Some troublesome stats

[Davidson Deac II]

4 minutes ago, updownsigma said:

I'm honestly surprised it's a 132/100 first/second half point split I would have guessed it was more like 150/80

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2 second half td's against Tampa, 3 against SF and Atlanta, 4 against NO.  6 games without a second half td.  

[iamhubby1]

4 minutes ago, FuFuLamePoo said:

I honestly think it's a culmination of reasons.  I'll start a list of what comes off my head:

Mental.  I honestly think some of it is getting mental.  You could tell in the fourth quarter thursday the team had no chance of doing anything on offense or defense.  Just their persona.  They knew it was going to happen.

Too conservative.  I think we all know this can be an issue with this coaching staff.  Especially on defense.  When we get big leads we just give teams huge cushions.  I'll admit I'm not great with X's and O's when it comes to talking football, but it's clear we tone down the pressure and have our secondary players back off with big leads.  They go away from what works.  This allows teams to just effortlessly rip off 12-15 yard plays.

Lack of execution on offense.  From Shula down.  We're all quick to blame Shula and I do it too, but our offensive players simply don't execute when playing with a lead.  I actually thought Shula remained pretty aggressive in the second half Thursday, he let Cam try some passes on early downs even with a big lead.  He also called a phenomenal tight end screen to Greg Olsen that went for a big first down on a third down conversion.  But we had some just terrible dropped passes Thursday, a lot that killed drives.  Dickson, Brown, Benjamin, Funchess I know all had awful drops that would have been nice gains.  

Our depth sucks.  I think this is some of it.  We got gassed up front especially on the DL Thursday and the Saints feasted, we lack depth everywhere right now

 

Not sure how I feel about that mental part. The Defense played pretty well down the stretch. But that Offense did look a little discombobulated. It was either the WR were a little off, what with all the drops. Or Cam was only 14-33, so he wasn't up to his normal standard. I could see it with the Offense, not so much with the Defense.

 

IMO, both the Offense and Defense pretty much stayed aggressive. Cam was throwing on first downs, and we did throw 3 straight pass on one of our 3 and outs. And the Defense was doing things all through the game. Zone Blitzes, Stunts, CB and S blitzed, and the regular A gap blitz. So they did try to stay somewhat aggressive. For the most part, the D did well. And the O struggled.

 

I am not going to dog on that patchwork Oline. So my only real problem with execution was the drops.

 

And lastly depth. Other than CB, we have it. We used our 3rd string C, we used our 2nd string LB, we rotate in the DB positions, and we have a lot of WR depth. Now...it is quality depth, but it is upgradable.

 

All in all, I agree somewhat.

[ThPantherFan]

5 hours ago, SamMills4Life said:

Every single time. Every single time we get a lead going into the second half, we go into low-risk offense and defense. Maybe that wins you some games, but it's apparent that it loses you a lot too.

Sounds like Fox ball, doesn't it?

[Khaki Lackey]

Sounds like Fox ball, doesn't it?

Yep. John Fox wrote the blue blueprint on how to go .500.


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[tiger7_88]

12 hours ago, SamMills4Life said:

Every single time. Every single time we get a lead going into the second half, we go into low-risk offense and defense. Maybe that wins you some games, but it's apparent that it loses you a lot too.

Remember when Rivera said he threw away "The Book"?

He lied.