(09-09-2019, 05:52 PM)JAllen#41 Wrote: First Post.

Regarding the defense, I think people are actually taking this way out of proportion based on the results.  There are young players on defense, so with that there's going to be mistakes.  Now the first TD to Watkins that's something that is just terrible and something they cannot allow.  Harrison should have just tackled him and got it over with instead of doing whatever it was he was trying to do??

The TD with Watkins running wide open, that was a communication/lack of understanding issue by a young player IMO.  It looks like it was quarters coverage.  I'm not sure if they made any other calls within the coverage, like a Push call, but if not, I think Quincy was supposed to pick up the short crosser but he didn't.  Andy Reid did an excellent job of testing whether these young players actually know what they are supposed to do within what Wash called, and this is where I think it's going to take time and where missing time, being young and inexperienced, and a lack of bullets in preseason actually hurt.  It's one thing to practice something, but it is quite different when an offensive coordinator is designing plays to intentionally misdirect your young players to scheme guys open.  The crossing route by Watkins was a perfect call by Reid to test young players, especially when he has their eyes focused on pre-snap backfield motion.  As fans we might see more of this if coordinators anticipate that Wash will call a lot of qtrs.  We'll see it until the mistakes stop happening.  The same thing happened to Tremaine Edmunds last year in Buffalo, who also runs a lot of qtrs coverage.  In the early games teams really exploited him with the crossing route.  I think it's just going to take time for Quincy and Jack to gel on that sort of stuff.