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Going into this game many of us thought the team had fixed many of its ills especially on offense because we were riding a two-game win streak and we just watched a team play a great full-team game the previous week. But the Rams apparently did not and they had a horrific game in Carolina. With 4 turnovers (1 INT-pick 6, 3 fumbles) and 4 sacks given up and Sammie going down with a knee injury our defense took another beating with C. Long getting thrown out of the game and yielding 30 points. This game was about unsportmanlike conduct much of it being reactionary to trash talking and cheap shots by Steve Smith, Bell at OT, and Mike Walters of Carolina.
On Offense. The positives. Not much here. Sammie finished the day going 21/30 for 255 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT that was another pick 6 in the first quarter. Brian Quick finally got into the game by catching a 73 yard bomb from Sammie, the longest and the first deep ball of the year. Zac Stacy remained productive with a pedestrian 17 carries and 53 yards with some really great blocks to protect Sammie on pass plays. Stacey had a decent game. Quick was high man amongst receivers going with 2 catches for 97 yards.
The negatives. Alot here. This was another game where the defense scored first and the offense did not score a TD until there were about 3 minutes left in the half. This is not a good sign for us. The Oline gave up four sacks, many of which were coverage sacks. We had people fumbling the ball like no tomorrow as we lost three. Tavon Austin coughed it up on a nice pass play. We had drive killing penalties such as Jake Long getting called for tripping on a beautiful pitch and catch between Sammie and Austion that negated a 60-yard TD. We had Brian Quick dropping a perfectly thrown ball in the endzone in the second half that was a sure TD and we failed on an early TD from the one foot line where Sammie was pressured to overthrow a covered receiver instead of running the football.
On defense. The positives. We had a safety in the early going when the offense failed to score from the 1-foot line. The defense did play smashmouth football and were really hitting Newton who the Panthers claimed started the trash talking and cheap shots with a hit that Quinn put on Newton. We had two sacks today: One each from Laurinaitus and Quinn. We also had a great goal line stand that took away a TD that Steve Smith thought he had but to no avail in the long run. Eventually our defense gave up 30 points.
The negatives. It started with Chris Long letting a little turd of receiver in trash talking Steve Smith get into his head and got caught on a retaliatory punch and was ejected. That fired up the defense to get the aforementioned goal line stand but then it just went downhill after that. Walton continues to play his defense like it is a 100 yard prevent defense and the DBs play off the receivers with huge gaps of yardage. We just got killed with the pass in the gaps. There were no interceptions today either.
Janoris Jenkis got baited as Steve Smith continued his assualt along with Eugene Sims as well as Harvey Dahl on offense.
Special teams were relatively quiet today. Zuerlein was his usual stellar self on kickoffs and he had one FG and one extra point.
Even with all of our miscues, we had a chance to make a comeback until Sammie went down on a cheap shot out of bounds tackle that was not called by Mike Walters as Sammie was running out of bounds. Sammie's foot caught the seam on the sidelines just a tad and Walters weight buckled Sammie's left knee. The angle showed on ESPN indicated a buckling of the left knee inward and Sammie lay on the ground writhing in pain. The buckling from that angle indicated a tear type injury such as an ACL and/or medial meniscus. Hopefully, it was just a sprain of the ACl but the way Sammie was writhing on the ground, that is usually indicative of an ACL tear.
Onward we go with Kellen Clemons starting next week with Seattle coming to town as I am sure Sammie's injury will be significant. I think we need to bring another QB in ASAP and there are a boatload of also-rans out there. I'd like to see Tebow in here but he is just one of many. We will all know the extent of Sammie's injury as our season is now in jeopardy of being worse than last year.
On Offense. The positives. Not much here. Sammie finished the day going 21/30 for 255 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT that was another pick 6 in the first quarter. Brian Quick finally got into the game by catching a 73 yard bomb from Sammie, the longest and the first deep ball of the year. Zac Stacy remained productive with a pedestrian 17 carries and 53 yards with some really great blocks to protect Sammie on pass plays. Stacey had a decent game. Quick was high man amongst receivers going with 2 catches for 97 yards.
The negatives. Alot here. This was another game where the defense scored first and the offense did not score a TD until there were about 3 minutes left in the half. This is not a good sign for us. The Oline gave up four sacks, many of which were coverage sacks. We had people fumbling the ball like no tomorrow as we lost three. Tavon Austin coughed it up on a nice pass play. We had drive killing penalties such as Jake Long getting called for tripping on a beautiful pitch and catch between Sammie and Austion that negated a 60-yard TD. We had Brian Quick dropping a perfectly thrown ball in the endzone in the second half that was a sure TD and we failed on an early TD from the one foot line where Sammie was pressured to overthrow a covered receiver instead of running the football.
On defense. The positives. We had a safety in the early going when the offense failed to score from the 1-foot line. The defense did play smashmouth football and were really hitting Newton who the Panthers claimed started the trash talking and cheap shots with a hit that Quinn put on Newton. We had two sacks today: One each from Laurinaitus and Quinn. We also had a great goal line stand that took away a TD that Steve Smith thought he had but to no avail in the long run. Eventually our defense gave up 30 points.
The negatives. It started with Chris Long letting a little turd of receiver in trash talking Steve Smith get into his head and got caught on a retaliatory punch and was ejected. That fired up the defense to get the aforementioned goal line stand but then it just went downhill after that. Walton continues to play his defense like it is a 100 yard prevent defense and the DBs play off the receivers with huge gaps of yardage. We just got killed with the pass in the gaps. There were no interceptions today either.
Janoris Jenkis got baited as Steve Smith continued his assualt along with Eugene Sims as well as Harvey Dahl on offense.
Special teams were relatively quiet today. Zuerlein was his usual stellar self on kickoffs and he had one FG and one extra point.
Even with all of our miscues, we had a chance to make a comeback until Sammie went down on a cheap shot out of bounds tackle that was not called by Mike Walters as Sammie was running out of bounds. Sammie's foot caught the seam on the sidelines just a tad and Walters weight buckled Sammie's left knee. The angle showed on ESPN indicated a buckling of the left knee inward and Sammie lay on the ground writhing in pain. The buckling from that angle indicated a tear type injury such as an ACL and/or medial meniscus. Hopefully, it was just a sprain of the ACl but the way Sammie was writhing on the ground, that is usually indicative of an ACL tear.
Onward we go with Kellen Clemons starting next week with Seattle coming to town as I am sure Sammie's injury will be significant. I think we need to bring another QB in ASAP and there are a boatload of also-rans out there. I'd like to see Tebow in here but he is just one of many. We will all know the extent of Sammie's injury as our season is now in jeopardy of being worse than last year.
