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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Week 5 Review – Oakland @ San Francisco
October 8, 2006
By Rupert Pollard
The Good
Finally, we got the first three completions to Lamont Jordan of the season, and added one to Justin Fargas to make it a total of four completions to the RB’s in four games. Well, it’s a start.
Two impressive fourth and short defensive stands in the first half.
A beautiful 2-minute drill run by Andrew Walter. But more than just the drive, I was impressed that Tom Walsh was on the sideline getting point for point from Randy Moss about what he’s seeing on the field. I’ve always felt that knowing what’s happening on the front line is critical for a strategist.
San Francisco didn’t have much time or inclination in their last series of the first half, but we didn’t give up points at the end of a half for the first time this season.
Justin Fargas had some pretty impressive runs in the second half.
Outside of having his first throw tipped and intercepted, Tuiasosopo had an exceptional drive for a touchdown.
I’ll give San Francisco a slight benefit of the doubt, in their book the game was over, but we started to block pretty well late in the second half for both the run and the pass.
370 yards is our greatest offensive output of the season.
For the second week in a row we crossed the 100-yard rushing mark.
The Bad
The defense came out and gave up a 12-play 72-yard drive to open the game, including 8 rushes for 45 yards.
Moss dropped a touchdown and Randall Williams dropped a pass later in the same drive that would have likely led to a touchdown. Instead we collected a field goal. That was bad.
After an exceptional drive for a touchdown, Tuiasosopo led a herky-jerky drive that wound up with an interception.
Alright, we got four passes completed to the RB’s for a decent 15 yards, but the flubbed lateral to Lamont Jordan makes me wonder how much work we’ve really done on those. We had a total of five in five pre-season games. It looks like we’re still on that pace, and that’s bad.
It’s to be expected that a QB in his second start, and third significant playing time, will be inconsistent, but he’s got to get some help from the players around him. Spotty execution on offense is still making it difficult to keep drives alive.
Getting more than 200 yards passing is something for us to be excited about, but throwing four interceptions in the process is bad. Throwing for 216 yards and only giving up one sack are good things for our passing game, but that’s roughly the league average, and it took us 32 attempts to get there, that’s bad.
The Ugly
Lamont Jordan giving up on the lateral thrown by Walter. Can it get any worse than that? I don’t think so. But even though we dumped the ball off to the backs a couple times it doesn't look like we've done much work on it.
We gave up the ball five times in the game. If it wasn’t for Stanford Routt’s beautiful read, jump, and interception we’d have been minus 5 on the game, instead we were a much more (?) palatable minus four. Hideous.
Norv Turner knew exactly what Rob Ryan was going to do on third down and took advantage of it. Our aggressive defense ran themselves out of the play too often to stay off the field.
We didn’t beat our pathetic season average of 25:02 minutes of possession against San Francisco. That’s really ugly.
Week 5 Review – Oakland @ San Francisco
October 8, 2006
By Rupert Pollard
The Good
Finally, we got the first three completions to Lamont Jordan of the season, and added one to Justin Fargas to make it a total of four completions to the RB’s in four games. Well, it’s a start.
Two impressive fourth and short defensive stands in the first half.
A beautiful 2-minute drill run by Andrew Walter. But more than just the drive, I was impressed that Tom Walsh was on the sideline getting point for point from Randy Moss about what he’s seeing on the field. I’ve always felt that knowing what’s happening on the front line is critical for a strategist.
San Francisco didn’t have much time or inclination in their last series of the first half, but we didn’t give up points at the end of a half for the first time this season.
Justin Fargas had some pretty impressive runs in the second half.
Outside of having his first throw tipped and intercepted, Tuiasosopo had an exceptional drive for a touchdown.
I’ll give San Francisco a slight benefit of the doubt, in their book the game was over, but we started to block pretty well late in the second half for both the run and the pass.
370 yards is our greatest offensive output of the season.
For the second week in a row we crossed the 100-yard rushing mark.
The Bad
The defense came out and gave up a 12-play 72-yard drive to open the game, including 8 rushes for 45 yards.
Moss dropped a touchdown and Randall Williams dropped a pass later in the same drive that would have likely led to a touchdown. Instead we collected a field goal. That was bad.
After an exceptional drive for a touchdown, Tuiasosopo led a herky-jerky drive that wound up with an interception.
Alright, we got four passes completed to the RB’s for a decent 15 yards, but the flubbed lateral to Lamont Jordan makes me wonder how much work we’ve really done on those. We had a total of five in five pre-season games. It looks like we’re still on that pace, and that’s bad.
It’s to be expected that a QB in his second start, and third significant playing time, will be inconsistent, but he’s got to get some help from the players around him. Spotty execution on offense is still making it difficult to keep drives alive.
Getting more than 200 yards passing is something for us to be excited about, but throwing four interceptions in the process is bad. Throwing for 216 yards and only giving up one sack are good things for our passing game, but that’s roughly the league average, and it took us 32 attempts to get there, that’s bad.
The Ugly
Lamont Jordan giving up on the lateral thrown by Walter. Can it get any worse than that? I don’t think so. But even though we dumped the ball off to the backs a couple times it doesn't look like we've done much work on it.
We gave up the ball five times in the game. If it wasn’t for Stanford Routt’s beautiful read, jump, and interception we’d have been minus 5 on the game, instead we were a much more (?) palatable minus four. Hideous.
Norv Turner knew exactly what Rob Ryan was going to do on third down and took advantage of it. Our aggressive defense ran themselves out of the play too often to stay off the field.
We didn’t beat our pathetic season average of 25:02 minutes of possession against San Francisco. That’s really ugly.
