The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

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(09-24-2024, 09:44 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The Good: The offense was zinging. I think All has potential to be a really good TE. Chase looked good. Burrow looked sharp. We didn't put once. Probably Iovisas best game, but I don't know that he'll be good enough to replace Tee next year.

The Bad: Brown injured. He looked like a pretzel on the ground. Not expecting it to be good. He has an injury history.

The Ugly: The defense looks terrible. The defensive line is terrible. I think Hendrickson is the only lineman that would start on another team.

The run defense sucked before Reader. It sucks without him. (Although he's been hurt still and I don't think he plays yet for the Lions.)

I don't know that we have a #1 or #2 caliber CB on the Roster. Our safeties are mediocre. Bell needs a ballhawk like Bates by him. Stone is not that. Stone is essentially Nick Scott...which I think a lot of us knew.

Our recent high draft picks do not look like they were good picks.

Wilson and Pratt look slow out there, but I think some of the issue is that the defensive line is letting blockers get to them.

Truthfully, I don't think the secondary is a big issue.  The bigger issue is Lou's game plan and an anemic pass rush.

For example, everyone is killing Dax for the late TD.  Meanwhile, Lou plays coverage and rushes 4 all game long, then brings the blitz on the last drive after Daniels has already gotten locked in.  He's a young QB.  You come after him early, shake his confidence, then feed off that the rest of the game.  On top of it, despite the blitz, Daniels has all day for that out and up to develop and God knows where the single high S is.  Just not much Dax can do.  He has to play the sticks, because if they get a first down, they can run out most of the rest of the clock.  And WFT was emboldened to call that slow developing route by our sad pass rush.