09-09-2024, 02:01 PM
(09-09-2024, 12:34 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I believe in this team, 12 wins or better. But they have to change their preseason prep for sure. In no way were we ready yesterday.
Every year there are teams where everyone says they're gonna be bad and they turn out to be really good. It's entirely possible that's what we experienced yesterday vs. New England.
To say we weren't ready honestly doesn't make sense to me. The defense missed tackles, but they were in position pretty consistently. They didn't do their job in terms of tackling, but they were ready, else we'd have seen them out of position. There were a few plays where a wideout was left wide open, which I definitely could see an argument on that one, but plays do break down and sometimes switchoffs between corner and safety don't occur.
No matter how ready an offense is, dropping touchdowns and fumbling the ball at the 2 yard line will halt progress. If they weren't ready, they'd have not been in position to score.
Hopefully you see the theme by which I'm speaking: the players have to play the game correctly. To blame the scheme doesn't really make sense when the players are not performing like they normally would.
Now I dunno if anyone has had food poisoning, but I don't know how Chase even suited up if that actually happened. Granted, they get IV's and medical treatment that I don't get, but I do think that didn't help. Add Tee's seemingly mysterious hamstring issue that is yearly, and Burrow was almost essentially without his top 2 weapons. We're a YAC team that simply couldn't get any YAC yesterday. These things happen.
