What's The Real Problem?

[mike340]

Biggest problems:

1) Play calling in the red zone. (Sellars and Duckette, until the other team shows they can stop them.) (Should improve with time.)

2) Inability to stop the 3rd-down conversions; especially with long yardage (i.e. passes.) in general

3) CB play (wave at the nearest receiver.) (Should improve with Springs).

4) Hall. (I told my wife we would almost certainly lose before the last field goal attempt.)

5) Not stopping them when they started from their own 2.

Other thoughts:

It looked like RE thought he had the first down when he stepped out at the end. Just a miscalculation; can happen; nobody's perfect. He had to get out of bounds.

Offense moved the ball pretty well, especially considering that Saunders doesn't seem to have figured out how to use the players he has.

Neither line looked good.

Didn't feel we ran many routes in the middle of the field. I think this is where Minn. got a lot of the first downs on 3rd and long.

Nice KO return by Betts to give us a chance at the end.

Nice drive at the end with no time outs.