Alright, you guys probably expected me to be pissed that we won in this fashion and didn't blow the phins out, but I'm actually very pleased with the way it played out. I cannot think of a single other type of game that would spur more growth in character and confidence than this game did. It was a trap game, we weren't prepared, and we played like shit in all three facets and yet still hung in there and clawed our way back to victory. Yet another example how this team NEVER gives up and will fight it out to the end. This is why you never want to be in a close game with us, especially at home where we are now 8-0 second to Baltimore and we are 5-0 in overtime going from last year.
The biggest thing I take from this game is that I will finally say Kevin Kolb looks like a good QB. Laugh all you want. The fact is that for a change he did not solely rely on field position handed to him by our D or ST and actually fought his way down field in crunch time and made a clutch TD when the game was on the line in a 4th and 10 situation. He made his way down the field on other occasions and scored when we needed him to and all of this was amidst being sacked 8 freakin times. He kept his composure, he did not run in fear as he had last season, he just took it in stride and made big plays. Our struggles on offense can be attributed to the OL getting man handled and WR's dropping passes they could have caught, some of them on very big plays that would have allowed more scoring. He is looking really good this season and for once, I feel alright with our QB situation.
It's the OL that concerns me and that was the case before the season started when our starting OT's went down for the season. Miami's pass rush finally made our rookie tackles look how I expected them to every week. Not sure how they performed so well against the Eagles and Sea Chickens D. Wake just abused poor Massie. That's ok, rookies need time to grow. Good lord do we need Levi's run blocking, we just cannot run against any body right now and that's a concern.
Our defense, while it's true that we just had an off game all around on the team (except for Kolb and Roberts), the biggest reason we couldn't generate the pass rush you saw the last few weeks was the absence of Dockett, with a little credit to Phin's OL. Missing a key player that's a complete beast always hurts, but I had hoped we would be alright because we have decent depth and said depth held up just fine against Philly when Dockett went out late in the game. This is the first game he's ever missed in his 9 year career so I'm not used to seeing him out of the game and didn't know what to fully expect. He has been a monster this season tearing through OL's and demanding double coverage the first three weeks and with Campbell, they are a force to be reckoned with that generate sacks, tackles for loss, and demand lots of coverage freeing up our LB's to get to the QB. He was sorely missed last night as all of you saw. He is day to day on a hamstring issue and I hope he'll be back real soon but I know hamstrings can be re-aggravated easily. Might be best to sit him out this week, we have a shot at beating STL without him.
This game was completely nuts, even Patrick Peterson was dropping punts left and right. It was one of those games where your team just doesn't show up and you lose, happens some times, except we didn't lose. We fought back hard and showed a lot of heart in the process. I'm proud of my team and we're still undefeated bitches! 4-0 WOOOH
