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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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I thought overall our defense played pretty much better than last year towards the end of the year anyway. The main part of the defense that bothered me wasnt scheme I don't think, and that was Vonnie Holliday repeatedly getting punked on the fakes bootlegs. There were two occasions that Midget Griffen lined up as if to run without his mouthpiece and when the faked to him the Fake bootlegged around with nothing but green in front of him. On both those plays I yelled PASS!. Clearly being 1000 miles from KC and what another 500 or so from Denver I can assume they didnt hear me. My problem with that is everyone on the defense should have seen that and read it the same as I and not fallen into that same trap, but yet they did. The bootlegs are what killed us because from that play they were able to set up the rest of the crap. Anyway, I am confident the Defense will be were it needs to be and we will be fine. One other observation I have is that we did not have nealy the amount of motion as we normaly do. I am beginning to believe that we will be playing with a completely differant scheme most of the rest of the year. The only reason I can think of for not having as much motion was because of being so loud at Investco. Either that or we were trying to show them something differant.
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Through that bit of the game, Green had attempted 7 passes. 3 of those 7 had a play fake involved. The long completion to Kennison, the 2nd and goal from the 2 that was incomplete to Gonzo, and the 23 yard sack of Green play (not sure if that goes down as an actual pass attempt, but it was going to be a passing play, so I threw it in anyway). On the last two, the play fake was horrible. Neither one would have faked out a jr. high player, much less a NFL player. The other 4 pass plays were straight drop back pass plays by Green, and every receiver was blanketed. I know it is just my opinion, but I wish we would really develop a good play action passing game. With Holmes in the backfield, it would have to be honored to the max. I know it would require a bit of a switch in philosophy, but.... |
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Yeah, it was pretty sad how the WRs could not get ANY seperation all night. But McCardell would be an upgrade. He was a Pro Bowler last year!
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Yes, the Denver D could not stop our run game, but they could stop our passing game. I would have to say that Morton and Kennison were not ready to play after considerable injury time on the bench. The fact they were able to be blanketed by man coverage was a very bad sign. I am still puzzled why Richard Smith did not get more into the game.
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Our passing game sucked because we couldnt get the ball to Tony G OR Priest. Pretty simple.
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Note that after game 1, 3 of the league's top defensive teams are ranked BELOW us in total defense.
I seriously doubt that our defense will finish higher than the Patriots, Eagles, Cowbys, or Benglas... http://www.nfl.com/stats/teamsort/NF...r?sort_col_1=4
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Our passing game sucked because our WRs are average, at best. Defenses don't have to respect them as real threats, and therefore are able to concentrate on Tony and Priest. Almost every completion to a WR was a perfectly thrown pass to a blanketed receiver. If we don't get someone on the field that defenses have to worry about at WR, then the Donkey defensive plan will be the blueprint against the Chiefs for the rest of the season.
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You're also basing your entire opinion on ONE GAME? The Chiefs had worse passing games last season.
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