As often as not, a quarterback won't attempt over seventeen passes in a game. Now we have a quarterback with seventeen drops...
OK let's review: IF IT HITS YOU IN THE HANDS, CHEST, OR FACEMASK IT IS C A T C H A B L E DO YOU UNDERSTAND????
Tom Brady threw for over five hundred yards the a couple weeks ago. Go check out the highlights, dammit. How many marshmellows did he throw?
You can throw a marshmellow when your reciever is wide open, or when you need to loop it over a defender. When a defender is on your reciever, you have to put the ball where the reciever and only the reciever can catch it. Sometimes that's low or high or he has to lunge or dive for it DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
If you would watch the damn game with your Braydee-loving heart disengaged and your criticly thinking cortex engaged you would see mostly VERY accurate DA passes which are D R O P P E D.
Please please please don't hop up and down pointing at ONE idiotic interception and say "same old DA" or act like that ONE DAMN PASS negates all the accurate throws, including the SEVENTEEN WHICH WERE D R O P P E D.
Drop: To release, allow to fall, fail to hold onto.
When it's Quinn, you're bashing the flutterballs and marshmellows. When it's DA, you're blaming him for a bunch of stone-handed boobs who can't hold onto a damn football.
So when you watch this game, please turn off the emotions and see what is there, period. Don't start rationalizing, and take it one play at a time. It hit him in the hands. It was hard...but not THAT hard. It was NOT the quarterback's fault. Not even partly. It was all on the reciever.
After the third or fourth time, you will WANT to start rationalizing. This is when you need to replay the previous drops in your head, and your judgements each time. Also at this time, review what a drop is: It hit them in the chest, hands, or facemask. After ten or twelve more, when you hear Quinnbots declaring DA a failure, think about it.
Eman, when the reciever turns around he is supposed to be ready for the ball. Just AS he turns is exactly when the ball is supposed to get there. That's the whole IDEA!!! The defender has ZERO chance to interfere, and is an extra step away so that the reciever can have a chance to evade his tackle.
Look at old 49ers films, or even Kardiac Kids tapes. Rice turns with his hands already reaching and there it is.
OK now for some other stuff: Massequoi looks real good except for the drops. He's dropping only about one out of three, I think. Cribbs only dropped one.
Rodgers (whose name is spelled with the "d"...unlike Shawn Rogers, whose name does not have a "d" in it)...gets sacked a lot. Wimbley should be back and they'll have to play Adams more so let's go git him.
I took the Browns and ten. Yeah I'm a dumbass. Okbye.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
NINE DROPS and Reality
Cut it out with the "touch" crap in swirling wind with 40 mph gusts, you idjuts! These clowns get paid a whole lot of money to do ONE THING, which is to catch passes. HARD passes, soft passes, high and low passes. Two hands+one ball= catch PERIOD DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
What the hell hallucinations were you seeing with this "behind" and "low" crap? The ONE he threw deep got taken by the wind--most of the rest were PERFECT, and a couple more were NOT QUITE perfect...oh...for YOU, with DA this means "uncatchable"...
Yeah. I mean, he would have had to crouch down a little, or lean or something...can't have that!
WIND. 40 mph gusts. You don't freaking LOB anything in that weather. Remember he's NOT supposed to throw picks, right? So now you bash him for no touch because he zips it INTO A HIGH WIND?!? He's supposed to throw marshmellows up in the air and hope they float down somewhere near the target?
It was NINE drops! Not seven. A drop is defined as any ball that a PROFESSIONAL NFL reciever gets BOTH HANDS on, ok? That's NINE. NINE drops out of seventeen passes, with three (I think) batted at the line. NINE CATCHABLE BALLS were dropped!!!
Man, you just had your mind made up and saw what you wanted to see! Some of the writers even bashed DA for the bat-downs...again he's supposed to throw it up in the wind...but simultaneously NOT throw interceptions JEEZ!!!
Give me 66% or six of those DROPS and you've got eight completions. Not fifty percent, of course...but probably another TD and certainly a bunch more points!
