QBs. The defensive scheme made me very happy - even in a vanilla preseason game, our DLine was living in their backfield and bringing pressure the whole game.
I like Green. He's smart and pass-first unless it's a called run. He needs to get better at spotting where the 1st down marker is when he runs, but that just nitpicking. He is an automatic tush-push 1st Down in short yardage.
We ran the ball well. The receivers played well.

What did you see?

I saw the Browns play a clean, smart, tough game. They had 2 penalties in the game, and one was a rather bogus DPI.

I saw our 3rd and 4th string QBs know, understand, and operate the ofense like they had plays all preseason.

Sure it's our bottom of the bench guys, but man, if I'm Monken I play this tape for the whole teams form the next 2 or 3 guys. This was how this team is supposed to operate.

I saw 2 QBs who ran the offense, played well and did not throw a wobbly ball, overthrow receivers, throw the ball into the ground, or throw interceptions. I saw running backs who gained yardage. I know these were all bottom of the roster players, but please Santa, can I get these 2 QBs to stay with the team ?

Holy sh*t. We played a game??

I saw Floriea play like Wes Welker, but he probably won't make he team. At least it didn't sound like it in Monks after game press conference, if anything can be read in to that.

I saw Gabriel play with poise and operate the O like we haven't seen in a long time. No way that guy should go anywhere but up the depth chart.

I liked what I saw at RB from Sanders, Marshall, and Booth. Booth popped IMO. Very shifty back.

It was a good, well played game.

I couldn't see the game but followed it on my phone and from what I've read and saw we played well even if there were backup players on both sides. How come these 3rd and 4th stringers were able to execute better than our supposed better players especially our QB's. Maybe we have better depth than we thought. Keep Gabriel. He seems like the only QB we have that knows how to run our O. Heck, Green looked better than our #1 and #2 QB's.

Gabriel looked really good. Overall it was a well played game by the whole team.

One of Gabriel or Sanders gets traded before Week 1 now. That's my guess.