Great writeup, as often, Virgil.
You touched on a lot of positive points I took from that game. Super optimistic about many things - the run game, the patience displayed by Josh (most of the time), the performance of Terrell Bernard, the run defense, the pass rush, the better performance by the OL in both run blocking and pass pro
And you touched on a number of my caveats:
One of the things that bothered me about last week vs. Jets, we had a 13-3 lead at the half and 10-3 midway through the 2nd Q. While one doesn't want to take one's foot off the gas, with a lead, there was no need to 'press" or be Superman, except perhaps to impress the Madden junkies. But the Jets defense was fierce to us, and frustrating - the Raiders defense was 'meh' last season despite Maxx Crosby, and so far it looks "meh" this season.
I, too, would like to see a performance like this from Josh against one of the league's best defenses or, a defense that is very familiar with us and can frustrate Josh.
And I, too, felt that we still have work to do on that red zone offense that did not measure up last season.
I do not want to see us as the Cowboys, winning 30-10 but with 15 of those points off field goals because they couldn't punch it in. I think that works when you're playing a team that pulled its former 1st round QB off the bench and that gift-wrapped turnovers to you 4x, but maybe it doesn't work so well when you're facing an elite offense.
Of course, we are not the Cowboys, we scored 5 TD to 1 FG, punted once, and only TOD once. But I'm with you, I felt we should have scored 7 TD and TOD neveh, so Future Goals.
I can 100% see it a handful of times. 3-5 say.