TheOak

Overall theme, we were flat.. Slept through the game... Some surprisingly bad grades on offense as well.

Note: We were so flat that I would say this is our once terrible game/year. I say that because most of the players that played badly, played worse than their normal play by far.

I am just going to focus on the ugly for now: (when you read the below, now think about how good our offense actually is when we fire on all cylinders)

Receivers:
Morgan - Thrown at 3 Rec 0
Meachem - Thrown at 2 Rec 0
Colston - Thrown at 8 Rec 5
Note - Drew had the second most passes dropped this week @5.

Defensive Secondary:
Total passes defended 2
Hawthorne - Thrown at 8 allowed 5
White - Thrown at 8 allowed 6
Lewis - Thrown at 7 allowed 6
Robinson - Thrown at 4 allowed 4
Lofton - Thrown at 5 allowed 5
Vaccaro - Thrown at 4 allowed 2
Bush/Byrd both thrown at 1 allowed 1


Missed Tackles
Vaccaro 6
Hawthorne 4
Byrd 3
Jordan/Lewis/Robinson/Hicks 2 each
23 missed frikken tackles.

The only recurring theme I can see here is that we are playing way too far off to stop receptions and that is giving just enough space to dodge tackles.

Sorry, those players are just not that bad on their own 90% of the time. So this begs the question; if its all of them then its scheme, and if its scheme its Rob Ryan.... and what has he changed since last season? Did he get comfortable in the off season and make changes that over complicated things? Is he so concerned with our secondary that he is having all of them play 15-20 yards off which accounts for so few passes defended?

You cant intercept any pass if you are not close enough to play the ball.

There was a fair amount of good as well, I figured I would stick with the general climate so we can all get it out of our system then I will focus on the good.

* Our pass/rush ratio was 60/40 (Atlanta was 73/36)