I am just going to make this my post of the week...Game 4 Impressions: Chargers 41 Cardinals 10.
We all saw this debacle...we saw what we saw...let's just all chime in on CT's post about WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN FROM HERE:
1. Anderson needs to be released. He's done here. He blew it. If he is starting next week Whiz has lost this team forever.
2. A move to add a veteran QB needs to happen, asap. With the bye week coming up he can be assimilated into the offense and be a good fallback option if Max Hall falters.
3. Max Hall needs to start for now...and hopefully for a long time to come...but give him audible options for a hot route of simple check to a sweep when the opponents are threating the A gaps. Play to Max's strengths...which Whiz obviously doesn't know yet, because his play calling for Max was pitifully awful.
4. Brandon Keith needs to replaced by Jeremy Bridges and the team needs to chip help for LT Levi Brown. And it may be time to try Hadnot at LG or C. I am not averse to throwing him in there, even in the middle of games to see.
5. The team needs to release NT Bryan Robinson and realize that Watson and Williams are better players.
6. The team needs to replace Bill Davis with Donnie Henderson as DC. Henderson will dial up the pressure, which means turning AW into a blitz monster and covering TEs with more capable DBs.
7. The team needs to relegate Joey Porter into situational edge rusher, a la Bertrand Berry. Porter is a liablility otherwise.
8. The team needs to MOVE Dockett around to confuse the offense.
9. The team needs to get far more creative in what they do and how they prepare.
10. The team needs to start playing for broke...and go all out...leave it all on the field...pass when everyone thinks it's a run...and run whenever everyone thinks it's a pass...and on defense..dial up relentless pressure with everyone taking a part.
That's about all I have. Please pick me up in areas I have forgotten or overlooked. Kudos for CT for nailing this one.
I like the rookies...and I think that with patience they will impress.
But, I am very worried about the coaching. The players mailed in another one...and it's getting epidemic. The coaches are responsible and they have flat-out shat the bed this year thus far.