Honestly, I agree with Preston's take on this game. I think Joe played a damn good game. I think Joe had a few poor plays, but he showed patience and waited for plays to develope. He also made some big throws in the game that put us in the position to nearly take this one. I think the bigger problem were the drop balls, the Snead drop was huge and he was WIDE open so the drop was completely inexcusible. The OL was a patch work group overall as well without Hurst and Lewis and aren't built to withstand having their depth tested like the defense. I think they were decent considering that Joe got sacked once.
I don't know how to feel about the defense performance, they definitely didn't blow this game, but they could have been better. I felt like there was one more play they could have made at times plenty of times during the game that would've given us the advantage and ultimately the win. One thing is for certain, the Marlon loss hurt, and it hurt bad. Hopefully he returns this week because they did not hesitate going after Jimmy.
So I’m mixed on that because I think our OL held up pretty well. I think some of our WR let us down, like Snead and Hurst, but I also put it on the QB because while Joe had a statistically good game he could’ve thrown a couple INT—at least two—that didn’t end up as INT. I also don’t think Joe had good placement on that ball to Hurst and led him too much into coverage and a tackle and have to agree with the announcers on that one sadly. I’ll agree that maybe a bad game is a bit much so I’ll take it back but I don’t think Joe had a stellar game. The play calling was the worst part about our offense though
If Jimmy's body is indeed breaking down cutting him next offseason would be benficial to the team in the long run. It turns corner into a need(again), but I think in the modern NFL Eric should continue our trend of drafting at least one anyways. Marlon and Tavon look like the future of the position for the team, and Jimmy would be leaving it in good hands. Plus, Averett looks to be a quality player as well. You could use that money to go sign a big name FA (maybe at safety to replace Weddle), or resign our guys.
Let's give him until the end of the season though.
Yeah let’s wait and see. There’s still a lot of time and he is coming off a major injury. People thought Suggs was done when he came back off his and he eventually came back to be a monster.
Especially after he just got PAID. Though what they are doing to him is criminal. Here's hoping that in the Jags losing streak they're dumb enough to give us Fournette who's a dream fit in this scheme and who's proven that he can play at a high level with a bad oline.
I'm actually satisfied with how good the rookie olinemen looked. Between the tackles runs should've been called more, Bozeman did a solid job in that regard. I like Collins and Buck but we need another guy. But no one will likely trade anything. I'd like Harris but another CB might be in play.
OL played well and they deserve praise. Brown had some issues but I think he played well and I would still like Hurst out there at LG. If Bozeman can play center then yeah we should look at him there. Risky move now unless Skura is literally losing all his battles
The thing with joe and the wrs on that second to final drive mainly. Hurst dropped 1 and two others were dropped. This was the same throw against denver that imo won us the game in the mile high miracle. He hit pitta perfect.
Flacco missed the 3 throws a bit but i 100 percent expect the hurst one to be caught poor throw or not. The other two may have been caught by someone taller than snead. The 4th down one flacco had to avoid a pass rusher after about 2 seconds and never really got set as he threw the ball.
There were issues with the WR corps today. I think Crabtree played well but Snead had himself a bad game. Brown did what I expected but Snead really let us down. Andrews has been our best TE but why aren’t we featuring these too more? I understand why with Andrews sorta but not as much Hurst. Teams can’t take away both.
It's a tough play, but I felt like Hurst had a poor reaction to the pass, maybe he expect Joe to razor the ball to him but I don't think he really executed well there as his timing seemed a bit off. I felt like he didn't catch the ball cleanly but I might have to take another look. That was my first impression of the play personally.
Yeah it looked like Hurst didn’t understand his route or that Flacco messed up the throw or it could even be the CB threw Hurst off and just had good defense and position on their coverage.
Hurst didn’t catch the ball cleanly, so you are right, could’ve been a better throw but Hurst could’ve caught it better and it wouldn’t have been knocked down so easily. But honestly I think the way the last two drives went was perfect scenario. If we scored on the 2nd to last drive we would’ve been up by 3 and the Saints would’ve been more urgent about scoring a TD. Instead they settled for a field goal which gave us the ball at the end instead of the Saints. It would’ve went way differently had we scored on that drive I think. But oh well, none of that matters now
That’s why I’m putting blame more on the offense than anyone. We had other drives we failed to do anything with earlier in that quarter and went 3-and-out. Also to make matters worse, yes, Flacco put us in position to win or go into OT but he was bailed out by penalties on that drive. Granted, that DPI was definitely DPI but that’s not usually called that late in the game. I recall two penalties on that drive? I could be wrong but wasn’t it that DPI and a hands to the face? That helped us even have a chance at winning else Tucker’s missed PAT doesn’t count
On that subject, I’m not sure what to say on Tucker. People say there was no wind, the flags were still, yet it curved. I chuck it up as a fluke and I’ve moved on from it. I don’t like how Tucker kicked the onside, though; I felt that was poorly done. Not only was it very obvious but I just don’t think he hit it well. Tucker also almost missed the FG so I do think he has issues kicking here at home and it’s in his head.
