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Originally Posted by papabear
[Schaub] He sucked. He didn't get much help, but he sucked.
I'm not putting the blame on AJ, but if he catches that first pass it could have had a very positive/calming effect on Schaub and the teams confidence.
There were still too many runs that got stuffed. I wonder how much of that was Slaton and how much was the line....It looked like the line.
I thought the defense looked better today. still plenty of sloppy tackling though.
Kubiak seems to coach "tight". I like being agressive on fourth down, but it seems like Kubiak was more desperate than anything....well before it was time to be desperate.
I think Kubiak is a good coach, but he it seems far too often he caoches in panic mode. Many times when there was no reason to panic yet.
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Many good points that I agree with here.
I think Slaton did well in spite of the O-Line, not because of it. He was making people miss or spinning out of tackles to break long runs. However, there were several times when he was stuffed behind the LOS. I'm not sure what Alex Gibbs is doing, but I hope the OL starts to figure it out soon.
The defense is respectable when we can stop the run on 1st down. Getting Frank Okam on the field made me happy. Them playing Zgonina as much as they did makes me scratch my head. I realize he's the GM's old roommate, but come on, does he have some pictures hidden somewhere? Amobi Okoye is still getting pushed around too much for my taste. I'm not going to call him a bust yet, but I'm not going to call him "Baby Sapp" either.
Kubiak went into this game trying to make something happen. If he were a player, I would say that he was "Pressing" instead of letting the game come to him. It is similar to when a QB starts "aiming" vice trusting that his pass will go to where it needs to go. After the first couple of failures, Kubiak started going into hyper-panic.
All this talk about benching Schaub in favor of Sage is somewhat knee-jerk. If I were Kubiak, I'd let sage play the next three games just to remind fans that Sage is not the starting QB for a reason. Unfortunately, I would hate to think what that would do to the psyche of the city. Right now, there's at least hope that we have the answer to our problems currently on the roster. We don't have Favre, Manning, Roethlisberger, McNabb, Romo, Brady, Brees, or any other Pro-Bowl QB in Matt or Sage. Then again, there are several other teams in that boat. I thought or hoped we might have a QB in the caliber of Kerry Collins, Brian Griese, or Chad Pennington (those teams won last week). While it would be nice to have THE guy, we previously didn't have A guy.