Realistic "State of the Skins"

[mooby]

i'd like to add another good to mark brunell's performance. he threw three good passes, two were for tds, and the other was a 41 yarder on third and 2.

bad: where's lavar, i really think he could've helped us in the turnover department last night.

[memphisskin]

I think we found out that Brunell may have a little something left in his tank and maybe the gameplan wasn't as conservative as it appeared. Field position really dictated that we not take chances for most of the game, but now that we've found the deep ball things might just open up.

The Good - Team Defense. Just outstanding, they kept us in the game without the offense contributing much and slammed the door when they needed to.

The Bad - Pass protection and penalties. For all the talk about protecting the qb we still struggled in blitz pickup and Brunell got hit and harassed way too much. Cleaning up the penalties may get our offense untracked, but hopefully the deep passes are the spark that we need to ignite our offense.

The Ugly - Team Offense. Maybe these two deep balls will give them the confidence that they need. But it looked too much like the same old offense for 3+ quarters and that's not a good thing. Where were the stretch plays, all the new stuff to get Portis on the edge or maybe even a screen pass to Portis.

But the bottom line is that we're 2-0. Hey, did anyone notice that our win over Dallas is getting very little attention. I saw Peter King has Dallas (12) and Chicago (15) in his Fine 15. Wonder if we'll get any mention considering we beat both of those teams.

[memphisskin]

I think we found out that Brunell may have a little something left in his tank and maybe the gameplan wasn't as conservative as it appeared. Field position really dictated that we not take chances for most of the game, but now that we've found the deep ball things might just open up.

The Good - Team Defense. Just outstanding, they kept us in the game without the offense contributing much and slammed the door when they needed to.

The Bad - Pass protection and penalties. For all the talk about protecting the qb we still struggled in blitz pickup and Brunell got hit and harassed way too much. Cleaning up the penalties may get our offense untracked, but hopefully the deep passes are the spark that we need to ignite our offense.

The Ugly - Team Offense. Maybe these two deep balls will give them the confidence that they need. But it looked too much like the same old offense for 3+ quarters and that's not a good thing. Where were the stretch plays, all the new stuff to get Portis on the edge or maybe even a screen pass to Portis.

But the bottom line is that we're 2-0. Hey, did anyone notice that our win over Dallas is getting very little attention. I know if we lost the Cowboys would have been Super Bowl contenders, but we win and we're still a "flawed team." At least we know the flaw isn't on defense. And I saw Peter King has Dallas (12) and Chicago (15) in his Fine 15. Wonder if we'll get any mention considering we beat both of those teams.