quick thoughts on this epic battle between afc super bowl contenders

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by Coltsalr

So are you blaming Ballard now?

Anyone but pagano

[Chaka]

Any thoughts about Pierre Desir? It looked to my untrained eye like he filled in well under the circumstances.

[GoBigBlue88]

Originally Posted by Chaka

Any thoughts about Pierre Desir? It looked to my untrained eye like he filled in well under the circumstances.

Also untrained eye: he looks like OK depth. I wouldn't want him starting, but he might be a fine CB4 or CB5.

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by GoBigBlue88

Also untrained eye: he looks like OK depth. I wouldn't want him starting, but he might be a fine CB4 or CB5.

Yep, yet he's leaps and bounds better than #42, who wouldn't be on my team if not for Pagano's complete incompetence.

[1965southpaw]

I think we've also been remiss in not mentioning that Ballard has filled the big shoes of Patty Mac with someone that 3 games into the season seems to be performing well and looks to be a viable long term solution. I'm too lazy to look this up but recall hearing that he's 4 in the league in net yards on his punts. Not sure if that includes yesterday's game or not.

[GoBigBlue88]

Originally Posted by 1965southpaw

I think we've also been remiss in not mentioning that Ballard has filled the big shoes of Patty Mac with someone that 3 games into the season seems to be performing well and looks to be a viable long term solution. I'm too lazy to look this up but recall hearing that he's 4 in the league in net yards on his punts. Not sure if that includes yesterday's game or not.

What he lacks in some of McAfee's power and panache, he makes up for in accuracy. McAfee was a terrific punter (even if I find him obnoxious now), but he was more leg and athleticism than accuracy. It's kinda cool to have a punter who can dime a ball on the sidelines and prevent a return from ever happening.

Nice kickoffs yesterday, too.

[1965southpaw]

Rick Venturi was on JMV today and gave his analysisand while I hate how much he humble brags I do tend to agree with his analysis......He hit on all of the points others have raised here.....the only thing he mentioned that hasn't been covered here is he would give one of 2 offensive game balls to Chud (the other to Jacoby)......reason being he feels that this was the first game in a few years where we have been able to make teams pay for blitzing on us defensively. In his tape review he said that our offense made 6 huge offensive plays by successfullly dealing with their blitz. My memory is not the best and I'm too lazy to look things up but I do recall some of our ugliest losses have been we can't read and adjust to blitzes (ex last few times we played steelers) so this resonated with me.

[apballin]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

We just barely held off a team that won one game last year. Actually, if our coach wasn't such a worthless putz we might be 2-0 with Brissett. All the more evidence that our coaching sucks and is the peak of a tall stack of problems.

I don't give a fuck what they did last year, Big Ben nor Flacco put up the numbers Brissett did vs that defense

And our coach didn't lose the AZ game a BS roughing the passer and Brissetts only bad throw did

[Butter]

Originally Posted by 1965southpaw

Rick Venturi was on JMV today and gave his analysisand while I hate how much he humble brags I do tend to agree with his analysis......He hit on all of the points others have raised here.....the only thing he mentioned that hasn't been covered here is he would give one of 2 offensive game balls to Chud (the other to Jacoby)......reason being he feels that this was the first game in a few years where we have been able to make teams pay for blitzing on us defensively. In his tape review he said that our offense made 6 huge offensive plays by successfullly dealing with their blitz. My memory is not the best and I'm too lazy to look things up but I do recall some of our ugliest losses have been we can't read and adjust to blitzes (ex last few times we played steelers) so this resonated with me.

The first half play calling was excellent, playing to the strengths. I am willing to accept that the second half is probably on Pagano going full prevent. Not a huge Chud fan, but he did a great job in the first half.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by apballin

I don't give a fuck what they did last year, Big Ben nor Flacco put up the numbers Brissett did vs that defense

And our coach didn't lose the AZ game a BS roughing the passer and Brissetts only bad throw did

Do you ever actually like watch football - ever?