Being only marginally better than last season? Worthy likely has a higher ceiling and more potential than Hardman but he is unlikely, at least for now, to be a 6-8 target a game guy as an option on the majority of passing plays. Rice is better than Rice last season so that's good. Kelce is probably worst though.
But mostly what I’m fearful about is that losing Brown is going to be a major impediment to the offense being noticeably better than last season. He was likely big in our schemes and philosophy. I know we typically struggle vs the Bengals but as of right now I'm not sure what would make me confident we dramatically improve over last season.
What does everyone think? How can we ensure the significant improvement over last season that it seems we might need? [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
If nothing else, try to light a fire under his butt to play better.
That needs to happen, but there's film on the guy now and everyone knows his weaknesses. He was overwhelmed last Sunday, and now he will be targeted by every team going forward. Now I know Hendrickson is very good, so hopefully other teams will not have as much success as he did. But the Chiefs have very good defensive ends in their division, and on their schedule. So, the Chiefs are going to have to do something because they will lose games directly because of Kingsley's performance if he has more like last Sunday. LT was the biggest problem with the offense Sunday. [Reply]
I'd say I'm most worried about the offense and the QB that keeps throwing bad interceptions.
The 2nd round rookie tackle getting beat by an elite pass rusher is...well yeah that's probably somewhat expected. The multiple time MVP QB throwing it to linebackers every game.....isn't. [Reply]
The cover 2 stuff is beatable, teams know how to beat it. But the routes that need to occur take time and OL's can't block that long these days. Between DE's and such being unreal ahtletes and OL's not being as good as previous years. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
Very worried about the defense though. Losing Sneed and Gay was going to result in a step back but personally didn't expect it to be so significant.
Bolton and Tranquil need to be better this week than they have been, or Atlanta will end up with 200 yards rushing.
And hopefully tackling in general will improve, because we gave up several third downs because of missed tackles against the Bengals. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Why Not?:
For those who are concerned, you realize these are the most points we’ve scored vs the Bengals since the Champ game we lost to them?
Anorumo has our number. But no longer can beat us.
We be fine.
7 of those points were not scored by the offense [Reply]