I'm Optimistic! (And Pessimistic)

[BonnieBengal]

(09-08-2019, 09:07 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: We went into one of the toughest places to play in the NFL and gave them everything they could handle and we should have won the game.

Without the Andre hold down on the 5(?), we possibly score and that changes the game.

Erickson's fumble also shifted momentum.  

Ross's drop killed us when he maybe scores with the entire sideline open.

We were playing without our top offensive weapons and our second-best weapon for most of the game and still only lost by one!

Clowney's an animal but I thought we eventually got him under control (a little).

I was unhappy with some of Taylor's play calls, like one fourth and one why would you try and run Gio from the shotgun?  Start with Andy under center and run Gio straight at the line and that's tough to stop.  I'm upset that we threw on third and one and thought one of those (maybe both) should have been a QB sneak.

I was unhappy with a few other calls, but, for his first game, it was pretty damn impressive to go into a place like Seattle and lose by one!

No such thing as a moral victory, but, for how lost we all thought the season was before it even started. I was happy with the game!

We still have a lot of work to do, but I'm a bit optimistic!

Exactly.  We are rebuilding, and we did a lot better than most of us thought for our first game in Seattle with a new coach and without AJ Green.