WharfRat
Practice Squad
I don't know that Jay was completely to blame for today's debaucle. He certainly didn't help, and let's not get into excuses about his finger...if it was bothering him that bad, he shouldn't have played. The way I see it is that the Defense really let us down in a big way... Fletcher sux...period. I have been keeping myself off the Anti-fletch bandwago in order to allow him to prove himself either way... he did so today... he got burned repeatedly. Gonzo ate us alive over the middle. The single bright spot with our defensive play today was holding Holmes to 52 yrds... that's it... for a team with such a great pass D... we stuck Arrowhead up today. The other thing I see is that if we have to play catch up, and arent' able to grind it out with Ricky... we can't get it done. We sure as h@ll are not going to keep up with the Pats with this kind of poor showing. Seriously... to say we have a lack of depth at CB is a huge understatement... and if Sam or Pat is out against a team with ANY kind of passing game.. we're screwed, because Fletch couldn't cover his own a$$ with a blanket, and our offense doesn't seem able to keep up in a shootout. If 4 ints (regardless of who's "fault" it was) is the result of playing catch up against this poor KC secondary... then we have a serious problem.
Maybe I'm just ranting becasue I'm still pissed... but I'm trying to figure out what went wrong... and it seems to me that the D was overwhelmed, and the O couldn't pick up the slack.
Yes ... the penalties killed us in the first half... some were bonehead calls by the refs... but others were just plain bad moves on our part... in critical situations no less.
On a side note... I was pleased with AJ on returns today... I'm seeing him break one all the way by the end of the season...
Maybe I'm just ranting becasue I'm still pissed... but I'm trying to figure out what went wrong... and it seems to me that the D was overwhelmed, and the O couldn't pick up the slack.
Yes ... the penalties killed us in the first half... some were bonehead calls by the refs... but others were just plain bad moves on our part... in critical situations no less.
On a side note... I was pleased with AJ on returns today... I'm seeing him break one all the way by the end of the season...