SoCal Pat

1. The defense appears to be even better than last year. It's keeping offenses off the field, it's creating more turnover chances and it's keeping mistakes to a minimum. If they continue to play like this, we'll should be competitive in every game we play. That's comforting. 2. Drew is starting to look like his old self, and he's re-establishing a good vibe with Moulds. His completion pctg. the last two games has been very good. 3. Our O-line appears incapable of doing anything well on a consistent basis. This is a major concern -- we're not running well and we're giving up sacks at inopportune times. 4. Special teams was extraordinarily bad tonight. They've been very good on kick coverage for the last season-and-a-half, and wasn't this Clements' first action at fielding punts this year? We must've really had a brain fart on the punt block, because those things simply aren't supposed to happen in the NFL. Better now than in the regular season, I suppose. 5. Between the 20s, our offense has been pretty good. In the red zone, we have to improve. I'd like to know what gives there.

... is that it happened to a guy that, if all goes right this year, wouldn't have seen much playing time anyway. And Travis Brown has some game experience, and has looked half-decent in preseason. TD might pick up a more seasoned vet anyway. If you put a gun to my head and told me this injury would have to happen to either Losman or Lee Evans, my choice would be Losman every time. This isn't a horrible blow for this year -- providing Drew doesn't stink it up. More conservative play-calling this year alone should go a long way to keep that from happening two years in a row.