Week 4 TakeAways.
A California Classic.
Stafford threw five interceptions in the first two games. Stafford showed Restraint Against The Cardinals Or At Least Grace. He Saves Kliff Kingsbury's Offense An Extra Set Of Downs By Playing with Some Punctuality. I Think That Speaks More To The Cardinals Struggles On Defense Than An Overall Reflection Of The Rams Offensive Stability. Coming The Season, The Cardinals Defense Had Questions Just About Everywhere, But I Don’t Think Anyone Suspected This Of A Tarmac For Offensive Flight Plan.
The Cardinals Offense Took Opportunities Off The Board By Exhausting Three Digit Play Drives and dominated Ball Control. But Stafford Doesn’t Shy Away From Putting The Ball In Harm's Way. He’ll Put One Or Two Pass On The Mites Of Defenders Per Game; the Cardinals Just Starved Him Of Chances By Reducing Stafford To 25 Attempts. Stafford Almost Planted A Pick I The Endzone. The Pass Ricocheted Off Of The Hands Of Marco Wilson With All Robinson As The Target. After The Which The Rams Switched The Self Destruct Mode Off On Stafford. The Connection With Robinson(Or Anyone Else) Continues To Look Faint; Cooper Kupp Continues To Dominate The Direction Of The Teams Offense. Last Season Kupp Finished His Historic Season Recording One Of Football Outsiders' Highest Receiving Plus-Minus Differentials Over His Teammate In The History Of The Websites Recording. This Season He Accounts for 37.7% Of His Stafford’s Targets, the Highest In The League According To lineup.com. Good On Kupp, He's Still Threading The Seams From Last Season; All That Record-Breaking Triple Crown Stuff.
The Problem With The Cure By Limitation Approach, The Rams, Have Taking Under, The Result However Positive Can Only Last So Long. Last Season The Limited Jamie’s Winston Early On. Before His Injury, The Saints Has The Worse Passing Offense In The League, But We’re Five And Two, And Winston Had A 14:3 Touchdown Interception Before The Knee Injury. This Season The Saints Have To Pass More With More Stretch Play Ability Outside; Winston’s Numbers Are up, 858 yards with a 63.5 completion percentage, four TDs But So Are His Negative Plays, and five interceptions through Three Games. Last Week Winston Had 41 Pass Attempts, In A Game. That Figure Would Have Accounted for Half Of His Attempts All Last Year.
The Rams Defense Forced The Cardinals Into long Distance, 65 Yard Score, Drives On The Other Side Of The Ball.
I am speaking Of Quarterbacks Not afraid To Throw The Ball Out Of On A Limb.
The Only Other NFL Quarterback With A Fiercer Rivalry With Ball Security In, One Jimmy Garoppolo. Fresh Off of Clipboard Holding Duties And Back Under Pressure. The Bizarreness Of the Sarfty On Sunday Night Got Lost In The “Orlovsky-Ness“ Of All Of the Nonsense. Garropolo Threw A Pick To A Outside Linebacker Bradley Chubb. Jimmy looked like he’d never practiced a seven-step drop to a quick Out Before.
I Find Eerie Watching The Niners And Rams Face-Off.
The Shanahan Lineage Tied The Two Teams Like A Chinese Finger Trap. All assimilated Between The Two: scheming, Play Calls, and Talent allocations. Monday Night's Game Reminded Me Of A Scorpion Versus Subzero Fight. Uncanny Resemblance With a Palette Swap Splitting. Defensively Their stars Stack Similarly. Defensive Line, Linebacker And Secondary. The Niners Were Just Faster. “You Can Smell A Rat When It Comes To Those Things,” He Said. Hufanga On His Big Play Interception “I Saw Difficulty Release Than I'm Used To.”(ESPN/Ap). A lot of These “Educated Guesses “Took Place On Both Sides—Rookie Derion Kendricks Caught A Similar Beat On A Ball Earlier In The Game—The Niners Just Won The Coin Toss On Bang-Bang Plays On Monday.