Hard to believe that different recievers all dropped everything at once. Much easier to simply blame the common denominator. I mean, you see a pass bounce off numbers or zing through two hands, and you first think: "Damn that reciever reminds me of Edwards!"
Ten seconds later it was the QB's fault. After all, this was the sixth one. Therefore, it MUST be the quarterback's fault. Why, he must be throwing too hard! I seem to remember he used to do that, therefore the problem must be that I was just seeing those passes wrong, and they were way too hard for any human to catch!!!
Yeah, that must be it!
So how do I write about this? Well, we use good old "but" a lot. "DA was victimized by nine...no make that numer....no....several drops, BUT--" and then talk about how he lacks touch and was all 0ver the place. (This way, you get to bash everybody equally).
Wake up. Here's the deal: There's no nuance or abstraction here. When you see a reciever NOT have to turn around or dive or leap, and the ball goes off or through his hands, it's HIS fault and HIS fault alone. That's even IF it were true that DA threw everything 90 mph, which he did NOT.
He was ACCURATE. VERY ACCURATE. MORE ACCURATE THAN QUINN.
And NINE of those incompletions were not his fault. Of COURSE he'll still start. You won't hear a word out of Quinn, either, because HE knows what he saw, too.
Look at the highlights. Mangini will get those clowns on the juggs machine, and if they can CATCH on-the-freaking-money passes vs. the Stoolers they'll have a chance.
And why are you wallowing over one segment of the game? What about the running game vs. a stacked front? What about protection, overall defense, and special teams? You guys all act like the whole damn team is DA and Edwards' legacies!
What about Corey Williams? Damn he was all over the place just like Rogers! Wimbley got his third sack. We HAVE a DEFENSE now!
Yeah-yeah the Stoolers don't give 'em much of a chance, and they probably lose. But not as bad as you think--this defense is coming together now, and will soon be really damn good.
Eman? You had your mind made up. I saw a much-improved DA. We'll see who is right.
I HAVE SPOKEN.
What the hell hallucinations were you seeing with this "behind" and "low" crap? The ONE he threw deep got taken by the wind--most of the rest were PERFECT, and a couple more were NOT QUITE perfect...oh...for YOU, with DA this means "uncatchable"...
Yeah. I mean, he would have had to crouch down a little, or lean or something...can't have that!
WIND. 40 mph gusts. You don't freaking LOB anything in that weather. Remember he's NOT supposed to throw picks, right? So now you bash him for no touch because he zips it INTO A HIGH WIND?!? He's supposed to throw marshmellows up in the air and hope they float down somewhere near the target?
It was NINE drops! Not seven. A drop is defined as any ball that a PROFESSIONAL NFL reciever gets BOTH HANDS on, ok? That's NINE. NINE drops out of seventeen passes, with three (I think) batted at the line. NINE CATCHABLE BALLS were dropped!!!
Man, you just had your mind made up and saw what you wanted to see! Some of the writers even bashed DA for the bat-downs...again he's supposed to throw it up in the wind...but simultaneously NOT throw interceptions JEEZ!!!
Give me 66% or six of those DROPS and you've got eight completions. Not fifty percent, of course...but probably another TD and certainly a bunch more points!
Hard to believe that different recievers all dropped everything at once. Much easier to simply blame the common denominator. I mean, you see a pass bounce off numbers or zing through two hands, and you first think: "Damn that reciever reminds me of Edwards!"
Ten seconds later it was the QB's fault. After all, this was the sixth one. Therefore, it MUST be the quarterback's fault. Why, he must be throwing too hard! I seem to remember he used to do that, therefore the problem must be that I was just seeing those passes wrong, and they were way too hard for any human to catch!!!
Yeah, that must be it!
So how do I write about this? Well, we use good old "but" a lot. "DA was victimized by nine...no make that numer....no....several drops, BUT--" and then talk about how he lacks touch and was all 0ver the place. (This way, you get to bash everybody equally).
