TL;DR - What You Need To Know This Week - Preseason Round 3 (1 Viewer)

[Joe Bryant]

We take the big preseason Team Reports and distill them down to the Need To Know.

Preseason Insights: What You Need To Know This Week

The Footballguys Staff and Joe Bryant give you the essential news from every NFL team.

www.footballguys.com

 

[Chaka]

Thanks JB. Informative read, as always.

 

[Scoresman]

Thanks for this. Good info.

Is there any indication from Bengals camp that they are doing things differently from previous years? The knock on Zac Taylor in the several years has he has been coach is that his camps/preseason are pretty light compared to most teams, and that this is partly the reason why the Bengals have been notorious for starting the season slow.

It's really been cause for me to avoid a lot of the Bengals players at ADP unless there's reason to think this has changed.

 

[BobbyLayne]

The Lions TC report looks like it was updated 10-14 days ago. Practice Squad WR Daurice Fountain - a 5th round pick in 2018, on his 4th team with 2 career receptions - was indeed running with the 1s, ARSB & Jamo, through the first 10 days / 8 practices. Then they went to New Jersey, put on pads for intense joint practices, and the consistency that in OTAs, minicamp & early TC vanished.

Two lackluster PS games later, there are 3 WR assured a spot (WR4/PR speedster Kalif Raymond is a fixture + the starters.) No one from a group of 7 has emerged to be the WR3 and none may be deemed worthy of being a WR5. UDFA rookie Isaiah Williams (Illinois) has looked the best but as a Raymond clone he’s not what they are looking for - they need a big bodied WR to replace the Josh Reynolds role.

Anyway, that’s but one example. There is a lot of pertinent information missing. Not trying to nitpick, just offering valuable feedback.

Single best source of Detroit Lions information is Justin Rogers, long time beat writer who left his stable LT gig with the Detroit News to become an independent content creator. You can find him on Twitter, YouTube, the Detroit Football Network site, and SubStack. Dude is a gem, filing multiple reports day in and day out. In depth interview features, film breakdown, BTS insider info on the inner workings of Allen Park - there is simply no other sports outlet in Michigan who comes close to his excellence IMO.

 

[candian fantasy guy]

We take the big preseason Team Reports and distill them down to the Need To Know.

Preseason Insights: What You Need To Know This Week

The Footballguys Staff and Joe Bryant give you the essential news from every NFL team.

www.footballguys.com

I love this feature, however, the individual team page updates are still @ week 2.

 

[Mister CIA]

This is great. Probably needs a catchy banner, like tl;dr, so that my brain can pick it out from a evergrowing body of content.

 

[Joe Bryant]

We take the big preseason Team Reports and distill them down to the Need To Know.

Preseason Insights: What You Need To Know This Week

The Footballguys Staff and Joe Bryant give you the essential news from every NFL team.

www.footballguys.com

I love this feature, however, the individual team page updates are still @ week 2.

Thanks. The team reports usually don't get updated until later on Monday night. I wanted to publish the summary points as quick as I could.

Next week, I'll try to remember to make a note to remind folks.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

We take the big preseason Team Reports and distill them down to the Need To Know.

Preseason Insights: What You Need To Know This Week

The Footballguys Staff and Joe Bryant give you the essential news from every NFL team.

www.footballguys.com

I love this feature, however, the individual team page updates are still @ week 2.

Thanks. The team reports usually don't get updated until later on Monday night. I wanted to publish the summary points as quick as I could.

Next week, I'll try to remember to make a note to remind folks.

It looks like the actual detailed pages are now updated for week 3 but the preseason update landing page still shows the last date updated as 8/12 for all of them.

 

[Joe Bryant]

This is great. Probably needs a catchy banner, like tl;dr, so that my brain can pick it out from a evergrowing body of content.

We take the big preseason Team Reports and distill them down to the Need To Know.

Preseason Insights: What You Need To Know This Week

The Footballguys Staff and Joe Bryant give you the essential news from every NFL team.

www.footballguys.com

I love this feature, however, the individual team page updates are still @ week 2.

