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>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:35:26 -0700, "ScottW" <ScottW48@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I'll tell you. Rivers is gonna have to play a lot faster behind
>>>>>>>>>>this
>>>>>>>>>>O-line.
>>>>>>>>>>I don't think the line can suddenly become physical, but Rivers
>>>>>>>>>>can sure
>>>>>>>>>>as hell stop taking the sacks and start putting the ball in
>>>>>>>>>>receivers hands
>>>>>>>>>>as they come out of a break. Onyone can be get open for a second.
>>>>>>>>>>Rivers is almost always late with the ball IMO.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Over the last two games sure. He was hitting the timing patterns
>>>>>>>>> very
>>>>>>>>> well in the first three games.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>4.7/passing play is crap. Pennington who is known for his
>>>>>>>>>>inability to go
>>>>>>>>>>deep had 7.4/play.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>ScottW
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Agreed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rivers played poorly. When he did let it go on time (which wansn't
>>>>>>>> often) he missed throws that he'd made in the first three games.
>>>>>>>> Hard to single him out, though, through the overall suckitude.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just a bad game.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We keep playing like this and we'll be 2-6 on the plane home from
>>>>>>> London
>>>>>>> wondering what the fuck happenned to our "superbowl" season not
>>>>>>> mention
>>>>>>> arguing why we didn't keep Brees.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ScottW
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd quibble that the only idiots who picked us to go to the superbowl
>>>>>> were doing it off hype.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "We've problems up front. Both sides of the ball. We're "good", not
>>>>>> "great",
>>>>>
>>>>> Good? I can't say that. I can't even support average.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> and we're going to have trouble with teams that ARE great and have
>>>>>> decent
>>>>>> skill position players.
>>>>>
>>>>> By trouble you must mean getting whipped by 3 touchdowns.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope we have some noobs that show well on the front lines and/or hope
>>>>>> some of the old guys start playing back to form, but we may have
>>>>>> missed our
>>>>>> window."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That was cut-and-paste from my season prediction.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who on the O-line do you want to see? Clark?
>>>>> We might finally see Naanee with Chambers injury, not exactly
>>>>> one of the guys I felt was really sucking.
>>>>>
>>>>> ScottW
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> and I _still_ don't know what happened to Rivers (LB) except for that
>>>> blurb about being reinjured.
>>>
>>> I meant Waters.
>>
>> Yeah. I don't have a big problem with Dobbins and Tucker and Harris LB
>> play.
>> What I can't stand is seeing drop 12 yards deep into a zone and letting a
>> guy
>> get an easy catch of 8 yards straight across the middle. A fall forward
>> gives
>> 'em a first down. Meanwhile our 4 man rushes rarely get pressure while
>> the opposite (the opponents 4 man rush) is often true.
>> Rivers certainly didn't look at all comfortable or accurate when on the
>> move today.
>>
>> ScottW
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> I sure have a problem with Tucker being out, and Applewhite is just
> another notch down.
Tucker was missed. That's deep into the depth chart at that spot.
> This D-line is the same names as two years ago, but not the same players.
The blitz schemes are too easy to read and our run D is intermittent
while the short pass D is non-existant.
> Actually, same for the O-line. Argh.
RT changed...and wasn't it two years ago they dumped the headcase
guard for Dielman? Guy with a eating disorder or something.
Maybe that was in 05.
>
> I'm starting to think our real shot was 2006, and we blew it.
Rivers first year under center? That wasn't gonna happen.
ScottW