Even though there's no specific Practice Squad, in a sense with these expanded rosters there is one (kind of), given that you can try to sneak a guy you like but don't have room for into FA and let him sit there with that preseason XP, then sneak him in next year with that XP. Or you can grab someone else's guy... If it can be done that way. It's not bad IMO until we progress into being able to have practice squads.
That's a good q. I assume but I don't know the answer 100%. I know it will always be with a player but I don't know season to seasoned It wasnt used
When practicing what is the advantage of doing the hard ones, I have an easy practice where I can get 1800xp. Most of the hard ones are less or the same, there are a few @ 2000xp .
XP is pretty much gained based on how long it takes and how hard it is. Sure its easy but you have to play practically the entire practice, know what I mean? There are harder ones that literally are just 1 series - for example.
Purdue baby! I still have nightmares of Hellisan playing with Painter a few years back. Painter was probably a bad example. The Colts went el cheapo on backup QBs figuring Manning hadn't missed a game in X years, so they would use the money elsewhere (namely ... Manning). And it bit them in the ass.
With that said, if you're going to be hitting the practice field regardless like a lot of folks do, there's no reason to not do the 1800 easy practice each and every week.
It may just be me but the back up QB should be able to take over and do decent. Im not asking for a Kurt Warner but at least Kitna or Hill is acceptable. Kitna got little to 0 snaps on 1st team and when Romo went down he did decent. When Stafford went out Shaun took over and won a couple games(did the Dougie in the endzone on a rushing touchdown if my memory serves correctly.
They do. If you complete a 1500 XP practice, the players all get 1200. 1800 XP practice = 1500, and so on. The only practices where players don't get it are the ones that specify it.
Seriously? I thought only the coach. And what players get it? Everyone on roster? Only those who played? If so how many snaps are required?
Well when the backup gets zero snaps in practice for several years, why would you expect that? He was never ready because he was never prepared to come in. I blame the coaching mostly though. Look at how Matt Cassel did when Brady went down. Or, go to Green Bay. Look at how Matt Flynn turned a couple games into a starting opportunity that he ultimately lost. The coaches in Indy never PREPARED a backup to go in because no one REALLY thought Peyton would get hurt or go down. Hopefully the new staff learns from those mistakes and gets a backup that's competent enough to win you games.
You're basically killing your own argument with the examples you're using. Kitna was a starter for Seattle, Cincy and Detroit before backing up Romo, and was in the league for 13 seasons - including some 4,000 yard and 20+ TD sseasons. That's easily enough time for say a 69 overall guy to progress to an 82ish QB. Same for Hill. He had 4 offseasons in the NFL (figure 20K XP based on what I've seen with my QBs this preseason), plus 16 starts in San Francisco before going to Detroit. Again - should be enough points to elevate him in the high 70s/low 80s.
So I think we can figure this out doing some maths. My guess is a) you'll never out pace a guy who is playing. Playing time is king ... as it should be. b) with that said, I'm guessing a guy who spends three seasons on the bench will earn about the same XP as a guy who started one season. if you doing the 1800 practice, each player on your team is getting 6K XP each preseason just for being there. Then if you spread the playing time around you can get those guys some more XP here and there. So lets say they have a shit preseason and only get 7K XP for the whole thing. Then you have 17 weeks of the regular season. That's 25.5K XP - so 32.5K XP for a season. anybody know how much XP a decently performing player can expect to get?
Well in TLY, my RT Gabe Carimi got around 4300 in two preseason games I played (3rd was simmed). 2700 of that was practice. So 2700 (every 2 wks of practice) x 8 (2x8 = 16) equals 21600 XP from practice. taking 2700 from 4300 (estimate) gives 1600 from on-field performance. So, 1600 x 8 = 12800 XP. 12800 + 21600 = 34400 (estimated) for a reg. season. I dont know if thats good enough for decent progression though. Also keep in mind, you get XP for a variety of types of goals and milestones too. I know personally if I make the playoffs I'll get 25,000 XP but I don't know if it's just for me or me and the players.
Never meant to argue anything. Just feel like he let us down. I can blame all I want. I do regard the coaches as a main fault. It falls on Curtis Painter too though. I consider it 98% coaches yet 2% his. Again no argument intended. Just complaining about things I can't change.
So why aren't you blaming Dan Orlovsky or Kerry Collins too then? Hell, Orlovsky played in as many games as Painter. Plus, Painter hasn't been very good to begin with. So why you're placing blame on only one of the 3 QBs that played is beyond me. It's like you have something against Painter personally. It's the coaches fault for not developing a backup QB at all, really since Manning has been there.
OK. they all 3 sucked. I do hold him a little responsible just because he is is own. It was a mistake by the Colts. Now we have Luck. Mistake well timed.
Emmdotfrisk Any word on when we will see updates to the CCM Website? It's really cool, but missing all the league stuff (stats, standings, etc).
