That disastrous first half of the 3rd Preseason game, when 5 starters went down, forced Fisher to abandon his usual plan of getting 1st team reps in the 4th Preseason game, when they clearly needed them. The Oline was obviously not in sync today. Not against an actual NFL opponent.
All I'm saying is that there are reasons why the Oline played badly. One of them was lack of cohesion. They did play all of 1-1/2 quarters together in the PS.
Yeah I posted the same thing ,look at Seattle they are playing in mid season form,now I don't know if the extra work would make some people hit a wall earlier in the season ,but I am in wholehearted agreement we didn't look ready.
Which brings me to another point I posted earlier about.
We keep hearing about play calling and how Shotty needs to go, I have always said a good play call is the one that works and the bad one is the one that doesn't and the greatest determinate of that is execution,.
If any of you watched the Denver -Indy game last night it was like two different games Denver could do no wrong during the first half and little right second half,they didn't change QB's or Offensive co-ordinators at half time ,what happened is Indy started executing and Denver quit executing they were dropping passes, Manning was overthrowing people.
If I have a problem with coaching it's not with their acumen ,it's that they didn't have the team ready to play or we're so damned young we are still "spilling milk" as Les Snead calls it. On that subject though I thought some of our younger players especially two rookies played very well,Aaron Donald lead all d-linemen in tackles, and Gains played well above what anyone expected a sixth round rookie to do,our safeties hammered AP repeatedly .
I don't think yesterday was "the shape of things to come" .
One more point ,I think we might have suffered from a little hubris yesterday,every fan and talking head who could get anyone to listen has been talking about our vaunted pass rush,how scary they WOULD MOST ASSUREDLY BE,I've whistled past that all pre season,ya gotta walk the walk if your gonna talk that talk,and we didn't in fact IMO all that talk has done is challenge our opponents to rise to the occaision and maybe made some people a little complacent.
ALL PROBLEMS WE CAN FIX as long as our starting QB is Shaun Hill,but if he's out for any time , I don't think their is a solution unless Brady throws a fit about Mankins being traded (oops he's hurt already) and demands to play for the Rams for vet minimum.
Whew lots to argue with here
