The OL - I'm going to give these guys more time before passing judgement. They have slightly different assignments from last year with Gibbs running the show and 60% of the them are new faces (Brown, Brisiel and Myers). It may be several more games before they get it together and start clicking... Assuming Brown will grow as a player, will Brisiel and Myers turn out to be solid players or will one or the other need to be eventually upgraded?
Schaub - Can't deny he's been kinda shaky. However, he's not been that far off.... if AJ catches those passes he dropped, they both look a whole lot better. I'm OK with sticking with Schaub for now...
The Defense - Not counting the injury to TJ, there's really only two new faces this year: Diles and Reeves - so as a whole, they really should be further along. Pittsburgh made them look silly but they (the defense) looked much better in the 2nd half of the Titans game. Jacksonville is hurting on the OL and currently rated 24th in offense after 3 games so I think this upcoming game will tell us more about the defense.
Kubiak - he confirmed what I suspected in one of the latest pressers: that he went for the TD's (instead of FG's) on 4th down in the red zone because he had no idea he'd be back in the red zone so much. Hindsight for fans on these decisions is wonderful, so I'm not going to fault him for this.... I'm hoping he learned something from this and understands his personnel and team a bit better.... I will say there is a time to gamble and a time to be conservative and while I hope he doesn't lose the gamble, I'd rather not see him become Jeff Fisher conservative...
We are 0-2 and lost two games to two teams we were supposed to lose to. I know, I know - "but it's the way we lost". We are supposed to lose to the Jags, too, so there is a good chance we start 0-3. I'm not real worried about it because as a fan, there's just not much I can do about it. Whenever we win a few games, I think you'll hear a different tune on these messageboards/blogs... People will get off the ledge and climb back in the window...
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