And to think some were saying (before the season opener) a power running attack was boring. To your point: A rushing attack that chews up the clock like ours is starting to do, is the most demoralizing thing that can happen to a defense. I love it! I need it, I want some more of it!
Chad Pennington is completing 67% of his passes and has a passer rating of 93+ on the year. That is exactly the type of QB play we need to go along with Ronnie running the ball like he has. The best part is that Chad makes GOOD decisions with the ball too. I think a telling play was when he tripped in his own endzone. If that is Beck/Henne, they probably just fall on the ball and take the safety or try to make something with nothing there. Pennington simply got up, got outside the pocket and threw it away. Great patience and poise and amazing awareness. Had he simply thrown it away inside the pocket, its an intentional grounding/safety/loss of possesion. I would like to see our defense create more turnovers and we need to work on pass coverage of deep routes as we were lucky that Rivers overthrew Jackson. But overall, how can you not be pleased with how much better this team looks overall?
"Chad Pennington completed passes to the tune of 75.9%. This efficiency has been the hallmark of his career, but look a little further. He also averaged 10 yards per completion and 7.89 yards per attempt. No one’s going to confuse his arm with Jeff George, but the “weak arm” rap is fading like so much early morning fog." I disagree with this part. CP's arm is clearly not strong but what's also clear is how little a strong arm has to do with being a good QB.
in the endzone any penalty is a safety. It was a very good play imo, saved us two points and given momentum the game. I agree strongly with the we need some turnovers but what the hell, the defense is presently so much better than I expected that I'm hap hap happy anyway. Steve, good one bro, thanks. I spoke of the ypc to my son yesterday, pretty much on the theme of your work here. I was SO impressed at how we finished, and a BIG part of that was Ronnie refusing to be denied. Ricky had a couple of important runs too, despite the numbers. I am so proud of our team.. I am old school, to me, nothing is finer than stuffing the run, and then imposing our will with physical dominance. These last two games have given me the most wonderful humm, I had not realized how long it has been since my faith wasn't broken by yet another cave in.
I don't know bout Samphin... but how many times when we needed a stop on this Defense from 2000-2003 did we see Sam Madison or Pat Surtain give up a 60+ yards TD??? I can remember a few, and I am not talking about 2005 or 2006... We forget that those CBs in their good years here gave up a big play here or there... So to say if it happened to them why would it not happen to less talented players???
damn... thats a great stat to point out there on Ronnie... 5.2 yards per carry average, and your longest is only 13 yards... thats damn impressive. sounds like ronnie and the o-line were great again this week. cant wait to get to see this game...
lots of good stats.....I haven't been so confident about the future of this franchise since Marino days!!
The sun is starting to shine again on our team. This is a great time to be a Dolfan. Us old timers deserve it. Hell...we ALL deserve it after the wanny years.
