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<blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1083486" data-attributes="member: 17987"><p>Well, hard to imagine a more deflating loss than that. But here we are, on we go.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Studs</u></strong></p><p><strong>Jordan Love</strong></p><p>I think I pretty much said the same thing last week. I don't think he has much left to prove. It wasn't a perfect performance by any means (and unfortunately fell off in the second half) but for basically the whole first half he was essentially moving the ball at will against one of the best passing defenses in the league.</p><p></p><p><strong>Josh Jacobs</strong></p><p>Absolute iron-man. Guy's been banged up all season yet basically going out there each week and doing everything he can to will us forward. Wilson's been good in limited appearances but Jacobs is that dude who can put the whole team on his back when he needs to. </p><p></p><p><strong>Brandon McManus</strong></p><p>Hopefully it's just a matter of health with McManus as it seems like he's pretty well back to his best now. </p><p></p><p><strong><u>Duds</u></strong></p><p><strong>CBs</strong></p><p>Maybe I'm a hater, but I don't think Bo Nix is THAT good. On the whole he's been a decidedly average QB for the course of the season (18th in passer rating, 14th in QBR, 16th in EPA+CPOE) and of course we allow a career day. Just about every CB we have got completely abused at one point or another... and to be fair it's not like they were all just miles away the whole game, but FAR too many "could'ves, should'ves," "almost" type situations. </p><p></p><p><strong>Discipline issues/Procedural penalties</strong></p><p>I would love to see how many procedural type penalties we incur on offense. Stuff like holding, hands to the face, etc...it happens. But I feel like we are constantly getting dinged for false starts, illegal shifts, ineligible receiver, illegal formation, etc... Like I said, sometimes you unintentionally or instinctively hold a guy and get flagged for it and it just happens. But the procedural stuff is things that we SHOULD be expecting to "coach out" of this team and it just never happens. Week after week, year after year this team is extremely undisciplined. I said it in the game thread regarding special teams but really it's true to a similar extent of this team as a whole. I can't tell you how many press conferences we've heard about how we need to clean up this and that and be more disciplined and etc. After 6, 7 years, why should I have any confidence whatsoever that we will EVER have a disciplined team with LaFleur steering the ship? I've said it before, I like Matt and think he has a lot of strengths but I don't think he is EVER going to be able to run a tight and disciplined football team. </p><p></p><p>And relatedly, speaking of discipline... I just don't feel like we play very "sharp" football. This is another long-standing complaint of mine - we just generally don't put teams away or show any "killer instinct". It's entirely reasonable to say that if we'd played a bit cleaner we could've opened the game up 21-0. We just seem to shoot ourselves in the foot like nobody else can. As I've said before we can beat anyone when we're at our best but we have a very bad tendency to let teams hang around rather than kill them off as early as possible.</p><p></p><p><strong>Special Teams</strong></p><p>Rich Bisaccia continues to be one of the highest-paid ST coordinators in the league (if not THE highest, accounting for his assistant HC role) and yet continues to produce one of the worst special teams units in the league. This discrepancy is honestly fascinating to me. Can anyone think of an example where a PLAYER was amongst the highest-paid at his position yet was in the conversation for worst in the league at his position? Remarkable. </p><p></p><p><strong>And of course, more than any of that, injuries the biggest dud on the day.</strong></p><p>Honestly I don't know which is worse between Watson and Parsons. </p><p></p><p>On one hand, Parsons basically seemed to be papering over a LOT of cracks for us. I think we had all hoped that we would see a big step forward from the rest of our DL. Parsons would command TONS of attention and free up opportunities for Gary, Van Ness, Enagbare, etc... </p><p>WITH the presence of Parsons, Gary is 31st in pressures per game. Enagbare is 98th, and Van Ness is 114th. Gary is 18th in sacks per game; Enagbare 155th and Van Ness 210th. They've made *some* improvements but not nearly enough and that's WITH Parsons out there. If they didn't really step up WITH him on the field, unfortunately I don't expect them to do so without. