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Just got home from the game. Very weird to have that many empty seats in that stadium. Was sitting at the 40 yard line on the Broncos side of the field and got to watch everything very well.
Drew Lock- Shurmur is really hindering is development. After watching it in one practice in August and watching a game in person, he is worse than Scangarello. You can really predict if it's a run or pass about 90 percent of the time because of the formation. I won't get into it too much but when it's a pass, the running back is about a full yard closer to the line of scrimmage. Also, the spacing is horrible in this offense. To many bunch formations, patterns where wide receivers are running to close to each other (makes it easy to defend). Not enough motion on obvious passing downs to dictate what the defense is doing. Overall, Shurmur is really bad and I was fearful of hiring him as he's really only had 1 good year as a coordinator (Minnesota).
The run defense could be bad for the rest of the year. Losing Purcell is going to hurt more than most people think. Deshawn and Sylvester Williams were getting pushed back 2 to 3 yards on every play which makes it tough as it was usually 1 lineman getting to them and allowing the guard or center to get to the 2nd level easy to get to Johnson and Jewell. Big concern.
Hopefully we get Glasgow back soon because Schlottman is horrible. I mean he was really bad. On almost every pass play, he was getting beat or at the very least getting bull-rushed into Lock. Cushenberry had to help on his man about 60 to 70 percent of the time. On the last drive, Ingram was rushing into that weak link and that is why you were seeing the short dump off passes to Gordon and Fant is that Ingram was consistently bull-rushing him badly. You might have to get Muti into action or at least as the backup. I think Schlottman is active on game days only because he can play center as well.
Tackling was not good either.
Now the Good! Kareem Jackson was all over the place. That could be the toughest player pound for pound in the league. I know he hurt one of our guys, but he was all over the place.
DaeSean Hamilton looked good. He did have a bad penalty on the block in the back, but he was aggressive running with the ball on all 4 of his receptions.
Jeudy does get good seperation, but the Chargers secondary had a safety cheating to his side about 80 percent of the time. If the o-line could protect and Lock could anticipate better, he would've had 7 to 8 catches for 100 to 120 yards.
Hamler needs to get the ball more. He didn't see the field as much as I thought he would, but this is where Shurmur really sucks. They need to put him in motion more and do more things like Kansas City does with Hill and Hardman. Get them in space. He does look really shifty and reminds me of Eddie Royal, but even faster and not as physical.
The offensive tackles had a tough task and even though Bosa missed a lot of the 2nd half and Bolles had 2 penalties, they did a decent job on Ingram and Bosa.
Lock is really hard to evaluate as you see in up and down play in person. He really didn't get much help for 2 1/2 quarters with no running game, pass protection from the interior was not good especially and terrible scheme. I think that with them being aggressive going downfield in the Patriots and K.C. game and getting ripped for it is why Shurmur was trying to get Lock to play conservative which I hate. You've got to make the defense play the whole field and the reasons why we ran the ball well was partly because of that threat of going deep.
Lindsay is are best offensive player right now and he needs to get the ball more in the passing game. He looked much quicker than any back on either team. Gordon runs tough, but I don't see any elite qualities from him.
They're just frustrating to watch because you can see the speed and playmaking potential, but they're really poorly used.
Drew Lock- Shurmur is really hindering is development. After watching it in one practice in August and watching a game in person, he is worse than Scangarello. You can really predict if it's a run or pass about 90 percent of the time because of the formation. I won't get into it too much but when it's a pass, the running back is about a full yard closer to the line of scrimmage. Also, the spacing is horrible in this offense. To many bunch formations, patterns where wide receivers are running to close to each other (makes it easy to defend). Not enough motion on obvious passing downs to dictate what the defense is doing. Overall, Shurmur is really bad and I was fearful of hiring him as he's really only had 1 good year as a coordinator (Minnesota).
The run defense could be bad for the rest of the year. Losing Purcell is going to hurt more than most people think. Deshawn and Sylvester Williams were getting pushed back 2 to 3 yards on every play which makes it tough as it was usually 1 lineman getting to them and allowing the guard or center to get to the 2nd level easy to get to Johnson and Jewell. Big concern.
Hopefully we get Glasgow back soon because Schlottman is horrible. I mean he was really bad. On almost every pass play, he was getting beat or at the very least getting bull-rushed into Lock. Cushenberry had to help on his man about 60 to 70 percent of the time. On the last drive, Ingram was rushing into that weak link and that is why you were seeing the short dump off passes to Gordon and Fant is that Ingram was consistently bull-rushing him badly. You might have to get Muti into action or at least as the backup. I think Schlottman is active on game days only because he can play center as well.
Tackling was not good either.
Now the Good! Kareem Jackson was all over the place. That could be the toughest player pound for pound in the league. I know he hurt one of our guys, but he was all over the place.
DaeSean Hamilton looked good. He did have a bad penalty on the block in the back, but he was aggressive running with the ball on all 4 of his receptions.
Jeudy does get good seperation, but the Chargers secondary had a safety cheating to his side about 80 percent of the time. If the o-line could protect and Lock could anticipate better, he would've had 7 to 8 catches for 100 to 120 yards.
Hamler needs to get the ball more. He didn't see the field as much as I thought he would, but this is where Shurmur really sucks. They need to put him in motion more and do more things like Kansas City does with Hill and Hardman. Get them in space. He does look really shifty and reminds me of Eddie Royal, but even faster and not as physical.
The offensive tackles had a tough task and even though Bosa missed a lot of the 2nd half and Bolles had 2 penalties, they did a decent job on Ingram and Bosa.
Lock is really hard to evaluate as you see in up and down play in person. He really didn't get much help for 2 1/2 quarters with no running game, pass protection from the interior was not good especially and terrible scheme. I think that with them being aggressive going downfield in the Patriots and K.C. game and getting ripped for it is why Shurmur was trying to get Lock to play conservative which I hate. You've got to make the defense play the whole field and the reasons why we ran the ball well was partly because of that threat of going deep.
Lindsay is are best offensive player right now and he needs to get the ball more in the passing game. He looked much quicker than any back on either team. Gordon runs tough, but I don't see any elite qualities from him.
They're just frustrating to watch because you can see the speed and playmaking potential, but they're really poorly used.