Week 2 Pros/Cons for your team

[ThomasTomasz]

Keeping this thread going from last week. Evaluate the pros/cons for your team from Week 2. Following are mine that I posted in the Redskins thread.

PROS

Alfred Morris proving to be legit. 89 yards on 16 carries for 5.6 average. Morris did a great job rushing the ball and keeping the attack balanced, though they should have leaned on him more in the fourth to get some yardage.

RGIII got the Redskins in position to tie the game with no timeouts in just his second NFL game. He threw a couple beautiful deep balls and was very efficient today, only mistake really being that one interception. He also scored two rushing TDs with 82 yards on the ground, taking advantage of some good rushing lanes.

The defense as a whole was extremely underwhelming, but I did like the Redskins taking advantage of turnovers and getting three of them, scoring on one and an interception in the end zone to prevent a TD.

Leonard Hankerson's 68 yard reception was great, but the Redskins only threw two more passes his way the rest of the day. Why they didn't utilize him more on deeper routes after that catch is beyond me.

CONS

Why did the Redskins even try the FG at the end? Cundiff has only made six kicks over 50 yards in his career, with a long of 56, and with the way RGIII played today, I would have put that game in his hands. I also didn't like that it seemed our plays were to get that field goal, not go for the win. RGIII did not struggle at all today, there was no reason to not let him take control and try and win the game.

Danny Smith's blocking teams need some serious adjustments. Five blocked field goals last season, and already two blocked punts this year. His reputation kept him on through last season, so he better fix things on he is risking unemployment.

Losing Adam Carriker really hurt the defense. Carriker is strong against the run, and with him in the game, that relegates Bowen to playing few rushing downs and coming in during passing downs (his strength) and allows Golston and Jenkins to rotate and keep everyone fresh. Bowen had to play much more, as did everyone else, and that trickled down throughout the game.

Jim Haslett just got out coached. He made no adjustments to stop Amendola in the first half, and continued to let the Rams drive in the second half, and both Jackson and Richardson carved up the run defense. Yes, losing Carriker was huge but the lack of adjustments buried the Redskins today.

Josh Morgan should be released, or at the very least earn his way up the depth chart. No excuse for that play, even with emotions running high due. You just have to be aware of the game situations and keep your cool. The same goes for the rest of the team.

And for both sides, the officiating was terrible, and that trickled down into both sides going at each other and causing more penalties.

Redskins could have won this game, but it was a trap game we all knew was coming based off how the Rams always play up to the Redskins. Redskins have some work to do for our home opener against the Bengals next Sunday.

 

[Maynard]

Browns

Pros - Offense played there best game since playing the giants in 2008...yes, 2008. Weeden looked sharp and has a cannon. Richardson looked awesome running and catching. Great blocking for the most part. Defense front 7 was good/great. they had 6 sacks and also bullied Vick last week. This is huge for a team with little ability to pass rush over the years. They also played well against the run this week.

Josh Cribbs - cant say enough about this guy on special teams. his ability to take a return 35 yards out and give consistent yards on PR is a big deal to the offense.

Cons - The secondary is hurting right now. Joe Haden being suspended is major and Sheldon Brown being out only made it worse. The backups are not at all capable of covering WR's.
The untimely penalties on both sides of the ball are a joke. i think we got flagged 3 times for lining up in the neutral zone by Dimitri Patterson...3 times man...cmon.

 

[kmanharris]

Pros: I don't think there were any. Defense was pretty good early on but that ended.

Cons: Coaching. 10 days to prepare and we looked absolutely lost. Murray averaging a solid YPC and we decide to call pass play after pass play against a defense that was flying around the field, with an offensive line that can't pass block. Frustrating to say the least.

Special teams. Fumbled kickoff, blocked punt. Jesus, something on that unit HAS to change.

Ultimately, the whole game was a set of cons.

 

[Influence]

Pros: We won.. Andrew Luck looked good, 2 touchdown and 0 interceptions. I'd like to see that performance every week.

Luck also had the best QB rating of week 2.. http://espn.go.com/nfl/qbr/_/type/player-week/week/2
(not counting tonight's game of course)​

Reggie Wayne: He's over 30 years old? I sure as hell couldn't tell by the way he was playing Sunday. Wayne's definitely the veteran on this offense and is still the go to guy with Luck behind center. I like it!

