I hope our offense gels too…b/c against tampa bay in the second half our offense had 8 drives. 4 of them were 3-and-out. The other 4 were FUMBLE, INT, TURNOVER ON DOWNS, and TIME EXPIRED.

I really don’t think we have all THAT much to worry about. Overall, I think we played a pretty good game. I read in that article that Mangini liked how Delhomme managed the game, and I agree that he did a pretty good job. I think there’s a lot more to look at than just Delhomme’s interceptions.

I think it really hurt us when Hardesty went down. While we all know that Hillis is a beast, I just don’t think that he can fill the role that Hardesty would’ve filled had he not gotten injured. With just a week to come up with a new plan, it looked to me like the running game just was not clicking @ all. And the running game was supposed to be our staple, and I think that honestly a lot of our issues were a result of the fact that we just didn’t have a gameplan to fit the personnel we had to work with. So we had to rely on the passing game way too much, and let’s just face it… Jake Delhomme + our inexperienced receivers + not as strong of a running threat as we anticipated will probably not = great success.

So I think that once the coaches figure out how to run the offense with the people we have, we should look a lot better and Delhomme won’t have the pressure that I think he had this week. I expect a MUCH better game against the Chiefs.

It also might be worth noting that this is the first real game that a lot of these guys have played together… I think there will be a marked improvement each week as the guys get to play more together and figure each other out.

BUT, I’m sometimes overly optimistic, so take this for what it’s worth.

Who’s our Hitler? I can think of 4.

lol misspelling a misspelling fail.

seriously though…

how much does Holmgren wish he had a hand in coaching that second half?

this has grown on me. at first i was confused, but the more i look at it and imagine it being said in a strange accent, the funnier i think it is.

Speaking of being down, I hate to criticize a fumble recovery, but yould think barton wouild have known to get up and run. Nobody except Roth touched him for at least 3 seconds. He could have probably run 20 yrds or so

I guarantee Mangini points this out.

On the throws you’re thinking of, it was never his arm that was the problem, it was his footing.

“I didn’t get enough on it,” said Delhomme. “If I could’ve gotten enough on it, he would’ve had more of an opportunity to make a play.”

This was the Jets though. Despite what many in the sports media would have you believe, Sanchez is not a very good quarterback.

There’s a fanshot discussion of the Monday night games.

KC looks very good. Rain and no Vjax/McNeil probably hurting the bolts.

I would think that you would want to have at LEAST 2 more yards per attempt than per carry.

Just an example, the average team in the NFL had 7.0 yards per attempt on passing plays. this makes a lot of sense to me, because 6.5 and above I consider ‘solid’. 6.2 ypa last year would put you in the realm of the buffalo bills, the miami dolphins, and the Seahawks. None of these teams i would consider teams that should be passing it more with their ‘premium’.

For a counterpoint, the average yard per attempt in the league last year was 4.2. So the average team averaged 2.8 yards per attempt more than yards per carry. this is why I would maybe consider 3 more of the passing premium (maybe at one point 2 was, but this is a passing league now).

If the average team is by far surpassing the ‘premium’, maybe there is something wrong with the premium.

With that being said, are not terrible, but definitely not close to ideal. With those averages, we’d be bottom 8 last year in passing ypa and top 8 in rushing ypa…which is why lets go with what we did last year; grind it out.

The refs didn’t like the flash either.

the news here is that edwards is on the field goal block team.