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NFL Preseason / PSU Player Watch Open Thread

I'm excited to see some of our 2009 draft picks play today, here's the breakdown:


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SAT, AUG 15 TIME (ET) TV LOCATION
Atlanta at Detroit 4:00 PM NFL Ford Field
Chicago at Buffalo 7:00 PM NFL Ralph Wilson Stadium
Cleveland at Green Bay 8:00 PM   Lambeau Field
Tampa Bay at Tennessee 8:00 PM   LP Field
Houston at Kansas City 8:00 PM   Arrowhead Stadium
Seattle at San Diego 10:00 PM NFL Qualcomm Stadium

 

Atlanta:  NO ONE

Detroit:  WR's Bryant Johnson, Derrick Williams, Safety Clavin Lowry

Chicago:  DT Anthony Adams, Kicker Robbie Gould, Guard Tyler Reed

Buffalo:  (no Maybin)  LB Posluszny, CB Lydell Sargeant, Safety Bryan Scott

Cleveland:  NO ONE

Green Bay:  Punter Jeremy Kapinos

Tampa Bay:  TE John Gilmore

Tennessee QB Kerry Collins

Houston:  NO ONE

Kansas City:  WR Bobby Engram, DE Tamba Hali, RB Larry Johnson

Seattle:  WR Deon Butler

San Diego:  NO ONE

 

I wish I could find a way to look up their numbers but it's probably more of a pain then it's worth.  Also I doubt the 3 games that aren't on NFL network are even televised outside of regional coverage, so good luck with that.

Poll
Who's got the best chance at a long-term NFL career?
Butler
29 votes
Williams
13 votes
Sargeant
0 votes
Maybin
23 votes
Shipley
23 votes
Ornberger
6 votes
Norwood
0 votes
Cadogan
3 votes
Davis
0 votes
Evans
1 votes
Gaines
0 votes
Ruben
0 votes

98 votes | Poll has closed

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Cool, this is just what I wanted to know.

I watched Shipley quite a bit in the steelers last game and he looked good. He got into a little shoving match with a lineman at one point, and played the whole time I watched the game.
I hope he does well but I went with Butler as the best player for long term career. Wide receivers seem to be able to hang around a long time in the league.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

by psu on Aug 15, 2009 2:49 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Williams

Williams has been in the 1st string offense, I’m not sure he started but he’s been in there quite a bit. Only one pass in his direction, an over thrown ball on the post route to the endzone. Williams also returned a punt all of 5 yards. He wasn’t in on kick-off returns, so that’s interesting.

As long as Culpepper is QB I doubt Williams will get a catch this game, he is simply terrible. Hopefully Stafford has the ability to stand in the pocket and throw the ball, all Cullpeper has managed to do is scramble out and run, he even put his shoulder down and took a few hits running up field. In a preseason game, that’s about as stupid as it gets, just ask Charlie Batch (sustained a season ending injury last year b/c he lowered his shoulder for extra yards running in a preseason game).

"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.

by millzners on Aug 15, 2009 5:03 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

He did return one kick off (probably after your post)

And it looked good, out to the 32 and he just had one more guy to beat to break it.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

by psu on Aug 15, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Williams TD

Just caught a nice long TD in the endzone with great coverage, Stafford threw a good one and williams came down with it. cool.

"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.

by millzners on Aug 15, 2009 5:54 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm glad to hear he is playing WR

I thought I had heard they were just planning on using him just as a return specialist. I wish him only the best, and that’s a nice start, even if it’s a pre-season game.

by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 15, 2009 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Bills game

Anybody seen Poz? Or any of the other PSU guys? I haven’t been paying much attention, even though the game is on.

Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.

by 06Lion on Aug 15, 2009 8:13 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Running through the box scores

and I noticed Lydell had a pick. Aside from Williams’ TD, that seems to be the highlight of the day yesterday.

Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.

by 06Lion on Aug 16, 2009 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Butler

I DVR’d the game, not thru the whole thing, but so far Butler had a few catches, returned a few punts, he looks really good. Tj Hushmanzada (sp?) had some good things to say about Deon during his interview, said he’s small, but he likes him a lot. Said he wanted to go back in the game to fight somebody after Butler took a good shot and the CB celebrated.

Compared to Williams, Butler looks faster and seems to run his routes better.

"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.

by millzners on Aug 16, 2009 2:00 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I saw the hit. It was the old side of the shoulder spearing to the head….

by cmdpsu15 on Aug 16, 2009 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I believe it's

houshmazilly. Definitely that or Hoshemazode

by jimbo2psu on Aug 16, 2009 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Butler

I voted for Butler simply because that man has more heart than anyone I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure if he’ll ever be a marquee player, but he’ll always have a home.

by JoePa'sNotDead on Aug 17, 2009 1:59 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

ornberger

just a guess…interior linemen can have LONG careers though if they have the body for it

slight edge over butler

by hbeach08 on Aug 17, 2009 1:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Connor kicked arse tonight

led both Panthers and Giants in Tackles. which is good considering his injury. god to hear his knee is better!!

We Are...

by amandakt on Aug 17, 2009 11:27 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Maurice Evans on the Giants

Had a forced fumble, too.

by GreatScawt on Aug 17, 2009 11:30 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

The only thing that'll keep Evans from making the final roster cut

is that the Giants have about 47 other extremely capable offensive lineman to sort through.

But it was a nice reminder of what a motivated Mo Evans looks like (on the football field, at least). The real shame is that he wouldn’t be fighting for a spot on the roster as an undrafted free agent if he had decided to show that same energy in the games he played in last season.

"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

by IcersGuy on Aug 18, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Agreed

He looked really good, physique-wise, too. You can tell he’s motivated. Glad to see him doing big things again.

And am I the only one who found J. Leman, the protector of all things free… to be kind of annoying? He seemed to play well… but there was some noticable and slightly unnecessary swagger going on.

by GreatScawt on Aug 18, 2009 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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