On Monday, The Niners Want To Operate Out Of The Shotgun, The Rams Feasted, And Famine son Stafford’s Arm. Both Teams Winded Up Their Star Wide Receivers And Watched Them Go. The Niners Offense Has Long To Feel The Build of A Explosive Play All Season. After That Offensive Glaring Contest Lose To Denver, Kyle Shanahan Found A New Play Calling Cap Or Dusted Off The Old One. Shanahan Remembered How To Use His Players. No Need For Trickery Or Deception, Fluff, and Flamboyance; Just Runs, And Some Pitch And Catch, Read And React Actions.
Up By One With Ball Going Into Half Time, The Niners Wanted To Seize Momentum And Not Cease Up In The Moment, Break Out The Deebo. On A Quick Dig Route From 2x2 Levels Concepts(Or Lower Version Of Scissor Concepts), Deebo Glanced Off Of A Rubbed And Stole The Ball From A Defender. Just The Ball Enter Their Gravity. From Then On, Instinct Took Over In The Open. Like A Gazelle He Dodge and Swerve Vying Tacklers. One Tackle Attempt Left Deebo More Confused About The defender's Intentions. "Yeah, I don't know what he was doing out there," Entering The Game, Deebo Lead The League With Miss Tackles Force By A Wide Receiver With Eight. The Niners Had Mostly Deployed Him As A Running back. He was entering The Game After Sundays Tally. He Forced at least Five On That Play.
Next, Gen. Stats Clocked Deebo For 52 of 57 receiving yards On The Ground after the catch + 51 Above Expectation Based On The Position Of Defenders. His Mentality As A Runner Makes Him A Menace In The Open Field. Not Especially Fast But Stalking.
Defensive Back Fear Tackling Him High But Going Cut Down Tackles Shrink Their Chances Nabbing In The Open Field. Deebo Took The Smooth Like His Dior Jordan Cleats For A touchdown A 49ers lead of 14-6.
Both Defenses Made Plays One Defense Made The Difference.
The Rams Looked Like A Young Sasuke Trying To Chidori His Way Through Gaara’s Barrier. Charging Up And Striking But Never Any Penetration. The Niners Had Limited Success On Third Down 5-15. Sean McVay’s Offense Ran 73 Plays For 257 Yards(200 Passing), 3.5 Yards Per Play, and No Success In The Red Zone. Both teams thrive On Generating YAC, Yards After Catch, And TheGot Got Bones And Skins Tonight.
That Defense, The “Heat Seeking Missile,” That’s Foremost Appellative For The Niners. Notice No Plural, “Missiles.” Twice Now—Once For Niners All world Linebacker Fred Warner (Given To Him After He Ran Over Joey Bosa) and Once For Niners Talona Hufanga—the Phrase Has Come To Describe The Controlled Abandon Of A Niners’ Player. Monday Night The Lights Shifted To Hufanga. The Former fifth Round Pick Coming Out Of USC One Of Lines Of His Scouting Report Read; “Sees breaks coming but can't find the burst to cover them.” He Covers Nearly Every Break He Saw Against The Rams. He Read The Scouting Report. Mathew Stafford Dropback And Glance At Cooper Kupp And Hufanga Broke On It. Interception Return For A House Call. Jimmy G Didn’t Fray From Putting The Ball In Danger, Only Dodging Interception(s) More Because The Rams Are A Familiar Foe; “Nobody Can Read The Niners Like They Do” Always Peeking To Steal A Glimpse Of Where The Ball Will Go Honestly Base Off Of Formation, Blocking Assignments and Tendencies. Follow The Pulling Guards. Deebo Finished With six catches for 115 yards. Jimmy G Pulled Out His Seventh Win Against The Rams. The Narrative On Him Hasn’t Changed, But The Subscription To The Niners Super Bowl Ticket Has Started To Calcify.
“You Have To Ride The Highs and Lows… That’s How You Find Success.”
