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(11-05-2017 09:55 AM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  I think the defense played great yesterday. But if we had made just one of the dropped interceptions yesterday I think we would have seen more production on offense. Especially the one at their 10 yard line. Ugh! SW missed on some passes, no doubt. The one to Vaughn that took 10 min to review, would have been a big gainer if he hit him in stride. But the running game was weak. It looked like our line was not opening any holes. I am not impressed with the performance of this line. I have no answers there except they need to start moving some defenders. Still, very happy with the defensive performance. They were the biggest reason for this win that was badly needed.

On a side note, it seems like the coaches have no confidence in throwing downfield on 3rd and long. I like the screen play to Harper but they need to do that on 1st or 2nd down. If they are blitzing on 3rd try a slant or maybe a flare to Lowry.

I don't know. We have averaged 156 ypg on the ground this year, and we got 148 yesterday with Lawry at less than 100% with a hip pointer and with losing Cox to a shoulder injury during the game. It was a conservatively called game in an effort to avoid the turnovers that have plagued us -- and it got the job done. We have a -10 turnover margin with 20 turnovers lost through our first eight games for an average of 2.5 turnovers per game. Fourteen of those turnovers were interceptions, with the large majority coming on longer passes. Something had to change -- and it did.