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, at times it's looked like our offense *could* in theory do enough to make up for shortcomings on defense (and I mean, we saw this for years lol). But our offense basically falls off a cliff without Watson right now. I posted elsewhere but having Watson on the field at all is like a 15-20pt swing in Love's PFF grade, he takes him from slightly above-average to ELITE. Thankfully we got Reed back at the right time but we will really need Golden or someone else to be able to step up fast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magooch, post: 1083486, member: 17987"] Well, hard to imagine a more deflating loss than that. But here we are, on we go. [B][U]Studs[/U] Jordan Love[/B] I think I pretty much said the same thing last week. I don't think he has much left to prove. It wasn't a perfect performance by any means (and unfortunately fell off in the second half) but for basically the whole first half he was essentially moving the ball at will against one of the best passing defenses in the league. [B]Josh Jacobs[/B] Absolute iron-man. Guy's been banged up all season yet basically going out there each week and doing everything he can to will us forward. Wilson's been good in limited appearances but Jacobs is that dude who can put the whole team on his back when he needs to. [B]Brandon McManus[/B] Hopefully it's just a matter of health with McManus as it seems like he's pretty well back to his best now. [B][U]Duds[/U] CBs[/B] Maybe I'm a hater, but I don't think Bo Nix is THAT good. On the whole he's been a decidedly average QB for the course of the season (18th in passer rating, 14th in QBR, 16th in EPA+CPOE) and of course we allow a career day. Just about every CB we have got completely abused at one point or another... and to be fair it's not like they were all just miles away the whole game, but FAR too many "could'ves, should'ves," "almost" type situations. [B]Discipline issues/Procedural penalties[/B] I would love to see how many procedural type penalties we incur on offense. Stuff like holding, hands to the face, etc...it happens. But I feel like we are constantly getting dinged for false starts, illegal shifts, ineligible receiver, illegal formation, etc... Like I said, sometimes you unintentionally or instinctively hold a guy and get flagged for it and it just happens. But the procedural stuff is things that we SHOULD be expecting to "coach out" of this team and it just never happens. Week after week, year after year this team is extremely undisciplined. I said it in the game thread regarding special teams but really it's true to a similar extent of this team as a whole. I can't tell you how many press conferences we've heard about how we need to clean up this and that and be more disciplined and etc. After 6, 7 years, why should I have any confidence whatsoever that we will EVER have a disciplined team with LaFleur steering the ship? I've said it before, I like Matt and think he has a lot of strengths but I don't think he is EVER going to be able to run a tight and disciplined football team. And relatedly, speaking of discipline... I just don't feel like we play very "sharp" football. This is another long-standing complaint of mine - we just generally don't put teams away or show any "killer instinct". It's entirely reasonable to say that if we'd played a bit cleaner we could've opened the game up 21-0. We just seem to shoot ourselves in the foot like nobody else can. As I've said before we can beat anyone when we're at our best but we have a very bad tendency to let teams hang around rather than kill them off as early as possible. [B]Special Teams[/B] Rich Bisaccia continues to be one of the highest-paid ST coordinators in the league (if not THE highest, accounting for his assistant HC role) and yet continues to produce one of the worst special teams units in the league. This discrepancy is honestly fascinating to me. Can anyone think of an example where a PLAYER was amongst the highest-paid at his position yet was in the conversation for worst in the league at his position? Remarkable. [B]And of course, more than any of that, injuries the biggest dud on the day.[/B] Honestly I don't know which is worse between Watson and Parsons. On one hand, Parsons basically seemed to be papering over a LOT of cracks for us. I think we had all hoped that we would see a big step forward from the rest of our DL. Parsons would command TONS of attention and free up opportunities for Gary, Van Ness, Enagbare, etc... WITH the presence of Parsons, Gary is 31st in pressures per game. Enagbare is 98th, and Van Ness is 114th. Gary is 18th in sacks per game; Enagbare 155th and Van Ness 210th. They've made *some* improvements but not nearly enough and that's WITH Parsons out there. If they didn't really step up WITH him on the field, unfortunately I don't expect them to do so without. On the other hand, at times it's looked like our offense *could* in theory do enough to make up for shortcomings on defense (and I mean, we saw this for years lol). But our offense basically falls off a cliff without Watson right now. I posted elsewhere but having Watson on the field at all is like a 15-20pt swing in Love's PFF grade, he takes him from slightly above-average to ELITE. Thankfully we got Reed back at the right time but we will really need Golden or someone else to be able to step up fast. [/QUOTE]
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