Wake up. Here's the deal: There's no nuance or abstraction here. When you see a reciever NOT have to turn around or dive or leap, and the ball goes off or through his hands, it's HIS fault and HIS fault alone. That's even IF it were true that DA threw everything 90 mph, which he did NOT.
He was ACCURATE. VERY ACCURATE. MORE ACCURATE THAN QUINN.
And NINE of those incompletions were not his fault. Of COURSE he'll still start. You won't hear a word out of Quinn, either, because HE knows what he saw, too.
Look at the highlights. Mangini will get those clowns on the juggs machine, and if they can CATCH on-the-freaking-money passes vs. the Stoolers they'll have a chance.
And why are you wallowing over one segment of the game? What about the running game vs. a stacked front? What about protection, overall defense, and special teams? You guys all act like the whole damn team is DA and Edwards' legacies!
What about Corey Williams? Damn he was all over the place just like Rogers! Wimbley got his third sack. We HAVE a DEFENSE now!
Yeah-yeah the Stoolers don't give 'em much of a chance, and they probably lose. But not as bad as you think--this defense is coming together now, and will soon be really damn good.
Eman? You had your mind made up. I saw a much-improved DA. We'll see who is right.
I HAVE SPOKEN.
Monday, September 21, 2009
OK Now We Really ARE All Gonna Die
but it doesn't bother us earthlings...err...people who live on this planet and not in some unreal utopian paradise...much.
We never expected more than 6-8 wins out of this team, and firthermore expected the first 3-4 games to be pretty rough. Rookie center making all the line-calls, semi-rookie quarterback, all new people (and butterfingers) at reciever, Lewis aging, new systems, etc.
I admit I did expect the Browns to whup Denver, and for Quinn to look a lot better than he did. But then, I never expected them to go toe-to-toe with Minnesota for their inaugural first half.
Sure, the bad misses by Quinn are alarming. Especially since he never was all that accurate. However, I cna say the same of him as I've said of Edwards: He HAS looked a lot better, and this proves his capacity.
Good for Mangini for having a long leash. Quinn knows that DA is waiting in the wings, but he's being given a good long test-drive.
And then, the offense is probably extra-conservative in an effort to protect the inexperienced quarterback. It sould open up a little now, since it has to, or else enemy defenses will throw out picnic blankets in his backfield.
Still, accuracy aside, some criticisms of Quinn are presumptuous and ignorant. When he has no time, NATURALLY he will get rid of it early, and usually to a short reciever. When a guy is IN FRONT OF your only viable reciever, running step-for-step with him, you put the ball where your guy can get it if he dives, but the bad guy can't pick it off DUHDUHDUH...
And a certain writer needs to be reminded that words are his business, and that pass was actually catchable. "No where near" does not mean six inches off the fingertips, ok?
Don't get me wrong. I was very disappointed in Quinn and am very nervous about him. But it's just way way way too early to bring gavels down. You've got to remember that Roethsenberger, Flacco, et al had very strong defenses and solid running offenses. This offense is new, and evidently has a distinct weakness at right tackle, among other things.
I don't think that DA would be much better, since he too would be sacked right and left and have no time. He too would spend much of his time in third-and-longs. If you think he'd go deep more--maybe. If he's willing to throw it high, and a split second before getting decked.
But yeah...HE might be the QB of the future.
MAYBE.
I'll keep watching them stumble around, waiting patiently for them to take their first steps and make it across the room to me. That's what you do with infants...here on this planet, anyway.
We never expected more than 6-8 wins out of this team, and firthermore expected the first 3-4 games to be pretty rough. Rookie center making all the line-calls, semi-rookie quarterback, all new people (and butterfingers) at reciever, Lewis aging, new systems, etc.
I admit I did expect the Browns to whup Denver, and for Quinn to look a lot better than he did. But then, I never expected them to go toe-to-toe with Minnesota for their inaugural first half.
