What I saw from the TV POV

[tiger7_88]

- We scored 13 points on offense.  Yes, there was a BS "push off" call on Olsen that cost us 4 points and a dropped TD pass by Ginn that cost us 7 more, but all that tells me is we have no margin for error in the Rivera/Shula ground-and-pound-here-we-come-you-know-what-we're-doing offense.  Some offenses can make mistakes and still score NFL average points.  Not the Rivera/Shula.  Same as it ever was and shall be, I guess.

- Cam had an above average game.  One really bad throw on the interception but, other than that, not too bad.  At least 5 obvious drops (maybe 6?).  Should have had 3 TD passes instead of 1.

- Stewie looked good.  Feed him the ball.  Don't understand on a few 1st downs having Fozzy in their instead of CAP on called running plays.  Are people still not convinced Rivera/Shula are scared of rookies unless they're forced to use'em?

- It would be nice if we could stop AT LEAST ONCE a team in a 2-minute drill before the half.

- There we are playing prevent defense and Harper is deep with his finger up his butt allowing the deep ball to be completed.  Cost us at the most optimistic 4 points (they may have still kicked a FG there).

- Defense was Jekyll and Hyde.  At times they made Bortles look like Aaron Rodgers, but they made him look like Blaine Gabbert at crunch time.  Good job.

- Impressed by OL pass pro.  A couple of bad protections that ended in sacks but, all in all, and excellent job.  Run blocking was good until it wasn't.  Iffy from play to play.

- Daryl WIlliams?  Gosh, I hope he's OK (may have already heard by the time I made this post, but I haven't looked). Luke in concussion protocol doesn't look good for him to be back in a week.  Damn, we don't need more injuries.

- Offensive MVP? Stewie or Cotch.  I think I'm gonna go with Cotch.  He had a couple of really key catches in this game.  Defensive MVP?  Easy... Norman.

- Hey? Jags fans?  You know that Carolina defense you didn't think was very good?  And that corner (Norman) you'd never heard of?  Well... yeah.  Welcome to Carolina.  (P.S And we really made a helluva lot of mistakes on defense IMO.  And we still stuck it to your team.  Just ponder on that, Jags fans!)

- It was good for my heart to see Cam (2010 BCS Champion at QB for Auburn) talking to Nick Marshall of Jacksonville (2013 BCS Runner-up at QB for Auburn) after the game.  That was a pic that felt good for this ol' Auburn boy's soul. :)

[JawnyBlaze]

yea I pretty much agree with most of what you said.  Especially Ron not playing rookies til he has to.  Funchess was out there what, like 5 plays?  I only saw CAP twice and neither was a run by him (I guess technically one of them was a read option where Cam could have given him the ball, but it didn't look to me like Cam seriously considered it.  Looked like it was designed for Cam to keep it the whole time.) 

My biggest disagreement was the OL.  Thought they were better than last year, but still poor overall.  Oher got bullrushed by a LB a few times (at least once I vividly remember) and there was heavy pressure on Cam half of the plays.  I'd say Cam was easily the offensive MVP, too.

The pussyvent (tradmarking it) defense that Ron is famous for at the end of halves is infuriating.  It's almost inevitable, if the other team needs to score at the end of a half, either they will or one of our very talented defenders will make some amazing interception or fumble recovery to save the day (the sort of things that aren't in the scheme but because our some of our defenders are so individually talented they can pull off).