Comments on: First Quarter Offensive Rankings – Impact Drives Per Game

By: ramble914

ramble914 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:26:46 +0000

As far as impact drives go, a few that stand out the most to me are the ones in the second half of the Cardinals game. Yea, it sucked that they scored 21 unanswered points in the third quarter, but we came back with some impressive drives that put the game out of reach.

By: Odenkirk

Odenkirk — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:42:04 +0000

Pennington’s first year in Schott’s system was his most adventurous. It was a brand new system to Chad and he was also recovering from an injury and he was able to pick it up pretty well.

Now of course, Favre didn’t have a full offseason to learn it, but he’s now had 2 full months of “studying” to get a good sense of it. Now that we’re in October we should be able to incorporate some offensive trickery and different formations into the mix, especially with a veteran such as Favre.

By: billvv

billvv — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:55:57 +0000

Two points: One, four games with teams higher than us and six games with teams lower than us. Two, BF said he likes to see the defense in a static position, thus the current lack of motion. No telling if that will change as the season goes on.

By: bradbaxter

bradbaxter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:17:20 +0000

Spent – Farve is too new and uncomfertable with the offense to be doing all the crazy shifts and whatnot that Shotty did with Pennington. Besides, the motion and odd formations were meant to keep the defensive front seven on their heels to compensate for what was an awful offensive line.

By: spent

spent — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:23:00 +0000

I wonder if TJ can take a snap?

Question: How often have we seen Jones and Washington in the backfield together? We’re all tired of seeing TJ run up the middle for two yards. Why not let Favre read the coverage, then decide who to hand-off to. If they’re stacked in the box, give it to Leon to run around the outside. Otherwise, let Jones pound it. At this point, it seems like teams read it too well — like when we bring in Brad Smith.

With the league turned so upside down (see Miami), I’d like to see some of that creative Shotty playcalling that we saw in 2006.

Of course, if any of the above was viable, I’d be an offensive coordinator. Mostly, I feel like Sonya — “You can’t bring the draw on third and long, Sonya!”

ha. that’s a funny commercial.

By: nyckage

nyckage — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:55:42 +0000

just wait till next week when everything clicks together we will be awesome and no more bringing in the punter like 50 times a game now we have a good passing game but i think mangini is gonna do something to make TJ happy , we all expect him to do that early in the game , we know him to well but I have no problem with the the running game is a mess which im sure the Jets used the bye week to fix , You well i was watching the Giants game they said that O line is the best because they know each other so well the been with each other for so long , well its gonna take some time for our guys to get into synch