Review of our embarrising performance

[Joshua]

With regard to Schaub, my biggest concern is that he appears easily rattled, intimidated, scared (pick whatever word you think fits best). Granted, this is nothing more than my personal opinion but he appears to already be shellshocked in only about 10 games. And he really hasn't been hit that much. I think it took Carr about 3 years to get to that level and he got hit a lot more than Schaub.

I also hate how every time he gets hit he is slow to get up and let's the other team see him rolling around on the turf. (Anybody else see Vandenbosch yank Schaub off the turf on the last INT?) Even if you get your bell rung, you should try and get up quickly and not let the other team know. A similar point is that if these hits really are taking that kind of toll, I'm not sure he's tough enough to play QB in this league. Virtually every QB is going to take those types of hits every game. If you can't withstand that, you're in the wrong line of work.

Finally, I know most teams don't tackle in practice for fear of injury, but we need to have some tackling drills. We're not good enough on defense to miss tackles when we're finally in the right spot.

[KJ3]

Originally Posted by jppaul

I forgot to add to the original post that McNair is to blame also, he needs to send the league scheduling office a fruit cake or something, maybe then we could get a schedule like the Pats.

.....to take on the mighty dolphins? no thanks...

Originally Posted by Joshua

With regard to Schaub, my biggest concern is that he appears easily rattled, intimidated, scared (pick whatever word you think fits best). Granted, this is nothing more than my personal opinion but he appears to already be shellshocked in only about 10 games. And he really hasn't been hit that much. I think it took Carr about 3 years to get to that level and he got hit a lot more than Schaub.

yup yup yup. football has no room for scared.

I also hate how every time he gets hit he is slow to get up and let's the other team see him rolling around on the turf. (Anybody else see Vandenbosch yank Schaub off the turf on the last INT?) Even if you get your bell rung, you should try and get up quickly and not let the other team know.

yea, i thought that was pretty big-brother of kvb. like a "get up and quit acting like a baby before mom sees us" bit. seeing as how the texans were content to be little-brother i guess i can't really fault the titans.

don't tell me their goal is anything other than knocking him out of the game. even if you get back up winded, bloodied, bruised, whatever get up and let them know that wasn't enough, that they can't do it.

Originally Posted by keith

I'm interested in the record projections though. Forgetting briefly how poorly the team has looked in their first two games, for those of you predicting wins this season, did you expect the team to win in either Pittsburgh or Nashville this season?

well, no. well, not exactly. i think i split our games between every division opponent so...i guess technically i'm still on with my prediction. although technically i would expect us to be 1-2 right now (beating baltimore).