My general observations:
-We look small on defense. The lack of effectively replacing TR and NH is very, very evident. No amount of “us vs the world” or chip on your shoulder will fix that.
-I hate the 3-3-5 or 2-4-5 or whatever the hell we run. I know Butler is an NFL guy but as of right now we don’t look to have the athletes to effectively run those formations. I would love to be proven wrong.
-We need a pass rush. Badly. And our blitzes seemed late and ineffective as well.
-Keep Shavers in the game and get McGahee on ASAP. We need an influx of athleticism on D.
-Offensively, our run game showed zero creativity. Maybe we were used to pushing our undersized DL around in practice but we just couldn’t get anything going. Yes, their safeties played high but crashed HARD as soon as they recognized a run. A lot of our run plays were too slow to develop.
-Not even a shot down field? No seam routes with our tight ends that would split a Cover 3? Outside of the TD no real RPO?
-Offensively, I thought our best players were Key, Hunter, and Lindemeyer. Lindemeyer in particular look damn good.
-We are paying a lot of money for a guy who false starts on the one yard line. I would have yanked his ass then and there.
-Why we didn’t double team The Godfather is beyond me. Lutovsky was getting his shit pushed in on the regular.
-I thought Johnson looked good but way tired at the end. We need to stop going no huddle all the time and give him a breather.