Status Quo

[lightsout]

This has been the problem for this team for years now and it gets exposed every season at some point.

- Rivera is timid. He doesn't know what to do half the time, and the other half he miscalculates. OK, he's human. He makes mistakes. Fine. Own that. Don't get in the post game and say "we left plays on the field. We didn't execute". Those things may be true, but YOU decided to not kick a field goal with 5 seconds left in the first half, which puts us in "get in field goal range" situations at the end of the game instead of having to press for the endzone. YOU decided to throw a challenge on a play over a single yard rather than trusting your OL and QB to push for a yard. Own it.

- Shula is dumb. He does the same thing over and over with the run game, and when it doesn't work, he does the same fall-back run plays, and when those don't work, he abandons the run all together and tells Cam to run if he sees it just so we can simulate a run game. The thought process is dive, power, inside zone. Those don't work, he goes to long developing counters from the gun and tosses from the gun. When those get eaten up, he quits on the run game all together OR just tries to repeat the process until he does. Then in the passing game, he has this habit of NOT doing the things that are working all game. He is wasting all the talent on this offense by being inept.

- Our OL is STILL a problem. Cam has YET to have a reliable OL for an entire season. 2015 wasn't good OL play, it was perfect Cam play. Cam bailed this offense out for an entire season, just like he bailed this offense out time and again tonight with perfect throws and good runs. Cam had some clean pockets when we kept extra blockers in or at least had them chip the ends before releasing, but the lack of a run game made us one dimensional. Props to Philly's run D, it's legit. However, when you have negative yardage with your runningbacks all game and your ONLY positives in the run game is your QB, who also has to be perfect in his throws, you're asking too much of any one player in this league. The OL HAS to improve. There is no hoping and waiting for a draft with good linemen. No more taking the best athlete on the draft board. Be aggressive and get Cam help up front because as it stands, you're feeding Cam and the RBs to the wolves and asking them to make unbelievable plays all game.

- Run D is either great or non existent. Make no mistake, we have been gashed with runs all year. We get confident in the run d because we get leads and they become predictable with their runs, which leads to us sniffing them out. Or we just read the play well, like what happened some tonight. However, our run D is not up to snuff. Evidenced by the fact that EVERY team has gotten good gains on the ground against us while we have to say "man, nice run Stew/CMC" on a 4 yard gain because they made a guy miss in the backfield, broke a tackle at the line, and carried two more guys on their back and fell forward for that yardage. Luke or no Luke, our run D has been suspect all year.

- Secondary is what it is. Worley is still useless. JB is still the lone bright spot. Our safeties aren't physical enough without Coleman out there (Mike Adams got stood up by Wentz for Christ's sake). Without pressure, our pass D is bad. Period.



The above is why we lost. Period. No two ways about it. Stew dropping a screen which resulted in a turnover, Trai Turner getting rag-dolled into Cam resulting in a turnover. DL getting their hands up and batting passes as they leave Cam's hands, resulting in turnovers or incomplete passes. All of these things were back breakers. Cam was asked to be the entire offense and be perfect doing it, and he couldn't. Not because he's not good, but because it's too much to ask of any one player in the NFL.

[KillerKat]

When you don't have a boss that pushes you (JR) then you get complacent (our coaching staff).

[lightsout]

13 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

When you don't have a boss that pushes you (JR) then you get complacent (our coaching staff).

Any good owner would have fired Shula after last season. Any DECENT owner would fire Shula on his way to his car tonight and hire an OC with a working brain. Unfortunately, JR is only concerned with his position within the NFL and making money. He cares not about the on-field product.