It's a long season, tell me something positive.

[arbnranger]

I'm bummed out but I'm not depressed. 

We can name a laundry list of things we didn't do right. Sometimes you have to take a step back, look at the big picture and focus on the positives. (Understanding we have to work on our weaknesses)

1-First and foremost. All mistakes are correctable. As Coach said we really did "shoot ourself in the foot"... yea in this game we pulled a "Burress" or a "Talib" 

2- We were without a pillar of our offense. If some don't realize, J-Stew is as important to our offense as one leg on a table. CAP did a decent job, Fozzy and Tolozier were there. All three RB's combined can't reproduce the kind of production and just as important... threat that  28 brings. 

3- Our defense played well. The scoreboard might not reflect it but we made good stops. I was really encouraged by the play of Bradberry. The more experience he gets, the more solid he becomes. 

4- Offensively we are talent rich and dangerous. Sure we made a lot of mistakes, we were not in sync from bottom to top, but the talent is there. 

5- We will rebound and become more focused. Let's keep it real, everything that went on during the week effected EVERYONE. This board was effected, the guy that sweeps the floor was effected and you dam well better belive every person in this organization didn't have full focus on this game. There are more important issues than football.  (sometimes) This time was one of them. 

Take a deep breath. Again, it's a long season of ups and downs. Steady trending upwards wins the day normally. 

It's difficult... not looking for excuses but I challenge you to talk about something positive you saw. 

[Billy Love]

CAP showed promise

[Toolbox]

1. shula is not fixable period.

2. we still got 100+ yards without stewart so I think you overvalue him here.

3. Yep

4. Got the talents but not the brains

5. I hope so.

[Moorgan]

I agree. I thought the defense played pretty well. I thought CAP did well as a backup. And I recognize it's only week 3. Playoffs are neither won or lost yet. I believe we have a talented team that needs to find it's groove.

[CarolinaSunday]

Arizona and the Steelers got embarrassed today too. And TB is losing.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

the early season is unpredictable

the steelers who looked invincible are getting absolutely handled in philadelphia right now

the rams are in the middle of hanging 31 (make that 38) on the bucs right now after looking like they didn't have a pulse on offense in weeks 1 and 2

you don't truly know what you're looking at until midseason basically

[greghardy'sAK-47]

the bucs are about to get beat.  

[the butch]

A guy was caught outside the stadium during the first quarter with an automatic weapon.  

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

either the saints or falcons are about to eat a conference loss on monday

[Steves89]

I had to work and couldn't watch so sorry if this is a stupid question. But is there a reason why no one is talking about how bad we are at protecting the football? We out gained our opponents every game but stupid penalties and a terrible turnover differential screwed us.

[Doc Holiday]

Our defense is much better than advertised and has not been the issue, Defense has only been responsible for giving up a combined 20 points over the last two games. Offense and Special teams gave up 17 points against the 49'ers and 12 points today.  Defense only giving up 10 points per game over the last two games is really impressive even if our pressure getting to the QB hasnt been the greatest. it's also far from the cause of the issue.

Other good news is we played two of the 3 toughest teams we will play all year over the first 3 games, and we wont have our next major team to face till seattle on december 4th, the NFC south for the next 3 games, and arizona flying to us cross country after the Bye is just what the doctor ordered to right the ship.

we have the best offense and defense of any of the NFCS teams, and that's not open for debate.

[arbnranger]

1 minute ago, Steves89 said:

I had to work and couldn't watch so sorry if this is a stupid question. But is there a reason why no one is talking about how bad we are at protecting the football? We out gained our opponents every game but stupid penalties and a terrible turnover differential screwed us.

You lost the challenge. 

I will say that one interception could be described as a "Hail Mary " at the end of the half. The other was just a garbage time pick, no effect on the game at that point. 

[arbnranger]

1 minute ago, Doc Holiday said:

Our defense is much better than advertised and has not been the issue, Defense has only been responsible for giving up a combined 20 points over the last two games. Offense and Special teams gave up 17 points against the 49'ers and 12 points today.  Defense only giving up 10 points per game over the last two games is really impressive even if our pressure getting to the QB hasnt been the greatest. it's also far from the cause of the issue.

Other good news is we played two of the 3 toughest teams we will play all year over the first 3 games, and we wont have our next major team to face till seattle on december 4th, the NFC south for the next 3 games, and arizona flying to us cross country after the Bye is just what the doctor ordered to right the ship.

we have the best offense and defense of any of the NFCS teams, and that's not open for debate.

That's what I'm talking about. 

[redbuddha]

The protesters didn't protest much!