His Counterpart, Cooper Kupp, had 14 Catches for 122 Yards. Kupp Kirby Sucked In 19 Targets, And The Rams Are Getting The Most Of That Extension They Served Him. Everyone’s Still Waiting For That “Hyped Up” Allen Robinson Return To Form. It’s That Old Slim Shady, “It’s The Return Of The … Or Waits…” Kliff Kingsbury Has A lot Of Flak And Pressure Coming At Him. Seemingly The Only More Scurrilous About Cardinals Coach New Contract Extension Off-season The Offense He Designed That Looks. Reductive To The One He Flexed Out Last Season. The Cardinals Are 1-2, And His Air Raid Offense Looks Like He Hasn’t Seen A “Flight Plan” Since Week 9 Last Season. Flight Plan? Im Pounding Out 4,000 A “Piece,” I’m Digging A Bit.
“It’s just bad football.” Kyler Murray—Master Of Mediation— Had Only Terse Remarks When Addressing The Media. Neither He Nor Kliff Kliffbury Seemed Too Keen To Dwell on Struggles Of The Offense. They Both Shared Seeming Stoic, Almost Disinterested Responses. Surely Things, Somewhere, In The Offenses Process Will Change, But They’re Not Sharing Any Glimpses Under The Hood.
Last Season The Cardinals Propagating One Of The Best Offense Early Last Season, They Both Know The Concerns Won't Go Away Until A Turn Around Appears In The Clouds, Like A PLANE or a Savior.
No one Figured Out How To Separate Play CALLING from Quarterback From Wide Receiver From Results, But In That Chain of Transactions, The Cardinals Have A Misfire.
Kyler And Kingsbury Are Pleading The Fifth; they Don’t Have The Answers(Or At least They Aren't Sharing Answers) For The Atrocities They’ve Tried to Disguise As Football.
The Cardinals tried To Kick In The Throttle On The Offense Against The Rams. Results 3 and Out, three and Out… Pause, Short Intermission, three and Out. And The Gear Just won't Crank Out Of Neutral. Kyler Murray Pilots The Offense Almost Exclusively Out Of Shotgun Because Of The Whole Height Thing Limits The Cardinals In The Run Game. The Cardinals Are Trapped, Relegated To Simple, Banal “Option” Run Concepts Because Kyler Can’t Play Under Center. I Think Teams And Players Are “Catching On” To Him. Murray Struggled Greatly Without Deandre Hopkins, And The Sequel To the Last Season Ending Picks Up Right Where Things Left Off like The Last Jedi. Hi Against Zone Looks—Defensive Preference For Murray—Teams Sit Back and Let Murray Pick His Spots. According to the football Outside Database, Murray Excelled at Hitting Those Little Underneath curl Routes, And He’s Continued To Reap Chunk Plays. What Made This Proclivity For underneath Stuff Work So Well With Hopkins, The Elite Wide Receivers Ability To Create After The Catch. the Last Two Season Hopkins Has to Brandish a Positive Figure In Avg.
YAC Above Expectation A Next Gen Stat that Measure The Difference Yards after Catch And Expected Yards After The Catch. Hopkins Didn’t Post A Crazy Figure abut Thus Far, none Of The Top Receivers Have A Positive Number In That Area. Recently Former NFL Running back LeSean McCoy Delivered Some Scathing Rebuke towards Murray And The Dangling Modification Of the “Streetball” Style. As Far As Reading Coverage Goes, It’s Possible Murray Struggles Reading Defense Pre-Snap To Post Snap. Given His Physical Limitation. But The Criticism Itself, Mostly Over Blown. On The game Tying Scatter, Murray Spends Ample Time In The “Pocket” Directing Receivers Before going Off Script, Improving And Taking Another Avenue To The Goal Line And Touchdown.
