The Chaos Path
I'm Rude
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Yes, I know... we all know.... our O-line stunk-it-up yesterday. Yes I know... we all know... Pennington looked a little timid out there. With that said there were some things that I was very pleased with.
1. Solid defensive performance. There's only ONE drive that really made us look bad when they scored their first 7. There was good pressure quite often, Merling was beasting it out there, and we kept the 2nd best rushing attack in the league to minimal gains! That run-defense is stout and fierce and if we can prevent the Falcons from running, I fear no one's run. Yes Gonzalez was the one who broke our back, but how many times did we force them to punt the ball yesterday? (PS who's assignment was Gonzalez?)
2. I really like our wide receivers. I was impressed with our 3 starters. Bess was all over the place taking the whole team on his shoulders. Ginn caught his balls and maybe his numbers were pedestrian but was there really anything else he could have done other than get as open as he was? Also how can you forget Camarillo with that monkey catch. Woooowwww. I didn't see any drops, no fumbles, no boneheaded penalties. They looked good out there.
3. That rushing attack wasn't as bad as everyone wants to make it out to be, I blame it more on lack of proper play calling. Ronnie and Ricky were never given much of a chance to get into a rhythm with the constant changing of the two, plus not to forget installing Pat White randomly right in the middle of a series. (If you're gonna run a wildcat w/Pat then do it for a whole series, don't interrupt anyone's mojo) Ronnie and Ricky didn't crush anyone but they didn't play badly either. This will open up more and more as the year progresses.
UNLESS that forsaken O-Line keeps playing the way it did. ARGH!
1. Solid defensive performance. There's only ONE drive that really made us look bad when they scored their first 7. There was good pressure quite often, Merling was beasting it out there, and we kept the 2nd best rushing attack in the league to minimal gains! That run-defense is stout and fierce and if we can prevent the Falcons from running, I fear no one's run. Yes Gonzalez was the one who broke our back, but how many times did we force them to punt the ball yesterday? (PS who's assignment was Gonzalez?)
2. I really like our wide receivers. I was impressed with our 3 starters. Bess was all over the place taking the whole team on his shoulders. Ginn caught his balls and maybe his numbers were pedestrian but was there really anything else he could have done other than get as open as he was? Also how can you forget Camarillo with that monkey catch. Woooowwww. I didn't see any drops, no fumbles, no boneheaded penalties. They looked good out there.
3. That rushing attack wasn't as bad as everyone wants to make it out to be, I blame it more on lack of proper play calling. Ronnie and Ricky were never given much of a chance to get into a rhythm with the constant changing of the two, plus not to forget installing Pat White randomly right in the middle of a series. (If you're gonna run a wildcat w/Pat then do it for a whole series, don't interrupt anyone's mojo) Ronnie and Ricky didn't crush anyone but they didn't play badly either. This will open up more and more as the year progresses.
UNLESS that forsaken O-Line keeps playing the way it did. ARGH!