Skins-Jags Positives and Negatives

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Positives:
Love to see the next-man-up mentality and it work. Not just Cousins, but across the board with all the injuries.

Defense looked great. It was the Jags, so I'm not convinced they're a top 5 defense yet, but it was a good confidence builder for a team that needed one.

Our punter has a huge leg.

We have a punt returner that doesn't suck.

Jags defense was supposed to be their strong point, our offense was able to do whatever they wanted including run the ball at will.

No turnovers.

Good play calling.

Amerson is a beast. This will be on the good column more often than not all season.

Trent Ronbinson is a stud. Maybe not ready for full time safety duty, but he's a young guy worth paying attention to any time he gets playing time on defense.

Negatives:
Injuries. There were many of them and it's hard to watch, especially when Griffin started out looking so well and really needed to get his confidence back.

Trent Williams penalty - from where I sat it looked like an equipment problem and the ref flagged him for removing his helmet? Not really sure what happened there.

Hall penalty - I was coming around on Hall and then he does stupid crap like this. He needs to grow up. Hopefully he wont be needed next year and we'll be watching two young guys in Amerson and Breeland take over.

Rambo is awful. Not shocking, he's not only not a smart player but he's a dumb player. Dumb penalties, bad angles, lost in coverage. The story of his career to date, including preseason. All mental issues. You can't fix that, unfortunately. Waste of a pick. I want to believe otherwise, but watching him get two personal fouls for late hits in his rookie preseason game showed me he doesn't have the intelligence to play at this level. He's done nothing but continue to prove that's the case...

Forbath did't do one of the kick offs - do we have a problem at this position? What is going on here...

Niles Paul - for all his good play, he just has an issue with shining in big moments... he seems to, pardon the pun, drop the ball...