Maine-iac

You are right. That said when Josh gets back to normal I'll stop complaining about him throwing interruptions.

He had 4 carries in the second half (3 of those in the 3rd quarter) so I don't know what you are talking about.

Even worse than out hustled or no killer instict we seem to make dumb plays. The exact opposite of what you should do.

Would you say we can relate to Cowboys fans or Cowboys fans can relate to us?

They've thrown twice as many ints as TDs. If that's an excuse.

We are missing Hyde, Poyer, and Edmunds so essentially 2 free safeties and the worlds biggest strong safety. If it weren't for Hamlin we'd probably be giving up 50 points a game.

We don't really really need a ground attack, that's not the point of why we need to run. We need to run to keep balance so the defense isn't just meeting in the backfield at the QB every play. We need to run to keep the clock moving and to minimize how many times our QB gets hit. If we need points I'm all about throwing it all over the field but in a number of games we are up and our throw it all over the field play is stopping the clock and creating turniovers and our Qb is getting hit. Furthermore the problem in any part of the running attack is not Motor and if Cook was in there I doubt it would be Cook. Our run play selection (especially in the second half) sucks and our blocking not great either.

Thurman had an OL that had pro bowlers at every position. Actual hall of fame players. Which one of OL guys is the best at his position? Thurman was great no doubt but he had one of the best lines ever assembled for years.

The Singletary fumble wasn't a fumble so it's a wash there.

He's thrown 6 of those 10 pics in the last 3 games.

I'd love to see more of Gilliam on the field. He actually added way more to the offense than I thought he would blocking and catching passes.

Can't score points if you throw it to the other team. That's a large part of that story the last 3 weeks.

We have guys wide open, Josh is picking the wrong guy to throw to and then we have turnovers and TO's lead to losses.

Could we just clone Hamlin and play him at both safeties?

That and they both seemed like RB's that could be involved in the passing game but half our problem the last 3 weeks is that Josh refuses to take what he's given and just check it down. As someone else posted Singletary was wide open.

Dorsey needs to sign up for a Chan Gailey master class online and learn some screen game and throwing to the FB. Our screen game is horrid. Of the 3 or 4 screens I saw Josh had to throw it into the dirt on 3 of them.

They play with a lead like the only way to win (even though we've had multiple score leads) is to score 30 more points. We leave points on the field and go for it when we shouldn't, we don't run the ball. We give up huge plays on defense repeatedly. I swear the Vikings were averaging over 10 a rush and 20 a pass in the second half. I say that without even looking but honestly it wouldn't surprise me. With any decent prevent defense i would get giving up a few runs but how the hell (even with injuries) are we giving up so many big passing plays. I remember when we shut most QB's down. If we were on the schedule they were going to have a bad week. Pickett threw for over 300 yards on us. We only scored 7 points the second half of that game luckily it was already out of hand.

Cover 1 was saying Allens depth of target keeps getting deeper and bad things keep happening. I wonder where this game falls in that ........... seems like the pics were down field when we were safe with anything but a turnover in either situation.

3 weeks in a row we are running Singletary and scoring. 2nd half we stop running and we throw and throw and turn the ball over. Not saying Singletary is the answer, run Cook I don't care but stop throwing the ball 90 percent of the time. Especially with a lead. We don't know how to close out games or get short yardage at key times because we just don't run the ball enough to be any good at it.

Remember when Fitz started 5 and 2 or something like that and we just slid and slid and missed the playoffs.

Do anything except turn it over. Allen is repeatedly showing a complete inablility to take what he's given. They probably didn't try a couple short throws because they know Allen would hold the ball and bad things would happen.

I'm sorry but I thought the pass rush was going to be fearsome and it just is not. I thought Oliver and Phillips would be a little more consistent up the middle and they seem to be good for 1 or 2 plays a game and mostly invisible other than that. Miller is great but everyone else is not going to change a game.

As bad as the defense was they made the goal line stand ............... just don't fumble the ball in your own end zone and you win.

13 seconds to a tie then lose in overtime vs fumbling in your own end zone when you had it won and then losing in overtime ............ this is clearly a black eye.

About the time we should be running and grinding out the clock (2nd half vs GB and 2nd half today) instead of running we keep throwing like riverboat gamblers. I don't totally blame Josh because this should be coached. Late 2nd half with a lead the killer iinstict should be running it down there throats. Then your defense gets a break and can do there thing when it's time.