Sure, the bad misses by Quinn are alarming. Especially since he never was all that accurate. However, I cna say the same of him as I've said of Edwards: He HAS looked a lot better, and this proves his capacity.
Good for Mangini for having a long leash. Quinn knows that DA is waiting in the wings, but he's being given a good long test-drive.
And then, the offense is probably extra-conservative in an effort to protect the inexperienced quarterback. It sould open up a little now, since it has to, or else enemy defenses will throw out picnic blankets in his backfield.
Still, accuracy aside, some criticisms of Quinn are presumptuous and ignorant. When he has no time, NATURALLY he will get rid of it early, and usually to a short reciever. When a guy is IN FRONT OF your only viable reciever, running step-for-step with him, you put the ball where your guy can get it if he dives, but the bad guy can't pick it off DUHDUHDUH...
And a certain writer needs to be reminded that words are his business, and that pass was actually catchable. "No where near" does not mean six inches off the fingertips, ok?
Don't get me wrong. I was very disappointed in Quinn and am very nervous about him. But it's just way way way too early to bring gavels down. You've got to remember that Roethsenberger, Flacco, et al had very strong defenses and solid running offenses. This offense is new, and evidently has a distinct weakness at right tackle, among other things.
I don't think that DA would be much better, since he too would be sacked right and left and have no time. He too would spend much of his time in third-and-longs. If you think he'd go deep more--maybe. If he's willing to throw it high, and a split second before getting decked.
But yeah...HE might be the QB of the future.
MAYBE.
I'll keep watching them stumble around, waiting patiently for them to take their first steps and make it across the room to me. That's what you do with infants...here on this planet, anyway.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
QB Can't Throw Deep
Throughout the last game, this quarterback never attempted a pass deeper than about thirty yards. Obviously, he either lacks the arm strength or confidence to throw deep.
Brett Favre needs to be replaced.
Brett Favre needs to be replaced.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Harrison Will Play
First of all, I wish people would think more. Like, I wish these NFL Radio guys wouls quit saying "New York football Giants". The baseball team left new York before you were born. There is no longer any possibility of confusion. It's mindless.
Anyway, no respect. I quite understand a lot of guys this week picking Denver to win based on Denver having it more together right now. I can't fathom how they could be predicting two wins for the season, etc....
Adam Scheinn perennially predicts horrible seasons for the Browns, regardless of talent or coaching.
Anyway, the Browns have a much better chance since the guys who are more objective than this guy are still ignoring them, and basing their decisions on raw stats and ass umptions.
Gil Brandt, for example, just last week pointed out that the Browns had no recievers (aside from Edwards). That was spectacularly wrong--and Brandt is a very, very smart guy!!! Scheinn--now he could look right AT Josh Cribbs, Mike Furrey, and even the two other guys and still say nobody can get open or catch. They'll still keep saying Royal is just a blocker no matter how many passes he catches. Adam always decides that the Browns suck and then spends five to seven minutes filtering out the good stuff in order to prove it scientificly. Gil just doesn't have time for a weak team.
Anyway, all they see from last week is the stats. The first half doesn't register. The newness of the offense and the players within it are ignored. The Browns stuff Peterson for most of three quarters and then cave in, and this means they can't stop the run...right? One TD is disqualified on replay, and it never happened.
Well, Denver beat a good team last week. The Bungles are getting all sorts of credit for being improved, and objective analysts admit it. I guess they just don't have any room left to acknowlege the fact that the 09 Browns are at least as talented as the 07 version.
Except for guys like Kaplan and Scheinn, I can't pick on any of the national guys who think the Browns are worse than they are. Jim Miller, for example, thinks the Broncos will win because Orton hit eight different recievers last week, they contained a very potent and underrated offense, and Quinn had a mediocre game. At least he did SOME home-work and is trying to think with his brain.
And he might be right. Dammit.
But Harrison is the X-factor. As I read it, he was ok last week, but given an extra week as a precaution. Finally, at long last, he will have a real opportunity under an intelligent coach. He might catch or run with the ball fifteen or more times in this game, since Davis will be protected. Quinn has the touch to hit him short, and the new Broncos sport a NEW 3-4 where mistakes could be made.