MORE OF THIS PLEASE!
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Cons: Running game, what's new? This is the Indianapolis Colts we're talking about. Offensive line sucks, but shouldn't be a surprise if you took a glance at the roster.

My biggest con from this week..
THE PLAY CALLING WAS GOD AWFUL IN THE 2ND HALF!

Why are we attempting to run the clock down with run after run and with no success over and over again? There were more than 30 minutes left in the game, and we may have put together 5 yards of offense. Dumb play calling that almost lost us the game, way too conservative. If it had not been for Minnesota's nonexistent secondary, and Luck's final drive down the field to set up Vinitari's game winning field goal, we may have lost the game in overtime.

A win's a win and I'll take it.

Jaguars should be easy next week

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[Aso]

Pro: Rolando McClain has looked good.

Con: Team fucking sucks.

 

[JeremyHight]

Pros: The game is over.

Cons: The Lions D just gave up another 3rd down conversion.

 

[Rudi]

PROS
-Dalton looked a lot better...and all of our receivers are stepping up. Tate/Hawkins are becoming nice compliments to AJ
-BJGE had another solid game
-Victory
-Taylor Mays no longer starts/plays at all :rofl: dude lasted TWO QUARTERS this year before getting benched
-PACMAN

CONS
-Oline gave up 6 sacks, thats awful
-Secondary allowed Weeden to carve them up...like I've been saying, this secondary is AWFUL. Given up nearly 650 passing yards in 2 games.
-Tackling on the second level of the defense was atrocious.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

Cons - Eli went full retard in the first half with 3 picks
Secondary still looked like ass
Bradshaw hurt.... again
David Wilson.... 3 rushes for 6 yards
Lawrence Tynes is the only kicker in the NFL that cannot make it into the endzone on kickoffs

Pros - Eli over 200 yards in the 4th quarter with 2 TD's to lead the comeback
Martellus Bennett with another solid game
Andre Brown had rushed for -1 yards since 2010...ended the game with 70 and a TD
Cruz and Nicks both had career days
Lawrence Tynes 4-4 in FG's
JPP great game in what was a bad performance from the defense

 

[whuteva]

pros
- bullied the bullies of the AFC
- we're 2-0 despite 9 turnovers in 2 games.
- the D is playing inspired football.

cons
- 9 turnovers in 2 games is not sustainable
- injuries to the o-line will catch up to the squad at some point.

 

[Champ]

Cons - Eli went full retard in the first half with 3 picks
Secondary still looked like ass
Bradshaw hurt.... again
David Wilson.... 3 rushes for 6 yards
Lawrence Tynes is the only kicker in the NFL that cannot make it into the endzone on kickoffs

Pros - Eli over 200 yards in the 4th quarter with 2 TD's to lead the comeback
Martellus Bennett with another solid game
Andre Brown had rushed for -1 yards since 2010...ended the game with 70 and a TD
Cruz and Nicks both had career days
Lawrence Tynes 4-4 in FG's
JPP great game in what was a bad performance from the defense

You realized that our kick off team is coached to kick the ball high and not to kick it for a touchback right?

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

You realized that our kick off team is coached to kick the ball high and not to kick it for a touchback right?

:joker:

 

[Champ]

:joker:

Been like that for a while.

 

[Mogriffjr]

PROS
There wasn't much really...what a shitty game by the Jets....maybe the play of backup LB McIntyre was a big plus...he was disruptive. Mangold was beasting on the offensive line.

CONS
Holmes :facepalm:...he was dropping passes left and right...and he's always bitching about a pI flag...just a terrible terrible performance.
- Missed tackles...HOLY SHIT, the Jets were missing tackles left and right...it maybe was a product of the defense not being able to get off the field but wow we continued to whiff as the game wore on.
- We clearly miss Revis...Cro had good coverage on one play but made an awful read and Wallace caught a TD as he was sky glazing. BB was hitting his targets at ease it seemed.
- The run game continues to suck and Greene has his usual injury during the game but he may have been concussed...as well as Sanchez thanks to Timmons punk ass.
- Kerley GIVETH, Kerley TAKETH away...that punt muff...AWFUL, AWFUL.

