I was actually pretty impressed with our defensive effort last night. If anything, it bodes well going forward. I expected it was going to be a rough performance with Howard out, but our secondary wasn’t really abused. The front four got some decent pressure on Hurts, but sadly just missed in some sacks. Whenever Hurts bought the extra time from the missed sacks, that is when our secondary was weakest. We played the run extremely well against a dominant rushing offense.
We really can’t do anything about the non-calls. Looked to me like the Eagles left tackle was clearly illegally downfield on the Goedert TD. The long pass to Brown that sealed the win for the Eagles….man, that ball hung up forever. I really thought it was going to be intercepted. That’s the kinda play where we need someone like Holland to be in position to force a turnover.
We absolutely need to get healthy. I would have preferred to see Robert Jones in the game after the Wynn injury. Eichenberg was really poor last night, which was to be expected. Just have to hope Williams is back for NE.
I was really disappointed with our play calling in the first half. There were too many instances of targeting Tyreek at or behind the LOS. I want him downfield challenging backup safeties.
On the Tua INT, I said before the snap I didn’t like going empty backfield there. We should have kept someone in to help. Just had a feeling pressure was going to be in Tua’s face. Sure enough, it was.