Nobody is gonna be right or wrong but just for some lively discussion............
List your top 5 reasons that this team has underperformed this year(based on generally accepted pre season national themes) and finds themselves with their backs against the wall and looking up from 5 and 6.
1 being the biggest reason and 5 being the least (in your list)...............
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5. Up and down defensive play and schemes. Lack of push up front has caused some lapses in the rear. Lack of focus has hurt this D at times as had the lousy reverting to a soft coverage at times (ie the Bears game). While they have played some stellar goal line work, I'm not real impressed with the over all redzone body or work.
4. McNabbs play in general.... may or may not be more on Reid, not sure -- but he was not ready to come back IMO. He has been very inconsistent in a league where they will make you pay if you aren't. Lost some speed and quickness not only from his legs but i think from his mental game as well.... now I see this improving as the year goes on but -- and this is truly hindsight since I didn't see him practice and rehab and all of that stuff, but maybe he should have been eased back in or played more in the fake phony games to get a better feel --- but he wasn't ready. It's obviously a risk and they choose wrong this time. And IMO it was a mistake. But I'm not sure, cause I don't portend to know, that we(you or I) still wouldn't have done the same thing based on the info at hand.
3. Poor Redzone play on O. Too many chances with too few points as a result. This is not all on #5, a lot on the MM, and a lot of other players sucked inside the 20.
2. Poor St's play.......... IMO, directly cost us not only the GB game but cost us a lot in the mental game going forward... I think we all and they all and the national guys all also thought this team had a shot at going 5 and 0 going into the Bears game............. and I think the GB game took a lot out of this team. That also doesn't factor in the rest of the year where ST's (overall) has been at best below average.
1. Lack of Turnovers and T/O differential. Yes IMO this is the biggest reason. We have lost the ball at critical times and have not created many T/O in corresponding times for ourselves and even when we have, we haven't done much with them. I'm not gonna throw out any stats, in fact I haven't even looked any up....... just what my eyes tell me. You HAVE to win the T/O battle in the NFL-- you have to stop the other guy and give your O more chances to score. And our D and ST's has failed here all year long.
List your top 5 reasons that this team has underperformed this year(based on generally accepted pre season national themes) and finds themselves with their backs against the wall and looking up from 5 and 6.
1 being the biggest reason and 5 being the least (in your list)...............
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5. Up and down defensive play and schemes. Lack of push up front has caused some lapses in the rear. Lack of focus has hurt this D at times as had the lousy reverting to a soft coverage at times (ie the Bears game). While they have played some stellar goal line work, I'm not real impressed with the over all redzone body or work.
4. McNabbs play in general.... may or may not be more on Reid, not sure -- but he was not ready to come back IMO. He has been very inconsistent in a league where they will make you pay if you aren't. Lost some speed and quickness not only from his legs but i think from his mental game as well.... now I see this improving as the year goes on but -- and this is truly hindsight since I didn't see him practice and rehab and all of that stuff, but maybe he should have been eased back in or played more in the fake phony games to get a better feel --- but he wasn't ready. It's obviously a risk and they choose wrong this time. And IMO it was a mistake. But I'm not sure, cause I don't portend to know, that we(you or I) still wouldn't have done the same thing based on the info at hand.
3. Poor Redzone play on O. Too many chances with too few points as a result. This is not all on #5, a lot on the MM, and a lot of other players sucked inside the 20.
2. Poor St's play.......... IMO, directly cost us not only the GB game but cost us a lot in the mental game going forward... I think we all and they all and the national guys all also thought this team had a shot at going 5 and 0 going into the Bears game............. and I think the GB game took a lot out of this team. That also doesn't factor in the rest of the year where ST's (overall) has been at best below average.
1. Lack of Turnovers and T/O differential. Yes IMO this is the biggest reason. We have lost the ball at critical times and have not created many T/O in corresponding times for ourselves and even when we have, we haven't done much with them. I'm not gonna throw out any stats, in fact I haven't even looked any up....... just what my eyes tell me. You HAVE to win the T/O battle in the NFL-- you have to stop the other guy and give your O more chances to score. And our D and ST's has failed here all year long.
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