(09-14-2023, 06:27 PM)carp8dm Wrote: The first Quarter looked like this...  The 2nd and 3rd didn't look like this.  And honestly, the 4th Quarter was just us over powering a lesser team.

I'm sorry.

You providing still photos of a game isn't the same as what I watched last year, versus what we all witnessed on Sunday.  We won on Sunday, I'm happy for that.  But to say that the offense we watched Sunday is as good as what we had last year is just not true.


Start at 9:28 -  I don't even remember a throw down the middle of the field  The Bunch Formation worked properly.    ETN fumbled the ball, but still at least it looked like a potential gainer...  That first drive looked very different that what we saw on Sunday.  Please don't tell me that you think that the colts out played us.  That's the other thing, I don't remember us ever putting motion pre snap...

Down 14, 1st and 10, ETN with an off tackle run.  Ballsy move but a great scheme.  We went heavy on the left and then pulled Engram to the Strong Side.  Then ETN pulled to the off side.  That is a great run scheme.  A scheme we didn't see at all on Sunday.  ETN is the best RB on the team.

Tank's 3rd down run was luck based on an illegal pull forward. Everyone knows it.  I was happy the ref's didn't call it, but he was clearly held up and pulled forward.

But I'm sure you have a picture where TANK was moving forward to the goal line.  Let's just ignore the illegal pull.  Show me, bro.  Show me how legal that play was.  That play was legal. 

33:19 - Another great play call.  Misdirection and getting it to our TE.  Great call, great execution.  Sunday's game?  The execution was OK.  But we should have done a lot better.

I mean,  come one...

Just watch the last hour of this game.  I gave you the link.  You think what we saw on Sunday looks anything like how we played against the Cowboys?  Man, or the Ravens?  Or the Chargers??  I'm sure if you go and look for some pictures, you can prove me wrong. I've already done that. 

We got it together and beat a team we are better than.  But we looked sub-optimial against a team that we should be able to outclass early on.  No amount of pictures can change that fact when you look at how we performed at the end of the season last year compared to the way we played in week 1.

If you're upset that an NFL football team wasn't firing on all cylinders the way it did during moments of its best games the prior year, I guess you haven't watched NFL football for any number of years consecutively.  

This happens to many teams almost every year. 

You began this by blaming the plays themselves, the playcalling, and some false narrative of run, run, pass. 
ALL of that has been proven to be not the case.

It was none of those things and we won by 10 points on the road. 

Sorry, man. Nothing personal. I'm really not trying to be a jerk, but now you are just moving the goalposts trying to find something else to gripe about from that Jags week one win on the road that featured some of the worst interior offensive line play we've seen since the days of  Zane Beadles and Austin Pasztor.

What you saw was a team that didn't capitalize offensively as often as you wanted them to because they didn't execute the perfectly fine plays that were called. 

Sure, we can find three play calls that should have been better. I can do that for each of our wins last year too. 

They did pretty well considering the poor IOL play and the incorporation of 5 offensive players who were new or returning from injury.

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