1st Half Good & Uglies....
 

Good:
Defense
Croyle
Kicker on kickoffs

Uglies:
Huard
early offensive play calling
tackling
kicker missed field goal
Croyle's terrible interception

Defense was not good. I don't care that we only gave up 3 points. They went for it on 4th and goal with their backup RB, which wouldn't happen during the regular season. We've been helped by lots of dropped passes. Our missed tackles are absolutely pathetic. Tamba and Jared Allen have been good, but that's about it.
I am not feeling good about our defense about watching this first half.

Croyle looked AMAZING on that one drive...but then he looked awful on the next two...I have a feeling he's going to struggle IMMENSELY against the blitzes come regular season.

Doesn't look comfortable in the pocket at all.

Good:

Defensive Ends
Punter
Punt Coverage
Croyle's TD Drive

Bad:

Rest of Defense
Kicker missing a 42 yard FG
Offense

The 1st team defense did not look good against a bad Dolphins offense.

I was fine with Brodie making the throw on the INT, but he HAS to get that ball to the outside where either Wilson comes down with it, or it falls incomplete, out of bounds.

The OL looked decent pass blocking, but craptacular run blocking. Complete reversal of normal.

I am going to chalk up the D been average to below average especially tackling,to the fact they just finished training camp and are looking forward to a day off tomorrow or the weekend.

If they come out next Thursday and tackle like this then I will admit we might have a problem

Eh...

The defense isn't blitzing...we're just using base coverage...we're keeping everything underneath...they aren't playing as poorly as some are implying...missed tackles are annoying.

I'm going to add Derrick Johnson to the good and Kyle Turley to the bad.

I'm going to disagree about Brodie's throw...

He threw it like a reeruned monkey...from his backfoot?! That was awful.

He went from looking like Peyton friggin' Manning to Rex Grossman in a 3 minute span.

Yeah...

DJ was all over the place. One missed tackle, but other than that, awesome.

Randolph looked good, too.

the redzone D has been solid through 1.5 games

Too many big plays between the redzones, though.

We've seen that a million times over the last 6 seasons...Trent Green was notorious for ending drives started inside the opponent red zone with a dumb INT.

Oh well, he's young. He demonstrated on the drive before that that he absolutely can do things that Damon "I can't even throw a screen pass" Huard can't.

Let me rephrase it:

I'm OK with the decision. But the throw HAS to be to the outside where only Bigfoot has a shot at it, or it's incomplete. He cannot throw the ball to the inside and risk an INT.

Had he done what I suggested, I bet Wilson comes down with that throw.

One on one with a height advantage? Fantastic.

But you gotta get the ball to the pylon.

The only problem witht he D has been the tackling. I don;t expect them to blitz all out in pre-season. but the 1st quarter play calling on O either sucked or we sucked cause we looked like total shit. I still say the problem is the coordinator's lack of ability to properly coach an offense