Glad I got that TE’s post off when I did, because the house lost power for almost 24 hours. Plenty of townships are in a state of emergency because of the rain/wind/other natural disasters. I was going to go over to McKnight Road until I saw on KDKA that it was covered in a foot or two of water — ugh. Hopefully all of you readers out there in the Pittsburgh area are doing well after an ugly day.
Another place that knows a little too much about rain and wind damage is the City of New Orleans, Tyler Palko’s new home. Palko, who turned 24 yesterday, is going to have an opportunity to take some big steps towards the Saints’ third-string QB job. Once Drew Brees plays the first quarter, Palko will be next in line to play against the Buffalo Bills’ defense tonight.
He’s going to get a lot more playing time than he did against the Steelers on Sunday — it’s expected that he’ll play deep into the second half.
“I just want to know what I have with a player, and the only way I can do that is play him,” Payton said. “I’m anxious to see his development, his progressions, his ball security, how he handles his decision-making and seeing if we can move the ball while he’s in there.”
He knows what he has to work with in order to impress the coaches.
“It’s exciting, but your window of opportunity is very small,” Palko said. “So you have got to make the most of it when you get your chances. . . . Here (at camp), you’re kind of like an afterthought. You have to continue to have the mentality of getting reps and stealing reps — watching Drew and Jamie, really taking from that.”
On Sunday, Palko was 4-for-8 for 53 yards, with no touchdowns and one interception. He also almost got teammate Robert Meachem killed while leading him over the middle with a pass.
And when you say to “watch the play in slo-mo, he had already dropped the ball WELL before he got hit”…well anytime you put something in slow motion it’s going to see like something happened a lot longer before it actually did. Use your head…
I see guys get blasted running across the middle EVERY WEEKEND – yet i never hear “that goddam Manning” or “that goddam Brady” – its part of football.
In a game played so fast with crappy camera work – you have to look at replays to see what really happened – look at the replay – he was already dropping the ball WELL before (in football time) he got hit. The refs are standing right there and they need to look at replays to see what happened half the time.
Did you hear me blame that INT on someone else running a route wrong or some shit like that? That was Palkos fault – but you have to throw the ball over the middle and people are going to get hit. What else is he doing to do, throw only deep outs all day and ignore 50% of the field so that his receivers don’t get blasted? Its not like he threw the ball high in the air so his receiver had to leave his feet – if the kid had caught the ball he had plenty of football time to get ready to get hit.
Oh, thats right, the anouncers said it was palkos fault, so it must be. I guess gold and black glasses give a clearer picture.
And that second ball the kid dropped – that was Palkos fault too?
The rest of Palkos play I could care less about – I just think it was a bullshit call on that play for obvious reasons.
Hopefully Palko does even better tonight.
On another note, anyone sick of those big 11 commercials talking about how amazing penn state is and how we should all call and beg the cable/dish company to put that garbage on the air? I sick and tired of seeing fucking shots of that shitholes stadium, and then polishing joepas nuts about how “philosophically” amazing he is. What a fucking joke. Make it fucking pay per view.
Penn State still sucks.
I hope this trend of ints doesn’t continue. now they just need the ball back.
If I were Palko I’d never pass to that douche. I’d rather throw it away. What an ass-clown.
I wonder if there going to let him play anymore after that – give him a chance to win this game!
I frankly had no idea a major network would show a Saints exhibition game nationally so I haven’t seen any of the Palko Show. Sounds from the commentary like there’s been some good and bad.
I’ll be the first to admit he was far from the greatest ever, but it continues to amaze me when so called “Pitt fans” rip him. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, of course (except Gene Collier, he should have been lobotomized after trashing Aaron Gray earlier this year).
Oh I forgot, he had one or two bad games in his career. NM, he sucked – booooooo! Bring back Rod!
First off, he was a red-shirt sophomore.
Secondly, we got creamed by Utah 35-7 I think.
Granted, these announcers still did a much better job than Gumble and Collinsworth.
Palko played well I thought. Those INT’s were ugly, but his fade pass was perfect. I also liked his 19 yard scramble on 4th down.
Thats amazing. Go read them again. Bigger numbers are better. (palko: higher completion rate, more yards, better td/int ratio…)
And like i said i’m still waiting for all those “records” that Rod set to be pointed out to me.
I agree with some of geeman’s comments – “Rod got the benefit of some better OLs and having Fitzgerald…TP…had to deal with a coaching change, plummeting talent on the OL and WR in the last couple years…”
Exactly.
College 1A games played: Way more than all the people commenting on them (who probably never even played pee-wee football) put together.
They were both good. Put it to rest.
I mentioned this before, but Rutherford only started for two years. Palko started for three. Rutherford threw 60 touchdowns in two years and Palko threw 66 in three. Rutherford had 6500 yards and Palko had 8000 in three years. Rutherford was a better player at Pitt. It is not a question. In addition to Pitt having a better team, they also had a much more difficult schedule when Rutherford played. Prior to the Big East raid with Miami, VTech, and BC. In addition they played a home-and-home with Texas A&M.
Completion percentage – missed this to. Even with Fitzgerald hauling in every pass thrown his way, he still had a worse completion percentage.
You also forget to point out rod had 420 attempts a year under wlat’s pass happy offense. Palko only had pass plays called 350 times a year. By the end of his career palko was completing 68% of his passes. You point out 2 versus 3 years, how about you normalize the numbers for attempts and then compare them.
Palko scored more points in his losses than rod did in his, and the crappy d gave up more points in palkos losses to “inferior” opponents than they did against rod’s. Just keep ignoring the fact Palko played on worse teams with worse players than Rod – yet the D under rod gave up less points to these better teams…hmm…
Ignore 34 of those 60 td’s went the the most amazing WR in recent history. Palkos leading receiver (who can’t even make it to the NFL) had HALF of that. Fitzgerald was amazing, Rod was along for the ride.
If you want to bring back Rod and Wlat, that’s all you. Its one of the more ridiculous things i’ve heard in a while, thanks for the laugh.
The team was better for 2 seasons than palkos 3 – and you confuse this for Rod being better. Let’s compare QB’s here, not teams.
BTW, watch the play in slo-mo, he had already dropped the ball WELL before he got hit. If he would have caught the ball and kept his head up he wouldn’t have gotten destroyed – instead he was looking at the ground where the ball was headed to.
I guess he’s doesn’t like playing across the middle – sounds like he’ll fit in perfectly with the rest of the WR in the NFL.