Week 1's "Step Into My Office"

[Proudiddy]

My nominees:

• Special teams - Specifically the dumbass gunners who ran past Peterson on his punt return, stopped, turned around, looked at him, then appeared to wait for the whistle to be blown as if they thought he had called for a fair catch. There was at least one guy that did this standing about 10 yards behind Peterson when he caught it, and I believe there was actually two guys. Inexcusable.
  
• Sean McDermott - All out blitzes on multiple 3rd downs, twice resulting in epically blown coverages for long TDs. Really disappointed in his calls. Some made sense, but these did not. Yes, I love the aggressive style, but that doesn't mean you do it the whole game, especially on 3rd downs with us controlling the game, against a team with Larry Fitzgerald (who usually requires double coverage).
  
• Offensive Line - Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Ugly. Pathetic. Disgusting. Any other QB would have been sacked at least 6 to 7 times today. Run game couldn't get going at all because they couldn't hold their blocks. Just horrible. Worst part is, this is probably what we are stuck with.
  
• Every WR not named Smitty or LaFell - Big, physical WRs that are not physical and can't get open. Thanks. Experiment over. Please sign Donnie Avery.
  
• Merrill Hoge, Nawrocki, Peter King, and any other Cam hater - STFU.
  

That being said, if we shore these areas up, we have an awesome team. Regardless, I expect 7 wins is a realistic expectation. This Packers game is gonna be tough though...

[hepcat]

Panther secondary isn't good enough to blitz like that. If McDermott is smart he'll realize that.

[Jangler]

A cheerleader?

[KBRed]

Chris Gamble...sorry for the haters.

[bigdog10]

I would invite whoever gave Beason clearance to play today

[Jbro]

If this is your office is a cubicle the whitehouse?

[KillerKat]

DeAngelo Williams and DTs

[rico6]

Another great thread by Diddy.

[Proudiddy]

I would invite whoever gave Beason clearance to play today

I was actually gonna add that as well, but that was a hard call either way. I said in the preseason that I expected him to be out for awhile and that I thought the injury was much more serious than they let on.

Really disappointing.

[mav1234]

Overall a lot to build on.

At times it felt like a college team, lacking discipline and making silly mistakes on both sides of the ball and hell for both teams.

[Jase]

the blitz that resulted in the TD. 7 guys came on the blitz. 4 were left to cover 5 receivers.

d'oh.

the punt return. Everyone thought he was fair catching. He didn't. d'oh.

Can't win too many games giving away 14 points like they grow on trees.

[blackcatgrowl]

I, personally, would add Chud to that list as an honorable mention.

His play calling was better than Fox's, but we abandoned the run early. A simple change to unbalanced o-line ups and off tackle runs gave us some daylight, but he didn't keep it up. It could have made a huge difference to our run game had they started using less conventional run plays. There should have been more draws too.

[rico6]

Blitzing is all well and good, but a full house blitz on an empty backfield (ie: empty as in 5 WR sets) Is just f*cking stupid.

Mcdermott should know better.

[Marguide]

I remember warning people on here a couple months ago that this aggressive Eagle-style defense would leave us open to big plays.

When you are aggressive it entails risks, and they bit us in the butt today.