The Browns offensive line has practiced against a 3-4 and won't screw up blocking as much...especially Mack.
The Broncos, I think, still run a zone-blocking scheme. The Browns have the big/quick goons up front to blow that up through penetration and power, and can bull-rush from every area. The Browns OLB's and defensive line can win individual matchups.
Last week, Quinn looked better later in the game.
Now, I like the fact that Mangini, once the decision was made, stuck with Quinn, and seems determined to do so through predictable and inevittable rough spots. After a few games, we'll have a good idea of who Quinn is. After a full season we can be more certain.
I predict that the Browns will beat the Broncos unless the Broncos score more points than they do.
Anyway, no respect. I quite understand a lot of guys this week picking Denver to win based on Denver having it more together right now. I can't fathom how they could be predicting two wins for the season, etc....
Adam Scheinn perennially predicts horrible seasons for the Browns, regardless of talent or coaching.
Anyway, the Browns have a much better chance since the guys who are more objective than this guy are still ignoring them, and basing their decisions on raw stats and ass umptions.
Gil Brandt, for example, just last week pointed out that the Browns had no recievers (aside from Edwards). That was spectacularly wrong--and Brandt is a very, very smart guy!!! Scheinn--now he could look right AT Josh Cribbs, Mike Furrey, and even the two other guys and still say nobody can get open or catch. They'll still keep saying Royal is just a blocker no matter how many passes he catches. Adam always decides that the Browns suck and then spends five to seven minutes filtering out the good stuff in order to prove it scientificly. Gil just doesn't have time for a weak team.
Anyway, all they see from last week is the stats. The first half doesn't register. The newness of the offense and the players within it are ignored. The Browns stuff Peterson for most of three quarters and then cave in, and this means they can't stop the run...right? One TD is disqualified on replay, and it never happened.
Well, Denver beat a good team last week. The Bungles are getting all sorts of credit for being improved, and objective analysts admit it. I guess they just don't have any room left to acknowlege the fact that the 09 Browns are at least as talented as the 07 version.
Except for guys like Kaplan and Scheinn, I can't pick on any of the national guys who think the Browns are worse than they are. Jim Miller, for example, thinks the Broncos will win because Orton hit eight different recievers last week, they contained a very potent and underrated offense, and Quinn had a mediocre game. At least he did SOME home-work and is trying to think with his brain.
And he might be right. Dammit.
But Harrison is the X-factor. As I read it, he was ok last week, but given an extra week as a precaution. Finally, at long last, he will have a real opportunity under an intelligent coach. He might catch or run with the ball fifteen or more times in this game, since Davis will be protected. Quinn has the touch to hit him short, and the new Broncos sport a NEW 3-4 where mistakes could be made.
The Browns offensive line has practiced against a 3-4 and won't screw up blocking as much...especially Mack.
The Broncos, I think, still run a zone-blocking scheme. The Browns have the big/quick goons up front to blow that up through penetration and power, and can bull-rush from every area. The Browns OLB's and defensive line can win individual matchups.
Last week, Quinn looked better later in the game.
Now, I like the fact that Mangini, once the decision was made, stuck with Quinn, and seems determined to do so through predictable and inevittable rough spots. After a few games, we'll have a good idea of who Quinn is. After a full season we can be more certain.
I predict that the Browns will beat the Broncos unless the Broncos score more points than they do.
Monday, September 14, 2009
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Some Browns fans need to comprehend some...actually really simple and obvious facts about the Browns vs. the Vikings:
1: The Vikings are a veteran, largely intact team with well-established systems and personnel. With about the best run defense in the NFL, Peterson, Favre, and talent from top-to-bottom, many pundits have them going to the Superbowl this season.
The Browns have all new coaches, new systems, a starting quarterback with five games experience, a huge roster turnover;
rookie center, new right guard/tackle, all new recievers except for Cribbs, Edwards, and Heiden, etc...
