- Only negative thing about yesterday was the Jimmy Smith injury. Hope it's not too serious and that he'll be able to come back relatively soon. Averett was a mixed bag as his replacement...
- Couldn't have asked for a better start. Ingram rips off a huge run in his first carry, we drive down the field and Ingram scores our first TD of the season, Thomas gets an INT on our first defensive possession, and then Hollywood takes it to the house on his first two catches in the NFL. DeCosta must have been grinning ear-to-ear watching this unfold because I know that I was.
- Mosley who? Peanut looked great out there leading the defense and he never had to leave the game due to injury (as usual, Mosley was having an impact for the Jets, but then went out in the 4th with an injury and their defense fell apart to let the Bills come back and win the game).
- I would have liked to see more sacks yesterday, but we got 3 and a bunch of hits so the pass rush looks okay. Should be interesting to see when we go up against better O-lines, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
- I can only imagine how dangerous Hollywood is going to be as he gets healthier because he's still not 100% yet and is already dusting corners easily. Also, he probably has the best hands of any WR that we've ever had. On one play, that didn't count because of an accepted penalty on the Dolphins, Lamar threw deep to Hollywood and I believe Howard, correct me if I'm wrong, was draped all over him and yet Hollywood still almost caught the pass.
- Lamar is a baller and continues to get better. He was throwing dimes all over the field yesterday.
with regards to averett and jimmy that's obviously a big deal - i think the bigger deal is that averett didnt have the prep and the defense wasnt schemed around jimmy's absence - i fully expect the defence to adjust if jimmy's out and wink will find some solutions to help averett on the outside especially when he's matched up vs better receivers - he did some good things and also got beaten easily at other times - mixed bag is probably the right words for it - however we are also in the best possible situation at corner we've ever been - 2 of our starting corners have gone down and we still have a deep and quality enough unit to perform at a high level
Not only did Ingram get the 100 yards and 2 tds, not only did ET get a pick on our first defensive possession, not only did hollywood go for 2 long tds straight away but also all of this happened too with regards to offseason acquisitions... miles boykin caught a td, pernell mcphee levelled fitzpatrick, justin bethel got a turnover on special teams, brynden trawick made 2 plays on special teams, justice hill's first run went for over 10 yards
Peanut looked fast - he had a mixed game in some places but when he goes after plays he doesnt just make them, he makes dominant plays - as he grows he might improve even more - add the way that Judon looked too and these 2 leaders on our defence in the front 7 looked like they stepped up
in terms of the sacks im not worried yet - fitzpatrick was getting the ball out so fast that the rush didnt have a chance to get home and yet we were consistently getting pressure and qb hits - what was frustrating was the lack of contain for when fitzpatrick got flushed from the pocket - a few times timmy or tyus flushed fitzpatrick and nobody was following up or containing the edge and fitzpatrick with a few steps was able to give himself an extra couple of seconds despite the initial pressure - the finishes should happen as the young guys and the defence as a whole gets more experience given how young we are for the most part at linebacker especially