Postgame thoughts

While its nice to start off the year with a win, I just get the feeling that unless our Def holds opponents under 10-12 pts each game, we are in trouble.

Our offense may give up more points to the other team than our def.

While its nice to start off the year with a win, I just get the feeling that unless our Def holds opponents under 10-12 pts each game, we are in trouble.

Our offense may give up more points to the other team than our def.

UNLESS our D? You have to be kidding?

In all fairness to Brunell, that INT that was called back (due to defensive interference) was not all on him. It appeared that the INT was made possible by the pass interference. Moss had his jersey pulled down over his shoulder pads - resulting in Moss not being where Brunell likely expected him to be. Brunell didn't make many mistakes, but he didn't look too much different from Brunell of 2004; he threw a lot of short hitches and just a few deep balls. Ramsey looked like he has throughout his career - he throws a pick and then looks pretty good.

I hope Gibbs decides to keep Ramsey in because he gives our offense a spark (and a few INTs). Brunell doesn't make as many poor throws as Ramsey, but he doesn't throw as many good balls as Ramsey either.

Portis looks like a stud (even if you take away that awesome 41-yarder).

The defense looks damn good, but where was the pass-rush the first three quarters?

The offensive line looks very solid and it will only improve with time (as Jansen's hand heals and the unit gels).

The game-planning looked light years ahead of where it did in week one of 2004 (although not as good as it did in week 17 of 2004).

I'm still worried about our inability to get in the end zone.

Our defense looked very solid although the Bears O isn't too impresive.

Can't wait till next Monday.

Beat the Cowboys!!!!!!!

I'm still worried about our inability to get in the end zone.

Our defense looked very solid although the Bears O isn't too impresive.

Can't wait till next Monday.

Beat the Cowboys!!!!!!!
I can wait,the cowboys will kick our ass once again,this game shouldnt have been close,and gibbs playcalling at the end sucked,once again giving a team time to go down field only needing a fg to win,if def doesnt get the turnover,bears probably get the fg,if Cedric benson starts the game,bears would have won it,if bledsoe gets the kind of time Orton had hes going to pick us apart,dallas has just tied sd at 21 all,on the road,they can score,we cant ,we always have at least 1 big turnover a game to give the other team easy points,mnf in dallas,crowd pumped as hell,it probably wont be close
{I really hope I'm eating these words tuesday}

Two thought's:

1) Ugly game!
2) We can't win 10 games with that shitty passing offense.

Wow, the kneejerk overreactions are comical.

We put up 323 yards of offense today, the points weren't there but we had 1 TD called back and another that should have been a score if Cooley took his route about 1 foot further into the endzone.

We took some shots down the field, drawing a big PI call and Moss broke lose for a nice 52-yard gain.

We ran all over a very tough run defense, Portis and Betts combined for 33 carries for 162 yards, that's a nice 4.9 per rush average. Again, this was against a pretty stingy Chicago run D. We killed them in TOP with 34:15 to 25:45.

We did give up 3 sacks, but overall the pass protection was very good, and the run blocking was stellar.

On 3rd downs we were 6/16 for 38%, you'd like to see that a little higher but it's still not a bad day. Counting in the 1/1 on 4th downs that's an overall conversion rate of 41% on 3rd and 4th downs.

It wasn't a pretty win, but I think we were sadly mistaken if we thought the Bears were just going to roll over on us. They have a very good D and running game. They might not pile up the wins this year but I think they're going to give alot of teams fits.

When you look at the scoreboard and only see 9 points things don't look so good. But if you take a deeper look at the numbers, the offense was moving the ball but wasn't able to capitalize, simple as that.

For the guy that mentioned Denver kicking our butt. I watched the Dolphins game and if they had a proven RB in (i.e. Ricky Williams) the scoreline would have looked even worse. Denver suck big style on both sides of the ball. Plummer had NO time in the pocket, Lelie couldn't get open and they lost their starting RB and CB for the game early and their other starting CB for a good portion of it.

We can beat Denver with good D and mistake free O. Like we apparently played today.

Dallas? SD can't stop the run or pass, but are outscoring the Pokes because their D can't stop the Chargers either. Our D can stop Dallas, and if our O runs the ball all over them, then we can out score them too.

taking a deeper look at the numbers dont mean shit,we need to score points,avoid big turnovers,piling up stats is just that,I dint think the reactions are comical,what was comical was the pregame predictions,simple as that

Matty,looking at my post,it now seems a little snotty,i'm just frustrated with this team,a lot of times we win the stat wars,except for the ones that count most,turnovers,s.o.s,s.o.s.a.d.{aerosmith}