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Some quick thoughts on the game:
Lance. Stats say 5 of 14, but 2 of his quick screens were called backward passes (runs) and he had 3 bad drops (Cracraft, James, Aiyuk) and 2 of those would've been easy 1st down gains and drive extenders. So, his stats were better than they looked. He hit a few strikes downfield (Sherfield and Woerner) that looked amazing. But it was clear that the backup OL couldn't protect him. Overall, very encouraging.
Why didn't we see more bootlegs, rollouts, and fake runs for Lance?
Is Richie James scared of the ball? Dude dropped one and alligator armed another one. I saw some reports that he's having similar issues in camp. That doesn't bode well for him with the formerly left-for-dead Jennings coming on at WR--dude had a couple of nice plays on Saturday.
Aiyuk had a nice gain on a quick screen, but he dropped the only other ball thrown his way (Lance's first attempt).
TE Jordan Matthews has some real potential at TE after switching from WR, but the guy does struggle at blocking.
Wow was our backup OL bad. Particularly the backup OTs. Moore is a rookie, and he was drafted as more of a OG, so he's got an excuse, but Coleman is a veteran and he looked very shaky out there.
Hasty showed well again at RB, but he had a bad fumble (as did our other RB). That's gotta get cleared up before the season.
Our starting defense didn't play. I think one of our LBs was the only starter. They held up surprisingly well against the Chiefs 1's.
We got very little pass rush against the Chief starters, but our backups did ok against theirs.
Surprised to see Lenoir outplayed Ambry at CB.
Hufanga--the late rounder played better than I thought. Sure, he's good at STs, but throwing him out there at safety confirmed that he can't really cover in man/man, but closer to the LOS, he's a pretty good player, sure tackler with lots of energy. Some real potential there.
Lance. Stats say 5 of 14, but 2 of his quick screens were called backward passes (runs) and he had 3 bad drops (Cracraft, James, Aiyuk) and 2 of those would've been easy 1st down gains and drive extenders. So, his stats were better than they looked. He hit a few strikes downfield (Sherfield and Woerner) that looked amazing. But it was clear that the backup OL couldn't protect him. Overall, very encouraging.
Why didn't we see more bootlegs, rollouts, and fake runs for Lance?
Is Richie James scared of the ball? Dude dropped one and alligator armed another one. I saw some reports that he's having similar issues in camp. That doesn't bode well for him with the formerly left-for-dead Jennings coming on at WR--dude had a couple of nice plays on Saturday.
Aiyuk had a nice gain on a quick screen, but he dropped the only other ball thrown his way (Lance's first attempt).
TE Jordan Matthews has some real potential at TE after switching from WR, but the guy does struggle at blocking.
Wow was our backup OL bad. Particularly the backup OTs. Moore is a rookie, and he was drafted as more of a OG, so he's got an excuse, but Coleman is a veteran and he looked very shaky out there.
Hasty showed well again at RB, but he had a bad fumble (as did our other RB). That's gotta get cleared up before the season.
Our starting defense didn't play. I think one of our LBs was the only starter. They held up surprisingly well against the Chiefs 1's.
We got very little pass rush against the Chief starters, but our backups did ok against theirs.
Surprised to see Lenoir outplayed Ambry at CB.
Hufanga--the late rounder played better than I thought. Sure, he's good at STs, but throwing him out there at safety confirmed that he can't really cover in man/man, but closer to the LOS, he's a pretty good player, sure tackler with lots of energy. Some real potential there.