Thoughts on the game

[JWsleep]

I didn't see it--I listened to it over the internet (Cinncy announcers). Seemed like Ramsey really went all out to hit the deep throws, and he finally connected on a few, which is good news. But the INTs were pretty terrible, and the one from the 13 took points off the board. THat's exactly what we did last year, and it killed us. We cannot keep losing the TO battle--no team can do well with a negative TO ratio.

Seemed like Brunnell does well in scramble/hurry-up mode, though he didn't get much help from his receivers. BUt he couldn't hit the TD down close, and got bailed out by a pass interference call. Nemo sounded like he showed some real power at times, though the fumble at the end really hurt. The battle between him and rock is a tough one.

Patten sounds like the real deal--he made some great catches to get the offense going. 3 catches for 109 yards. Nice stat. WIsh Moss had been able to get into the endzone on Ramsey's last drive--then he'd have 2 TD passes, and I think I'd feel a lot better. Getting three instead of seven there was disapointing. WHere was Cooley in all this?

The first team D dominated Cinncy. They did not move the ball until the second-stringers got in there. BUt then they really went to town--I wonder if Williams went back into his "evaluation" mode at that point. Still, Rodgers had an early impact--the TD play he got burned, but in the first-team D he played his role, including having some nice hits. Washington sounded like he was everywhere on D. Couldn't tell how Marshall did, but early on the D was kicking ass. Nice to have Daniels and Griffths out there together as well.

Nemo scored the TD and picked up a big third-down short yardage play. Rock had some big gainers, but got stuffed on a 4th down play.

I feel pretty good about it, but we can't keep turning it over. That's killing us. My guess is that most of Ramsey's problems are that he's really pressing right now. But he cannot throw INTs like that in Gibbs offense. Gibbs will not stand for it, IMO.

Now, why didn't Campbell play? Wonder if Gibbs is trying to see if Brunnell really has it? I didn't find him that impressive, but there were some drops. Hard to tell with the 2-3 stringers in there.

Wonder what y'all thought?