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Good observations Arrowheaded Wolf. Here's mine. It's a tad long, but hope you guys find something out of it.
What is the difference between saying their defense is terrible and our defense is terrible?
I watched the game too you know, we couldn't stop them from running and they couldn't stop us from running.
They had a better completion percentage, mostly because we had to continually bring up safeties for blitzes and run support but only 2 more completions for 60 yards. We had 2 sacks to their 1, 2 interceptions to thier 1 and 3 fumbles with one recovery to their 0.
Their defense is supposed to be rock solid yet I see NOTHING at all to indicate that it was anything above and beyond ours.
Speaking of us stopping them because of bonehead plays, what about Green running backwards 23 yards on that one sack and a good ways when he threw that interception? If that wasn't boneheaded I don't know what was.
Point is that our offense didn't play as well as they should have, our special teams were all but nonexistant and our defense played as good if not better than I expected for the first time out at a tough opposing rivals house in a new more aggressive scheme with a new coordinator.
Do we need to get better?
Hell yes, but so does the Denver squad compared to last night.
Should we worry about it right now? No, because not only will it do absolutely no good at all other than frustrate everyone but it was one game! The first game.
If they look the same 3 games from now I would say it would be safe to be concerned a bit.
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