Mongo3451

On MT specifically: he needs to know when he hits the 5th step of his drop that he's either firing or already looking elsewhere. If he picks up his mental rhythm, he can eventually hit some throws. There are throws you can make to a covered receiver that we see made all the time that he is not attempting. Always remember, the recover has the advantage. It's almost like he needs an ego. Stop playing scared or he's going to play himself out of a job.

Nothing will get better unless Trubisky starts hitting the deep ball. Without that, ball control portion of the offense will remain non existent. Without that, the OL can't keep up with varying degrees of pressure. Without that, Tarik Cohen has no room for explosive plays. Without that, Nagy can't call a good balanced game. Time for designed plays to specifically go deep even if the issue is forced.

Third and 5 and you can't see the slot?

Don't give up just yet. They had a bye week to fully digest the wake up call. I'm hoping/expecting to see more physicality today...

As much as we've thrown to TE this year, I'd say dump them all and sign some extra tackles, lol...

Exactly! The entire offensive side of the football was not mentally or physically ready to start this season. All on Nagy. I just don't know exactly how.

No, for many reasons. I truly can't see a scenario that would be positive. First, Gordon wants paid. 2nd Davis and Cohen were both good last year, so what's the difference this year? Montgomery is a good young back. Lastly, fix the blocking and everything else falls into place. (Including the passing game)

My thoughts exactly when I was discussing this with my pops.

Let's see who wins the first Superbowl!

That's why Jason and I have preaching OL on this forum, going on 2 decades now. Next man up!

That's true. My Colts buddies a at work are wondering why they haven't cracked the top ten on ESPN's poll.

Travel plans weren't too big of a deal. My main problem is that he does not have his team ready to play. It's also bothersome that he didn't have a clue how bad his OL was going to start the season. How do you show up with a complacent pre season, in your second season. That's after winning coach of the year. That's pretty cocky for a second year coach. Every Sunday, if you don't fight with everything you have, you will lose. Leno and Massey were decent last year. What happened? Complacency, overconfidence? It's certainly not age or injury. Did they not know Long was washed up. They would have known if they tested him. Then there's play calling...

After five weeks, I've seen enough to point the finger squarely at Nagy. From not playing starters in preseason to be being the only coach to take his team to London that late, he is constantly showing that he is overconfident. Meanwhile the Raiders were 0-2 in London and decided to take his team earlier than anyone else did. What we see the next 11 games will also be on Nagy. Heading back from lunch. More to come later...

The o line has gotten better week by week. Hopefully the trend continues.

The biggest difference to me was the fear. The 85 team brutalized other teams. If the current team played by the same rules as 85, there would be that same fear.

I hope we never find out and it's a one off situation.

Kap has no interest in playing football, he only wants to be a martyr for his cause. Otherwise, he would have played in Canada or not walked away from his huge contract at the least. If he were in the game, we would not be talking about him. He's not so we are...

I don't believe we are trying to be KC. They are literally faster at every skill position on offense. Looking at our offensive skill positions, we look sturdier. I like what we are doing, but unless we can hit some big plays teams are going to dare us to get past them. That's ok with me as long as we can grind. That's all our defense needs.

Our defense has been utterly dominant in the first half of games this year. They have given up 13 points total. That sets the tone and allows us to dictate the second half of games. They should stay dominant against Oakland, then go on to the bye week and get healthy. As long as the offense progresses, thus team is a contender.

We must hit on some deep passes for any chance of holes opening up.

They moved Daniels to center because he's the better athlete for that position. It takes playing time to learn to make the correct call based on what you see the defense do. His lack of playing time have him baptism by fire. The OL has looked better every week as a result. Look for more improvement today against a tough defensive front. If we end the first quarter of the season with a 3-1 record and improving OL unit, the other three quarters will be ok. I trust Hiestand a lot.

I don't agree with moving Whitehair back to center. Daniels will be fine. Our cocky coach didn't play them in pre-season. Hopefully Long picks it up soon. He didn't get a lot of work in the pre-season either.

I watched the entire game. Howard only gained yards on holes you could drive a bus through. The rookie made some really good runs. The pass Howard caught for a TD, literally no-one was guarding him. Stats can tell a huge lie. That being said, I would've liked him on my fantasy team last night.

Nobody respected Howard on that pass TD and they have a rookie starting over him. Plus Wentz hardly has any passing yards. You are just trolling on this one...?

After three games, it is clear to me that the OL unit rested on the laurels of last year. I'm not concerned because there has been steady improvement from week to week. Daniels will be fine at center once he gets his calls right. Leno looks he didn't work at all in camp, but is battling. Long looks very rusty, hopefully not washed up. My main thought is that Nagy had the entire offensive side of the team not ready for the start of the season. Looks like he's righting the ship weekly.