(08-24-2021, 02:10 AM)mal234 Wrote: Trevor was definitely pressured quite a bit in tonight's game and didn't look very comfortable for most of it. He did look a bit more solid in his last two drives and did a solid job of moving the ball down the field to help the Jags at least put a few points on the board. The O-line did not play well and that is concerning especially when it comes to making sure he's protected. He was getting hit quite a bit tonight and that's something not you want to see. I also thought that the play calling tonight was still pretty vanilla. And Urban had a bit of a defeated look on the sideline. That's not something  you want to see either, you don't want to see the HC look like he's overmatched.

CJ Beathard also had another nice showing tonight and I have to wonder if that may factor into the depth chart and if they may try and move Gardner. 

Regarding the Saints, I thought that they looked good overall. Jameis had a nice showing and Calloway had some very impressive catches. Maybe the Lasik surgery has really helped Jameis and it could make a big difference in how he plays this year. That and being coached by Sean Payton who is creating an offense that suits Jameis. If they Jameis can cut down on his turnovers, maybe the Saints could have a nice showing this year. Their defense also played well tonight.

as long as he plays us each week, he'd be a first ballot HOFer. In all seriousness, though, I noticed that he appeared slimmer than he did in his younger days, and he seems a different QB altogether from his time in TB. He did look good, a lot less gunslinging and took what the D gave.

Shifting gears, but not sure if it was discussed in the 35 prior pages, but it irked me that Urbz didn't even attempt to challenge the interception that was called an incompletion. It was close, and the ball really was not moving on the ground, and being down like we were at the time, it could have been very valuable to get the ball and field position at that point. Might be yet another aspect of the pro game he needs to learn. We ended the game with TO in our pocket, so it wasn't even like losing the TO for a failed challenge would have done anything negative.

While our starters and reserves continued to struggle, and appeared grossly outmanned, my underlying concern is less about the players, and more about the coach. I think Urban is in way over his head. I don't know if he didn't expect this to be as much of a challenge as it is, but it looks like we are unprepared and incapable of adjusting to downplay shortcomings or work to our strengths (this sounds like a broken record every year, no matter who is coaching).

Let's hope it gets better. It's going to be a long season.

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