Mitch
Crawled Through 5 FB Fields
1. Thursday games---BA was outspoken early last week about them being a risk to player safety. Not sure if that had something to do with the team being "sluggish" at home on National TV (BA's word to describe the team).
2. Goal Reset---BA has said all along the goal was to win every game at home. He said today that the goal has been reset to winning all the rest at home. This time he has 10 days to prepare the team. Sure hope this week changes the tenor of the entire season.
3. BA deflecting blame a la Whisenhunt. In recent weeks he has stated that he's never had an offense take this much time to click (blame on the offense as a unit), that Carson Palmer is not blame for the turnovers (blame on the receivers), that only Lyle Sendlein graded positively on the o-line (blame on the o-line), first time his offense never had a chunk play of over 20 yards (all on offense), etc.
The ultimate responsibility for this offense is on BA and his coaches. It would be refreshing to hear that he understands this. How the players are coached during the week is a function of how they play in the game. The coaches need to demand a command of the offense from the players.
4. This Falcon team is still danged good despite their injuries. If the Cardinals don't cover this TE (Gonzales), they will lose. Simple as that.
5. Carson Palmer---shy about stepping up into the pocket because of the leg injury he suffered versus the Steelers way back when? Subconsciously these kinds of things happen. Just wondering.
At least Whisenhunt has Kolb correcting this early last season. Kolb made a conscious effort to step up and it helped, that is until he stepped up too far one time and suffered the season ending rib dislocation.
6. Hard to believe that Palmer with all of his experience hasn't really had one very good game in 7 starts.
7. Hard to believe BA and HC and coaches actually believe they can keep LT Bradley Sowell on an island.
8. How about going into the Falcon game with the thought of putting Peterson on TE Gonzalez and the Badger on Roddy White. Similar to what should have been done, but wasn't until way too late, versus the 49ers.
9. Campbell...mmm good! What an inspiring performance he turned in the past two weeks. Hopefully BA and the coaches have shown the entire team Calais' effort and will to win on tape.
10. Speaking of inspirations---here is an extraordinary student's pep talk about how do beat the Falcons, written so well by ESPN's Rick Reilly. This young man, Sam Berns, is one of our students at Foxborough High School----and the greatest joy of teaching is to be surrounded by inspirations like Sam and an NFL owner in Bob Kraft who opens his heart to those in his own backyard:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9834297/rick-reilly-special-patriots-fan
If you want to see "Life According to Sam" it airs on HBO tonight. Sam is about as extraordinary as extraordinary gets. He just scored a perfect score on the Massachusetts' State Exam in English---he is an Eagle scout---and he plays drums in the FHS marching band.
Wishing all of you peace and the highest of regards,
Mitch
2. Goal Reset---BA has said all along the goal was to win every game at home. He said today that the goal has been reset to winning all the rest at home. This time he has 10 days to prepare the team. Sure hope this week changes the tenor of the entire season.
3. BA deflecting blame a la Whisenhunt. In recent weeks he has stated that he's never had an offense take this much time to click (blame on the offense as a unit), that Carson Palmer is not blame for the turnovers (blame on the receivers), that only Lyle Sendlein graded positively on the o-line (blame on the o-line), first time his offense never had a chunk play of over 20 yards (all on offense), etc.
The ultimate responsibility for this offense is on BA and his coaches. It would be refreshing to hear that he understands this. How the players are coached during the week is a function of how they play in the game. The coaches need to demand a command of the offense from the players.
4. This Falcon team is still danged good despite their injuries. If the Cardinals don't cover this TE (Gonzales), they will lose. Simple as that.
5. Carson Palmer---shy about stepping up into the pocket because of the leg injury he suffered versus the Steelers way back when? Subconsciously these kinds of things happen. Just wondering.
At least Whisenhunt has Kolb correcting this early last season. Kolb made a conscious effort to step up and it helped, that is until he stepped up too far one time and suffered the season ending rib dislocation.
6. Hard to believe that Palmer with all of his experience hasn't really had one very good game in 7 starts.
7. Hard to believe BA and HC and coaches actually believe they can keep LT Bradley Sowell on an island.
8. How about going into the Falcon game with the thought of putting Peterson on TE Gonzalez and the Badger on Roddy White. Similar to what should have been done, but wasn't until way too late, versus the 49ers.
9. Campbell...mmm good! What an inspiring performance he turned in the past two weeks. Hopefully BA and the coaches have shown the entire team Calais' effort and will to win on tape.
10. Speaking of inspirations---here is an extraordinary student's pep talk about how do beat the Falcons, written so well by ESPN's Rick Reilly. This young man, Sam Berns, is one of our students at Foxborough High School----and the greatest joy of teaching is to be surrounded by inspirations like Sam and an NFL owner in Bob Kraft who opens his heart to those in his own backyard:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9834297/rick-reilly-special-patriots-fan
If you want to see "Life According to Sam" it airs on HBO tonight. Sam is about as extraordinary as extraordinary gets. He just scored a perfect score on the Massachusetts' State Exam in English---he is an Eagle scout---and he plays drums in the FHS marching band.
Wishing all of you peace and the highest of regards,
Mitch
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