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About that Moore play...

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Look at Olsen and Funch. As soon as Moore catches the ball and darts to the endzone they both sort of stand around and jog upfield while ALL the Lions defenders jet upfield to catch up to Moore. Even some of our oline men end up getting more ground than Funchess. Darius Slay ended up making the tackle and if Funch blocked him for even a second Moore would've took it the house and Gano doesn't miss that FG. Look at the rest of the offense on that play too. Olsen doesn't bother to block out, Wright tries to set up a block for second and then gets out of the way.  The lack of urgency from this team is concerning both on offense and defense. Between plays like this and all the arm tackles we're not making the most of our talent. I cant help but to chalk this up to a coaching issue. Most of this team acts like they could care less if they win or not and it all starts with the HC. What kind of coach gives their players off the whole weekend after losing big to Pittsburgh? I saw some poster bouncing around the excuse of missing a day due to rain but we had more prep time than Detroit. This should have been a big win for us. If we want to make a deep run this lazy poo has to end going forward. 

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3 minutes ago, Riverboat Ron said:

This team just has no spirit this year, it really harkens back to the feeling that Rivera's message has gotten stale. Hell, even teams with half our wins seem to have more fire than us right now.

I mean Luke Kuechly is out there making some wimpy candy arse tackles too.  I mean, is this real life? 

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On this play, in all fairness, Funch was never in position to make a legal block.  Funch is certainly not any less culpable for his play in the game because of it.  He was terrible and deserves to polish the pine for it, but on this play, he couldn't have blocked his man without a flag.

I think what we learned on this play is that while DJ Moore has a lot of upside, he's not Agent 89.  Nobody catches 89 from behind.  Our burner is still Samuel.  

Remind me again why we don't play Samuel?

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17 minutes ago, Riverboat Ron said:

This team just has no spirit this year, it really harkens back to the feeling that Rivera's message has gotten stale. Hell, even teams with half our wins seem to have more fire than us right now.

This is what I’m saying. They’re just no longer buying in to what Rivera has to say. 

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I hate how players get caught up on watching themselves on the jumbo tron and peaking behind them. That could've had something to do with it.

In the end though, it it took a CB with elite speed to catch up to him and DJ is elusive and strong as fug, but hes not our fastest player. Keep in mind he's a WR whose about 215 and built more like a RB. DJ is NOT Curtis Samuel, OBJ, or Tyreek Hill.

I don't really fault him for that play too much. There was no excuse not to get in the end zone after it. 

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19 minutes ago, BrianS said:

On this play, in all fairness, Funch was never in position to make a legal block.  Funch is certainly not any less culpable for his play in the game because of it.  He was terrible and deserves to polish the pine for it, but on this play, he couldn't have blocked his man without a flag.

I think what we learned on this play is that while DJ Moore has a lot of upside, he's not Agent 89.  Nobody catches 89 from behind.  Our burner is still Samuel.  

Remind me again why we don't play Samuel?

You do realize what he did to break open? It’s not like he ran a 9-route on that play

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