Ball is a little questionable in regards to fumbles. The other one by Thomas was a little more of a normal game situation gone bad. He was running in tight coverage before he had complete control of the ball
Yeah, I do not remember the number of sacks, but it seemed like when the team was confident in the 1st and forth quarters Manning had time in the pocket.
I want to have faith in Ball, but he's making it hard. Decent pass protector, okay at catching balls, and does okay making something out of nothing. The oline isn't helping him much either, but he's pretty piss poor at finding holes. For being a decent sized back he doesn't run with authority either. I think we are just going to have to go run heavy and cycle these guys until someone emerges. I don't care who it is taking the ball, but the offense has to commit to it. Otherwise we are going to be one dimensional again. Sounds counter-intuitive since we have Peyton, but it has to be done.
We only gave up 1 sack, but had 8 hurries. Decent game overall in terms of protection. Still had predictable offense, and paid for it.