So you really need to come back down here to this planet. No rational being could have expected the Browns to beat the Vikings taking their first steps out of the crib!
The bad stuff will get hammered to death by writers and mindlessly repeated by clones and zombies on message boards, so I'll skip much of that. However, since much of that crap won't be legitimate, I will say:
1: I don't know about right guard, but evidently Saint Clair sucks at right tackle. I do miss Tucker. I seriously don't know about Womack--I just do know that pissed off fans throw hand grenades and blow up whole neighborhoods, so until I can see it no comment.
2: Mack is a rookie and was making the line-calls. He's been practicing against a 3-4 and even worked against a 3-4 in college. No matter how brainy he is, there is no doubt in the rational, objective mind, that he screwed up. Rookies screw up. It happens on this planet.
3: Quinn zigged and Edwards zagged on the interception. When that stuff happens, it looks atrocious, since the reciever is more-or-less sprinting in the opposite direction to the one the QB thought he would, and isn't in the same zip-code when the ball gets there.
60% of the time, this is on the reciever; who read coverage wrong.
4: The defense wore down. It had contained Peterson well into the third quarter. NO DEFENSE can stop this guy for a whole game.
IF you are an adult and live on this planet, there was a lot more good than bad news in this game, starting with their containment of none other than Adrian Peterson for most of three quarters. that's 1.
2: Jamal Lewis ran all over maybe the best run defense in the NFL.
3: The offensive playcalling was creative. Much is made of the two Wildcat calls inside the three, as if these wiped out the rest of the playcalls.
And the horizontal passing--here a lot of people need to get real too. As it was, Quinn got sacked five times. Without even blitzing much, the Vikings were in the Browns backfield most of the day. You can't go deep under that kind of pressure. You have to get rid of the damn ball.
And why didn't they run more? Because the Vikings can shut it down, and would have. The biggest reason Lewis had the success he did was because the Vikings were on the recievers.
4: The defense got great pressure on Favre (and Peterson) from many sources. Each safety got a sack, then an OLB and (naturally) Rogers. Ryan's defense is as advertized.
At long last, somebody has the brains to put Rogers at DE sometimes! Especially with Rubin emerging as a solid nose tackle--match Rogers up against the weakest point! DUH!
Moving Wimbley around, too--that seems to be working. As is beginning to dawn on others finally, Wimbey is a good all-around total package linebacker. And wow--HALL is turning onto one of those too already!
5: Quinn did WELL when you factor in his inexperience, the fact that he hasn't had the first-team reps a normal starter gets, and the pressure on him. The fumble was idiotic, and he wasn't as accurate as he should be...I heard he held the ball too long...I only mention it here because Pluto said it, so it's probably right.
but ALL of this is fixable, or will disappear on it's own as he gets more reps with the recievers and more game experience.
6: Lewis is not washed-up yet.
7: JOSH CRIBBS.
8: They ran the no-huddle offense in an effort to wear the Vikings defense down. Crennel never allowed a no-huddle other than at the obvious times. Plus, he would have kneeled on the ball with 40 seconds left to the half.
That was smart against this defense, but the trade-off was that the Browns defense had to be on the field more, and fatigue opened things up for Peterson.
9: As Pluto said, the first half of this game shows you what this team is capable of.
It was kind of like a talented young boxer up against a much more experienced guy. He comes out scoring points, and maybe even hurts the old guy, but the vet covers and clinches and sticks around, figuring out how he can nail the punk.
After a few rounds, he knows. He sets the kid up and nails him.
It doesn't mean the kid sucks. The early rounds are what they are--the kid outboxing the other guy because he was better. But experience tells, and the kid gets outsmarted in the end.
Won't happen next time.
THE TALENT IS HERE.
The experience isn't.
Say it with me....YET.
1: The Vikings are a veteran, largely intact team with well-established systems and personnel. With about the best run defense in the NFL, Peterson, Favre, and talent from top-to-bottom, many pundits have them going to the Superbowl this season.
