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Raiola played well. The advanced statistics back it up in addition to the eyeball test.

I understand people are disappointed with that play but remember Barney almost scored on that exact same play earlier in the 4th quarter. When it went for 13 yards Holgorson likely circled the play to come back to later. Easy to criticize in hindsight.

We have a pretty big body of evidence that certain plays don’t work for us, and that’s on it. The anomaly has been positive results.
 
On the 2nd watch I will also say I was impressed with EJ’s ball security based on the hits he was taking. Might have been the most impressive part of his game to me.

As good as that was, my bigger takeaway was ‘He’s never going to make it through the season’.

He took a ton of hits. Some guys seem to have a way of running with the ball that lessens the number of hard hits they take and EJ doesn’t appear to be one of them.
 
As good as that was, my bigger takeaway was ‘He’s never going to make it through the season’.

He took a ton of hits. Some guys seem to have a way of running with the ball that lessens the number of hard hits they take and EJ doesn’t appear to be one of them.
Also that, unfortunately
 
I haven't read through the thread so excuse me if I am repeating points made.

I rewatched the game this morning and came away feeling better.
For so many years we longed for a QB that could just play catch. Hit the easy throws. Not make completing a pass look so difficult.

We finally have that. Dylan was confortable in the pocket. With the defense selling out to stop the deep ball, he took what was there. His throws were nearly all on target. They were very catchable passes. He completed 79% of his throws. As Dana says, "Just make the routine plays," and we were able to do that. I'm just going to apprecaite that quality before trying to find something to bitch about. I thought our quarterback and recievers played well. I am confident the big plays will come.
 
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Libs just make everything political!

If you’re going to try and extrapolate from an OC taking charge in November and game 1, LJL.

Beyond that, there is an obvious goal towards ball control. Complementary football. Pretty 101 shit.

Gawd damn man, you're beyond retarded.
 
Gawd damn man, you're beyond retarded.



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I haven't read through the thread so excuse me if I am repeating points made.

I rewatched the game this morning and came away feeling better.
For so many years we longed for a QB that could just play catch. Hit the easy throws. Not make completing a pass look so difficult.

We finally have that. Dylan was confortable in the pocket. With the defense selling out to stop the deep ball, he took what was there. His throws were nearly all on target. They were very catchable passes. He completed 79% of his throws. As Dana says, "Just make the routine plays," and we were able to do that. I'm just going to apprecaite that quality before trying to find something to bitch about. I thought our quarterback and recievers played well. I am confident the big plays will come.
Agreed. Playing against a 3 high safety look all night I thought it looked better on the 2nd watch.

On the other hand you think we could’ve run the ball better on a light box. But we ran it well enough to win.
 
I think Raiola needs to take more chances. I'm glad we won and his failure was on checking down too often as opposed to the alternative.

He is going to have to take more chances if we're going to win more than 8 games.

I think the biggest difference between last year and this year (based on 1 game *) is he has receivers that will win one on one matchups. He needs to gain confidence in them to do so.
 
I think Raiola needs to take more chances. I'm glad we won and his failure was on checking down too often as opposed to the alternative.

He is going to have to take more chances if we're going to win more than 8 games.

I think the biggest difference between last year and this year (based on 1 game *) is he has receivers that will win one on one matchups. He needs to gain confidence in them to do so.

I think 3 things…

1. Are we going to be able to run the ball better going forward? It definitely wasn’t terrible, but it also wasn’t nearly good enough to force Cincinnati to bring help and move out of their shell zone defensive strategy. We run the ball better there will be more opportunities to get the ball downfield.

2. Opponents defensive strategy won’t just mimic what Cincinnati did. Some teams won’t have the personnel, other will go what they’re most comfortable with. We get a team that likes to play tight man, and a team that we can block. We’ll go downfield more often.

3. If your short passing game and timing routes are than good, and you’re popping teams for 6-8 yds per play in the passing game. Combined with 70+% completion rate. You will force teams to change their coverage strategy and potentially become susceptible to double moves and go routes.


If any 2 of those situations occur in a particular game/matchup I think we’ll see more downfield passing. Hopefully 🤞🏼
 
As good as that was, my bigger takeaway was ‘He’s never going to make it through the season’.

He took a ton of hits. Some guys seem to have a way of running with the ball that lessens the number of hard hits they take and EJ doesn’t appear to be one of them.
The silver lining is you should be able to rest him vs this schedule.

You can take it easy with him in week 2 and week 3. Northwestern might be really bad so you may only need him for a half that game. You got the two bye weeks as well.

You might be able to finesse the calendar a bit to keep him fresh.

But that stretch run....eeesh...gonna have to get someone else to step up by then. Auditions start this next game.
 
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