The Plan at the moment:
Draft: Trade a 3rd and 6th this year to a team to move up and get a 2nd next year (this will happen).
Players I want:
Jake Ferguson (Jake Butt) or Jelani Woods or Jeremy Ruckert or Cade Otten (owen daniels) at TE- All 4th rd or later.
Troy Anderson LB 3rd/4th rd (yay Timmy!)
Neil Farrell, JR DL- run stuffer- bye purcell
True, but those are the characteristic mistakes that SD makes every game. We're just the first team that couldn't capitalize on them. That's what's so disturbing. We could've won this game. We shot ourselves in the foot more than SD stopped us. Drive killing penalties and 2 costly fumbles made all the difference.
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” -Winston Churchill
I keep going back to the holding penalty on that incredible CJ touchdown. That was the final straw in this game, IMO (combined with the DT fumble a few plays later, obviously). If they score there, it's 21-16 with 4:20 to go or so, and we have a chance to bring it within three points. Even if we miss, the defense was clamping down and we had all three timeouts. Could've really put the pressure on them.
I admit that I am biased. Dennison has never done anything for the team going back as the coach to a shitty ST group back in the day. He has always been a part of the good ol boys and was protected by Shanahan's loyalty and then by Kubiaks.
As to the points, he is the offensive coordinator to one of the worst offenses in the league. There is no flow or rhythm to the offense. The plays are one dimensional and are easy for the defense to read and counteract. This isn't against good defenses. This is against Indy (30th ranked defense), SD (31st defense), Atlanta (26th defense), TB (21st). Granted we won two of those games, but only because the defense put us there.
The offense last night was as vanilla as it gets. No slants, 1 pitch, no rb screens, 1 wr screen (?), no quick drop passes. It looked like they were literally calling the same handful of plays every series despite it not working. We didn't get the TE involved at all until the end. The only times the oline might have been successful they were penalized. This offense doesn't have any sort of identity and doesn't look like it knows who they want to be. I lay that at the feet of the offensive coaches.
Without Wade Phillips this team would be a 4 win club.
The good:
Chargers and Chiefs are each 2 win teams.
The bad:
The Faiders are a 1 loss team and in command of the AFC West.
Our 15 road game win streak against division rivals is ended.
The Uuuuuugly:
Orange Footie Pajamas. Nuff said!
(Power Blue unis would have led to a win. Just sayin')
Thinking more about last night's game, the thing that irritates me the most (and it's been a trend this year) is throwing these little 4 and 5 yard routes on 3rd and 10. I get that Siemian is trying to be safe with the ball and not make any mistakes, but sometimes when you are in the second half of a game and trailing, you just have to take a chance and trust your WR down the field to make a play.
There was one late in the 3rd quarter that especially irked me and I had the same thought. There is literally zero strategic gain to get 6 yards on 3rd and long - especially when you're trailing by 2 scores on the road. Try to force one at that point or throw a 50/50 ball up for grabs.
Granted he's young and this is more of a trait of veteran QBs, but he needs to get better at shifting in the pocket to buy himself that extra half second for guys to get open. I read on twitter today that he was only pressured on 13.2% of his dropbacks last night, so I think it's a bit overstated how little time he had to throw.
I really struggle with this "get lynch out there because he is the qbotf" attitude simply because of his draft position and the fact he is big, athletic and had a stong arm
Tebow had all of those things.
The other thing they both possess is a poor football iq, zero time in a professional offense, zero snaps under centre, a limited play book and a shit load of hype
Lunch has stupid facial hair also
Ride with Trevor.
I think most people were suggesting that if Trevor were still still hurt, which it's now being reported that he was, he shouldn't have played last night. He very obviously wasn't able to throw the ball down the field with any sort of accuracy at all. That's not to say he should lose his job altogether.
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