Hall of Fame Game this Sunday

Yes because we are playing in the Hall Of Fame game. Teams that play in this game have an extra preseason game.

 

Philbin signed the team up so they can get in an extra pre-season game, and start training camp a week before everyone else.

 

Definitely good for us.

 

That's 0430 on Monday morning over here in the "Stan". Hope I'm back from mission by then. Rugby's been an okay substitute, Arena Football a better one but I NEED FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'm bummed. I figured out how to plan my summer roadtrip to go to the game, but all the decent seats were sold out. Instead, going to use my money to take the kids to Hershey Park. bummer

 

I have a HUGE Fins Up in my pants in anticipation for this game.....

 

Ouch...it's like a punch to the testosterone level.

 

Who gives a crap....it's the cowgirls for Christ sake. Who gives a crap about the cowgirls?????

My nephew's going to disown me now!

 

Don't worry about the HOF game. I'm going to watch every second but even for a preseason game, this means absolutely nothing. Devlin will be in by the third series.

 

Id like to see playaction deep to Wallace on the first play.

 

Wallace and hart sitting out the scrimmage makes me think they sit out the game too. With binns gone and now Mathews hurt, one more blow and that units back to paper thin

 

Good and Bad

Great for preparation and bad with the increased injury risk.

 

I'm away for the game, with no internet access or TV...bad timing! I'll be watching as soon as I get back though, looking forward to that more than the trip we're doing!

 

Let's start with the players that we probably won't see playing all that much.

Unfortunately that starts with Ryan Tannehill. He won't play much. Nor will Lamar Miller. Even though we'd like to find out if Jon Martin is that bad or Olivier Vernon/Dion Jordan that good, I imagine both Jon Martin and Tyson Clabo (as the two linemen with their spots fully locked up) will leave after maybe two series. They COULD take Richie Incognito and Mike Pouncey with them, though it's harder to say since they're experimenting with those guys a little. If the scrimmage is any indication, we might not see Mike Wallace out there for more than a couple of plays, and after Brian Hartline strained his calf just by warming up for this scrimmage we could be lucky if we see Hartline for a single play. Dustin Keller will come out quickly. On defense, I don't expect to see Paul Soliai or Randy Starks for very long, and Cameron Wake maybe even less than that. Two series, max. Odrick and Vernon might play longer. Wheeler and Ellerbe might play longer. Brent Grimes will not. Reshad Jones will not. Chris Clemons will not. Richard Marshall and Dimitri Patterson may. Koa Misi may.

I certainly hope we're going to get a healthy dose of Dion Jordan. He seems recovered from his shoulder surgery. He's now taking full contact. He'll have more than a week of full contact drills under his belt by the time we get to the game. I would hate to see the coaches have him in for a scant couple of series and then try and sit on him the rest of the way. As the hot shot #3 overall pick, fans are going to want to see this guy play and he's not a starter or anything so he should be playing.

Overall though I think we're going to see a lot of Jeff Adams, Nate Garner, Josh Samuda, Dallas Thomas and Lance Louis in the first half and into the second half. At receiver we'll see a bunch of Marvin McNutt, Brandon Gibson, Brian Tyms, perhaps Chad Bumphis and Jeff Fuller as well. We're probably going to see a lot of Daniel Thomas. We'll see a lot of Charles Clay and Dion Sims.

On defense we'll see a lot of Derrick Shelby, Kheeston Randall, Vaughn Martin and Olivier Vernon. As usual, we'll see an s-ton of Jason Trusnik. We'll probably also see a bunch of Jon Freeny and Austin Spitler. Then there's Richard Marshall, Dimitri Patterson, Nolan Carroll and perhaps some Will Davis right in the first half. You'll see a bunch of Jimmy Wilson and Kelcie McCray.

The guys I'm most interested in?

QB Pat Devlin
RB Daniel Thomas
RB Mike Gillislee
RB Jonas Gray
FB Evan Rodriguez
TE Dion Sims
TE Michael Egnew
WR Marvin McNutt
WR Brandon Gibson
WR Chad Bumphis
WR Brian Tyms
OT Jeff Adams
OG Josh Samuda
OG Lance Louis
OG Dallas Thomas
OT Will Yeatman
DE Dion Jordan
DE Olivier Vernon
DE Derrick Shelby
DE Vaughn Martin
LB Alonzo Highsmith
LB Lee Robinson
CB Will Davis
CB Nolan Carroll
DS Kelcie McCray
DS Jordan Kovacs

 

I want to see Egnew, i'm still resisting to believe he is as bad as most peopple thinks

 

I expect Tannehill to play two series, Moore to finish off the first half, and then Devlin playing the entire second half.

I don't see any players sitting. I imagine they will all get a series.

 

Gridironking, I love the avatar I've been saying that for awhile!

Really interested to see how Samuda and our TE's look. I agree with CK that unfortunately we probably won't see much of Martin, I want visual proof that he is improved all we keep hearing about are all these sacks

 

Another guy that I've talked about liking since before the draft is Jeff Adams.

I think he must have had a rough start to camp because he got some negative press right away on like the first day, and I think he allowed Olivier Vernon that strip-sack last night. But I'm still interested in seeing how he does in preseason. I think if you be patient with him, you may have a nice backup tackle.

VERY athletic guy.

As I've said for a while, I'm more intrigued with him than Will Yeatman. Position switches always sound fun and intriguing but the number of times they actually work out is pretty low. Joe Philbin himself gave the Yeatman thing a lot of weight by talking about it multiple times and then even moving Yeatman to right guard so he could potentially compete for a starting spot, but that experiment lasted like half a minute and then they put him back at tackle where he is now sitting behind my guy Adams.

 

Of course I'm excited to see Dion Jordan too, he sounded awesome last night! Any new updates on Jamar Taylor's hernia issues or timetable for his return?

 

Thanks, us Hawkeye fans have been saying it for a while as well.

 

i wouldn´t be shocked if martin plays beyond the starters

 

I'm...already wearing my new Tannehill jersey and working out my middle finger to be in game shape by Sunday,

 

jesus man, are you serious, where have you been the last months, i don´t know when the schedule came out, but it must have been right before the draft

 

Haha, your an Iowa fan? I love the "rivalry" that the Big Ten has said that Purdue-Iowa has. I ran into some Iowa fans at the bars the other night and we were laughing about that and how that is actually listed as one, there's no hate at all between the two schools at all.

 

I pegged you for a double bird guy...but then i remembered you need the other hand to hold your baby...who's holding your beer.

 

I had no desire to have a kid for at least 5 more years but now I kind of want to train a baby to be my beer holder...that sounds convenient!

 

I'm told the soft spot on their heads can be used to open a bottle.

 

I actually really like Devlin lol

 

We know what the starters can do .I am actually looking forward to seeing playing time for the draft picks and newcomers .Check out the bite factor for them.Could there be any future starters and stars among them?

Thats all part of the fun of being a hard core fan.

 

Say hi to DJ for me.

 

Lol

 

I agree, I have no desire to see any of our starters except samuda and Martin.

 

Bet what?

 

There are a ton of B10 schools I dislike before Purdue. I wouldn't say it is a rivalry game at all!