Liverpooldawg
11-05-2016, 05:02 PM
First of all, for all of you that didn't go, thousands of you, you missed a heck of a football game. Other observations in no particular order:
Fitz looked like a QUARTERBACK today. I've been hard on him but he looked the part today. He is still missing reads and throwing balls he shouldn't, but there weren't NEARLY as many today. I started noticing this next one last week , but it was even more apparent today. Teammates are starting to talk to him and congratulate him. They are starting to celebrate with him an actually look like they mean it. Those are all very encouraging signs.
We have ALL bashed the offensive line all year. Credit where it is DUE, those guys played a HELL of a game today.
The defensive front played EXTREMELY well. We held them to about half their usual rushing total. We were getting some pressure on the QB at times too. The only real negative was losing the QB in containment. That mostly got corrected as the game went on.
The defensive secondary actually looked better. The long ball is still a HUGE problem but they were MUCH better on the short stuff.
Aries Williams established himself as a every down back. He didn't look great, but he did look good. THAT is a huge improvement at that position.
FG kicking....................not going there. The rest was too much fun.
Punting........other than the one that got run back (and SHOULD have been called back) it wasn't bad considering what happened. Has anyone heard how Cooke is?
The coaching staff did one hell of a job, all of them. If you want to quibble I would have run the ball right before the half. I can however, understand going for the jugular. We really had them on the ropes and a score right before the half would have left them reeling.
At the end I kept think about JWS and Bama '96. Hopefully this one can be the same type of springboard. It sure looked like a team that finally found it's footing. They had every chance to fold up, and they didn't. THAT is the biggest step forward of all I saw today. It's a very slim hope for dang sure, but there is at least a small glimmer of 6 wins barely hanging around just beyond the horizon.
Tear it apart or add to it, but just my thoughts.
Fitz looked like a QUARTERBACK today. I've been hard on him but he looked the part today. He is still missing reads and throwing balls he shouldn't, but there weren't NEARLY as many today. I started noticing this next one last week , but it was even more apparent today. Teammates are starting to talk to him and congratulate him. They are starting to celebrate with him an actually look like they mean it. Those are all very encouraging signs.
We have ALL bashed the offensive line all year. Credit where it is DUE, those guys played a HELL of a game today.
The defensive front played EXTREMELY well. We held them to about half their usual rushing total. We were getting some pressure on the QB at times too. The only real negative was losing the QB in containment. That mostly got corrected as the game went on.
The defensive secondary actually looked better. The long ball is still a HUGE problem but they were MUCH better on the short stuff.
Aries Williams established himself as a every down back. He didn't look great, but he did look good. THAT is a huge improvement at that position.
FG kicking....................not going there. The rest was too much fun.
Punting........other than the one that got run back (and SHOULD have been called back) it wasn't bad considering what happened. Has anyone heard how Cooke is?
The coaching staff did one hell of a job, all of them. If you want to quibble I would have run the ball right before the half. I can however, understand going for the jugular. We really had them on the ropes and a score right before the half would have left them reeling.
At the end I kept think about JWS and Bama '96. Hopefully this one can be the same type of springboard. It sure looked like a team that finally found it's footing. They had every chance to fold up, and they didn't. THAT is the biggest step forward of all I saw today. It's a very slim hope for dang sure, but there is at least a small glimmer of 6 wins barely hanging around just beyond the horizon.
Tear it apart or add to it, but just my thoughts.