I’m at about the end of the first quarter. I’ll publish this at half-time (I’m watching somewhat delayed on my TiVo). So far, these are my thoughts:
- The field seems strangely slippery – for an artificial surface.
- That interference call on Smoot was a terrible call but…
- The Skins secondary is terrible and has no depth (see below for more).
- If you lose yards on first down just throw on second down, or punt, why bother with some crappy running play?
- Jason Taylor might be able to dance but he can’t stop the run – at all.
- NBC is using some pretty sweet cameras
- Someone should give Ed Hochuli a drug test
- Jim Zorn knows how timeouts work, right? And no huddle offense? (Okay so he didn’t need them)
I probably should have watched some of the pre-season. If I had maybe I had I wouldn’t be so shocked at how bad they are.
This was an interesting play. It was the screen pass to Cooley. He was held on the play (actually thrown to the ground) which caused Campbell to delay the the throw for a second. That caused Samuels to get downfield too early, drawing a penalty. The offsetting penalties negated a 15-20 yard gain. Not much you can do about it – just an odd scenario.
My expectations and standards are slow low now that I just want the Skins to not be terrible.
My biggest reaction though is that I really miss Sean Taylor. Obviously people who knew him miss him because he’s gone and they probably don’t care or think about foodball. I really think that losing him changes the Skins drastically. In the first quarter alone I think he would have had a huge impact on the game. It makes me sad.