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I think Mularkey (and Clements) was outcoached today. I'm glad we have him instead of Dumb and Dumber from last year, but today .....
-- The gameplan was wrong. The strength of the Jags D is their front seven, and we tried to go right at it. Result: Henry averages 3.2 YPC. My biggest concern going into this game was that our OL against their DL is a mismatch. We should have attacked the secondary. The TD to Moulds was the longest completion to a WR. Drew was efficient, but his YPA was 5.8 with only 9 yards per completion. Drew had the best day of any player on offense. He looked better in the pocket and beautifully beat the blitz on the pass to Campbell. However, he did miss the opportunity to Shelton at the goal line and waited too long on the lost lateral.
-- We should have mixed TH and WM up more. McGahee was brought in only to spell Henry; if they had shared carries earlier, Henry might not have needed to be spelled and the running game may have been more effective. Instead, it was ho-hum in the second half and we relied on it too much. On our final drive, we ran the ball on 3rd and long. I understand it was to run the clock, but when you're down by less than a TD, you've got to get that first down. Today showed why.
Of course, this is all second-guessing, and what do I know. Plenty of other mistakes were made too, as pointed out elsewhere. Just armchair observations.
One more: This isn't an excuse, but that was a BS call at the end. His momentum carried him out; there was no other way for him to fall.
-- The gameplan was wrong. The strength of the Jags D is their front seven, and we tried to go right at it. Result: Henry averages 3.2 YPC. My biggest concern going into this game was that our OL against their DL is a mismatch. We should have attacked the secondary. The TD to Moulds was the longest completion to a WR. Drew was efficient, but his YPA was 5.8 with only 9 yards per completion. Drew had the best day of any player on offense. He looked better in the pocket and beautifully beat the blitz on the pass to Campbell. However, he did miss the opportunity to Shelton at the goal line and waited too long on the lost lateral.
-- We should have mixed TH and WM up more. McGahee was brought in only to spell Henry; if they had shared carries earlier, Henry might not have needed to be spelled and the running game may have been more effective. Instead, it was ho-hum in the second half and we relied on it too much. On our final drive, we ran the ball on 3rd and long. I understand it was to run the clock, but when you're down by less than a TD, you've got to get that first down. Today showed why.
Of course, this is all second-guessing, and what do I know. Plenty of other mistakes were made too, as pointed out elsewhere. Just armchair observations.
One more: This isn't an excuse, but that was a BS call at the end. His momentum carried him out; there was no other way for him to fall.
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