1) The refs did hurt us badly in this game as much as I ever hate to play the "blame the ref" card. The LOS call was a HUGE play and I still have to really lay a lot of blame on Dan for not challenging that. Then Stallworth's block looked legit and took away the TD that turned into a fumble.
2) I'm to the point where I consider Lee a ticking time bomb. He'll look like he's a good rhythm and then disaster seems to find him. On the option read I don't know who's fault those fumbles are but he's involved and the INT's are hurting (although the 1st one was not on him).
3) As others have said, the play calling wasn't really that great today. I think Berry and Bumphis HAVE to get 8-10 touches between them and they got 5 today in the offense. Early 4th we're driving and in FG range. First down Dan calls a pass and we take a 12 yard sack then we get it back into decent FG range and on 3rd we call a pass that turns into a pick. Then later after the option read fumble we call it again deep in Houston territory instead of just using the #24 battering ram and we fumble again.
4) While most will say our defense wasn't the cause of this defeat and they'll be right - we still looked awful for the most part. We gave up 180 yards rushing to a passing team (just the opposite of the GT game). With these short passing game teams we just can't continue to play so soft in initial coverage. How many difficult passes did Keenum make all day? Sure he made some, but most were pretty easy pitch and catches and our guys were no where close enough to make the quick tackle or try to knock the ball loose. No good pass rush most of the time either. Granted I saw a good number of holds, but I was hoping for more pressure on the QB.
5) Our 2-minute offense needs a lot of work. We should have thrown a pick and a lot of the plays just were way too short. I feel we were fortunate to score b/c it just looked disjointed half the time.
In the end it was the turnovers and two huge calls by the officials that just killed us. We make one less turnover or get one of those calls to go our way and we're most likely looking at least at OT.
They had 2 turnovers and when you take account the LOS play we had 5 (would be 6 b/c of the TD callback, but we ended up fumbling anyway on that drive). You can't play an very good offensive team and be -3 in that department.
2) I'm to the point where I consider Lee a ticking time bomb. He'll look like he's a good rhythm and then disaster seems to find him. On the option read I don't know who's fault those fumbles are but he's involved and the INT's are hurting (although the 1st one was not on him).
3) As others have said, the play calling wasn't really that great today. I think Berry and Bumphis HAVE to get 8-10 touches between them and they got 5 today in the offense. Early 4th we're driving and in FG range. First down Dan calls a pass and we take a 12 yard sack then we get it back into decent FG range and on 3rd we call a pass that turns into a pick. Then later after the option read fumble we call it again deep in Houston territory instead of just using the #24 battering ram and we fumble again.
4) While most will say our defense wasn't the cause of this defeat and they'll be right - we still looked awful for the most part. We gave up 180 yards rushing to a passing team (just the opposite of the GT game). With these short passing game teams we just can't continue to play so soft in initial coverage. How many difficult passes did Keenum make all day? Sure he made some, but most were pretty easy pitch and catches and our guys were no where close enough to make the quick tackle or try to knock the ball loose. No good pass rush most of the time either. Granted I saw a good number of holds, but I was hoping for more pressure on the QB.
5) Our 2-minute offense needs a lot of work. We should have thrown a pick and a lot of the plays just were way too short. I feel we were fortunate to score b/c it just looked disjointed half the time.
In the end it was the turnovers and two huge calls by the officials that just killed us. We make one less turnover or get one of those calls to go our way and we're most likely looking at least at OT.
They had 2 turnovers and when you take account the LOS play we had 5 (would be 6 b/c of the TD callback, but we ended up fumbling anyway on that drive). You can't play an very good offensive team and be -3 in that department.
