Reflections on a Rat****ing
 

But not by the refs


First, I’m going to bet that about 2000 people blamed Carr on that final catch. If you watch, you’ll notice that he was covering Daniels in the short zone. If he would have inexplicably floated to the back pylon before the throw, Schaub has a wide open Daniels walking into the EZ and the result is the same. Don’t blame Carr. With that said, Romeo should have locked Flowers on Johnson for the entirety of that drive and not had us play zone in that situation. Berry was in the area too, but that was a schoolyard play, and those are the hardest to defend.

Cassel really ****ed us on the last drive. He was near the money all game, and when he had Bowe and Horne wide open, he badly misfired on both, which made us need a Hail Mary for any shot. Oh, and that 3^rd and 2 call was there, but Cassel made an awful throw to Moeaki. He really screwed the pooch when we needed him the most, and that’s the difference between a franchise QB and Matt Cassel.

I think we had more missed tackles today than every other game this season combined. Playing good offenses will tend to make that happen, but there were some really bad plays on D today. On Ward’s run, I counted six missed
tackles.

I know Donald Washington is a n00b FS, but he looked lost in coverage several times, and missed a couple of key tackles, one on the Ward run, and another on Jones™ catch late in the third, where he totally took himself
out of coverage, recovered after the catch, and then blew the stop.

Cassel’s first TD to Bowe was a great throw and catch. The other two TDs were phenomenal plays by the receivers. Vrabel’s was obviously way behind him, and Bowe went SD 2007 on the Texans on his second TD.


If you are going to take something from Bowe’s performance today, it should be how he responded to adversity. I hope that the people who wanted him run out of town today feel a little foolish, because he is still a game
changing receiving weapon, and he made a number of very difficult catches. He made 3 really good grabs today, and another circus catch that would have been a top 10 highlight had Cassel not lead him out of bounds.


The running game was nails today. Charles started slow and then really picked it up. More than anything, he was much harder to take down today than he was last week, and Jones looked a hell of a lot quicker than he had the
previous two games. And Charles had the greatest 7 yard run in football history.


It’s becoming more and more apparent that the coaches do not trust Cassel whatsoever. Delay of game coming off of a timeout should be a capital offense for a QB. JFC.We were afraid to pass on the first drive, and unless we are in 3rd and 8+ or in a 2 minute drill, we aren’t attempting to throw downfield at all. However, the throw he made to Moeaki on 3rd and 7 was exactly where it needed to be.


Brandon Flowers may be the most complete corner in the NFL today. The PI call on him was obviously horrendous, but if it’s a no-call, Johnson makes the catch anyway. The elbow in the back was a foul, but it’s not normally one that is called. That said, if you’re throwing a flag there, how do you not throw it on Johnson?

DJ missed a couple of tackles today, but he was still all over the place. He played with a shitload of heart, and his athleticism—landing on your feet when getting flipped by an OL—was amazing. Belcher had a less impressive game.

Gilberry was absolutely abused today. He generated no pressure in the passing game, and on running downs he got blown up or taken out by a single blocker nearly every time.

The biggest thing that we need to take away from this game is that we have one outside receiving threat and nothing else, one pass rusher and nothing else, and no QB. Danario Alexander, a guy who many of us pined for and the Rams got off the street in August stepped in today and had 4 catches for 72 yards and a touchdown.


That’s a really tough loss, but I’m proud of the fire that Flowers showed. The guy isn’t a paycheck player. Also, Haley did a masterful job of managing the emotions of the team and the game. Ultimately, our inability to generate pressure on Schaub is why we lost. Vrabel and Studebaker aren’t nearly good enough.

As long as everyone on the AFCW is losing, I am fine. We were bound to lose this one anyway.

This x1000.

We shouldn't expect dogshit quarterbacks to win shootouts like today's.

How could you possibly bad mouth Cassel today?

Did you write this in some other program and pasted it here?

Because it's easy to do. Cassel had a pretty damn good game, regardless of the last drive and 3rd and 2 play.

Because I don't play fantasy football. On the most important throw of the day, the toss to a single covered Moeaki going against a smaller safety, Cassel missed the open man by 3 yards.

He played as well as you could expect him to up to that point. Then, when we put the game in his hands on 3rd and two and the first two plays of the last drive, he missed every throw by a ****ing mile.

Yeah. I usually type up responses on the game as a whole post mortem and move them over. Avoids post whoring during the game threads.

It's pretty easy, he choked when the pressure was on. When the pressure was moderate, he was ok today. When it got turned up, he wilted.

Like Hamas said, that's the difference. Shaun Hill and Drew Stanton can pass for a bunch of garbage yards in meaningless lions games too, but when they got close today and the last few weeks, those guys choked too.

Yeah. Not enough pressure on Shaub. On those last drives he had lots of time to throw.

This x2000

Those are arguably the three most important pieces of a modern championship team. Ask the Saints, Colts or Giants.

Brees/Smith/Colston
Manning/Wayne/Freeney
Eli/Plax/Strahan

Hali and Bowe are obviously complementary pieces and Cassel is just a piece (of poo).

I loved how pissed Flowers got about that PI call. He's got a ****ton of heart.

They dont trust Cassel, yet they had him try a low pct. throw on the most critical play of the game??

lol dude he played good and both running backs had 100 yards how can you blame anyone besides the defense is beyond me?

I disagree on the 3rd and 2 play. It didn't fool anyone and Adrian Wilson was in perfect position. It was a stupid play call when they should have run it or did a safe pass.

As far as blaming Cassel on the last drive there was like 28 seconds left and they needed a TD. I think that is a tall order for any QB but B-Richardson didn't even give him a chance because he couldn't even come close to blocking his guy.

The D lost this game though and Berry is playing awful.