09-23-2018, 06:41 PM
(09-23-2018, 06:15 PM)Joelist Wrote: I hate to break it to you but Andy did not have a "stinker" today. 2 of the picks were completely on John Ross and another should have been DPI. Our REAL issues today were that BOTH lines got blown up. Trey Hopkins was abused all day, Redmond looked lost out there and even Cordy Glenn got beat once. Add in the loss of AJ Green which forced more kids into the lineup and the nonexistent run game and in a way it was surprising we scored 23 against a top defense.
The truly embarrassing performances were on defense. Atkins and Billings played awful and disgraced their uniforms getting punked by reserve linemen. Vigil was okay but all the other linebackers were embarrassing and Dre Kirkpatrick singlehandedly caused a TD with terrible coverages. Actually 14 Carolina points came off of scheme breakdowns so bad even most high school teams don't experience them.
Well, I was not able to watch today, only following the gamecast at work, so that does put things in proper context. So I can feel better about Dalton (I did see that he threw for 350+), but worse regarding the defense. Obviously we all thought the front 4 would make more of an impact, and that failure exposed other weakness in our D. As for the OL, it's almost like Mixon makes them better, as opposed to the other way around, and everything else suffers when he is gone.