The Browns have all new coaches, new systems, a starting quarterback with five games experience, a huge roster turnover;
rookie center, new right guard/tackle, all new recievers except for Cribbs, Edwards, and Heiden, etc...
So you really need to come back down here to this planet. No rational being could have expected the Browns to beat the Vikings taking their first steps out of the crib!
The bad stuff will get hammered to death by writers and mindlessly repeated by clones and zombies on message boards, so I'll skip much of that. However, since much of that crap won't be legitimate, I will say:
1: I don't know about right guard, but evidently Saint Clair sucks at right tackle. I do miss Tucker. I seriously don't know about Womack--I just do know that pissed off fans throw hand grenades and blow up whole neighborhoods, so until I can see it no comment.
2: Mack is a rookie and was making the line-calls. He's been practicing against a 3-4 and even worked against a 3-4 in college. No matter how brainy he is, there is no doubt in the rational, objective mind, that he screwed up. Rookies screw up. It happens on this planet.
3: Quinn zigged and Edwards zagged on the interception. When that stuff happens, it looks atrocious, since the reciever is more-or-less sprinting in the opposite direction to the one the QB thought he would, and isn't in the same zip-code when the ball gets there.
60% of the time, this is on the reciever; who read coverage wrong.
4: The defense wore down. It had contained Peterson well into the third quarter. NO DEFENSE can stop this guy for a whole game.
IF you are an adult and live on this planet, there was a lot more good than bad news in this game, starting with their containment of none other than Adrian Peterson for most of three quarters. that's 1.
2: Jamal Lewis ran all over maybe the best run defense in the NFL.
3: The offensive playcalling was creative. Much is made of the two Wildcat calls inside the three, as if these wiped out the rest of the playcalls.
And the horizontal passing--here a lot of people need to get real too. As it was, Quinn got sacked five times. Without even blitzing much, the Vikings were in the Browns backfield most of the day. You can't go deep under that kind of pressure. You have to get rid of the damn ball.
And why didn't they run more? Because the Vikings can shut it down, and would have. The biggest reason Lewis had the success he did was because the Vikings were on the recievers.
4: The defense got great pressure on Favre (and Peterson) from many sources. Each safety got a sack, then an OLB and (naturally) Rogers. Ryan's defense is as advertized.
At long last, somebody has the brains to put Rogers at DE sometimes! Especially with Rubin emerging as a solid nose tackle--match Rogers up against the weakest point! DUH!
Moving Wimbley around, too--that seems to be working. As is beginning to dawn on others finally, Wimbey is a good all-around total package linebacker. And wow--HALL is turning onto one of those too already!
5: Quinn did WELL when you factor in his inexperience, the fact that he hasn't had the first-team reps a normal starter gets, and the pressure on him. The fumble was idiotic, and he wasn't as accurate as he should be...I heard he held the ball too long...I only mention it here because Pluto said it, so it's probably right.
but ALL of this is fixable, or will disappear on it's own as he gets more reps with the recievers and more game experience.
6: Lewis is not washed-up yet.
7: JOSH CRIBBS.
8: They ran the no-huddle offense in an effort to wear the Vikings defense down. Crennel never allowed a no-huddle other than at the obvious times. Plus, he would have kneeled on the ball with 40 seconds left to the half.
That was smart against this defense, but the trade-off was that the Browns defense had to be on the field more, and fatigue opened things up for Peterson.
9: As Pluto said, the first half of this game shows you what this team is capable of.
It was kind of like a talented young boxer up against a much more experienced guy. He comes out scoring points, and maybe even hurts the old guy, but the vet covers and clinches and sticks around, figuring out how he can nail the punk.
After a few rounds, he knows. He sets the kid up and nails him.
It doesn't mean the kid sucks. The early rounds are what they are--the kid outboxing the other guy because he was better. But experience tells, and the kid gets outsmarted in the end.
Won't happen next time.
THE TALENT IS HERE.
The experience isn't.
Say it with me....YET.
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