what a weird arena football game we had today
I am gonna go on the record and say that the special teams gaffs, literally giving them 14 points in like 4 seconds.. are NOT the main reason we lost (though it did help get us away from our game plan) And I don't blame the coaches at all, anyone who does is just a dumb ass.
We saw two very un-characteristic things happen today.
1. Our defense got used and abused and rarely stopped the bears. We did get a couple timely sacks and the one fumble hit... but we had no pressure most of the game and only forced one or two punts the whole game before they just tried to run the clock out on us and punted once more. Why don't our blitzes ever work??!? Maybe we should try something new? or just never blitz. Are our players that slow?
this hurts.
2. Frerotte's first two interceptions were both to our "studs" in one on one coverage against their inexperienced corners (who had 4 picks) you can't fault him for his read, but his passes were errant and more to the defenders then our receivers.
This just goes to show you how dumb the pre-game analysts are, they assume with Tillman out that whoever replaces him will make mistakes, and they assume that the game was gonna be 10 to 13 and be a defensive battle. they don't know anything.. they all predicted the Dallas rams game to be a blow out. well they were right - except Dallas got blown out
The saddest thing to me about this loss is that we did a real good job of running the ball and WE stopped them from running the ball.. yet because of the 14 gifted points and some key big plays our D gave up, we had to play catch up.. yet even then we had success but you can't expect our offense to score 48 points.. as it stands, they scored 41! before the game i would have taken that and assumed a win by two touchdowns.
What we learned from this game..
AP is actually as awesome as he is supposed to be and rarely disappoints me. He's such a blessing to our team... his TDs were both awesome and he turns 2 yard losses into 3 yard gains regularly...can we PLEASE block better?
Matt Forte isn't that impressive.. he just benefits from a great offensive line and solid passing attack that benefits him. You could put any number of RBs in at his position and i reckon they'd have similar numbers.
Kyle Orton is a baller. period.
Our blitz sucks and I am starting to question Leslie Frazier's schemes and over all ability
I think over all we had a good offensive game plan and that we adjusted to the situations pretty well.. I think the coaching staff did ok for the most part.. I know some people will criticize that one possession in the red zone were we ran three times and settled for a field goal, but we did the exact same thing a few times on our last TD drive and it left us with a lot of third and shorts instead of third and longs... i know you all liked going for it on 4th the first drive and AP's 2nd and third effort to get that TD and prolly hated the roll out on fourth and shot in the third quarter.. i think it was a good call but they had it covered and i think AP shouldn't have been the receiver, since he's keyed on, would have been better to have the FB the receiver. I also think Frerotte shoulda tried to run for it.. really sucks we cant have T JACK step up a little more.. we could have had him run for a couple of third down conversions easily this game. oh well.
Frerotte had 4 ints, they were all his fault. sucks.
Our defense gave up 34 points. sucks. 34. to Kyle Orton. might have been more with out Marty Booker's drops.
Same old story, we find a way to make it hard on ourselves.. we do shit you never see.. i don't blame Gordon for trying to block the gunner, you're taught to let the ball bounce inside the 10 and he was blocking.. it bounced super weird and high and hit his hand.. and the Punter's drop, how dumb was that. wth?!?! you just cant prepare for that crap.
we fought back hard and stayed in it though, i give them credit.
so we're 3 and 4 going into the bye.. we need to come out and get a solid performance with no gaffs and a win against the Texans..
nothing to fear, we're still in it.... let's hope our "NEW " LBs can get into the system now with this bye and hope they can contribute throughout the season.. they did well considering though Chicago's TE ran rough shot
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