I went to the game fully prepared for rain. So naturally it didn't rain. I was looking tosee if we improved any from the last home game. Remember this is just me looking from the south end zone.


Play calls were for the most part communicated in plenty of time. There were a few occurances of them being a bit late, but not many. This allowed the pass protection and blocking assignments to be set up and TL to eyeball the defense. IMPROVED

The pass protection was acceptable and TL should not have much to complain about. He did seem to be more calm in the pocket. As the game went on and he wasn't running for his life he began to go through his progressions. IMPROVED

The one interception TL threw looked to be a planned 50-50 ball. Their was one guy deep who had no chance at the ball and of course one shallow who picked it off. This occurred for 2 reasons. First, the ball was about a foot short and a foot inside. Second our reciever made no attempt to break this up. From where I sat it appeared he had every chance to do this, a year from now he will.

The run blocking was maybe a little better. The defense is still jamming the point of attack, but their penetration was down. I believe there is a "tell" being keyed on by defenses on runs and play actions. It may be as simple as how TL holds the ball when he is going to hand off. If you subtract Tank's big run we averaged less than 3 yards a run. Honorable mention, we executed a QB sneak properly.

Defense an up and down proposition all day. It is useless to complain about why the refs think it is ok for a tackle to put an arm bar across a rushers neck when beaten so I won't. Maybe that is acually legal, someone will correct me.

Special teams played great. A run back, a game winning FG. Heck punter averaged 51 yds a punt.

PS to top it off after a 30 year dry spell I caught a shirt between the 1st and second quarter. What could be better? Well, I caught another one between the 3rd and 4th !!

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