Blocking & tackling after Turnovers

[MTK]

Originally Posted by irish

Matty, I'm not sure how you could say Balt had a better O than the skins do now when that season the Balt O went something like 6 games without scoring a TD. The skins O may not score much but they do score.

I agree hough that Balt did get the running game going enough to eat clock and Dilfer played well enough to not lose games but that did not happen until sometime in Nov.

So are we comparing our offense right now vs. Baltimore's through those first 6 games?? In that case it's pretty even.

If we're comparing our offense now vs. theirs at the end of their season I definitely think they had the better offense. We can't move the ball through the air at all right now.

[memphisskin]

That Baltimore offense was horrific, didn't they go like 8 weeks without an offensive touchdown? But I agree with Matty, I'd still take those guys.

Passing game - They could at least hit on a few long balls whereas anything over five yards downfield seems to be an adventure for us right now

Running game - I wanted to say even but that team had Jamal Lewis running for 1300 yds and Priest Holmes ran for another 500.

Turnovers - Say what you want about Dilfer but he knew his role and played it to perfection. He only started 8 games but his numbers were similar to Brunell, sans the fumbles and picks for scores.

The missing ingredient in this is special teams. Baltimore had Jermaine Lewis who was a threat to return punts and kickoffs back for scores. So far Johnny Morton hasn't demonstrated that ability us, so far at least. If we had better special teams, we at least put ourselves in a better position to win some of these games. If we can at least not lose the special teams battle every week then our defense is playing well enough to win a lot of games for us.

Clearly we now have a defense that is playing superbly. Gibbs is helping them out by running the ball to limit their time on the field. Now if Gibbs can just get the passing game together then we'll be alright.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by memphisskin

Running game - I wanted to say even but that team had Jamal Lewis running for 1300 yds and Priest Holmes ran for another 500.

The missing ingredient in this is special teams. Baltimore had Jermaine Lewis who was a threat to return punts and kickoffs back for scores. So far Johnny Morton hasn't demonstrated that ability us, so far at least. If we had better special teams, we at least put ourselves in a better position to win some of these games. If we can at least not lose the special teams battle every week then our defense is playing well enough to win a lot of games for us.

Well, portis is on track for 1600 + 300 through the air and betts could easily get 300-400 still, so i'd be willing to say the running games are fairly equal...

btw, johnny plays in KC, we got chad... and he did return a 50 and 30 yarder in one game, both got called back... overall the blocking just hasn't been there in any way... last game he tried to run them back anyways and got 3, 1, and -2 yards or something, i wouldn't pin the blame on him (thrash and betts also had no blocking and crap returns when he was out), but our STs just aint happening right now.