Positives
1. Slayton
2. Jones
3. Thomas
4. Lawrence
5. Peppers as a PR
Negatives
1. Peppers as a safety
2. Zeitler
3. Fleming
4. Holmes
5. Barkley's pass blocking
Barkley overall had shit numbers, but there's not a running back in the league that could have run behind this line against that defense tonight.
Peppers just doesn't do much of anything on defense.
Jones is the goods. Some things to work on, but if they surround him with a good line he will be a pro bowl level QB.
Lawrence by far the best player we have on defense.
Thomas was solid for his first game against that defense. Slayton keeps on producing.
Zeitler is a big concern for me. Holmes struggled big time but that's likely a result of no pre-season games and being a rookie.
Tough to make any judgements about Joe Judge after this game. They seemed like they were prepared and played hard. No real in game situations to critique, very vanilla situations as far as game strategy goes.
Garrett was decent. Hard to call a great game when you have zero ability to run the football and you're playing a terrific defense to begin with.
I'm not encouraged or discouraged by this start. About what I expected. It's wearing on all of us watching this team do nothing but lose for a while now.
Go Giants
Martinez looked good. And Ballantine needs to sit.
We are in Year One of a 3-year build.
Ballantine was game but got strategically picked upon, with experience and confidence I think he will be okay.
Though Holmes played much better than Bradberry who made one nice PD but was constantly out of position and getting picked
Martinez was all over the place
Graham seemed to lose rhythm on his def play calling and stopped blitzing.
Did not like Garrett's red zone play calling.
Thought Carter played a very good game, also.
Gates got his ass kicked all night, but since it was his 1st game no need to be mad about it.
I also think LT Villanueva got away with blatant holding all night. Even on LW's sack he had both shoulder pads gripped tight.
Martinez is a stud at POA and shows great range. He looked mcluch better than littleton who many of us wanted instead in FA
2. Thomas. Looked stout
3. Jones has great command of offense and was asked to do alot with no run game against a great defense
4. Slayton is a gamer
5. Coaching was MUCH better. Not a single head scratching call and we had a ton of those under shurm and mcadoo. Loved.up.tempo look
Negatives
1. Interior OL looked weak
2. Run blocking and run game
3. Ballentine wow...rough time but still young
4. Early drops hurt us, engram.looked bad
5. Need better WR play outside slay
But again, I think we played the best defense in football and moved it at times. We just could NOT run the ball at all and that has a lot to do with rookie LT; new OC Gates; and Fleming a journeyman. I couldn't focus on Zeitler but he was facing a stud.
He picked up several rushers early on, and one of the plays that Herbstriet criticized him for wasn't his assignment. He already went to block an interior rusher before the DB came to the backfield. On a DB blitz from 10+ yards out, that's on the QB to get the ball out. You've got more men rushing than blockers
He picked up several rushers early on, and one of the plays that Herbstriet criticized him for wasn't his assignment. He already went to block an interior rusher before the DB came to the backfield. On a DB blitz from 10+ yards out, that's on the QB to get the ball out. You've got more men rushing than blockers
He had one bad one that stands out
Agree. I thought Holmes played well in the first half.