(01-21-2018, 08:28 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: They called it too conservative on first down a little bit. It was frustrating. But they clearly only trust blake so much and limit him on first down on the shy side of midfield.

Should have been more creative in the second half on first down run calls.

The defense played just a bit too much zone and was too comfortable letting Telvin get manned up on Cooks 3 or 4 times.

That was the extent of the bad calls IMO. Nothing too terribly unforgivable, but it need to be learned from moving forward.

I agree with most of these points.
On offense I think in the final quarter we got way too conservative, especially after recovering the fumble we should have tried to do more as we weren't pinned back on our 10 yards line like most of the other times. Same mistake we did when we got the INT against Buffalo in their territory.
I was hoping they would make Bortles run more, there were some first-second down situations (one on the final drive right before the 2 minutes warning timeout) where there was good room in front of him and went for a difficult throw. What happened to Grant or Yeldon? We didn't even try to feed them anymore at some point.

On defense I find our soft zone infuriating to be honest, that's something I really hate about Wash as it's not the first time we play that soft giving 10 yards of cushion to the receiver and no pressure on the QB. Or just sitting back, we have enought talent to force them to beat us 1vs1 (especially after Gronk was out) and I felt we weren't aggressive enough.

It's small details but combine that with the refs not calling anything against them at all and in a close game like this you pay for it unfortunately.

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