Baltimore at Miami

[oldno82]

Lack of depth and poor coaching explain most of why this season is different than last. We really miss our deceased O-lne coach and Orr can't handle the D alone, at least not yet. 

Right now the onus is on Harbaugh to keep up a high level of morale on the team as they swim through the next several weak opponents. 

And if Orr still isn't cutting it, let him go and give the job to Pags.

 

[papasmurfbell]

9 hours ago, tsylvester said:

I don't know about wasted. We've had this discussion, what freaking happened? No one has answers.

Top offense last year with the same players save 1, ONE, a swing guard near the end of his career and always nicked up.

40 pts against Buffalo in a loss, at Buffalo too boot, then they fell apart. 

The line could no longer block etc, no progession on skill, strength etc from the young linemen, 3 of them.

I understand the defense, no edge rusher, the injury and then retirement of two key inside tackles, there was no way of knowing, seeing, preparing for either of those.

No pressure on the pocket I don't care how good you are in the 2ndary, qbs will find open men.

I will agree, Eric has missed on his picks, on free agent signings, hello Alexander still has yet to play, still a healthy scratch.

Middle backer, weakside, cant seem to find one, talent is there, they just are not playing at a high level.

2 high picks on an edge rusher, both everyone not in the ear room knew were bad picks.

Yeah, Eric boggled the drafts, if we had a better offensive line we would be the Bengals with a healthy Burrow, outscoring people to win, but slightly better on defense in the 2ndary, Wiggins, Starks just need experience which they are getting now, Hamilton is a stud.

It's a start that can be quickly rebuilt around them, IF, they can get good edge play. Big fatty's are easy to find when you know that you need them.

He was gambling with the ol.  Dumb move.  One of his bulls on the dl retired and he did nothing.  The d was ok bc the offense took leads and teams had to chase.  Get a passrusher and stop dicking around. 

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1 hour ago, oldno82 said:

Lack of depth and poor coaching explain most of why this season is different than last. We really miss our deceased O-lne coach and Orr can't handle the D alone, at least not yet. 

Right now the onus is on Harbaugh to keep up a high level of morale on the team as they swim through the next several weak opponents. 

And if Orr still isn't cutting it, let him go and give the job to Pags.

 

So a dolt need to hold things together?  Get jj back in there to tune his front running ass up.

[tsylvester]

1 hour ago, papasmurfbell said:

He was gambling with the ol.  Dumb move.  One of his bulls on the dl retired and he did nothing.  The d was ok bc the offense took leads and teams had to chase.  Get a passrusher and stop dicking around. 

He retired, cant plan for that and they brought in some big bodies that needed time to learn. Had Madds not got hurt, they had time to learn.

Okay, Madds gets hurt after the draft, not much you can do then unless you want to way over pay for a trade.

I do agree to a point, with you. He counted on the offensive line that was fine last year, to be as good if not better this year based, rightfully so, on experience from last year and another year in the NFL weight rooms getting stronger.

Guess what? Something went wrong, they all, all, got worse. You get to claim Stanley, he was slower this year and got hurt. I'll give you him.

But who could think ALL would suck? That is coaching, plain and simple. Harbs for not seeing it, the ol coach who is teaching them. Not much Eric can do about that, Harbs has all power over coaching and I doubt they want to change the old coach in the middle of the season.