I hate having to go straight to bed at 12:30 after a game like this. I couldn't sleep. I was so pissed off and couldn't stop going over all the ways we could have won the game. Must have been 3am before I got any sleep.
Frankly I'm amazed by how much rope Vance is getting on here from some because he was missing an average CB2 and a slot corner that played 51 of 82 snaps in his last game.
Murphy has been playing well, but Vance had Thompson back and Simmons playing more snaps. Kirkpatrick has been average and shouldn't be tough to replace with little drop off. Vance failed there before the game by calling up Whittaker instead of Amukamara.
Let's be clear. Joseph's game plan stunk.
He's playing a rookie in his 2nd game. Missing the starting and backup RB and with a rookie LT coming back from injury. And he barely blitzed. He just rushed 4 four on most downs.
If your weakened at DB then you take them out of the game and stop the QB throwing comfortably. Especially when you know their run game is dead.
When he did blitz it largely worked, which made the failure to do it more often all the more confusing. Especially in the first half, where Vance just sat off and let Tua pick us off and get comfortable.
Unforgivable. Any DC in football would have been coming into that game with a heavy blitz game plan.
Of course, ultimately Kliff is the HC. He decides what happens on both sides of the ball and the buck stops with him for letting Vance play that way.
But thats all the blame Kliff should be getting. I'm also surprised how much anti Kliff there is on here today. We put up 31 points on a defense averaging 18. Sub 15 with both starting corners.
If you said to me pre game we would score 31 then I'd say "Thank you very much, 31 should win us the game easily".
Was there some questionable play calls? Sure. As Harry said there were too many run on 2nd and 8 for my liking which left us with too many 3rd and 4th down conversions but we generally got them and yes, the final drive was poor after a nice 35 yard pass to Kirk he went too conservative and tried to be smart running down the clock before we were inside comfortable FG range. We needed 10 more yards before he did that.
But we never should have been in that position. Even with the Fumble return Miami should not have score more than 24. That was not a good offense.
Frankly I'm amazed by how much rope Vance is getting on here from some because he was missing an average CB2 and a slot corner that played 51 of 82 snaps in his last game.
Murphy has been playing well, but Vance had Thompson back and Simmons playing more snaps. Kirkpatrick has been average and shouldn't be tough to replace with little drop off. Vance failed there before the game by calling up Whittaker instead of Amukamara.
Let's be clear. Joseph's game plan stunk.
He's playing a rookie in his 2nd game. Missing the starting and backup RB and with a rookie LT coming back from injury. And he barely blitzed. He just rushed 4 four on most downs.
If your weakened at DB then you take them out of the game and stop the QB throwing comfortably. Especially when you know their run game is dead.
When he did blitz it largely worked, which made the failure to do it more often all the more confusing. Especially in the first half, where Vance just sat off and let Tua pick us off and get comfortable.
Unforgivable. Any DC in football would have been coming into that game with a heavy blitz game plan.
Of course, ultimately Kliff is the HC. He decides what happens on both sides of the ball and the buck stops with him for letting Vance play that way.
But thats all the blame Kliff should be getting. I'm also surprised how much anti Kliff there is on here today. We put up 31 points on a defense averaging 18. Sub 15 with both starting corners.
If you said to me pre game we would score 31 then I'd say "Thank you very much, 31 should win us the game easily".
Was there some questionable play calls? Sure. As Harry said there were too many run on 2nd and 8 for my liking which left us with too many 3rd and 4th down conversions but we generally got them and yes, the final drive was poor after a nice 35 yard pass to Kirk he went too conservative and tried to be smart running down the clock before we were inside comfortable FG range. We needed 10 more yards before he did that.
But we never should have been in that position. Even with the Fumble return Miami should not have score more than 24. That was not a good offense.
