Unrealistic expectations

[NAS]

I see some are already ripping the coaches and forgetting that our problem is lack of talent on both sides of the ball, but especially on defense. We all knew these routs were coming at the start of the season so just relax and hope we can do well in the draft. 

[hepcat]

It doesn’t really matter who the coaches are, who the players are, unless this team gets a franchise QB it’s going to be a miserable next 20+ years 

[electro's horse]

yeah that start kinda altered the expectations of the season

i wanted to see the team getting better. there are definitely good players on defense but as a whole they're regressing.

offense as a whole is getting worse and sadly i think that's because teams understand bridgewater's limitations. 

[GoPanthers123]

We had a good first half this game.  

[Paintballr]

The start definitely made people get hope 

 

but I will say this, is there anything exciting on defense our side of burns, brown and Chinn? The offense while it struggles at times, I can at least see the potential. The defense on the other side....

[Varking]

15 minutes ago, GoPanthers123 said:

We had a good first half this game.  

We had a good first quarter. Our second quarter was like 35 yards of offense I thought they said during the game. 

[kass]

10 minutes ago, Varking said:

We had a good first quarter. Our second quarter was like 35 yards of offense I thought they said during the game. 

That was actually the second half of the game, 35 yards. The second quarter the team got a whooping 37 yards... 

So the three last quarters the team gained 72 yards.. for a game total of 187. 

[Varking]

Just now, kass said:

That was actually the second half of the game, 35 yards. The second quarter the team got a whooping 37 yards... 

So the three last quarters the team gained 72 yards.. for a game total of 187. 

Yeah that reinforces my point though. We had a good first quarter on offense and that was it. 

[Carolina Cajun]

Problem is the defense looked sufficient to start the year, now they look just awful, and thats not the direction a young defense should go, they should get better as the season goes and things make more sense in front of them. After giving up a 98 yard TD to a guy who's 40 time is only measurable on the mayan calendar, No one on that defense is even close to adequate.

[NAS]

13 hours ago, Carolina Cajun said:

Problem is the defense looked sufficient to start the year, now they look just awful, and thats not the direction a young defense should go, they should get better as the season goes and things make more sense in front of them. After giving up a 98 yard TD to a guy who's 40 time is only measurable on the mayan calendar, No one on that defense is even close to adequate.

Who says they should get better?  There's more tape on them now what they're doing schematically and at some point it comes down to 1 on 1 matchups. When you have poor talent, especially at positions like MLB and DB, you get exposed.

[Sgt Schultz]

13 minutes ago, NAS said:

Who says they should get better?  There's more tape on them now what they're doing schematically and at some point it comes down to 1 on 1 matchups. When you have poor talent, especially at positions like MLB and DB, you get exposed.

Exactly.  We have some young talent on defense, largely due to last year's draft.  The DL may be on a track to become a force to be reckoned with in the not too distant future.  But the secondary and LB corps is mostly bare, save for Chinn.

Generally, offensive and defensive coordinators are pretty smart and identifying strengths and weaknesses given about a half a season of film. 

[electro's horse]

20 minutes ago, NAS said:

Who says they should get better?  There's more tape on them now what they're doing schematically and at some point it comes down to 1 on 1 matchups. When you have poor talent, especially at positions like MLB and DB, you get exposed.

yeah you could watch brady yesterday targeting whitehead and boston specifically. 

[LinvilleGorge]

15 hours ago, Paintballr said:

The start definitely made people get hope 

I tried to warn everyone that the more film we put on tape the worse we would look. We had a significant element of surprise early in the season with so much roster turnover and am all new nearly exclusively college coaching staff.

[JawnyBlaze]

I’m pleased with the coaching. I have some problems with defensive alignments sometimes, that giant hole in the middle of the field on the 98 yard td was more coaching problem than talent deficiency, but I’m mostly fine with even Snow. The problem is bad QB, bad MLB and highly inconsistent play in the secondary outside of Chinn.