This is a young team. I've said since the draft this team would win games they shouldn't and lose games they should. I was the board pessamist before the season and apperantly now I'm the board optimist.
On the coaching, I'm more concerned with two facets of the game. I agree with most of you on the 4th and goal call. Although, the problem wasn't a slow back.. it was a bad pitch. On top of that Dayne saw that he was going to bowl into the endzone and got antsy. That's my take on that.
Clock management is a concern however, the right call was to kick the field goal when we went for it on 4th and 1 the first time. Its simple math. With 3 minutes left and two timeouts you HAVE to kick that. You have 2 TO's plus the 2 minute warning. If you get a 3 and out you might get the ball back before the 2:00 mark. The LAST thing you do there is call a time out. And you damn sure don't let 20 seconds run off the clock and THEN call a time out.
The second thing that concerns me is the slow starts this team gets off to. I know we were up 7-3, but our first drive reminded me of the old Oilers. Except somebody forgot to tell Kubes that Dayne is #36 not #34. With the exception of the Cheifs game we haven't gotten off to a good start. And its obvious now that the Chiefs are not very strong at all. Is there some reason that this team can't start a game decently? Do we need to alter our warmups? I dont' know. But the team seems to lack any kind of fire in the first half.
As far as the offense goes. Man do we need a running back. I feel like Denny Green when I talk about Dayne. "He is who we thought he was!!..." He's just not that good. As far Ahman.. please come back soon. I'm already spotting RBs in the draft. AJ will be back.. Kevin walters needs to move to the slot permenantly. He had his man by 3 steps when the ball was in the air... but on the outside he was caught by the time the ball got to him.
On defense. CAN WE GET A SECONDARY? I know, dead horse and beatings and all of that. 3/4 of our secondary is below average at best.
On special teams. I turned to the guy next to me... after Kris hit his 3rd field goal.. and I said... "Just wait till its important... He'll miss that one". Nuf said. Get him the hell out of dodge.
Positives... when we get some playmakers... Schaub will be the real deal. I can't wait for AJ to get back. We do have a real DL. Amobi and Williams ARE making an impact... even if its not showing up in the sack column. Ryans is his usual self. D-rob is a stud.
So I'm back to thinking we're a 7-9 football team. Wondering why I bought into this whole 10 win hype. Man that bandwagon was soo inviting.
Mike
On the coaching, I'm more concerned with two facets of the game. I agree with most of you on the 4th and goal call. Although, the problem wasn't a slow back.. it was a bad pitch. On top of that Dayne saw that he was going to bowl into the endzone and got antsy. That's my take on that.
Clock management is a concern however, the right call was to kick the field goal when we went for it on 4th and 1 the first time. Its simple math. With 3 minutes left and two timeouts you HAVE to kick that. You have 2 TO's plus the 2 minute warning. If you get a 3 and out you might get the ball back before the 2:00 mark. The LAST thing you do there is call a time out. And you damn sure don't let 20 seconds run off the clock and THEN call a time out.
The second thing that concerns me is the slow starts this team gets off to. I know we were up 7-3, but our first drive reminded me of the old Oilers. Except somebody forgot to tell Kubes that Dayne is #36 not #34. With the exception of the Cheifs game we haven't gotten off to a good start. And its obvious now that the Chiefs are not very strong at all. Is there some reason that this team can't start a game decently? Do we need to alter our warmups? I dont' know. But the team seems to lack any kind of fire in the first half.
As far as the offense goes. Man do we need a running back. I feel like Denny Green when I talk about Dayne. "He is who we thought he was!!..." He's just not that good. As far Ahman.. please come back soon. I'm already spotting RBs in the draft. AJ will be back.. Kevin walters needs to move to the slot permenantly. He had his man by 3 steps when the ball was in the air... but on the outside he was caught by the time the ball got to him.
On defense. CAN WE GET A SECONDARY? I know, dead horse and beatings and all of that. 3/4 of our secondary is below average at best.
On special teams. I turned to the guy next to me... after Kris hit his 3rd field goal.. and I said... "Just wait till its important... He'll miss that one". Nuf said. Get him the hell out of dodge.
Positives... when we get some playmakers... Schaub will be the real deal. I can't wait for AJ to get back. We do have a real DL. Amobi and Williams ARE making an impact... even if its not showing up in the sack column. Ryans is his usual self. D-rob is a stud.
So I'm back to thinking we're a 7-9 football team. Wondering why I bought into this whole 10 win hype. Man that bandwagon was soo inviting.
Mike