Analysis TB Preseason Game

[Essex Johnson]

(08-10-2024, 11:53 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I will start with 2 vets. I am an optimist and was hoping Carman and Evans would show marked improvement. Sadly, Evans appears slow, and Carman spent the night get beat over and over again including the last play on 4th and 10.

I will be shocked if he is not cut.

As for positives, Higgins, Burrow, Irwin and the 1st team OL with Mims at RT was solid, albeit 1 drive, but looked good. The problem our running game push and opening holes was not there all night.

Our defense played a lot of vanilla coverage and seldom blitzed. Newton made a great play. Overall, I have concerns with our defense, but with no Hubbard and no Trey, not sure Rankins played or played much so 3 huge pieces so hard to tell.

On to next week of practice and next preseason game.

Forgot to mention Yoshi and Burton also looked good.

Im not sure Evans looked slow he actually had two effective returns (one nulled by penalty), and only Brown had a couple effective runs, though he also had two negative runs, so the running game lacked across the board.  Outside of Carman, the person i think failed last nite was Ossai, Gunter has a solid game and Johnson  also played well, the 1st game was important for Ossai to set a tone for the preseason and he failed.