The defense was shattered at that point. They needed the O to get points on the board, give them a cushion, spend time on the field to help them recover. Not keep being put out there because of boneheaded idiocy.
THIS boggles me more than anything. Pre-bye he was excellent at taking what the defense was giving him, dinking and dunking, throwing to who was free. What’s changed?
Don’t really care about Josh being MVP. The only thing is if he wins it, it means he’s being playing lights out. But the Super Bowl is more important. Over the last five quarters we look nowhere near it.
The defense was playing soft against the Packers because all we needed to do was not give away quick scores. Today we were down four key players - five once Rousseau went off.
The offense is the big question but sadly it shows how reliant we are on Josh. When his game is off we have no one to pick up the slack. And his game has been off since the fourth quarter last week.
Yes, the run defense was hideous. But it did not help that we were down four key players in Hyde, Milano, Poyer and White.
And they were shattered by the end of the game because the offense didn't do enough to stay on it.
Why was it 17-17 and not 20-10/24-10/27-10/31-10???
INT, INT, missed easy throw to Shakir/overthrowing Diggs, missed field goal (last one on Bass, not Josh, though the final two calls/executions on that drive were poor)
He didn't need to be superman today to win. It was the basics that let him down; plays that you would expect rookies to make.
Can we ask to NEVER have a week seven bye again?
Since the fourth quarter against the Packers, Keenum wouldn't have been much worse in the passing game. Yes, we would have missed the bombs but maybe he wouldn't have thrown straight to defensive players.
Of course I'm not advocating benching him but he's been painful for five quarters now.
I would prefer him to pull out of Kyle Brandt's podcast and just go persona non grata other than official engagements this week, though. Get grounded again.