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I think we’ll see this weekend whether the trade of West was a terrible thing. If he racks up 50 yards in 20 runs then maybe we made the right choice.
Soup I’m surprised you have so much hatred for Farmer. On just about every previous draft you’ve said we should pick almost nothing but O-line and D-line, especially Samoans. He grabbed Bitonio who looks pretty darn good in the 2nd round, and grabbed Erving in the 1st this season, and also got you that big Samoan you’ve always wanted in Shelton who had a pretty good game last week. Yeah he’s made some terrible picks that he deserves criticism for, but hasn’t he also made some good picks that he deserves a little credit for?
As for coaching, look at what had been happening all game. We had been rushing 4, 5, and 6 players all game and generating very little pressure. So on 3rd and 10 what should we do, keep doing the same thing that hasn’t worked all game? Or do you switch it up, line all the guys on the line like you’re going to blitz, and then drop those extra guys back into coverage to confuse a journeyman QB and possibly get him to throw an INT? I don’t lay this loss on the feet of the coaches because as @durakbane and I talked about in the gameday chat, coaches didn’t fumble the ball or throw INT’s. Players did that.
Haden has had bad games before -all defensive backs do-, but he’s always bounced back. I’m not worried about him in the long run. The rest of our DBs looked like garbage, however, and that concerns me. In fact, I’m worried about most everyone on our defense other than Haden. We have a lot of one-dimensional players, and any offensive coordinator worth his salt can exploit that. Run at Kruger. Throw towards Whitner. It’s not rocket science.
@mdp-sack-attack you’re exactly right about Haden. In fact we call it a bad day for Haden but he still held one of the best WR’s in the NFL to 62 yards. Any other CB would call that a great performance.
@durakbane I may put that pic in the title 🙂
Disagree on Haden. He got abused. He let up a TD. He let up 3rd down conversions.
As for Farmer – even a blind squirrel changes a light bulb once in a blue pigeon.
Gilbert
Manziel
Mayle (cutting a 4th round pick before the season is asinine)
West (trading a solid RB for a conditional 7th – that you taded multiple picks to get – asinine). West had no attitude issues other than the fact he knew the team was garbage and coached by garbage.On 3rd and 10 – I don’ care if it wasn’t working to blitz – you NEVER purposefully give a QB time to throw – force a quick pass and tackle the guy before 10 yards. It’s simple football.
As for coaching – great coaches put their players in a position to succeed. Our coaches repeatedly fail to do that.
Freedom!!!
Just because they played bad doesn’t mean this is the worst team we’ve fielded. Big difference. The 1999 team and the 2000 team sucked and really wouldnt have even been a top 10 college team.
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