I especially liked his effort after the catch. Looked to me like he had the ball tucked tight, and still managed to bust through three guys to get some good extra yards before they brought him down. not sure whether he’s responding to the attention or just doing what he would have done anyway, but if he tries extra hard to prove the perceptions wrong, that’s good.

it will be interesting to see Hard Knocks this week. They have at least 6 plays from the game that fit nicely into some of their main story lines, with Bennett, Amendola, Lowber and Keon (not to mention Felix).

Thought he had a pretty good return last night and heard he came close to blocking a kick.

I’ve been playing “Where’s Walden” in the 4th quarters.

with return yards included, that’s very reasonable I think, yards and rookie of the year. Man it is exciting to see that kid run, he just makes it look so easy, he’s so versatile, can’t wait to see him light it up when the regular season starts!

and I really think I’m gonna grab Felix in the 2nd. Our draft snakes so I won’t have another pick until the end of the 3rd and I don’t see him lasting that long if he continues to make headlines.

Your comment is really swaying my decision because we get return points too. Plus, it’s a Keeper league and I can have him for another year. Hmm…

next to eachother on kickoffs is gonna be nasty.

their entire defense was playing off, no press coverage, and very plain, and also no blitzing or stunting so very little pass pressure up front. with the denver qbs having as much time as they did, receivers are going to get open eventually. i just wouldn’t read too much into it yet.

Draft Class has the chance to be A three years down the road..

is the Boys only had 6 picks. They sure used each wisely. Well, most of these guys should contribute THIS year. Nice not having to wait 3 years to see what we’ve got. It’s annoying having to wait for guys like Bobby C and Marten.

Woulda paid a ton for DMAC, when Felix may be just as good.

Felix already looks better running through the tackles.. Reggie averaged 3.7 yds a carry, plus he really isn’t doing much with the ball once he cathces it..

Because he looked to have improved from game 1 to game 2. These are just prelim “so far” grades. The expectations of Bennett are very high and continuing to grow, so if you compare him to an average 3rd TE, like David Thomas (Patriots) or Michael Matthews (Giants)—I’d say he’s better than average.

and I still dont like it. I dont like his attitude, attention to detail and his lack of drive.

We are probably going to lose Hannah because if he has another good game like he had Saturday night, someone will pick him up. I liked the kid, has all the tools, just needed time to develop. I would of been comfortable going into the season with Hannah as the third tightend and the bennett pick in the second round should of been a receiver.

I like the Scandrick pick from the moment he was selected, couldn’t believe he was still there in the fifth round. Dont know alot about Walden, time wll tell with him, has a quick first step but is very raw.

I love the drafting of Choice – as you mentioned a luxury pick, but looks ready to go if we needed him for any reason and his ST contributions could be a plus as well. how much better is it to have a good player at this position then some crappy OL project that’s not going to work out anyway? this was a best player available type selection and if we can do that consistently we’ll be competing at a high level regularly.

Hopefully tonight on Hard Knocks, they’ll ease up on him a bit—show him breaking some tackles, show him listening to his coach.

Garrett wants an athletic TE and Jerry went out and got him one. Still, with Hannah’s improvement, I think there’s a good chance of them keeping 4 TEs while Bennett develops. I don’t see them keeping 2 FBs. TEs are useful to this offense and can be used on ST (like Curtis is) or from the H-back position to give Cricket a breather.

Thank the browns for having a decent season..

Only because Felix will be a complementary player to Barber and a #2 WR (not sure if Donnie Avery, Devin Thomas, Sweed or Hardy is one or not) would be an every down player next year. Even so, what if we had passed on Jenkins, taken a WR at #25 and then scooped up a Tracy Porter, Terrence Wheatley or Patric Lee later on? Hard to do that when CB was the biggest weakness last year and the Adam Jones thing was still not done in April.

Hindsight is 20/20, but let’s face it, we STILL don’t have anyone to take the pressure off of T.O. in 3rd and long situations.

The fact is that Stanback, Hurd and Austin are not the answer and it was a need that JERRY stated was high on his list going into the draft and Free Agency, yet went unaddressed in the off-season.

Oh BTW, that was ‘rookie’ Eddie royal toasting us last Saturday.

Hurt almost everyone one of them except DMAC and maybe Stewart. Teams were in no big hurry to pick up the best RB on the board because there were plenty of good ones still left. So they all ended up sliding. Seems like it happens in almost every draft that has good depth at a particular position.

He doesn’t let ego get in the way anymore. He’s grown from that and hiring Parcells as HC is proof of that. I also think that his business savvy figured he could learn how to be a better GM from Parcells, while using the Tuna to improve his team. People seem to want to split Jerry and Bill, but I think they are two grown men who have a keen understanding of football. Jerry taught Bill the intracacies of running a team (like he’s doing in Miami) and Bill taught Jerry everything he knows about building team talent.

If anything came out of Parcells being in Dallas, it opened Jerry’s mind up to considering that each of his staff members specialize in their assignments. From that, he will continue to micromanage his staff, while still satisfying his desire to find high risk/ high reward players.

Those days of being a shotty GM are over for Jerry. He knows it; therefore, so should the fans.