I think their DL whipped our OL and it caused a ton of problems. It stopped our run game. It allowed them to to handled us in their base defense when we had 2 or 3 TE's on the field which most teams can't, they have to give up one or the other.
the picksix was terrible and the overthrow of McBride in endzone, to me was a size thing he had to get the ball over a hand. But even with all that, he had a TD pass called back on a hold(good call) and he had a TD pass to Marv that was broken up by a terrific defensive play that prevented Marv from getting his second foot down. So even on a not very good day we were in position to win but just didn't make the plays to win it.
Very good summary. I watched the Seattle/Niners game a couple of times and sensed we would struggle against their D Line. Even Paris struggled. I think Macdonald has that defense prepared to be a force the rest of the year. That being said, so many things went against us & we still could have won that game. A couple of things…..
- We lost the field position battle all day. Their punter pinned us inside the 10 twice in the 1st half. We had one short field all day (50 yd line & we kicked a FG on that drive). Otherwise, our drives all started in our territory: 33, 9, 20, 6, 20, 18, 38, 20, 20. Against that D last Sunday, we needed shorter fields. The almost pick by Kyzer White at their 20 would have been huge!
- Our OL got manhandled most of the day. That’s NOT going to happen often.
- The Murray pick 6 was bad. Kudos to Macdonald for calling a timeout & knowing exactly what we were going to do. He outsmarted Petzing all day.
- SEA scored their only TD because of a perfectly executed screen that put the ball on the 3. I honestly don’t think they would have scored a TD all day minus that one play.
-Almost every holding call against us were back breakers. Cost us a TD & some big gainers.
- Leonard Williams DOMINATED us. Let’s hope that Robinson will add that kind effect for us in the very near future.