Against The Panthers Sunday, He Had The “Him” Him-Ing. A Win Against The Panthers won't Shift The Scales As Far Adjustment For Competition Goes But A Win They Most Definitely Needed. The Cardinals Got Wide Receiver Rondale Moore Back From Injury, Giving Them A Healthy Body Of “Karibohs” To Mix and Match All Over, But Today The Run Landed, Some What. The Team Managed 132 yards On The Ground and Ran James Connor To The Grain To Finish The Game. Murray rAcked A Short Game. Only 207 yards Passing and two touchdowns, One Quick Dash To The Endzone On The ground. The Cards Came Into The Game Leading The League In Fourth Down Converted (14) Failed At Two Attempts In The First Half. Sustain Drives Early And Often Have Continued To Plague The Cardinals offense Early As They Continue To Tread Water. Not Too Much Treading In Carolina. The Panthers Offense Generated Nine Points. Baker Mayfield, Whose Name Only Seems To Come Under The Most Ignominious Situations, Finished With 22/38, nine of which were Targets To Christian McCaffrey For 81, Of Mayfield’s 180 Yards. Unfortunately, McCaffrey Plays Running back, But Against The Cardinals Defense, The Rush Didn’t Fly. The Panthers Had Forty Yards As A Team Rushing. Hand To The cardinals For Keeping The Games Close. The Panthers have Nothing Going For Them On Offense Or Defense and what Matt Rule Believes.
The Commanders Instagram, Yes That’s All I do, Instagram And Copy, Copy— As I Continue
The Commander's Instagram Page Dropped a Preview Of Their All Black Zuni’s On Thursday, The Feature Athlete, Running-back Antonio Gibson. That Four picture Slide Are The Most I’ve Seen Of AG this Season, Honestly. After Playing Like A Feature Back For The Commanders Last Season Going For 1037 yards In 16 Games, Gibson Fell Nearly Off The Depth Chart At Running Back With The Arrival Of Rookie Brian Robinson. With Robinson, unfortunately, Sideline Gibson Took The NUMBER one Spot Back, But He’s Done Nothing, Or The Commanders Have done Nothing with Him There.
Through Three Games, He’s Played More Like a Writing Credit And Less Than A Feature. You See What I Did There. His Forty Carries Are Well Off His Pace Of 258 last Season. Yards Before Contact are Down, So are Yards After Leaving Him With A Middling 3.1 Yards Per Carry. Two Matters Are Nipping At The Tail Of This tail Backs Production. The Commanders Have Many Mouths To Feed On Outside In Terry McClaurin, Curtis Samuel, and Rookie Jahan Dotson, All Fighting For Targets. The Commanders Lost Chief Run Blocker Brandon Screff In Free Agency That Means Those Holes And Pathways Come In Sparingly. The Commander offensive Line Dropped From Number One In ESPN’s Team Rush Win Rate In 2021 To 27th Through Three Games So Far.
