Mr. Scot

They seemed to know enough. If he audibled, yeah I'd give ya that. Ultimate result is poorly executed either way.

Hell, even some of the ones we lost to...

Rivera's post-game comments drove me nuts. He never took responsibility for anything.

If they actually did come out and say something specific, he probably would sue...and he'd likely win. My guess is that's why it's remained unknown, except to the teams.

That'd be on Elflein.

Understood, but I'm speaking in general. We weren't threatening anybody with the run at that point, and definitely not enough for it to be an option in those situations.

Pretty much

And they knew it

Saw that when it happened. I cringed Doesn't help that they likely knew we weren't running the ball at the time.

It's just one game, but it's kinda not. We saw the run defense be garbage through most of last year. That it starts off looking the same is...discouraging.

"Run the ball and stop the run." - Matt Rhule

There was context to last year's Total Defense ranking too, but people kept ignoring it

"See?! We have a good defense! I told you!" - What we'll probably be hearing from Rhule and Snow defenders soon

Didn't he just get an extension though? (the Bidwills aren't exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer either)

I'll get to check it out. I'm planning to use some of my free time this week to watch the game reviews on NFL Plus.

Oh, and thanks for reminding me that things aren't going well in Dallas. I hadn't heard anything about that

That rumor comes up on a regular basis but I've yet to see there actually be anything to it.

I didn't watch the game but I've heard Hackett's first outing was rough. That's not unusual though .

First off, your analysis on me is dead wrong, though I can understand thinking I've constantly complained about GMs because the GM for most of the years I've been here was Marty Hurney. As far as better execution, you know what helps that happen? More practice reps. Is it "just one game"? With the full roster, yes. With Matt Rhule? No. We've already got two years of tape on him, and watching him get fooled by the tricks Stefanski pulled didn't help his evaluation. And as I told others, wanna choose to be optimistic? That's fine with me. I don't choose a mindset till I see what I'm looking at, and what I saw this past Sunday wasn't good. There's still time for it to get better, but knowing who's in charge I won't be surprised if it doesn't.

Sloppy is normal. What we saw yesterday was much worse than just "sloppy".

You wanna try and say they looked as bad as us?

You've never heard of him

Pretty much this... You can throw out all the hypotheticals you want. They change nothing.

Watched the highlights (same as you). Will be watching the full replay this week. Planning on watching quite a bit of them on NFL plus honestly.