Is This a Silver Lining ... or Proof of a George Foster 'Girlie-Man' Mentality?

[BroncoBuff]

The Broncos offense was #1 in one category this year:

LEAST PENALIZED ... both number of penalties and yards:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9057/penaltiesqc2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

POLL TO FOLLOW ...

[Kaylore]

Penalties, more than anything else, are a sign of good coaching. It means that your team is disciplined and they don;t beat themselves. It doesn't make you world beaters, but you will win a lot of games by being the team that beats yourself the least. Poor discipline can lead to errors at critical times. Look at the Chargers game last night. To suggest that if you're not drawing penalties, then you're not trying is not a very intelligent point to try and make. If you suck, then you usually end up trying to hold someone to try and stop a big play from happening.

[BroncoBuff]

To suggest that if you're not drawing penalties, then you're not trying is not a very intelligent point to try and make.
I was kinda mocking the Jim Rome mantra there ...


Looks like the Vikings "outlaw party boat" mentality followed them to the field, eh? :~ohyah!:

I couldn't find team defensive penalties ranks ... anybody?

[Arkansas Bronco]

Foster wasnt fast enough to even hold......

[Vegas_Bronco]

Foster wasnt fast enough to even hold......

:notworthy

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

Ya know BB and Kaylore, I don't care if you don't think Foster played well this year. You are welcome to discuss his football issues but he doesn't deserve the hate and personal insults that are posted here. Foster volunteers a good amount of time around town helping with healthcare for the poor and literacy issues. He recently spent almost an entire day at my daughter's school after they won some sort of reading competition. He went to everyone of the 25 or so classrooms and shook each kids hand and autographed their reading calendars. He spent Christmas Eve at a local clinic for the poor wishing the patients well.

Attack his play if you want, but please don't attack his integrity.

[BroncoBuff]

Fair enough .... I actually saw him on the John Lynch show this year and he was very cool. Plus, somebody here posted a photo GF posed for with them last offseason.

Point taken, I'm sorry ... it's easy to forget these guys are real people sometimes.


Q: What are the upsides/cautions of moving GF to guard?

[Arkansas Bronco]

Hey Big Guy from the way it sounds he is a great guy but that doesnt keep the QB alive. I am not trying to insult his integrity, I just think his play last year was pretty aweful. I think the only Bronc I have thrown out while he was still on the team was Ms. Lilly during his holdout and he still has that mark checked next to his name.

[CBF1]

I will be the first to say it..... FOSTERS PLAY AT OT SUCKED. I am sure he is a nice guy though. :)

[Arkansas Bronco]

Q: What are the upsides/cautions of moving GF to guard?
upside: That we have another position to gripe about next year.
cautions: See his play all this year.

[TheDave]

Q: What are the upsides/cautions of moving GF to guard?

Actually i think Foster would make a great Gaurd... For me the only downside is that we already have alot of bodies on the interior.

Kaylor what do you think about the chances of Kuper playing RT?

[Dukes]

I will be the first to say it..... FOSTERS PLAY AT OT SUCKED. I am sure he is a nice guy though. :)

Your definitely not the first to say that

[BroncoBuff]

It strikes me that reports of Cooper Carlisle's demise might be exxagerated...

[Crushaholic]

I couldn't find team defensive penalties ranks ... anybody?

http://www.nfl.com/stats/teamsort/NFL/DEF-TOTAL/2006/regular?sort_col_1=4

[BroncoBuff]

http://www.nfl.com/stats/teamsort/NFL/DEF-TOTAL/2006/regular?sort_col_1=4

Thanks .... middle of the pack.

[OrangeShadow]

the most remarkable thing of the year was playing the whole OT kc game without a penalty

[chrisp]

Foster's chances of starting at Guard take a huge leap forward because Hamilton may move to center - although that is far from being a done deal, merely a possibility.

I saw the following lineup suggested elsewhere and it looked pretty good assuming Nalen retires and that Foster does pan out inside:

LT: Lepsis
LG: Kuper
C: Hamilton
RG: Foster
RT: Pears

This also has the added bonus of everybody bar Lepsis being over 300lbs...but then that's a whole other thread :wiggle:

If Nalen comes back for another year or if Hamilton stays at guard then Foster is competing with kuper and I don't fancy his chances.....

[Kaylore]

Actually i think Foster would make a great Gaurd... For me the only downside is that we already have alot of bodies on the interior.

Kaylor what do you think about the chances of Kuper playing RT?

I wouldn't like it. He's not big enough and his arms aren't long enough. You need a pretty wide frame to play tackle. I will say that had Kuper played, he at least wouldn't have let Cutler get concussed.

Foster has all those things. Which brings me to my next point: moving Foster to guard would be terrible because he SUCKS! People, his problems aren't from playing the wrong position, or from coaching or from needing to wear a different helmet. Foster is a poor football player. Moving him to guard would make a lazy poor right tackle, a lazy, poor and inexperienced guard.

Read the sig, folks.

[-Slap-]

Foster's play really deteriorated after he hurt that Bengal on MNF.

[BroncoBuff]

Foster's play really deteriorated after he hurt that Bengal on MNF.

I kinda thought the same thing ... that he was affected by that. Then the NFL Network used the sideline video shot of him watching the guy being wheeled off in their promos - as an exemplar image of a "mean," "scary" player. Strange.

He seems like such a nice guy in interviews ... he might've let that wear on him. He'd be better served in his line of work to adopt the 'Albert Haynseworth mentality' ... I saw Big Albert pulling some more crazy cr^p a couple weeks AFTER he was reinstated ...

[fontaine]

Foster's play really deteriorated after he hurt that Bengal on MNF.

I hope it works the other way around as well.

Maybe in reverse mojo land, Foster's play will really pickup after he hurt Cutler and watched his head bounce off the turf into a concussion in our last game.

Either way, I'm not going to worry about it. Erik Pears, with another offseason of conditioning, will get his communication worked out with the OL at RT and be much better than Foster.