There is a lot to hate about this game....however...the props....
To Sendelin, for coming in and holding down the C position. Go away Leckey. The rook was really good. Hardly noticed Al wasn't there.
OL as a whole. Mistakes, yeah, but lightyears from the unit we had last year already and will just get better with repitition. Let's overpay Grimm to stay around for one more year...PLEASE!!
Edge...fought for yards, worked his ass off. Great game. You just can not judge this guy on the preseason. I was worried, but he's just fine.
Barr...much better than Player. Some of you don't see it but I don't see how. There were NO returns for more than a few yards. Lots of pinning inside the twenty and this one thing that Player lost the ability to do...hangtime!!
Pope...nice catches. Good stuff.
Dockett...he gets doubled all the time guys. Tonight he fought through one double to get a sack. He sucks up blockers...it is up to the rest to make the most of it.
Dansby...flying around making plays.
Calvin Pace...he seems to be ready to take on this OLB role in this hybrid defense.
Clancy, barring the last three minutes. I have to eat crow here because the defense was ready and shut Gore down. BTW, on that screen pass he got twenty yards on, Berry was being held HARD. Should have been a flag.
Green...hell of a game. Great breakups and good coverage. Too bad he couldn't have fell on that ball in the endzone or knocked it out, or he might have been lauded on this board as player of the game. He has done well at the CB1 slot, where I worried he'd be able to hang. Keep improving!
Bad Bad (Levi Brown), even though he got the false start, was strong for a rookie. He will only improve. I think we FINALLY picked a good tackle. Thank god, because we need one. He's still learning, but doesn't make a lot of mistakes. And I thought he'd be picked on like how we double rushed Staley. He wasn't.
The Defense as a whole. I thought they would get worked after the preseason but gave them the bennie of the doubt. Well given, as they rose to the occasion. One of the more consistent defensive games I've seen from this team, until they went into soft zones at the end and broke down.
Overall mentality to not give up after the start of the second half and the 5 or 6 penalties in a row. Former Cards teams would have allowed at least 14 points after breaking down like that. We didn't. Instead, we bucked up...got field position back and took the lead. Very impressive. VERY impressive. The real test now comes in shaking off a tough, tough, cardinalesque loss and bringing the good mindset to the game Sunday on short rest. I'm impressed in the way we responded to losing our flipping minds in those first few plays of the second half. Denny's teams would have folded like a cheap Prowings suit on Nolan.
Did I cover all the props?
To Sendelin, for coming in and holding down the C position. Go away Leckey. The rook was really good. Hardly noticed Al wasn't there.
OL as a whole. Mistakes, yeah, but lightyears from the unit we had last year already and will just get better with repitition. Let's overpay Grimm to stay around for one more year...PLEASE!!
Edge...fought for yards, worked his ass off. Great game. You just can not judge this guy on the preseason. I was worried, but he's just fine.
Barr...much better than Player. Some of you don't see it but I don't see how. There were NO returns for more than a few yards. Lots of pinning inside the twenty and this one thing that Player lost the ability to do...hangtime!!
Pope...nice catches. Good stuff.
Dockett...he gets doubled all the time guys. Tonight he fought through one double to get a sack. He sucks up blockers...it is up to the rest to make the most of it.
Dansby...flying around making plays.
Calvin Pace...he seems to be ready to take on this OLB role in this hybrid defense.
Clancy, barring the last three minutes. I have to eat crow here because the defense was ready and shut Gore down. BTW, on that screen pass he got twenty yards on, Berry was being held HARD. Should have been a flag.
Green...hell of a game. Great breakups and good coverage. Too bad he couldn't have fell on that ball in the endzone or knocked it out, or he might have been lauded on this board as player of the game. He has done well at the CB1 slot, where I worried he'd be able to hang. Keep improving!
Bad Bad (Levi Brown), even though he got the false start, was strong for a rookie. He will only improve. I think we FINALLY picked a good tackle. Thank god, because we need one. He's still learning, but doesn't make a lot of mistakes. And I thought he'd be picked on like how we double rushed Staley. He wasn't.
The Defense as a whole. I thought they would get worked after the preseason but gave them the bennie of the doubt. Well given, as they rose to the occasion. One of the more consistent defensive games I've seen from this team, until they went into soft zones at the end and broke down.
Overall mentality to not give up after the start of the second half and the 5 or 6 penalties in a row. Former Cards teams would have allowed at least 14 points after breaking down like that. We didn't. Instead, we bucked up...got field position back and took the lead. Very impressive. VERY impressive. The real test now comes in shaking off a tough, tough, cardinalesque loss and bringing the good mindset to the game Sunday on short rest. I'm impressed in the way we responded to losing our flipping minds in those first few plays of the second half. Denny's teams would have folded like a cheap Prowings suit on Nolan.
Did I cover all the props?
