Lost in all of the disappointment of a MNF loss, what may be overlooked is our offense must be brimming with confidence after the spanking it received in Atlanta.
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1. Ronnie his highest yardage total since 2005 vs the Bears
2. the Oline was making more pancakes than the local IHOP
3. Ted Ginn set a career high in receptions
4. Chad Pennington answered critics with a Pennington like performance
5. Lou Polite got off the snide and was an effective down the field blocker as well as showing mastery of picking up the 3rd and 1
6. Anyone else recall the preseason talk of Ricky Williams losing a step? He looked great and ran with speed and power, his 69 yds was a nice compliment to Ronnie Brown's big night
7. Pat Cobbs had a solid night returning kicks.
After scoring just 7 pts in Atlanta, the offense responded and had a great game, and some of our weapons were relatively quite guys like Greg Camarillo and Devone Bess had solid but quite games.
Next up San Diego who has proven to be vulnerable to the run.
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He also verified that "Chad gives us the best chance to win".....is a worn out, meaningless catch phrase at this point. -
Its not offense but I liked our kick coverage....they really raised their game last night.
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We did hold the ball for 3qtrs, or do you account that to mere luck?Frumundah Finnatic, late again and dolphindebby like this. -
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Which BTW, dominated the game, with Pennington as the Qb..late again and dolphindebby like this. -
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However, we lack that sudden strike ability. the annoucers were talking last night that we don't have an explosive, large play person out there, which can be partially blamed on chad not being able to air it out with huge amounts of speed on the ball, which has always been the knock on him. Now, to i want to see henne, no not yet. But we have one or two more games lost because we really don't have a quick strike weapon, i think we need to see what henne can do. -
I don't want to see Henne, I want to see someone step up fill David Martin's roll, we have a "good" all around Te in Fasano, and a blocking Te in Haynos, we don't have that seam splitting Te that was Dmart.
Without him, we have one vertical player in Ted Ginn which points out the problem with Hartline, Bess and Camarillo, they are too similar of players good route running Wr with great hands but no ability to take the ball upfield.
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Pennington is limited, and he is accurate, too. But right now he seems more limited and less accurate than most of last year. That's not good.
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although Chadley Checkdown...i like that. :lol:jetssuck likes this. -
I also think we are going to see lots of Jumbo Formations, our offense finding it's identity as a power running team means blockers will have precedence over players with a bit more big play upside.
Which is fine, but this is not going to be the Run and Shoot we are looking at, think of those great Giants and Redskins teams...40 runs per game...adamprez2003 and Bpk like this. -
He's propped up by the wildcat and the punishing runs of R & R.
Had Checkdown Chad been asked to duel it out with Manning last night, he would have likely maintained his TO rate of the past couple games and we would have lost by no less than 3 TD's..
You're only going so far in this league when the most important position on the field is manned by a guy that limits the unit he leads.. -
O-Line and Jake Long stepped it up! IHOP
We beat 98% of the teams in this league with that performance last night! We beat the other 2%, 70% of the time with that performance! Hell we would of beat the Colts last night if they had played conventional huddle (no excuse I'm just saying), if the defense has time to set we stop em!
I feel alot better about this game than the Atlanta game.dolphindebby likes this. -
yeah im very happy for Big Jake. Way to shut people up last night. Of course Freeney just had to be there for the broken down play to get the gimme sack. but we all know that wasnt on jake.
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Manning was sacked 14 times in 08 with a makeshift Oline, we got him once last night but we did not have people around him consistently as well as poor tackling and maybe a poor scheme that Manning simply raped the Safeties with, fixable problems, but still. -
I loved that one run by Ronnie where he had two guys on him and still kept on going.
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I agree Padre... nice post...
I cannot believe that we have many that blame the Offense our some of its parts for the loss yesterday...
It rests solely on the Defense... I kind of looked at stats and IMo proved it in Nabos Thread...padre31 likes this. -
The fact is....with Penny at QB and no time left to prop him up with the wildcat or running the ball, we'd have had just as much chance to make a comeback if he had just taken a knee.... -
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Penny scares no one but those of us hoping to beat a good team... -
Jake Long hand punched a Colts DE so hard the dude lifted slightly and basically fell back into the blocking pile, the Offense came out ready to punch people in the mouth and did all game long.
We also took advantage of Freeney and Mathis's desire to play the run as they headed upfield RW and Ronnie simply cut inside their rush and headed upfield.
I know 23rd calls them "the Orca Five" but they reminded me of the Redskins' Hogs Oline.Disnardo likes this. -
we hold onto the ball for 3 quarters because of smash mouth football. We just need to have 2-3 explosion plays a game. We didnt' get that. -
Heading into game 3 we're in pretty much the same position as last tear.....wildcat or bust
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Sorry JD...
but Manning had just had the ball with excellent FP at the Colts 40, he takes a sack 1st play, throws for about 7 yards (ala Penny) and throws an incomplete on 3rd Down on this drive...
Then Manning throws a pick (what should have been a pick) into double coverage, but of course it is our safety who drops the easy INT... then the Colts still score a FG on this drive... Can you believe Manning threw into double coverage???
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And CP's Game 2 interception was on the final play into the endzone.
As for the contention that it is wildcat or bust, we are third in the NFL in rushing and even the non wildcat plays were averaging 5.3 yds per carry.
In Atlanta we averaged 4.9 ypc as well.Disnardo likes this. -
the offensive line took a giant step in the right direction, our running game was where it is supposed to be, Pennington was on his game, unfortunately, our receivers were horrible, defensive line mediocre &secondary (especially safety) sucked
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