Quote:OK. I am definitely willing to be more patient than 9 games with the rookies starting on offense, so we'll agree to disagree there. I still think that "excuse" is valid. No biggie. You're obviously not the only one to disagree. 

 

I didn't love some of Fisch's play calling in the first half today, but I don't feel certain about  judging his overall performance with a QB that throws so many passes to the wrong team.  I tend to think this offense looks a lot better as the rookies mature, the line continues to stabilize and most importantly the QB starts to make better decisions with the football. 

I intend to dig into the all22 footage this Wednesday and find some examples of plays that Bortles missed today. (Open receivers he didn't look to when able to do so) 

 

The coaching hasn't been good at times, and I would not be shocked by a small shake-up at coordinator or a position coach or two. We'll see.  They've got a few weeks to fix it. 

 

When you say "cull management" - what do you mean exactly? 

 

Good post.  I should clarify what I mean regarding the rookies...  Most of them are progressing very well.  I think it's clear that the issues for most of our first year players we saw at the start of the season have been addressed and fixed for the most part.  Because of this, I think that saying we have a bunch of rookies starting is kind of a crutch/excuse.  The only rookie left that really needs to make a big leap is BB5.  

 

Am I being a bit impatient?  Probably, but from what I saw yesterday, we were in that game!  We could have won!  But we didn't, so we'll move on.

 

As for "culling" management, I'm mainly speaking of our OC.  I thought he called a pretty darn good game last week against the Dolphins.  I think he laid off the gas a bit in the first half of the Cincy game....  That's all.  I'm still not sold on him.  But that's not to say he can't figure it out in the final few games.  

 

Yesterday was a "High/Low" type game.  There were so many positives and yet there were alot of frustrations during the game, particularly on offense.  

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