3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

He never should have been in position to cover Watson 1 on 1. I can’t get upset with him. 

correct. but we shouldnt be so quick to blame Blankenship's poor angle either. That was not Blankenship making a mistake. That was the angle he had after trying to do his job as the single high. There were more WRs on the field than just Watson and Blanenship was keeping an eye on the other route what was designed to do what it did to him. Put the single high safety in conflict. Our only hope on that one was a better job in 1 on 1 coverage.

Just now, jsb235 said:

What game were you watching exactly? 

The one where the offense went for it on 4th down deep in their own territory in the first quarter for zero reason and then gave up a fumble that was returned for 60 yards after the D gave them the ball on an INT. Which one did you watch?

9 minutes ago, Dwide Schrude said:

Hope CGJ & Davis is back next week. 
 

How much longer are we expecting Maddox & Goedert out?

By rule, it’s Davis, Maddox and then Goedert in consecutive weeks starting now. They don’t give great updates so who knows how long anyone is actually out.

First 10 win season since 2017

 

and it happened in 11 games

 

1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said:

We scored 40 pts. Not sure how compromising those positions must've been if we still end up with that many pts.

they said we needed ever minute of Hurts making plays with his legs. Thats not correct. If Hurts was better throwing it, we wouldnt have needed him to play hero ball with his legs.

1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

So you're suggesting that Gannon knew GB's receiver alignment before the play and chose to have Epps over Watson?

So I guess our offense wasn't any good and the Green Bay defensive coordinator is the reason why they scored so many points.

I’m suggesting in that situation he doesn’t put any of his safeties 1 on 1 with Watson (or any other WR for that matter). The only thing that hurts you there is a big play. That’s actually a time to sit back in two high and make them slowly drive down the field. 

Surely you aren’t defending that coverage?

Defense gave up 7 yards per play tonight. They only had 49 plays, so this is going to be the freshest D we've had in a while. 
Packers were also 1 for 7 on 3rd down.

It was very boom/bust for our defense. Turnover, splash play against or 3rd down stop.

10 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Lurie is going ballistic in the locker room right now 

7 minutes ago, RLC said:

There are fixes for this defense: more Jordan Davis and Maddox replacing Scott.

I don't know there's a special teams fix.

I don’t think the defense is as bad as everyone else says, but I also don’t think Davis is flipping some switch either.  He has made nearly zero disruptive plays this year and, while a load against the run, was already playing a controversially low % of snaps before he got hurt.  A backup rotational run stopping DT isn’t transforming the defense when he returns.

1 minute ago, Alphagrand said:

How did Epps look against Aaron Jones on his TD? 
 

If you can’t even trust a safety to cover a RB in the middle of the field on a pass route — the safety sucks.

I’m not defending Epps on that play vs Jones. That was awful. 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

Blaming Epps on that TD is like blaming Gerry for getting toasted by Claypool. It was an impossible proposition. 

An odd play call for Gannon - but one that should’ve been shelved with CGJ out (I figure Epps would typically play deep and CGJ would pick up the man coverage). Reed seemed frozen by a different route and was very late to react.

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

they said we needed ever minute of Hurts making plays with his legs. Thats not correct. If Hurts was better throwing it, we wouldnt have needed him to play hero ball with his legs.

If hero ball gets us 40 pts every game, gimme hero ball every single game.

I thought this was a much better win than last week.

i hope cj is alright , brown needs to get the fumbling under control and block better when the team needs it. we can't get dallas back soon enough and maddox. damn the offense misses a decent TE

Wasn’t an ideal game, but I do enjoy the types of games where this team reminds everyone that their bread and butter and their ultimate strength is the offensive line bludgeoning defenses. That is their identity that they can fall back on if other things start to fail. 

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

correct. but we shouldnt be so quick to blame Blankenship's poor angle either. That was not Blankenship making a mistake. That was the angle he had after trying to do his job as the single high. There were more WRs on the field than just Watson and Blanenship was keeping an eye on the other route what was designed to do what it did to him.

No. It was a bad angle because he misjudged his speed IMO. I’m not killing him for it. He’s not used to seeing that kind of speed. That doesn’t mean it was the correct angle. 

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

If hero ball gets us 40 pts every game, gimme hero ball every single game.

ok. but thats not the argument at all. 

Offense scoring 40 with a turnover is good. And they stuck to the run more when they realize it was working 

ST is a dumpster fire inside a train wreck. 

Defense had some good moments. Some really bad moments. Some on the coaching and some just poor tackling or breakdowns in cover. 

5 minutes ago, devpool said:

Gannon could easily do what a lot of coaches do and have one of his two good cover corners stick their best receiver so they don't get burned for a quick TD in a close game

It was the same scheme that shut down Jefferson.  He doesn't have his CBs line up inside.  It has worked almost all season.

It was one play where the opponent beat us with speed.  Deal with it.

11 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I’m not sure the defense was quite as bad as it looked tonight.

I have a sense that GB hit on more cylinders in a last gasp tonight than they usually do (lately, at least).  I think that was a more dangerous offense than we realize.  Our secondary had to do some shuffling.  And they still produced 2 key turnovers and had ST and Brown giving up short fields most of the night.

GB averaged 14 points on the road this year. Defense was bad 

1 minute ago, Waiting4Someday said:

An odd play call for Gannon - but one that should’ve been shelved with CGJ out (I figure Epps would typically play deep and CGJ would pick up the man coverage). Reed seemed frozen by a different route and was very late to react.

Good point on CJGJ. He’s a safety you can actually use in man coverage there. Once he was out, we didn’t have anyone who can cover in man. 

Just now, ManuManu said:

No. It was a bad angle because he misjudged his speed IMO. I’m not killing him for it. He’s not used to seeing that kind of speed. That doesn’t mean it was the correct angle. 

no. he didnt. the other route held him up for a split second. He was doomed from the start. He was never going to be out ahead of that route to get a better angle. He had to go from where he was. It was a win for the play design against that coverage. 

Just now, Connecticut Eagle said:

It was the same scheme that shut down Jefferson.  He doesn't have his CBs line up inside.  It has works almost all season.

It was one play where the opponent beat us with speed.  Deal with it.

They had Marcus Epps covering Justin jefferson? Don't remember that happening 

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

I don’t think the defense is as bad as everyone else says, but I also don’t think Davis is flipping some switch either.  He has made nearly zero disruptive plays this year and, while a load against the run, was already playing a controversially low % of snaps before he got hurt.  A backup rotational run stopping DT isn’t transforming the defense when he returns.

You're selling Davis short. He's not blowing up the stat sheet, but he allows other players to get TFLs/sacks.

IMO, the big thing is that with Davis back we can have Davis and Joseph on different lines and not have Hargrave/Cox together in 4 man fronts.