Sherman Posted November 3, 2008 Posted November 3, 2008 If at the begining of the year I told you we would be 5-3 and in a three way tie for the AFC East would you take it? Let's put this back into perspective. We started 4-0 and looked great against some teams that really are not that good but as any young team should they beat the teams they should beat if you want to call yourselves a good football team. In Arizona we ran into a buzzsaw and lost a team leader in the first 5 minutes of the game. Solid game vs SD after the by and then two awful losses vs division opponents. Our division runs the 3-4 defense and our offense will have trouble against stud DTs like Kris Jenkins and Vince Wilfork. Jason Ferguson in his limited role still gave our offense enough problems because they all line up against our weakest links on offense, our center and right guard. This defense has also given Edwards troubles. Maybe it is because he can not step up into the pocket because of the line collapse or because there ar 8 people in coverage. Doesn't matter he needs to learn how to defeat it soon he will most likely see it again this week. All that being said we are still 5-3 going into the second half of the season. We have 4 division games left so we still control our own destiny. We should be geting Aaron Schobel and Ashton Youboty back soon and getting our best pass rusher and nickel back back should help our overall defensive play.
Gordio Posted November 3, 2008 Posted November 3, 2008 If at the begining of the year I told you we would be 5-3 and in a three way tie for the AFC East would you take it? Let's put this back into perspective. We started 4-0 and looked great against some teams that really are not that good but as any young team should they beat the teams they should beat if you want to call yourselves a good football team. In Arizona we ran into a buzzsaw and lost a team leader in the first 5 minutes of the game. Solid game vs SD after the by and then two awful losses vs division opponents. Our division runs the 3-4 defense and our offense will have trouble against stud DTs like Kris Jenkins and Vince Wilfork. Jason Ferguson in his limited role still gave our offense enough problems because they all line up against our weakest links on offense, our center and right guard. This defense has also given Edwards troubles. Maybe it is because he can not step up into the pocket because of the line collapse or because there ar 8 people in coverage. Doesn't matter he needs to learn how to defeat it soon he will most likely see it again this week. All that being said we are still 5-3 going into the second half of the season. We have 4 division games left so we still control our own destiny. We should be geting Aaron Schobel and Ashton Youboty back soon and getting our best pass rusher and nickel back back should help our overall defensive play. Here is some perspective too. If we lose against NE next week like I suspect we will, we will be 5-4 or the same record we had last year after 9 games.,
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