 

[Hasselbeck]

Pros:
- Defense is just nasty.
- Wilson had his Alex Smith suit on yesterday: Be efficient, be smart with the football.. don't make mistakes. Basically the anti-Tarvaris Jackson
- Lynch is running just as hard and determined as he did last season. Big contract didn't seem to slow him down.
- See sig

Cons:
- Offense is still very vanilla. Not very confident they would be able to hang in a higher scoring game. Lots of pressure to put on the defense.
- Offensive line played better, but still needs work. I think Rob Ryan let them off the hook a little bit by not being more aggressive than he probably should have been
- As good as the defense is playing right now, third down defense needs a lot of work still. It's always seemed to be a bug-a-boo of the Seahawks.. play stellar on 1st and 2nd, give up a first on 3rd and long.

All in all though, the Seahawks should be 2-0 if Braylon Edwards didn't have sticks of butter for fingers. Very pleased considering the first half of the schedule is no cake walk. Big game coming up on Monday.

 

[St. Francisco]

49ers

Pros

-Alex Smith is playing inspired football, and showed us a little warrior with him marching the team down the field with blood streaming down his face to seal the game. Harbaugh has him playing to his full potential.

-Michael Crabtree is blossoming as a clutch possession receiver who won't be flashy, but will move the chains. Moss, Manningham, and Crabtree are taking attention away from Davis so he can truly flourish at tight end.

-I don't need to look at stats or anything, we have the best defense in the league and it's not even close.

-The o-line performed admirably against a scary Lions d-line. They protected Smith pretty well, and had no trouble opening up lanes for the ground game.

-Our offensive balance is great to see, and will make it very hard for teams to shut us down.

-I don't think anyone would argue that we are the consensus #1 team in the NFL right now.


Cons

-We struggled on 3rd down again, a persistent problem from last season. The Williams fumble aside, our inability to sustain drives was a major factor in losing the NFC championship game last season.

-Despite dominating in the first two weeks, we won each game by just eight points. Plenty of room for improvement moving forward.

 

[Point Blank]

Pros:
-Matt Ryan looked like a stud out there, not that many yards but managed the offense pretty well
-The way the defense stacked the line and confused Manning was pretty impressive
-3 INTs off of one of the greats, not many teams can say they've even done that.
-Roddy White and TG made plays when it counted. Tony made plays when Ryan was flushed out the pocket.

Cons:

-Michael Turner, I don't know whats wrong with the dude. At one point he had 15 rushes for 25 yards. Thats PATHETIC!
-Only 20 points by the offense when the Broncos committed 4 turnovers, gotta take advantage of that. The game could of been a blowout quick if they converted on those.
-Broncos draws plays were eating the blitzes alive, I'm sure Nolan made a note of that.
-There was a couple questionable 3rd down calls, a draw with Rodgers on 3rd & 2 was stupid..then the next drive they went to Rodgers again on a wheel route. Matt has to stop relying on him ALL the time.

 

[wingsfan77]

pros
- bullied the bullies of the AFC
- we're 2-0 despite 9 turnovers in 2 games.
- the D is playing inspired football.

cons
- 9 turnovers in 2 games is not sustainable
- injuries to the o-line will catch up to the squad at some point.

Agreed, plus the injury to Maclin is pretty concerning.

 

[Woy]

PROS
- Kenny Britt didn't get hurt in his return to action.
- We don't have to play San Diego again for a while now.

CONS
- Everything else.

 

[whuteva]

Agreed, plus the injury to Maclin is pretty concerning.

it is but not nearly as much as the o-line. Reid has made due with craptastic receivers before (Freddie Mitchell et al) by using backs and te's more in the passing game. having a new center have to make line calls is pretty scary thought. Mike vick better get that flack jacket to cover up the rest of his body.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

PROS
-Dalton looked a lot better...and all of our receivers are stepping up. Tate/Hawkins are becoming nice compliments to AJ
-BJGE had another solid game
-Victory
-Taylor Mays no longer starts/plays at all :rofl: dude lasted TWO QUARTERS this year before getting benched
-PACMAN

CONS
-Oline gave up 6 sacks, thats awful
-Secondary allowed Weeden to carve them up...like I've been saying, this secondary is AWFUL. Given up nearly 650 passing yards in 2 games.
-Tackling on the second level of the defense was atrocious.

Though chances are BJGE carves up our defense as well. Couldn't stop anything the Rams did rushing the ball, couldn't stop anything really but the rush defense was most concerning for me.