Yesterday's loss was unacceptable. It was our home opener. It was our Favre debut. It was the return of Fireman Ed. It was the unveiling of our revamped team that spent $150M in the off season. It was against our bitter Spygate / Belechicken division rivals. It was with out league MVP Tom Brady. And the result was still the same.
We had a great opening drive to start the game and our newly signed kicker misses a 31 yard field goal. That's unacceptable and changed the whole game.
After holding the Pats to two field goals with some good defense when it counted, we have another great drive and get to the 3 yard line. It's first and goal from the 3 and we run 3 straight times and don't even come close. Don't we have Brett Favre back there? Why are we not passing as we surely aren't fooling anyone on the Patriots defensive line. So, instead of 7 points, we get a measly 3.
A big problem I have with the game is our play calling. There were at least 4 times when Favre threw the ball behind the line of scrimmage for negative yardage. To move the first down markers, you need to throw the ball down the field. We don't have Chad Pennington anymore; Brett Favre is our quarterback and he has a lot stronger of an arm that Chadwick had. Let's use the future Hall of Famer to throw the ball to our receivers already and stretch the field which may help with the running game. We have this great offensive line and Thomas Jones struggles to rush for 70 yards for the game.
Favre's interception killed us but it was eventually going to happen when you start to fall behind as we had chances early to take the lead.
The penalties were WAY too many and when you start on the 20 yard line for every drive, that puts you in a huge hole. Plus, what the hell is up with our punting situation? Did Graham forget how to boot the ball? His second punt went a massive 29 yards. We were killed all day long in the battle of starting field position.
And our run defense was terrible. After Maroney went out of the game for a bit, Lamont Jordan killed us averaging over 6 yards a carry and it seemed as if it were more as they were getting huge yardage running on first down. What killed me was that when we had a nice drive to get the score within reach, we let them drive right back down the field, mostly on the ground, eating up around 6 minutes of game time.
Our pass rush was better but it was only around for a few drives. We rattle this Cassell guy who hasn't started a game since high school and we still let him beat us. Why did the pressure stop? This guy should have been hammered and we let them beat us on the ground and in the air.
Yeah, we only lost by 9 points but that is 9 points too many. We had a golden opportunity to make a statement in the AFC east. We did made a big statement and it is that we are NOT good enough yet.
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