Davidson Deac II

8 hours ago, CRA said:

First 4 - 122 rushing yards per game allowed

Last 2 - 25 per game allowed.  

I mean, to me at least, that is drastically different. That's almost 100 yards difference on the ground per game. 

I mean, Penix just sabotaged Atlanta.   That's football.   They ran for 130 despite not even getting a chance to get into their run game thanks to Penix. Jags went for 200.  Every team the first 4 weeks went over 100+ except AZ and AZ had more than both the last 2 weeks combined in that game. 

D is clearly better than last year.  But within this season, the last 2 weeks, have really just been sort of wonky.  We aren't what the last 2 weeks says on the ground offensively or defensively.  No team in NFL history is what we statistically did the last 2 weeks. 

New England and Jacksonville thrashed us in all aspects of the game, no doubt about that.  

Regarding the Atlanta game, Atlanta got the vast majority of their rushing yardage in the second half, when we didn't care to much about the run.  As an example, Nathan Carter on the Falcons last drive when it was 30-0, had runs of 3 yards, 4, 9, 9, 10, and 9.  Throw in two carries by Bijan when we were up by 20 or more in the second half, and that is almost half their total run yards that were mostly meaningless. 

In the first half, we limited the Falcons 3 yards or less on all but two carries.  They went to the passing game because we forced them to rely on the passing game.  

Against the Cardinals, we shut their run game down, most of their yards were Kyler Murray scrambles.  Might have been some designed runs, I can't remember.  But their running backs did almost nothing. Even with the scrambles thrown in, we still held them to less than 3.8 a carry.   

12 hours ago, CRA said:

Yeah, it is.  But the last 2 weeks are so far removed from the opening 4……

 

Not really.  The run defense has been solid except for the opening game and New England.  We shut Arizona's run game down, but early turnovers hurt.  And of course, we shut out Atlanta.

Unless they offer us some ridiculous deal, it won't happen.  Not many in the front office have any ties to DJ, and no reason to trade for him.  And there has been so much turnover in players, relatively few of the current crop of players was here when DJ played for us.  

As the others have said, need to stop the run and run the ball.  

Especially need to stop Fields from running.  Got to maintain those lanes.   If we do, then he will likely hold on to long and help our sack numbers.  

Of course, if Fields looks to bad, there is a chance they may replace him with Tyrod Taylor.  

I wish we could keep both of them.  Dowdle is probably the best rb pass catcher we have had since CMC.  But he might have priced himself out of our range though.  

53 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

I thought i heard something on the broadcast about a back injury. I did not catch the full comment but it was about DJ. I was thinking that they were sure running him a lot if he had a back injury. 

I can't imagine the wide receiver coach would be riding to the hospital in the ambulance with him for a back injury.  Unless it was a really bad back injury.  

3 hours ago, cookinbrak said:

One could argue that the current line is better.

I think Hunt and Moton are better than their replacements.  But at least in Moton's case, the difference isn't as much as it would have been a few years ago. 

20 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Aldo DJ has been hospitalized for undisclosed reason, hope everything is okay 

Must have been somewhat serious as the wide receiver coach left the game and rode with him to the hospital.  

5 hours ago, Donald LaFell said:

The cowboys and dolphins are some of the worst run defenses in the league. Someone not in the cellar like them will be an adjustment. 

The Jets and Bill's are statistically worse

5 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Falcons defense is best in the NFL 

lol

Barring a turnover or another missed fg, this one is over.

Well, its going to be called back, but I don't blame him for trying.  

24 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Beating the coons cowboys and bills in the same year is a fever dream

The Bills have one of the best qb's in the NFL, and will be a tough one for us.  

But their run defense is statistically the worst we have faced (for the time being), so we might have a shot.  

Bijan takes it 81 yards.

Bills run defense this year is not good.  

All I wanted this year was to see some improvement from last year.  I thought we could win between 7 and 10 games this year and haven't seen anything to change my mind.  Jets, Saints, and pull a couple of upsets along the way and we met the mark of improving.

To actually have a shot at the playoffs will require playing better in a few areas, such as rushing the passer.  

4 hours ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

I really don’t understand the turnaround of Wallace and Rozeboom after they swapped roles. 
 

Like can Rozeboom just not think and just hits stuff or is Wallace just damn good at calling defenses.

The signal caller has about 5-10 seconds to recognize the offense and call the defense.  I can't imagine its easy.  

18 minutes ago, TD alt said:

Putting players in a position to succeed isn't just football rhetoric, it's a thing that great coaches do with consistency.

I agree, but I also think coaches take a little while to determine what position is best for a specific player.  Regarding Wallace, he started this year with 11 games under his belt, so it might have taken the staff a little while to determine where he is best.  

10 hours ago, Peon Awesome said:

Yeah the Jets are definitely better than their record suggests and the Panthers seem to play so much worse on the road than at home. I'm definitely not going into the game overconfident. Hopefully with the way our run defense has been, we can clamp down their offense and put ourselves in good position for the win. I think it'll boil down to whether we beat ourselves. < 2 turnovers = Panthers win

While we could certainly lose to them, they are really not better than their record suggest.  They have the worst sack ratio in the league. They have the worst passing stats in the league.  They can run the ball, but at least on paper, they should be a good match for us as our run defense is good while our pass defense is not.    

1 hour ago, cmichd08 said:

he is losing so he can end up with Manning from Texas

Lets hope that happens.  

2 hours ago, Oldschool Leroy said:

somebody better get fired! after all, you cowboys lost to the Panthers

Their GM needs to go.  

3 minutes ago, jb2288 said:

Gonna be hard with the Bucs about to go 5-1 BUT we play them twice so I think we’d actually control our own destiny. 

I don't think we are ready to compete with the Bucs yet.  In truth, they are probably a SB contender at this point.

But it is nice to be in the conversation at least.  

38 minutes ago, trucpfan said:

Lol what in the world is going on here we played the actual number one offense today and held them to under their average stopped them when needed most idk what else y’all want.

So now you throwing out excuses Pickens has been having his way the last few weeks 160+ 2tds vs packers i think their offense hasn’t missed a beat without CD still number one last two weeks but we’re the lucky team to play them without him lol crazy panther fans making excuses for a good win

Edit: CD was out VS the packers they put 40 on em let’s use some better perspective when addressing our defense please.

You do realize I was complimenting them on their play when the game was on the line don't you.

But even with their best receiver out, their receivers were running free thru the secondary for three quarters.  And we were not getting any pressure at all.  

Jones getting a lot of yards, but also getting hit a lot.  

2 minutes ago, NAS said:

10 TDs and 5 ints this season and he hasn’t even played his best football yet

 

Dak had zero pressure on him until the last drive and we saw what happened 

One thing we definitely need to work on next offseason is getting more pressure on the passer.  Not sure if we do it thru the draft, or free agency, or just work on the younger guys getting better. 

Our pass rush has improved slightly over the last 4 weeks, but it is still the weakest area of our defense right now.  

Go Niners and Bills.