I know the pats game was harsh for everyone, its 1 game time to move on see what happens up in CINCY. we are still in the lead in the divsion and certainly have the option to keep it.
projections thoughts?
I personally have a hard time thinking we can beat cincy, they play a similar type of defense as the pats did a lot of man and jamming receivers etc. and there offense is super explosive, even though they lost Eifert (yuck) i think they have alot of weapons what do we do sunday to turn things around?
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green, boyd, and ross are going to be tough to cover.
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Oh yeah, one more huge thing. We need huge improvements on 1st and 2nd down. Everyone talks about our poor rate of conversion on 3rd down, 32%. The reality is most of our 3rd down trys are 7 yards or more. The real problem is being off schedule on 1st and 2nd down. NEWS FLASH!! The league average for 3rd down conversions of 7 yards or more is .................... 30%. WE are no worse than any team converting 3rd down given the distance to make.
The problem is we are nearly always trying to convert at 3rd and 7 or more.Fame, Redwine4all, Surfs Up 99 and 1 other person like this. -
It's amazing what that one game did for us in where we rank on offense and defense. We were one of the top defenses by points going in and now we're 14th. Our offense was around average (or a bit above) by points scored and now we're 24th.
Tannehill is still 7th in the league with a 106.1 rating, but we're not yet at that 150+ passing attempts cut-off point. He has 94 attempts, so it will probably be after game 7 where we'll see a rating that more or less reflects how he's played. Same goes for overall offense and defense.. Cinci game will be huge.The Guy, Redwine4all, Surfs Up 99 and 2 others like this. -
Note: My ranking comments were not directed at cbrad. If anyone around here can make real sense of what the stats really mean it is him. I couldn't even hold his calculator!Redwine4all likes this. -
I have a legit question and I didn't want to start a thread about it so i'll put it here as it does have relevance to this upcoming game.
Why....aren't we using Kenyan Drake? Look...Never mind that I drafted him on my FF team, I don't care about that. I am just curious as to why we aren't using him. Is Gase saving him for the grind of the season? I envisioned us using him the way Chicago uses Cohen, or the way the Saints use Kamara or Sproles back in the day. I'm just baffled by his lack of touches. I thought for sure we'd get him plenty of looks against the Patriots and he was basically non existent with Gore getting the bulk of the work. Whats the deal? This is the one area where I truly don't understand the logic of Adam Gase. Is it a blocking issue? What? -
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They're going to roll right over us offensively. I see us giving up over 28 points.
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Cincy like to push with their dline we have to negate that with some sceens imo to back em off. Coarse running it would help but we will have to see how that's shakes out. Larson needs to be replaced imo.