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Is there any other team that gets PIs called off for dubious reasons in crunch time? Same thing happened in the Cards game. They need to explain why it was picked up.
This game is a wrap. Defense can’t get stops and the offense can’t play from behind. I ask this seriously, what is our offensive identity? We can’t run the ball and we don’t have many playmakers to open it up. What are we?
Well, looks like getting an important phone call was a blessing. :/
@buck-melanoma we know it wasn’t a call for someone looking for Minter as a HC candidate.
Wow….defense setting an ugly record tonight.
@buck-melanoma This defense is a fraud. 2 real offenses they’ve played and they got worked
Playoff team my ass.
I still think we are… we just might not go far.
I know Erick believes our defense is crumbling against good offenses, but I think it’s more of a matter of us crumbling against the physical teams.
We haven’t turned our personnel over enough to be that true “bruiser” team, and teams that have built a longstanding reputation of being that (Steelers, Ravens) have taken us to the cleaners on both sides of the ball.
The Chiefs and Arizona game had a different feel to me. I felt both of those games should have been won.
But tonight, and against the Steelers, it felt like we played teams whose identity we were trying to mock, and they showed us what it really looked like to be a physically imposing team.
Expectations for the season remain intact.
Make the playoffs. Surprise a team or two.
I know no one wants to hear “next year will be our year,” but we have a way brighter future ahead of us than we have in a long time. Right now – we’re just trying to get there with as much momentum as possible.
I know that realistically. Just wanna believe in a Cinderella turnaround.
Just missing a few pieces. But they are improving week to week. And even in the loss they will get better. Other than the run D my biggest concern is the WRs. IOL pass pro’s has gotten a lot better despite being one dimensional. Guys just are not open. QJ drop huge. But he was trying to make a big play and just took his eyes off the ball.
We need a TE….bad.
Games against Atlanta, KC, Tampa and Broncos coming up. This defense is going to get bent over. Could be looking at 7-7 real quick.
@gbgh but they all have competent passing offenses. Which one of those have we stopped exactly?
@gbgh Broncos offense is completely different than it was the first time we played them. They will put up 20 easy
20 is not the standard. Winning is the standard. Chargers can beat all of those teams. They got run over today. It was no their pass defense that was the problem.
The Bengals with Chase and Higgins. That’s a top offense.
I genuinely think we’ll go 3-1. It’s the physically imposing teams that we seem to crumble under.
We need to fucking remove those contested catches to QJ from the playbook. I’m sorry, but I don’t think the guy has the confidence to shake off a dropped target or two. You hear all the time how receivers sometimes need that first catch to get locked in, some players need that first hit… when we sail backshoulder fades to QJ, his body language sucks afterward, as we’ve seen this game, it snowballs.
Just get him rolling with underneath stuff, and let him build up. Quit trying to make him something he isn’t.
@kylededi Stop trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. If there was a redraft he wouldn’t even be drafted in the first 3 rounds. He’s a WR4 at best on a mediocre team.
I’m not arguing that at all. But I think we have been misusing him and making a bad situation worse.
I am not surprised by the loss. The Ravens are better and they should be given all the deficiencies the new regime inherited with the Staley/Telesco fiasco. Patience everyone. They are improving and faster than expected.
This is the second or third best offense in the NFL. They won’t face another one this good until the playoffs.
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