Davidson Deac II

Looking at the stats for the season, we are tied for third in number of fg's made. Most of them are in the 30-39 yard range. And that a big part of our problem. Our inside the 30 yard line just fizzles.

Personally, I don't think it's a matter of adjustments. I think the offense just has to get use to playing together. And its not just us. There seem to be a lot of offenses around the league that look out of sync. Tampa, Denver, Kansas City (at times), Bengals, Titans, etc.... I think its somewhat normal for September games. The teams that get it together contend for playoff spots. Those that don't, begin planning for the offseason.

Have they? I mean their two wins are against teams that that have 1 win between them. They lost to a good team (by three scores), but their two wins, well I know SF was better last year, but they look pretty bad so far this year. And Texas has yet to win a game.

In 2015, the offense struggled for the first 3 games or so. They didn't really get it together until the fourth game. I do think, that with the exception of qb, this team has more talent on offense than the 2015 team did. Of course, qb is a fairly important position. And 2015 had a more opportunistic defense that could win games even if the offense was struggling. But turn arounds, and improvements do happen. Do I think this is going to be like 2015? No, of course not. Could we turn it around and challenge for a playoff spot. We could. Will we? Probably not, but I will keep watching just in case.

Fwiw, the next defense we face isn't going to give him that much open space.

Sure, if Shi Smith had three consecutive seasons of thousand yard plus receiving.

60% of NET passing yards, not 60% of passing yards.

Its still early in the season, but at this point, no team looks dominant. Well other than the Eagles, and I am still not sure about them yet.

We looked better today than either of these teams.

This game today reminded me of the Eagles game last year. Defense dominated most of the game but weakened during the fourth. But we won this one because Darnold wasn't out there throwing it to the other team.

I'd pick Clausen over Darnold. Or Kyle Allen. Or Woodie Allen.

His performance hasn't been great, but Rex Ryan is about as poor a judge of qb talent as I have seen from an NFL coach.

Crowing - saying something in a tone of gloating satisfaction.

The Panther announcers in the Post game show called out the scheme as being different. Jake Delhomme mentioned it. More pressure on the runners and the qb.

They haven't? We have lost to a lot of sub 500 teams over the last three years or so. They have done fairly well against Jameis Winston.

On the post game show, it was stated that the focus was putting pressure on the runners and on Winston. Chinn was specifically called out as playing closer to the line than normal.

I think the offense could get better as the season rolls along. Right now they look out of sync, but they could get in sync. Our defense usually looks good against Jameis. And the Giants are one dimensional. If they can't run, they can't score much. We might end up the season a top ten defense, but I am not sure they can carry us. The offense is going to have to improve.

Baker Mayfield has more TD passes than Tom Brady.

I know its early in the season,, but Jalen Hurts is playing about as well as any qb in the NFL right now.

I think the context was the end of the bills dolphins game. I watched the last few seconds, and his oline was walking up to the line as time expired, when they needed to hurry up and snap it for a long fg try. Might be wrong though.

Sam Darnold would have thrown at least two picks today.

Yeah, I find the lack of use of Foreman baffling.

The more we use him, the more other teams will focus on him. Today, the Aints were focused on CMC and DJ. That is part of the reason Shenault burned them in the fourth qtr. It won't always be this easy for him. But maybe that will open things up more for the other receivers.

And to the running backs/offensive line (run blocking only) who had a good day against a good defense.

Fortunately, the other side had Jameis Winston.