That's No Moon

Why should it have changed? All they did was go from consistently terrible for the better part of 20 years to above average for two seasons. If last week's game didn't make you have flashbacks of every single concern you had about the team, the offense, the quarterback, the coaching staff, the defense in big spots, I don't understand what it would take. They hit every single sour note they could have in week one and it's going to give people a lot of doubt for the next several weeks if not the rest of the season. It doesn't matter if they beat Miami by 40, that underlying doubt will still be there. Can they beat good teams? Is Allen really the guy? Can this be the team to push it over the top or are they fundamentally flawed and just toying with me?

Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Baltimore, second half v. Indy. Same problems in all of them.

the defense was basically ignoring them. As they should.

When you spend off-season money on Emmanuel Sanders, don't address the running game, and don't address your interior line it sort of tips people off as to what you want to do. Their best 5 players on offense are WRs. That's not a good thing but it's reality. When they take a WR off they are downgrading the talent on the field. None of their TEs is remotely as good as the WR who would come on. None of their RBs are remotely as good as the WR they could try to throw to instead. Again, this is not a positive thing. They would be better off with less assets invested in WR and a little more in interior OL and be a better football team.

D at best. Too many stupid decisions. Too many wildly inaccurate passes. Two years ago that was a C performance. Now? No way.

It's funny, when the balls are fully inflated that is more of an issue....

He literally tackled TJ Watt. How that wasn't a flag is beyond me.

I'm so glad we spent so much time talking about that in the pre-season too. Which eliminates the possibility of pass interference also. slightly underthrown is better than slightly over thrown and Josh either doesn't get that or can't do it.

At first I thought it looked like McKenzie was going to turn up field and Brieda was going to be able to throw it to him. It got blown up really quickly but McKenzie never turned up field either so idk. I hope we don't see it again I know that. I also know that when McKenzies man didn't follow him through the formation Josh should have called time out because he wasn't accounted for in the blocking. It's being cute in a tight game where cute wasn't called for. You have one of the best 4rh and one QBs in football and your offense is struggling. Take the first down and move on.

Neither of those people play his position.

I posted about Dawkins twice today. Twice. If that's a drum to beat go after half the board. If it happens that the drum doesn't agree with personal proclivity get over it. And yes, talking about a persons unique intracranial processing is a personal attack whether you choose to use 25 cent words or not. Again. You are a mod. Do better. You know you were wrong because you amended your original post without deleting the first one. Own it.

So I shouldn't be concerned about those other two flags that would have negated any positive play?

I agree with you that the entire line was terrible. I've said as much several times today. You responded directly to my assertion that Dawkins in particular looked very out of game shape and was repeatedly abused. My assertion was that he still hasn't gotten himself together from his totally preventable hospitalization because the other players on the line who stunk today also stunk last year. Dion stinking is new and therefore more note worthy than John Feliciano getting manhandled by a DT when he gets manhandled by every good DT he faces or Cody Ford being a turnstile because he usually is or Darryl Williams struggling with speed rushers because he usually does. Moreover you responded to my post by attacking me and you're a mod. Do better.

2 on Dawkins were accepted, two more were declined.

I noticed him tackling TJ Watt

So Dion's 4 holding penalties weren't a problem? He looked ok to you?

You can't call play action unless you run the ball effectively. My beef was the lack of even one screen pass.

Maybe Dion Dawkins should have done something to not end up in the hospital this summer which clearly and obviously has led him to not be ready to play the type of football he is capable of playing. He needs to sit until he's ready. He was Bobby Hart bad today.

Haack didn't catch the ball cleanly

And he stutter stepped on top of it today

The second half of the colts game they did nothing and almost yakked up the game, the Ravens and Chiefs games they were awful. Today the offense was more of the same. Can't block, can't move the ball, can't score touchdowns to finish drives. That's 14 quarters of bad offensive football for a team that is built to rely on its offense.

Our offense has been dog**** for the last 14 consecutive quarters against playoff caliber defenses.

Not sure what game you watched. Pass rush was terrible, particularly in the second half, and particularly when they needed it to do something.

Bingo my rear, the offensive line got steamrolled all day long and the quarterback couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. Add a horrid gameplan, a lack of halftime adjustment to that horrible plan, and baffling decisions in game. Chalking this up to a handful of single plays let's a whole lot of people who did a real crappy job off the hook. They weren't ready to play football today in all three phases.

Every one of the offensive holds they called was legit and they could have called several more. Dawkins, Williams, and Feliciano in particular were terrible today.