Through 1/4 of the season what do we think we know about this team?

[musicman]

Stop & think. We lost a lot on the O-line to start the year and that was a major adjustment and probably even affected our play calling (more dump offs) which we've seen. Once they showed they were better we could maybe run. In passing without Samuel, we had no over the top speed once we realize Smith doesn't have that high gear we possibly thought. And we lost Olsen in this time period. It takes time to refigure what you really wanted to do and that's what I think they mean when they say we still haven't seen everything yet as it's evolving. As the team gets back to where it was in camp, we'll see those plays. I also think Moore needs time to play within the system. In Cam's naked bootleg, if Moore can block right, it's a big gain and he didn't. Everybody sees the catching and busting through tackles but it's the complete game he has to have to start. By the end of the year I see Moore, Samuel, Funchess and Wright as our 4 main WE's and that's gonna be fun to watch.

On defense, we have some issues. Maybe Star is a bigger loss then we think in the run defense? Everybody' a little older so maybe that has an effect? And we don't blitz like last year, so I don't have all the answers but hopefully they start to gel sooner then later. TD back could and should help. We just need to get pressure.

3-1 is a great start to a hopefully 12-4 season and home field advantage if we can beat the Saints at least once.

[Goondal]

I feel we are in the second tier, ahead of most of the NFL but currently behind the top four or five teams.

[Mikey818]

9 hours ago, Boundary Guru said:

Our record is right where I thought it was going to be. We know what we have with CMC & Cam. We don't know, yet, what TD's return is going to mean to this defense. I think we will see a big increase in the use of our rookies going forward.

I know I am excited heading into the next 3/4 of the season. 

Cmc leads nfl in scrimmage yards per game 

[Castavar]

1 hour ago, KB_fan said:

Does that take our bye into account? Since we've played 1 less game have to look at sacks/game, not just the total. 

I haven't had a chance to look at the stats though... Busy week for me.

Oh yeah, totally forgot we already had a bye lol Still seems like a pretty low number to me. And no, it does not take our bye into account.

[rayzor]

15 hours ago, CarolinaSamurai said:

To all of you wanting the younger guys to get more time. Remember Donte, Ian, and Obada all made mistakes that cost us points in the game. Don't forget that younger guys make mistakes. 

vets do that as well. we've seen them get burned. we've seen them drop passes they shouldn't have made. you try to be risk adverse and you hold the team back. it's that simple.

mistakes are going to happen. you don't learn from them until you are given a chance to make them. you are going to have a lot more successes than failures when you do that. you may take a step back in some moments, but they will give you a chance to get 10 steps ahead in most others.

[Khyber53]

16 hours ago, t96 said:

Obviously still extremely early, but sitting at 3-1 through the first quarter of the season, what do you all think we know about the team thus far?

 

I'll start it off with something positive:

 

- We can win games with any of the 3 phases carrying the team. Cowboys win was due to defense. Bengals win was due to offense. And yesterday's win was obviously on ST.

 

Whatta ya got?

My take is that we're still putting it together and recovering from injuries. We're going to get better as the season goes on. We're 3-1 coming off of an incredibly difficult, injury and suspension-riddled start to the season. This team has grit, tons of it.

[rayzor]

I think this team is a lot better than we have seen, especially against atlanta and the giants. I think in both games we got lazy/tired and sloppy. we clean poo and tighten things up and I think we can take anyone one. 

we haven't come near to hitting our peak in this season yet. 

[Mikey818]

Hopefully  cmc funchess Moore Samuel and Olsen are the starters before long in the skill positions

[thefuzz]

My biggest takeaway so far?

 

That we do nothing really well.  We aren't terrible at anything, but at the same time aren't great at anything either.

Looking like a wild card team at the moment.