(09-21-2020, 08:51 AM)Section105Fan Wrote: It seems to me, as far as the defense is concerned, that we’re back to the “ chicken and the egg “ argument. With little pressure on the QB, just about any NFL starting QB will find his targets effectively. Some people will criticize the secondary for “soft” coverage. When pressure and sacks improve, suddenly the secondary looks like superstars. In this case, my observation is that the QB has too much time to throw. That said, it doesn’t necessarily follow that our secondary is good, but I think we won’t find out until we increase the pressure on the QB. We focused too much on stopping Henry. Just my opinion.

Had we not focused on stopping Henry this would have been a very different game. We held him to 85 yards and he was not allowed to abuse us like he's done in the past. With the tacks we have to pick our battles or they will run us down and beat us like the red headed stepchild we seem to be in the NFL. There is a reason we haven't won there since 2013 (I'm in favor of homebiscuit's theory of mind control) but they didn't roto root us this time, and that IMHO is due to holding Henry in check and our offense being on fire coming out of halftime. And, Henry didn't wear down our defense like the game announcers kept promising he would. He was getting more yards in the 4th Q but everyone was getting tired.

I don't feel like they beat us yesterday but that we beat ourselves with some bad calls and shady refs.

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