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OK in case you havent noticed, I have taken to not posting about the game for atleast 24 hours after a loss. Just makes things easier.
NOw that we are past the 24 hour mark, here goes on my take from yesterdays games.
Positives... I know there wont be many from a game we lost and were expected to lose.
1. Cousins does seem to be slowly progressing. Aside from a tip drill tossed up by Garcon, his habit of throwing picks seems to be diminishing. He also had quite a few on target balls dropped yesterday as well. Kirk is showing improvement in the areas we most needed to see improvement. It didnt result in a win, but he also didnt throw the soul crushing pick that most of us have come to fear, and many more have come to expect.
2. Secondary depth... Again we lost. But aside from Gronk getting his touches, against Brady they did alot better than most of us expected despite the secondary being some what in flux at the moment. Saying you will shut down Gronk is kinda like saying Tokyo has a snow balls chance in hell of a real estate boom after a Godzilla sighting. He is just as much of an unstoppable force, you can only hope to limit the damage, at some point he will stomp your shit.
3. Team mentality... every one on earth expected us to lose this game.. and get handily blown out. And aside from the late TD, we basically did get blown out. But I never saw this team quite yesterday. We got out talented, and to a degree out muscled, but I didnt see the look of a team that quite.
Negatives....
1. Cousins and the rifle throw. While I think his accuracy is improving, his touch on the ball was at least a part of the reason for the high number of drops. I think he is gunning the ball far too often. Now part of this is trying to fit it into a space.. but also some of it is just a lack of touch on the ball. This is something I will be watching over the rest of the season. If its an accurate, yet un-catchable ball, whats the point. Yes WR's need to make a play from time to time, but a wide open pass thats dropped because it comes in too hot and a little too high is shared responsibility between the QB and the WR.
2. Cousins and his comfort level with the WR's. This is one that just irks the hell out of me because its more a symptom of the team agenda going into the off season than anything else. The fact that Cousins has more faith in our most drop prone WR (Roberts), and the fact that he doesnt have timing down with our starting WRs (Jackson, Garcon, Grant), literally has me screaming at the set every Sunday. He lacks timing with and trust in these guys. It might take until next season for him to get to the comfort level that he has with butterfingers. This will continue to haunt this team for the rest of the season.
3. Poor tackling and bad angles. We continue to see both these demons rear their ugly heads on a week in and week out basis. I think this is more a result of coaching or lack there of than a lack of talent at this point. This is another thing I expect to continue to haunt us, and a prime culprit as to why we struggle to stop the run at this point in the season.
4. The run game.... Again I think this is more agenda driven than talent. Seems some one is dead set on making Jones the feature back in this offense. Between play calling and play distribution, we are dead set on letting AM walk at the end of the season. Kinda sucks since this also has an effect on TOP and we end up becoming the type of team we said we didnt want to be.... Pass heavy and playing from behind.
Neutrals...
1. I think Gruden has done enough thus far to keep his job.
2. I think Kirk is showing enough to keep us out of the QB derby for at least next off season.
3. If we could get the corners all healthy, I think we atleast have a passable pass defense.
4. A WR or two taller than Bilbo Baggins needs to be on the top of the list for off season needs. Even with every one healthy, we have no real domination presence in the WR group.
5. After WR, our second highest need should be an enforcer in the secondary. A safety with the range to cover, and the poundage to make a fool pay for actually catching the ball if he dare..... So fucking miss ST21 each and every Sunday still.
Well there you go, have at it.
NOw that we are past the 24 hour mark, here goes on my take from yesterdays games.
Positives... I know there wont be many from a game we lost and were expected to lose.
1. Cousins does seem to be slowly progressing. Aside from a tip drill tossed up by Garcon, his habit of throwing picks seems to be diminishing. He also had quite a few on target balls dropped yesterday as well. Kirk is showing improvement in the areas we most needed to see improvement. It didnt result in a win, but he also didnt throw the soul crushing pick that most of us have come to fear, and many more have come to expect.
2. Secondary depth... Again we lost. But aside from Gronk getting his touches, against Brady they did alot better than most of us expected despite the secondary being some what in flux at the moment. Saying you will shut down Gronk is kinda like saying Tokyo has a snow balls chance in hell of a real estate boom after a Godzilla sighting. He is just as much of an unstoppable force, you can only hope to limit the damage, at some point he will stomp your shit.
3. Team mentality... every one on earth expected us to lose this game.. and get handily blown out. And aside from the late TD, we basically did get blown out. But I never saw this team quite yesterday. We got out talented, and to a degree out muscled, but I didnt see the look of a team that quite.
Negatives....
1. Cousins and the rifle throw. While I think his accuracy is improving, his touch on the ball was at least a part of the reason for the high number of drops. I think he is gunning the ball far too often. Now part of this is trying to fit it into a space.. but also some of it is just a lack of touch on the ball. This is something I will be watching over the rest of the season. If its an accurate, yet un-catchable ball, whats the point. Yes WR's need to make a play from time to time, but a wide open pass thats dropped because it comes in too hot and a little too high is shared responsibility between the QB and the WR.
2. Cousins and his comfort level with the WR's. This is one that just irks the hell out of me because its more a symptom of the team agenda going into the off season than anything else. The fact that Cousins has more faith in our most drop prone WR (Roberts), and the fact that he doesnt have timing down with our starting WRs (Jackson, Garcon, Grant), literally has me screaming at the set every Sunday. He lacks timing with and trust in these guys. It might take until next season for him to get to the comfort level that he has with butterfingers. This will continue to haunt this team for the rest of the season.
3. Poor tackling and bad angles. We continue to see both these demons rear their ugly heads on a week in and week out basis. I think this is more a result of coaching or lack there of than a lack of talent at this point. This is another thing I expect to continue to haunt us, and a prime culprit as to why we struggle to stop the run at this point in the season.
4. The run game.... Again I think this is more agenda driven than talent. Seems some one is dead set on making Jones the feature back in this offense. Between play calling and play distribution, we are dead set on letting AM walk at the end of the season. Kinda sucks since this also has an effect on TOP and we end up becoming the type of team we said we didnt want to be.... Pass heavy and playing from behind.
Neutrals...
1. I think Gruden has done enough thus far to keep his job.
2. I think Kirk is showing enough to keep us out of the QB derby for at least next off season.
3. If we could get the corners all healthy, I think we atleast have a passable pass defense.
4. A WR or two taller than Bilbo Baggins needs to be on the top of the list for off season needs. Even with every one healthy, we have no real domination presence in the WR group.
5. After WR, our second highest need should be an enforcer in the secondary. A safety with the range to cover, and the poundage to make a fool pay for actually catching the ball if he dare..... So fucking miss ST21 each and every Sunday still.
Well there you go, have at it.