Thanks. The team reports usually don't get updated until later on Monday night. I wanted to publish the summary points as quick as I could.

Next week, I'll try to remember to make a note to remind folks.

It looks like the actual detailed pages are now updated for week 3 but the preseason update landing page still shows the last date updated as 8/12 for all of them.

Thanks. I apologize. We created a new better looking landing page but failed to get descriptions right. https://www.footballguys.com/nfl-preseason-reports

If you click on the team reports, they say August 12 but the link will take you to the August 19 report.

Apologies for the mistake.

 

[massraider]

Single best source of Detroit Lions information is Justin Rogers ,

Added him to my beat writers list on Twitter. Thanks

 

[BobbyLayne]

Single best source of Detroit Lions information is Justin Rogers ,

Added him to my beat writers list on Twitter. Thanks

Sign up for his newsletter & d/l SubStack - Detroit Football Network

Running about 50/50 between free & paid content as he’s in start up mode

Seriously talented writer & all around good guy

 

[Joe Bryant]

Not trying to nitpick, just offering valuable feedback.

Thanks. All feedback is valuable, thanks for sharing.

 

[LawFitz]

Single best source of Detroit Lions information is Justin Rogers ,

Added him to my beat writers list on Twitter. Thanks

Hey, would mind sharing that list? I think there's a way to share it directly from Twitter.

 

[massraider]

Hey, would mind sharing that list? I think there's a way to share it directly from Twitter.

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This list is the most useful one to me during the season. I am trying to keep it pure news, by professionals. I am pretty ruthless about who gets put on it, and I kick people off if I am suddenly seeing too many cheeseburger pics, political jabber, or pro wrestling hot takes

Anyone has a favorite guy for their team, drop a name, I will check him out.

I have fantasy writer lists, but don't look at them. I try once in a while, but it's pretty rough out there. Very little info, but lots of links to podcasts, and retweets of links to podcasts. Then retweets of links to other podcasts with recommendations of bros who bring the heat!!!!!!

 

[Joe Bryant]

Hey, would mind sharing that list? I think there's a way to share it directly from Twitter.

x.com

x.com

This list is the most useful one to me during the season. I am trying to keep it pure news, by professionals. I am pretty ruthless about who gets put on it, and I kick people off if I am suddenly seeing too many cheeseburger pics, political jabber, or pro wrestling hot takes

Anyone has a favorite guy for their team, drop a name, I will check him out.

I have fantasy writer lists, but don't look at them. I try once in a while, but it's pretty rough out there. Very little info, but lots of links to podcasts, and retweets of links to podcasts. Then retweets of links to other podcasts with recommendations of bros who bring the heat!!!!!!

Thanks. This could be a good topic for a thread maybe as well.

 

[Joe Bryant]

The Lions TC report looks like it was updated 10-14 days ago. Practice Squad WR Daurice Fountain - a 5th round pick in 2018, on his 4th team with 2 career receptions - was indeed running with the 1s, ARSB & Jamo, through the first 10 days / 8 practices. Then they went to New Jersey, put on pads for intense joint practices, and the consistency that in OTAs, minicamp & early TC vanished.

Two lackluster PS games later, there are 3 WR assured a spot (WR4/PR speedster Kalif Raymond is a fixture + the starters.) No one from a group of 7 has emerged to be the WR3 and none may be deemed worthy of being a WR5. UDFA rookie Isaiah Williams (Illinois) has looked the best but as a Raymond clone he’s not what they are looking for - they need a big bodied WR to replace the Josh Reynolds role.

Anyway, that’s but one example. There is a lot of pertinent information missing. Not trying to nitpick, just offering valuable feedback.

Single best source of Detroit Lions information is Justin Rogers, long time beat writer who left his stable LT gig with the Detroit News to become an independent content creator. You can find him on Twitter, YouTube, the Detroit Football Network site, and SubStack. Dude is a gem, filing multiple reports day in and day out. In depth interview features, film breakdown, BTS insider info on the inner workings of Allen Park - there is simply no other sports outlet in Michigan who comes close to his excellence IMO.