Offensive Coordinator Scott Turner Wants To Run His Offense Through Terry Mclaurin. He's McClaurin Build For The Race But His Numbers Are Down Some Thus Far:(McLaurin has 21 targets, 12 catches, 235 yards, and a touchdown in three games total.) more Of Reflection Of Passing Figures Suffering Across The League In The Early Games. What’s More, Going Deep. Teams Are Playing Deep Shells At Higher Rate, Taking Away A Favorite Look Of The Commanders. The Commanders Seldom Use Play Action To Stun Linebackers Briefly. Carson Wentz And Scott Turner Took Advantage Of An Over Aggressive Jaguars Defenders In Week 1 With Play-Action Calls, but Nothing Of The Such Since. Play action. Create “Space” Between The Line And The Defenders. For Quarterbacks to Operate In —More Opening More For Error And Operation. The Commanders Offensive Line Got The “Too Small” Hand Flex By The Eagles Defensive Lineman. The Eagles Are One The Best Pass Rushing units In The League(67 Pressure On The Year, According To PFFs Tally), And The Commanders won't See The Eagles For Seven Weeks. In A Plot Twist Straight Of An Adams Family Episode, The commanders Get The Cowboys. The Boys Are Fresh Off Of Remodeling The Giant's Pocket and The G-Mens Passing Offense By Generating The Most Pressure In A Game(27 QB pressures and five sacks Per NFL Stats), According To The Athletic Dan Quinn And The Cowboys Stayed Primarily In Their Base Defense, Rushing four Or Less Most Of The Night In Monday And Still Pushed A Pressure of 43.5% On Daniel Jones. I Can’t Say Off The Top of My Head Where Dallas Stood In Pressure rate for Two Weeks—They Didn’t Cook The Bucs With Pressure—The Cowboys Dropping Dynamite, Bullying” An Already Caved Feeble Giants Bottom Ranked Offensive Doesn’t Move The Impact Needle Up To Chords. According To PFFs Tracking, The Cowboys Have 65 Pressures On The Season, 13 Pressures Against The Bucs they 52, Between The Bengals and Giants. Im Not Saying I've cracked “The Da Vinci Code” Code On The Cowboy's Pass Rush, But Playing a Poor Offensive Line In More Cases Than Not Gives Your Pass Rush A Elemental Average, An Attack Boost. ALL things Equal, How Well Does The Cowboy's Pass Rush Perform? The Boys are A MEDIOCRE-run Team, Mostly Due To technique. Saquon Gashed them On Monday Because “He's Back,” The Cowboy's Edges Tends To Over Pursue, And The Interior Rush Has A Soft Spot Like The Pillsbury Doughboy. The Secondary, Aren’t Too Strong In Run Support Either. But Covering Deep, Diggs Can Get There. After Slow The Interception, I Mean Quarterbacks Challenging Him But It’s Fall Teams want To Score More Points And Interception Are Coming in Season. Could Scott Turner Scheme Up a game plan To Attack The Cowboy's Defense? No.
The scheme. The Offensive Line, Forget About It. Red-zone Opportunity, Nah Don’t pass. Go—consistent Drives? No, Third And 10 Yards Plus. The Commanders Secondary Burn It. On Defense, the Cowboys Didn’t Wait To Rumble With Commanders Offensive alone; they Brought The Weight And Kept The Down Run Stuffers Near The Line. “ See all The Guys Up In The Gaps Both Of The A-Gaps Are Taking” Commentator Rang. The Cowboys Back Out On That Play, But Not Often.
Are The Commanders Had A Explosive Run Early, But The Starter Stuffing Those Run Gaps Once The commander Was Forced Into Obvious Passing Situations And Couldn’t Find Consistency. Carson Wentz—Mister Bad Body Language, Bad Postering—Appeared At Times As If He’d Never Held A Football Before In Life Or Lead An Offense. Constantly looking Downtrodden, Almost Disinterested In Leading Team. More Of The Attitude Things That Rolled Him Out Of Philly, And Indy. He’s a 29 Million Dollar Quarterback Who Today Had A Harder time Playing The Position Than Possibly His Career Back Up Counterpart. The Commanders Offense Has Scored 18 Points In The Pass Two Games After Scoring 49 In The First two. Penalties And Poor Officiating Prove Consequential. The Commanders Fall To 1-3 And Last In The Division. I Just Had A Feeling; After That Pick Entering The Second Half, Nothing Good Would Come from The commander's Offense.
The Cowboys Improve 3-1, Cleaving At The Heels Of The Eagles. Michael Gallup Returned From Injury And Caught A Touchdown. The Defense Controlled The Game. Washington Leading Receiver Terry McClaurin Held Down Like A Straight Jacket; Two Catches, 6 Target 15 Plus(Exact Figure Available Yet) Just Fifteen Yards, Under A Yard Per Route Run. Easier opponents In the Coming Week Should Give The Commanders Some Much Needed Chicken Soup. The Titans Are Tough Out For Any Team, The Bears—Who Don’t Seem Interested In Winning A Week After Could Put The Commanders Back In Order.
