Sinrman
Footballguy
Week 1: 27-45 L
Week 2: 13-27 L
Week 3: 19-14 W
Week 4: 24-48 L
Overall, I must say the offense is definitely improved. Obviously needs more work, and will continue to be a work-in-progress, but it's slowly getting there.
The glaring weakness obviously is the defense. Granted they were up against a high-powered offense week 1 that will score a lot against a lot of teams. Giving up 45 and 48 definitely shows a lack of stability in a number of areas, including special teams. But they do have some young guys in there, and will hopefully continue to build over the coming years to build a stronger base.
Stafford is doing what I expected -- making do with what he has around him, and making rookie mistakes. He has 3 TDs and 6 INTs and 1 rushing TD and 896 passing yards. Extrapolate that over a full season and you've got about 12 TDs, 16 INTs, 4 rushing TDs, and about 3600 passing yards. Not the greatest stats, but serviceable. The TDs would be a bit low and the INTs high, but even a lot of the best QBs struggled their first year or two (even Peyton had more INTs than TDs his first year). I hope he continues to improve (and in a few years time I'll be able to say I was wrong about him).
Much like last year, I think one of the biggest issues is that they forget there are TWO halves to a game, not just one.
Week 1: Down big early, 28-10 at the Half (end up losing 45-27)
Week 2: Winning 10-7 at the Half (end up losing it 27-13)
Week 3: Up 13-0 at the Half (hang on to win 19-14)
Week 4: Tied 21-21 at the Half (blow it the second half and lose 48-24)
So minus Week 1, where they were behind early and the entire game, they were in three of the four games. I recall several games like this last year where they did well for 2-3 quarters, and then fail to finish. Hopefully Schwartz can work on stopping this...
Week 2: 13-27 L
Week 3: 19-14 W
Week 4: 24-48 L
Overall, I must say the offense is definitely improved. Obviously needs more work, and will continue to be a work-in-progress, but it's slowly getting there.
The glaring weakness obviously is the defense. Granted they were up against a high-powered offense week 1 that will score a lot against a lot of teams. Giving up 45 and 48 definitely shows a lack of stability in a number of areas, including special teams. But they do have some young guys in there, and will hopefully continue to build over the coming years to build a stronger base.
Stafford is doing what I expected -- making do with what he has around him, and making rookie mistakes. He has 3 TDs and 6 INTs and 1 rushing TD and 896 passing yards. Extrapolate that over a full season and you've got about 12 TDs, 16 INTs, 4 rushing TDs, and about 3600 passing yards. Not the greatest stats, but serviceable. The TDs would be a bit low and the INTs high, but even a lot of the best QBs struggled their first year or two (even Peyton had more INTs than TDs his first year). I hope he continues to improve (and in a few years time I'll be able to say I was wrong about him).
Much like last year, I think one of the biggest issues is that they forget there are TWO halves to a game, not just one.
Week 1: Down big early, 28-10 at the Half (end up losing 45-27)
Week 2: Winning 10-7 at the Half (end up losing it 27-13)
Week 3: Up 13-0 at the Half (hang on to win 19-14)
Week 4: Tied 21-21 at the Half (blow it the second half and lose 48-24)
So minus Week 1, where they were behind early and the entire game, they were in three of the four games. I recall several games like this last year where they did well for 2-3 quarters, and then fail to finish. Hopefully Schwartz can work on stopping this...