Hi @BobbyLayne Wanted to make sure - are you reading the Week 3 report? And that looks like it was "updated 10-14 days ago"?

Here is the section from this week's Lions report dated 8/19:

https://www.footballguys.com/article/2024-preseason-updates-detroit-lions

Preseason Updates: Wide Receivers

Amon-Ra St. Brownsurprised a teen by meeting him, signing a jersey, and giving him tickets to the opening game after the teen helped save a woman’s life in July. The connection between Goff and St. Brown is crisp as they produced many receptions and a touchdown at Wednesday’s practice. According to John Maakaron, St. Brown appears in prime shape, looking even better than in years past. If the new contract is letting St. Brown take his game to another level, then fantasy managers will be very pleased. Jameson Williams fully extended for a two-point conversion in the corner of the endzone. The most impressive part of Williams’ camp is that he’s winning in different ways. It’s not just vertical routes, and it’s not just speed. The releases are better, and the routes are crisper, according to Jeremy Reisman. Antoine Green was placed on waivers after a concussion/neck injury in the first preseason game. Coach Campbell wants someone to win the No. 3 receiver job, saying, “It’s still the same as where it’s at. We’re waiting for any one of those guys to step forward.” “DPJ (Donovan Peoples-Jones), I felt like, has been, since the game, much better. He’s playing faster, and I notice it; we all notice it, so that’s encouraging. But (Daurice) Fountain and Tre’Quan (Smith) and Kaden Davis, somebody, we’re dying for somebody to step up and say, ‘Hey, man, I’m the guy. I’m the guy you can depend on. I’ll be the same, consistent player every day, find a way to make the plays that come my way.’” Two other players Campbell didn’t mention are Kalif Raymond, who operates better out of the slot, and Isaiah Williams, who has ten receptions for 106 yards through two preseason games. Reisman thinks it’s a debate on whether Isaiah Williams should make the roster.

We talked about the coaches begging for someone to step up and grab the WR3 job, and so far no one has. It even has direct quotes and links to multiple articles and beat writers.


Scrolling down https://www.footballguys.com/article/2024-preseason-updates-detroit-lions is the Week 2 Blurb published 8/12

Preseason Updates: Wide Receivers​

After practicing against the Giants, Amon-Ra St. Brown said, “Pretty physical two days, but we needed it. Little hot. Adrenaline is kind of high, so feel like your heart rate is going faster, you get tired a little quicker, but it was good work.” Jameson Williams continued his strong training camp with a good performance against the Giants in practice. Williams burned the Giants secondary for multiple touchdowns as he continues to improve chemistry with Goff. Daurice Fountain joined St. Brown and Williams in three-receiver sets, indicating he is leading the battle for the No. 3 receiver job. Undrafted rookie wide receiver Isaiah Williams was the first player Dan Campbell discussed after the game. “Isaiah Williams showed up,” said Campbell. “I mean, he made some plays out there, and that was clear.” St. Brown, Jameson Williams, Kalif Raymond, and Fountain may have locked up roster spots. However, the battle for the No. 5 receiver job will be between Isaiah Williams, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Tre’Quan Smith, Maurice Alexander, and Antoine Green. For now, Isaiah Williams has a lead in earning that job. Mike Payton wouldn’t be surprised if the Lions traded for a wide receiver.

 

[BobbyLayne]

report dated 8/19

guess I looked at it before the upload



you posted a link Monday , I clicked on it and the camp report was stale

 

[Joe Bryant]

Good to know. It was concerning (and not going to lie, a bit of a gut punch) to work really hard at something and then have it shredded in public saying it looks like it was written "10-14 days ago".

August is 100mph for us, and it was today before I was able to go back and re-read your post to see you were talking about the 8/12 report. That actually was posted a couple of weeks ago.

My fault for not being clear.

Next week, I'll make sure to ask people to wait until Tuesday to check the Full Team Reports.