Looking Forward & 4th Quarters

[davos]

This is not where I come in and tell you to calm down or whatever, this is where we look at what's coming next and reasonably look at our deficiencies: a team far superior to the Bucs offensively who kicked us in the behind last season due to problems that still look apparent in our play from last season.

If this game against the Bucs was a dud where we simply came out flat, we should all expect our players and coaches to have a new fire lit and ready to kickass this next game. The defense played well (allowing only 1 TD) for having a lot of rookie hiccups in Norman and Kuechly and now they get an even more difficult task against Brees. The Saints* looked more vulnerable on offense without SP's playcalling so the big matchup will be really racking on the points and being a step ahead of them in case they get going a la week 17.

My biggest gripes about this past game were that we had zero fire (minus Davis & Beason) and just didn't seem ready. Simply going through the motions and not really acting like a cohesive unit on either side of the ball. There was no sense of urgency and awareness toward the end of the game clock management wise which I think was the one true problem that we should be concerned about after this first game and after last season because most of the other things can be corrected. So instead of going for the perspective post or big picture analysis, let's focus on this coming week and improve in every facet of the game because this weekend was piss poor on everyone's part.

The one thing that has frustrated me and has me semi-concerned about our team's development is playing 4th quarters like we have all the time in the world. There is a major difference between poise under pressure and milking off time for no damn reason when we're trying to come back. We had a great drive where our WRs played fantastic and ran out of bounds only to see Chud/Cam/Rivera whoever letting 2:00 go off the clock once we made it to the goal line resulting in a FG and showing us a glaring problem with time management on the team whoever is responsible.

Prove us wrong Panthers that you can go out with all guns blazing and stay a step ahead of our opponents and have some damn awareness.

*Not pissed, just making points

[rico6]

No fire points directly to coaching. Rivera and his staff failed to bring their poo to this game, while the Bucs; however, did.

That and we lack talent in key areas.

[davos]

No fire points directly to coaching. Rivera and his staff failed to bring their poo to this game, while the Bucs; however, did.

That and we lack talent in key areas.

What I'm trying to say is that we have not been good clock managers and have yet to really see this facet of the game develop well for us minus the Minny game last season which Mare ended up f*cking up for us anyways. Its not a dig solely on Cam or Chud but everyone on offense.

That's as important as anything when it's a close game which we seem to have basically every game but we're seemingly always at least one step behind. No mental awareness and we let bad plays get to us too much.

Awareness wise, even on defense there were nearly 5 or so occasions when our line could have forced big losses but they go freeze frame and let a potentially -3 yard play turn into a 5 yard gain because of their mental hiccups. This happens a lot with CJ as good as he is.