We gave up on the run game too early.

[TimeForWasp]

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[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

We could have kept with the running game on the first two drives.....if that piece of shit QB of ours could hit anybody on 3rd down.

The game could have been close if Cassel could have kept the offense on the field longer than a minute.

He did hit someone, but the glorious savior running back had a pre-snap penalty that nullified the conversion and turned a 3rd and 7 into a 3rd and 12. This was after Matt Cassel converted the first first down of the game on a 2nd and 8. The runs during this drive were Jamaal Charles for 2, Jamaal Charles for 1, and Thomas Jones for 2. Matt Cassel wasn't the guy who stalled that drive.

On the second drive, the running backs were marginally better with Jamaal Charles running twice for a total of 6 yards on the first two downs. Cassel threw incomplete on 3rd and 4.

So in the first two drives, Cassel completed two passes for 1st downs (one was nullified) and threw incomplete twice on 3rd down (one was a 3rd and 12). Meanwhile, the running backs averaged 2.2 yards over 5 carries with a long of 3 and a first down nullifying penalty.

I think it's funny how people can get so irrational with their hate. The defense sucks because Cassel didn't keep the offense on the field long enough for the defense to rest and revise their gameplan. The running game sucks because Denver keys on the run knowing that Cassel sucks. The offensive line gives up sacks only because Cassel holds the ball too long. Cassel sucks no matter how many good passes he throws and no matter how few times he's intercepted because a couple of his incompletions were way off the mark. Some of you are becoming self-parodies.

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Rausch

I agree.

Panicked teams without an identity flounder around and dump the game plan once behind.

There is a reason you stick with the running game (if that's how you're built.)

Pitt and Bmore and a number of others might lose a game here or there but they're in Championship games because they know who they are and play to it...

When have the Ravens or Steelers been down 21 points before the end of teh first quarter?

[DieChief]

HAHAHAHAHA, You douchebags lost, no got your asses raped cut off and handed back to you covered in shit. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by patteeu

He did hit someone, but the glorious savior running back had a pre-snap penalty that nullified the conversion and turned a 3rd and 7 into a 3rd and 12. This was after Matt Cassel converted the first first down of the game on a 2nd and 8. The runs during this drive were Jamaal Charles for 2, Jamaal Charles for 1, and Thomas Jones for 2. Matt Cassel wasn't the guy who stalled that drive.

On the second drive, the running backs were marginally better with Jamaal Charles running twice for a total of 6 yards on the first two downs. Cassel threw incomplete on 3rd and 4.

So in the first two drives, Cassel completed two passes for 1st downs (one was nullified) and threw incomplete twice on 3rd down (one was a 3rd and 12). Meanwhile, the running backs averaged 2.2 yards over 5 carries with a long of 3 and a first down nullifying penalty.

I think it's funny how people can get so irrational with their hate. The defense sucks because Cassel didn't keep the offense on the field long enough for the defense to rest and revise their gameplan. The running game sucks because Denver keys on the run knowing that Cassel sucks. The offensive line gives up sacks only because Cassel holds the ball too long. Cassel sucks no matter how many good passes he throws and no matter how few times he's intercepted because a couple of his incompletions were way off the mark. Some of you are becoming self-parodies.

This.

I'm not a big Cassel fan, but people need to pull their heads out of their asses and quit blaming him for every single facet of every loss. He played a hell of a lot better game than McNabb did under similar circumstances.

[Chiefnj2]

Originally Posted by patteeu

He did hit someone, but the glorious savior running back had a pre-snap penalty that nullified the conversion and turned a 3rd and 7 into a 3rd and 12. This was after Matt Cassel converted the first first down of the game on a 2nd and 8. The runs during this drive were Jamaal Charles for 2, Jamaal Charles for 1, and Thomas Jones for 2. Matt Cassel wasn't the guy who stalled that drive.

On the second drive, the running backs were marginally better with Jamaal Charles running twice for a total of 6 yards on the first two downs. Cassel threw incomplete on 3rd and 4.

So in the first two drives, Cassel completed two passes for 1st downs (one was nullified) and threw incomplete twice on 3rd down (one was a 3rd and 12). Meanwhile, the running backs averaged 2.2 yards over 5 carries with a long of 3 and a first down nullifying penalty.

I think it's funny how people can get so irrational with their hate. The defense sucks because Cassel didn't keep the offense on the field long enough for the defense to rest and revise their gameplan. The running game sucks because Denver keys on the run knowing that Cassel sucks. The offensive line gives up sacks only because Cassel holds the ball too long. Cassel sucks no matter how many good passes he throws and no matter how few times he's intercepted because a couple of his incompletions were way off the mark. Some of you are becoming self-parodies.

Stop it with those facts.