Good to See Them, But...
More of the same from the 1st teamers. Poor pass protection with the dink and dunk offense, and run D is still pretty soft. Overall, I think they played ok at best, but this shows how much they still need to improve on the OL. Glad I watched, but I didn't see an improved anything. Typical 1st preseason game, and good thing there's plenty of time before the "real" game 1.
Go Vikes!
I see 8-8 again, and it has nothing to do with a meaningless preseason game. To me Zimmer is a DC whose ceiling is just that - DC, not HC. He's good at it, no doubt, and 11-5 was really about defense and some yeoman work from a beginning-to-fade Adrian Peterson. But he is too conservative (like a good DC should be), and his hires on the offensive coaching side have not been stellar. We've got a conservative, sputtering offense that reflects a head guy who until recently figured his only responsibility there was to hire a buddy and let the offense be out of sight/out of mind while he tinkered on defense. It's not a winning formula, and I don't see much of an upgrade on offense at this point that tells me 8-8 isn't the ceiling.
@"prairieghost" said: A pretty disappointing outing in general. For guys like Tom Johnson to go out and tell the world that this defense is the best in the league makes me want to crack them all over the head. Shut your mouth and get it done on the field. Embarrassing. No run D again from the 1s. As for the O, it was pathetic as always (other than the short passes to Dalvin). I feel like being "that fan" this morning--bitching about everything (could it be the fact that I'm having issues at work today?? perhaps...) and finding nothing to smile about.At least it's Friday, Prairieghost. :)
Run defense and Remmers ole'ing speed rushers had me getting aggravated. O-Line getting Cook hit behind the line is a recurring nightmare as well. If Cook can't pop one with his quickness, McKinnon has no shot. Run defense bothered me because it wasn't a runner squeaking through, massive holes and defenders trying to recover because they're out of position. Preseason game 1 at it's best lol. I did like the punter though...
Preseason game 1..... not really much to take away from it. They looked brutal on offense and run defense was terrible.
Good thing about preseason... it means nothing in regards to the standings. If they look that bad in 4 weeks then I will worry. As of right now I'm not overly concerned.
Snippet from here:
Zim’s assessments: Zimmer improved to 13-1 in the preseason
since his hire in 2014, but there were multiple things he didn’t like in
the exhibition game.
“We’ve still got a lot of work to do,”
Zimmer said in his opening comments. “My expectations for this team is a
lot higher than that. We’ve got to get back to work. I thought the
special teams played well tonight. We flipped the field position, did a
good job with the kicks.
“I didn’t feel like we covered well
enough defensively, especially early in the ball game,” Zimmer added.
“We gave up too many catches. Offensively, the two sacks were
disappointing, but we only had three penalties tonight, and they had
10.”
The Bills won the coin toss and deferred, and Zimmer wanted to see his offense get points on its first possession. A sack of Sam Bradford on a third-and-7, however, ended the initial quest for points.
“I
expect us to go out, take the ball down and score, and we didn’t do
that,” Zimmer said. “We had about a six-play drive or something and the
sack stopped the first one.
He also saw room for improvement on run defense.
“We
had a couple of pressures tonight where we ran up the field and it was a
run and we allowed runs to occur, so that’s an easily correctable thing
that we’ll get corrected,” Zimmer added.
@"ThunderGod" said: Note to self. Remain calm this year. Breathe.https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=utube+football+fan+meltdown&view=detail&mid=D01EAFACA9CB9A00C24DD01EAFACA9CB9A00C24D&FORM=VIRE
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That dude was way calmer than I was in '98, when Anderson missed that FG. That guy took his stuff down off the way with care; I destroyed stuff.
It's one preseason game, no need to panic. The main concern is some sort of stability on the OL, of course that is an annual concern. Will it ever change, damn I hope so. Looking forward to the whole team playing better next week
SKOL!!!
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