Originally Posted by
Fletch
Which players haven't I given credit to? The only ones I see worthy of much credit right now, besides linemen, are Jackson, for playing his heart out at the age of 33 to carry the offensive backfield for this strategically challenged front office, Watkins for playing well as a rookie, again, while facing an impossible battle to live up to the absurd expectations placed on him as a rookie drafted the way he was, and that's about it on offense. What, Orton, for throwing for 900 yards but only managing to log 5 TDs, once on an extremely short field.
Who else on offense deserves credit for playing even average football?
I'm not the one that started threads about our "elite RBs" that can't even play average football. Or our "Best WRs in the league" that can't even play average football, even under Orton. So far Orton's nothing but a lot of yards and no more points than Manuel.
On defense you guys yourselves are a revolving door of opinions. We have an "elite D" but for some reason we can't stop any good QBs from throwing well unless they make mistakes. Tannehill had a good game, Fitzpatrick did more than he should have been allowed to do. Brady lit us up. Bridgewater popped his cherry against us and nearly won them, one of the ****tiest teams in the league, the game. Rivers had a great game without significant rushing support and won them that one. Even Stafford picked us apart with only one WR that you'd ever heard of on the field.
So who's good then on our D?
I never said we're a bottom 5 D. Talk about making **** up. I'm merely contesting that we're not a top-ranked D. It's funny, two weeks ago we were a #1 and "elite" D according to everyone here. Now we're a top 5 D. Pretty soon it's going to be top-10 and then average D, which might be about right rushing, but not passing. Passing this D sucks just like it did last year. Oh yeah, lots of sacks and INTs, but apparently here people still haven't caught on that sacks and INTs do not a D make. Does that equate to intelligence in your book, not being able to figure that out?
We're on pace to allow almost as many passing TDs as we did last season and we still have to face three of the best passing offenses in the league that could potentially and easily put up 10 passing TDs against, easily, maybe more, if our game against NE was any indication. The rest aren't bad either. KC is solid, Cleveland is as good a passing team and much more efficient than we are.
You guys offer no substance. You talk about how stats don't matter, then you go straight to the stat sites to justify your opinions. Then when someone such as myself lays out a solid argument that doesn't make you smile all of a sudden stats are useless.
You completely ignore which RBs it is that we've shut down. I mean really, look at some of them and their histories and then come to your own conclusions. Donald Brown blows. George Winn? Really? Alfred Blue?
We'll see. I'm just saying that a lot of this is unfounded hype. Many here are going to be disappointed and you're setting yourselves up for it. Again.
On defense all we heard about was Spikes, Spikes, Spikes in the preseason. He's not even on the field, just like I told you he wouldn't be when everyone argued that point, for half the snaps. It's not about me being right, but dammit, consider why. You can't continually just talk and have your opinions completely invalidated at the end of the season and expect people to take you seriously, especially when your posts are laden with name-calling and other childish nonsense.
Where's the substance?
Mario's playing great? How come we can't stop good QBs then from throwing against us? So far we've stopped Bridgewater, but not from allowing him to log his first NFL TD, Tannehill for one half, and Stafford with one receiving weapon total on offense. Cutler threw for 341 yards. Brady lit us up too but just didn't make the same mistakes. Rivers played a very good game with limited weapons too. Fitzpatrick made his usual mistakes but put up more yards than Rivers. Tannehill put up 200 yards passing in the 2nd half, and he doesn't even have anything close to top 20 receiving talent over there. Maimi's top WR is ranked 36th.
These things matter.
So who am I supposed to give credit for for stopping nothing RBs but failing to stop even average QBs?
Is it all about sacks and INTs? Sadly, for some here yeah, it is, and strangely it's the same people telling everyone that stats don't matter otherwise.
I said at the beginning of the season that our secondary is below average, oddly people are finally coming around to seeing that. I said that our LBs weren't any good against the pass. Has that been more validated or invalidated?
So who should I give credit to on D for stopping nothing RBs but being incapable of defending the pass? More importantly, what should I and we look forward to as the season progresses?
We face a very good rushing game in NY that tore us up last season. If we can hold them down then maybe I'll take a step towards being impressed. Also, let's see what happens with a pretty sorry Geno Smith too. No one's going to argue that he's any good and according to everyone here he sucks. I won't disagree with that.
I give Kyle Williams all the credit in the world and always have. Hughes seems to show up more than anyone after him. Dareus and Mario both seem to show up when they decide to. I'm not impressed since we put much more into them but Williams and Hughes are playing better. As to the rest, again, answer the questions and tell me why any should impress me. I don't see a single above average DB on our roster, just as I said prior to the season when almost everyone argued against me. Same for our LBs.