Forked from: A Wide Open Offense
I'm forking this thread so the homers can use the original to indulge in their delusions- I don't want to be accused of "raining on the parade".
The receivers we have, outside of Evans, have consistently underperformed. Reed always looks good in pre-season then doesn't show up on Sundays. The facts are that non-contact drills greatly favor the offense, so to believe our receivers or JP have completely come around based on an OTA alone is ridiculous.
Similarly, when JP threw an INT to DiGiorgio and I said something like "I'm leaning towards being nervous about JP" I got trashed for overreacting and was informed that it's "only an OTA and performance doesn't really matter at this point." Well, why is that standard applied to criticisms but not applied to people getting excited?
And you make jokes about the D- well guess what? At some point the D has to take the field. Like FunTimesYay pointed out in the original field, a pass-happy offense either scores quickly or goes three and out by getting in long yardage situations on 3rd down. Even the K-Gun had problems with that at times, and the K-Gun was MUCH better than what we have now. Our D is based around being able to stop the pass- if we have to stop the run, we're in deep ****. The O HAS to be able to play ball control for this D to have any chance at competing.
Do we know for a fact that the D will suck? Of course not- no more than we know for a fact that the offense will do well. But no one has debated that the D is young and inexperienced. They lost three starters. And anyone who actually thinks Youboty or Kiwaukee Thomas will be as good as Nate Clements on Week 1 of 2007 is fooling themselves.
So go ahead and joke about the D and overrate the receivers- you'll be in for a rude awakening come game day.
Originally posted by madness
The receivers we have, outside of Evans, have consistently underperformed. Reed always looks good in pre-season then doesn't show up on Sundays. The facts are that non-contact drills greatly favor the offense, so to believe our receivers or JP have completely come around based on an OTA alone is ridiculous.
Similarly, when JP threw an INT to DiGiorgio and I said something like "I'm leaning towards being nervous about JP" I got trashed for overreacting and was informed that it's "only an OTA and performance doesn't really matter at this point." Well, why is that standard applied to criticisms but not applied to people getting excited?
And you make jokes about the D- well guess what? At some point the D has to take the field. Like FunTimesYay pointed out in the original field, a pass-happy offense either scores quickly or goes three and out by getting in long yardage situations on 3rd down. Even the K-Gun had problems with that at times, and the K-Gun was MUCH better than what we have now. Our D is based around being able to stop the pass- if we have to stop the run, we're in deep ****. The O HAS to be able to play ball control for this D to have any chance at competing.
Do we know for a fact that the D will suck? Of course not- no more than we know for a fact that the offense will do well. But no one has debated that the D is young and inexperienced. They lost three starters. And anyone who actually thinks Youboty or Kiwaukee Thomas will be as good as Nate Clements on Week 1 of 2007 is fooling themselves.
So go ahead and joke about the D and overrate the receivers- you'll be in for a rude awakening come game day.
Comment