Most people seem to think it was avoiding contact. To me, it looked like a guy pressing to make a big play. Turn your volume down because this dope screams at the screen.
Look at Smith’s steps after the snap. He’s trying to wall the corner off. At no time does he concern himself fully with creating an angle to the sideline. Plus of course both Smith and Brown throw their hands up in frustration because they knew what was supposed to happen and that they had given him the chance to make a play. And then Sirianni went nuts on the sideline.
There were two spots off of AJ that he could have taken it, it would have been a close play -- the best option would have been off of AJ's right shoulder, but again he would have had to pay the price for going back to the middle. Even later in the run if he sets up to run outside and then cuts back to inside Smith then the defender would have been walled off enough. You have to at some point put your head down and go for the last 2 yards.
I have the weirdest sense of dread with this team being 5-0. I'm not sure they really LOOK like a 5-0 team.
The OL either isn't as good as I/we thought they'd be or Jalen is just taking too long to make decisions (or possibly a combination of the two?) because I feel like he's under more pressure than he was at times last year. I've got absolutely NOTHING to back that up, just a feeling.
Through 5 games, I continue to be NOT a fan of Brian Johnson at OC. Their Red Zone playcalling is just plain bad at times, and is being bailed out with the Brotherly Shove at times. We're too deep in to the season to do anything with it at this point, but I'm just done with him right now. The talent this team has on the offensive side of the ball, he's just not helping imo.
Loving the way Carter is playing, can't believe he ended up falling to 10. REALLY hope that he continues to be motivated and that he's learned his lesson from whatever happened that night while at Georgia.
Its a solid 5-0 but not a dominant 5-0 and there are some concerns that I hope can be fixed before the schedule gets tough. They do seem to follow a lot of last season where they lacked killer instinct and let teams hang around.
We're known as a running team but we don't act like we have embraced that identity, it's almost a dirty word.
Hurts doesn't seem to be on the same page with the OC, I'm not sure it falls 100% on the OC. Hurts still has issues with quick decision-making, vision, and locking on to primary reads. This hurts (no pun intended) us in the red zone when you need to make quick decisions.
It's becoming a little more evident that the Hurts we see now might not improve much more and never really become the consistent passer that he needs to be. This means once he gets older and his running ability becomes less dynamic he is going to start showing those flaws a lot more. He is a gamer, and he is going to do anything he can to win, but once those running abilities start to fade he doesn't have the passing game to will out a win.
