The backups looked like backups last night.
- He's a great story and I do think he's a capable NFL player but Hamlin is not a NFL starter. When you're going against Trevor Lawrence or Tua, you can get away with it. When you're going against top tier quarterbacks and offenses, your safety play has to be better. And he was also just caught out of position too frequently.
- The linebackers at least have some hope with Bernard coming back. Maybe Milano comes back too but you can't count on that. But Bernard/Williams is just so different than Williams/whoever
- The defensive line LOOKED like it was full of backups last night and that's the most disappointing thing to me. Going against a weakened offensive line and you can't pressure the quarterback or slow down Henry before he hits the second level. If you aren't pressuring the quarterback and you give him time, you'll always find holes in our zone defense especially without Taron.
- The corners were fine I guess. Hard to cover guys for as long as they had to when our line couldn't get pressure and the safeties were our of position. We needed them to make a big play or two though.
- We got out coached and outschemed on the defensive side too.
Offensively man I think the two punts by McD were HUGE decisions that killed us. You're playing the Ravens in Baltimore in primetime. Don't give them the ball back for free. I also think we stopped using motion to our advantage and Brady was way too predictable. I don't mind the underneath passing approach with a run game to support it but we didn't do anything to give the Ravens confusing looks. Coleman dropping that deep ball was also killer. I won't even start on the trick play.
Everything went wrong last night and if two or three decisions/plays go different, you're still in the game despite the final score. I'm not worried. But that can't happen again. Good teams bounce back. Houston is a tough game on the road but you have to bounce back.