I honestly don’t know who to blame anymore. When Geno played today he looked good for the most part. Drew Lock looked terrible but you can’t expect him to be great. Our defense looks really solid and I can’t even blame Jason Myers for missing a 55 yarder. JSN Lockett and DK all played well, and so did our RBs. Are we just unlucky with injuries? Is Pete the problem? Or is Geno really what is holding us back?
Losing the starting QB and RB have a ripple effect.
But really, since the prime of Marshawn, we’ve been good. Not great.
The officials and Shane Waldron
Shane Waldron. Cannot adjust. He’s terrible. When he has time such as the first drive being a scripted drive he’s very good. As soon as the scripted plays are over he cannot overcome the defensive adjustments made. That’s been shown for multiple weeks now.
Geno Smith isn’t terrible but he’s very bad in crucial situation on average. He’s bad with clock management and makes costly mistakes such as bad interceptions, weird intentional grounding calls, and poor play selection.
Of the two Waldron is much worse and needs to be fired. However, Geno isn’t a franchise QB but he’s about average. Not sure what that means but I think that’s a fair assessment. He plays good ball for 2 quarters and bad ball for 2 quarters.
That game would’ve been won if Geno doesn’t go down.
Just bad injury luck, it is what it is. Easily a playoff team.
Since the prime of Lynch, we’ve been the same.
Good.
Not great.
I don’t think it has anything to do with Geno. There are 5 reasons why we lost today. 1. Penalties. 2. A couple of bad calls specifically the one at the goal line on Spoon. 3. Geno getting injured and not having him for almost a full quarter. 4. The miscommunication on the play before the would be game winning field goal. 5. Meyers missing the kick.
Look at the opening game script, and then look at the rest of the game. we were moving the pocket, avoiding the rush, using 12 and 13 personnel and the Rams didnt know how to defend it. after the first drive we were again predictable, often abandoning the run for no reason, then opting to take deep shots on 3rd and short and medium. When Drew lock, a backup QB game into the game, did we script him opportunities to succeed with short passes and a creative running game? nope, we decided 5 plays was enough to expect a guy off the bench to uncork a perfect deep ball. Shane Waldron has designed a great offense, and continually opens the game with absolutely beautiful scripts, then seemingly puts it all away and is scared to do anything the rest of the game. if you watch the tape in the last three drives there is no confusion, theres 5 rams defenders near every ball carrier. everyone knows what the fuck were going to do, because we decide, seemingly at random, to abandon what works for us.