Skins vs. Cards Positives + Negatives

[over the mountain]

cooley's defense film breakdown said that: (as best i can remember listening in the car)

jenkins and baker did a poor job of taking on their assignments against the cards and basically refused to take on the double team.

rak is doing the same power move every single time and that rak appears more focused on getting holding calls then sacks. rak is a pretty good player but not 11 mil type player

kerrigan is completely lost on stunt plays. he suggested switching sides w rak. (i personally believe rak tells the coaches he isnt comfortable going from the LE)

breeland and amerson are playing how you expect them to. breeland is playing like a 4th round rookie with upside. amerson is playing like a second year player.

clark - did not have a good game. poor tackling led to one TD, playing 20 yards off when an all out blitz was called and biggers was left on the right side defending 2 receivers but clark never came up to help at all.

merriweather - he is what he is.

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i didnt hear a lot of offense break down but

coaching - very bad. they need to give morris 25 plus touches. garcon is poor at getting separation on long pass plays but they keep calling those and not short to intermediate stuff for him.

trent - pro bowler caliber effort for a guy who was very much in doubt to play

kory - thinks he is a tremendous center, good vocals

polumbus - just cannot anchor and gets pushed back repeatedly. for a big guy he should have some pride and not get pushed around.

reed- quite amazing. has amazing first step/burst. runs probably the best routes of any nfl TE. was okay in run game.

d jax - gave him a low grade despite the big plays. sd his lack of even trying to block is becoming a big problem and its time for someone to say something bc his absolute lack of even trying is negatively effecting the plays/production of other players.

also sd the int where we did trips and tried to throw a short screen was absolutely on d jax for not even trying to fight to get into the spot that kirk is expecting him to get to. sd roberts did an okay not-so-great job of screening on that play but d jax didnt even try and he has to at least try and get to the spot to at least break the play up. just left kirk out to dry.

morris - was okay but helu had something like 36 snaps to morris' 29 (or some close number).

[SirLK26]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

<snip>also sd the int where we did trips and tried to throw a short screen was absolutely on d jax for not even trying to fight to get into the spot that kirk is expecting him to get to. sd roberts did an okay not-so-great job of screening on that play but d jax didnt even try and he has to at least try and get to the spot to at least break the play up. just left kirk out to dry.<snip>

Hmmm. In this breakdown of that play(scroll to the bottom), Mark Bullock says Cousins hesitated just a bit when he was supposed to throw, leading Jackson to hesitate instead of running full speed to where the ball was thrown. Cooley makes it sound like that play was totally on Jackson.