This ***-whooping was the result when a mediocre team is assisted all the way to the Super Bowl and then plays a real Super Bowl team. I was worried when I saw who the officiating crew was but they called a pretty good game aside from the first OPI.
How are fumbles and missed kicks by incompetent kickers his fault? That's a personnel issue. Returns in general haven't been great anywhere. This kickoff crap needs to go away next year. The missed kicks were addressed.
As they say, kickers are born - not made.
I was actually specifically looking at yesterday. Losing JA has a huge effect on the defense. As you said the pass rush was a problem. No JA means playing a lot more zone which means less or no blitzing or even threat of a blitz. We have to get a big time cover corner who is healthy. Then...
Most of the drops that were attributed to Wicks were on poorly thrown balls where he had to dive for them or was barely able to get his fingers on the ball at all. Unfortunately, the NFL doesn't consider that in their stat keeping. If the receiver is able to contact the ball at all with both...
A lot of QBs have had down years the year after a big contract and then bounce back big the following season. Terry Bradshaw was talking about it on a pregame show when a guy got his big pay day (maybe Russell Wilson or Luck?). He said guys tighten up because they suddenly feel all the...
Studs:
Jacobs
McKinney
Cooper
Kraft
Doubs
Reed
Williams
Brooks
Willis
Whelan
McManus
Duds (not going to penalize guys for being injured):
LVN
Walker
Walker
Gary
Nixon
Heath
How so, exactly? I mean, coverage has been good. Kicking has been good. What else can he control? Returns have sucked but the NFL has been hell-bent on ruining kickoff returns for a long time now. Speaking of which the new kickoff experiment has been an abject failure. They need to scrap it.
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