in my opinion heres 3 of the biggest reasons we lost. playcalling- they came out playcalling like they were playing madden, they thought they could just air it out. meanwhile Jones is doing tremendously, not enough running in the first half. plain and simple. WR's- nobody was getting open, its not like favre cant see the field. so you know they were covered most of the game. Janikowski-he took leon and our field position were so used to, out of this game.
Where the mention of favre? He had a 160 yd rusher and led us to 10 pts in 5 qtrs. That's not all playcalling.
Is it just me or did it seem like our guys were slipping/falling/tripping all over the place yesterday? Like they all had two left feet. Favre had time to unload the ball at times. Woody was beat twice and he had been good this year up until that point. If the WR's were covered, where was Keller and the RB's? I am growing very tired of seeing the screen play go nowhere. Baker is getting killed on this board. He is a very solid TE. If Keller could block, he would play more. We didn't put enough pressure on a young QB. You have to rattle him early.
Everyone looked terrible but TJ. Both sides of the ball. That's why we lost. Cotchery was a huge disappointment. I saw a few replays where he looked to be jogging out routes or just plain looked lost. It was like someone at the team hotel set them up with wake up calls every 15 minutes and kept them up all night.
Both sides of the ball? Do we have to shut teams out? Holding an opponent to 10 pts in regulation on the road is pretty good.
let me say first, to me generally fault and credit go to players first....coaches next.......unless it's just a total bonehead coaching move. I will say i take excetpion to the coaching for a couple of things.... 1)Opening up in the spread formation did nothing but get Farve's bell rung a few times, nearly got KOed from the game......and it seemed to serve no real purpose. The Raiders didn't look over fooled, and took it as an invitation to blitz the crap out of them. If it weren't for lkie 3 or 4 neutral zone infractions we wouldn't have sniffed even the FG. 2)After alll of the effective running......there was no play action calls.can't believe that. i mean maybe those "stretch" runs don't neccessarily lend themselves to play action passes.....but jeez, can we try and keep the defense guessing just a little? Other than that, to me it's on the players, ineffective blocking, route running, passing, turnovers.....these are the ways you keep bad teams in the game. Smith and Jones were the only bright spots. Leon had a nice TD run, but that get's washed out by the fumbled punt.
Opening in the spread formation was probably bad for Favre. But it did have the Raiders off balance. Also, it was out longest drive until the end of the game. So something was working. Smith and Jones and Stucky were the only bright spots. Can we please get Stucky the ball more next week. Favre only threw to him twice and they were both big plays. One other thing - the Raiders punter was the difference between two offenses that were stinking.
true, it was a long drive and resulted in some points, but like I said all the flags on the Raiders helped. (it was either 15 or 20 yards of penalties)They didn't look too off balance to me....the only guy that was getting open was Baker.......who by the way looked like he was running in quick sand.... I mean hind sight is 20/20, but I was thinking during that first drive that they should at least have Leon in the backfield........i hate empty backfields. Keep some sort of run threat or swing pass going Agreed on the Specials though.......we got killed in that aspect, not the first time this season
