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Tom Sykes -> RE: General Vikes Talk (8/11/2023 12:15:53 PM)
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So impossibly premature ... yet ...
I thought Chandler looked sturdier. He had some juice to him last preseason, a little more physicality than your usual 4.38 dude. Very good balance on contact for a speedster, so much more natural than Nwangwu has ever looked. 4.38 guys who don’t shy away from contact aren’t 4.38 for very long so his issue will be staying healthy, not ascending the depth chart.
Mullens has obviously been fed a heaping spoonful of Cousins. What I liked about him in glimpses at SF was he had a little feistiness to him, a little scramble. He had a solid night all things considered but he did play a little stiffer than I remember him. Too early to tell. Still better than Mannion Mond (pause for shiver). Hall bailed on the pocket way too early which is both, a big problem and super refreshing.
Don’t get me wrong. Cousins is probably the ideal mentor for any young QB. Or any boy troop he takes camping. I just hope Mullens doesn’t get all the edginess buffed out of him ... you need a backup with a little bit of in-your-face attitude who can step in under-prepared while under pressure and still wing it without worrying what it looks like.
Addison has a little bit of a smooth bite to him. Efficient. It was good to see him all business. I was worried he would show up all petulant and flashy. With his own branded dance step. I guess we’ll have to wait for a score to see that but shrugging off the bad call on the toe drag was a good sign to me.
I wish I had even a vague impression of the defense which is what I was most interested to see. No impression at all, other than a few disappointing individual efforts (Cine is our new Sendejo, spearing players regardless of uniform; Booth getting torched by Oingo Boingo was disheartening ... he's going to start running out of Mulligans pretty soon).
I think we are going to be 4 games into the regular season before our defense starts to hit whatever stride it is capable of.
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