HUGE win for the squad today. As we always say, a win is a win and you take them wherever, however and whenever you can get them. Another heart attack game, here is my view of the good, the bad and the ugly
The Good
We survived a must win game and we did it while resting
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The offense finally put some real points on the board after a very slow early red zone start again.
Marc bulger is truly a elite qb. I just hope everyone on this board realizes it and appreciates it.
Stephen Jackson is truly a Big Boy stud. His enthusiasm and power running and catching are taking him to a higher level week after week. You cant blame jackson for his failure to run inside, there was no blocking at all for him between the tackles. He cut several runs outside and showed some real speed in addition to his toughness. The hurdle over dre bly was a classic.
Jacksons run up the middle for 5 yards on third down in the last series when everyone in the stadium knew it was coming was great running and should have put the game away since it got money into field goal range, which somehow, he missed.
Wilkins was great again today, aside from the miss at the end. Not a perfect game due to what could have been a huge miss, but his kickoffs were excellent and he was 4 for 5.
Bruce and Holt are the best wide receiver combination in the history of the nfl over the last 7 years. There, i said it. Take your shots at it. Holt is a stud and all that crapola about bruce slowing down is nonsense. He is a top notch #2 reciever and he is getting one on one coverage all the time, meaning when bulger has time, ike is open on basically every play. The td and 2 point conversion at the end was classic rev ike.
Nice game for the klopper, getting on the board with his first td. I believe that the klopper is ready for full integration into the offense, he will be open all day long and that will be a huge weapon for us.
Very gutty performance by the O line without the Big Man, at least on the pass blocking side. I thought stuessie was excellent, and its really time to recognize baby alyx as a terrific right tackle. He continues to improve, he will be ready for the pro bowl in no time.
NO TURNOVERS for the rams.
There are not a lot of great things to say about the defense in this game, but i will say that we caused three turnovers, and that was the difference in the game.
Stephen Davis looked good in limited action as a backup.
The toughness and guts of pisa are hard to believe. We should lock him up contract wise.
The Bad
The kickoff coverage basically stunk. If not for
tye hills speed, we would have given up two tds.
Its probably as much ugly as bad, but our complete lack of pass rush today almost cost us the game. John Kitna is ok, but without a guy in his face and with roy williams (who by the way is just a fantastic player), he is tough to stop. We blitzed over and over and not only didnt we get him, we really didnt get close much. Their line dominated us and we couldnt cover downfield at all. We made mike furrey look like an all pro and while we all like the guy, lets face it, its a guy that an nfl db should be able to stay one on one without getting hit for all those catches. I will say that the second td was a fantastic catch. With the exception of a couple of long runs, we did a pretty good job run wise, but pass wise, we were just awful all day long.
Travis fischer, i dont know what to say. He just doesnt seem to make any plays out there, he seems to be unable to stop anyone. I would love to know what is really going on with butler.
Why didnt we double williams more often?
I like haslett a lot, but today you cant tell me that the defense was anything but creamed out there pass defense wise. 34 points is a lot and while they were helped by some penalties and good field position, we have to play a lot better on defense. If this was marmie, everyone would be yelling scheme.
The Ugly
The wilkins miss with the game on the line
The ball that hit
tye hill in the stomach with the game on the line that he dropped
Our failure to score a td when we had first and goal at the 1 in the first half (although holt may well have been in)
Random thoughts
Is there anyone on the planet who doesnt realize how great martz is as an offensive football coach.
Lord help the db's of the league on roy williams. I thought boldin was amazing last week, i think williams may be better. Big, stong, fast, hands. He will continue to flourish and improve under martz.
The packers game is HUGE. IF we can win that one on the road, and we all know that is far from a given but we also know that its a game we should win if we want to go to the playoffs and especially if we want to contend for the division with seattle, we will set up a TITANIC early season showdown with the seahawks for first place heading into the buy week. Our second half sked is brutal, especially coming out of the break, thus, we need to make our hay now. I am very confident that The Big Man will be back for the green bay game.
They got the call correct on the tipped pass at the end, but it sure was close to a debacle of biblical magnitude on the non interference call.
Nice to see curtis get involved a bit. Curtis and the klopper have great chances to be mismatched in coverage.
Ramming speed to all, 3-1 and rolling, bring on the Pack
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