Plusses and Minuses vs. Browns

[DYoungJelly]

Plus:

Scherff is going to be good. When he is able to lock onto someone he wins. His hands were too slow some.

Moses looks serviceable.

Alfmo. Jones.

Niles Paul was owning 99 until injured.

Hatcher looked liked the most explosive pass rusher at times. Baker too. Murphy has unbelievable reaction time to the snap. He also looked a lot stronger. Smith is long and strong.

I consider it a plus that our first team consisted of 3 back up LBs. Murphy, Smith, and Houston Bates.


Minus:

Special teams sucked. Our kickoffs are terrible. Fumble, etc., etc.

Too many missed tackles.

We didn't have an explosive pass rush with the exception of flashes from Hatcher. Murphy and Smith don't have that initial move to beat anybody. (Murphy did thread two defender's on the scramble pass. More attributable to his reaction to the snap than an explosive move.) They apply strong steady pressure but are not the explosive rushers that panic QBs. Should improve drastically with starters.

DHall looked a little rusty.

Our back up TEs (Hamm and Dixon) looked weak blocking.