J.Kim's Primetime Games Review Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 7, 2007 4:24 am
I'm going to try and do this for every Primetime game on TV (minus the craptacular Cardinals vs. 49ers Late MNF) for every week.
So to start off:
Thursday Night Football
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MVP of the Game
Jason David, #42 CB, New Orleans Saints
Thoughts on the Game
Colts
Colts played their regular game; making a small amount of mistakes, waiting for the opponent to make the first mistake.
QB
Peyton was just Peyton today. Crisp passes, Good reads, Perfect timing with WRs, Dumping off passes to RBs and TEs where no LB coverage was to be found just about as the DE's getting free from his man (which was pretty quick)
WR
They did their jobs. Nothing much can be said except that. Small mistake by Wayne by not covering up the ball properly, but other than that, they played pretty much flawlessly.
RB
After a scare on the first play, Addai was able to play a big part in this game. Good playcalling took advantage of the mismatch in the middle of the field of Gs/C vs. DTs
OL
Below Average/Mediocre game by Tony Ugoh, as Will Smith got free quite quickly and quite often (Just that RB/TEs were available for dumpoffs almost every time). Ryan Diem let Charles Grant through quite a bit as well but of course, Peyton keeps dumping it off. Gs and C (Saturday, Lilja and Scott) played a great game though, and allowed Addai to do his thing.
D-Line
Freeney was just gobbled up by Brown. Only time he made impact was once in the 2nd quarter I think, where he got semi-pressure on Brees. The rest of the line was just your standard fare. DTs got pressure once in a while. Robert Mathis had more of an impact than Freeney, got pressure a bit more often than the DTs.
LBs
They played not to give up anything big, and they got the ball gift-wrapped back to them. Keiaho looked good, Giordano is fast. But they seemingly played well not because of anything by the LBs, but because the Saints called 3 plays over and over again.
DBs
They had nothing to do. I don't even think they had a deep pass coming their way. All they had to do was let the LBs take care of the curls and cover up the flats vs. Bush, because that's just about the only type of pass they had coming their way.
Saints
Generic, repetitive playcalling by Sean Payton on offense, and (what it seems like to me) an absolute refusal to upgrade the LB position was their downfall today.
QB
Drew Brees looked more like Marquis Tuiasasopo out there, rather than his last year's form. Made some bad BAD decisions. Fell in love with whatever play worked before:
Case and Point, the sequence that led to Giordano's INT return for a TD:
2 Plays before INT: Patten lined up in right-side Slot, Slant to Patten, First Down
1 Play before INT: Patten lined up in the right-side Slot, Slant to Patten, On Target, but Patten Drops
INT play: Henderson lined up in the right-side Slot, Looked for Henderson on the Slant, Henderson cuts back out, Brees throws a Slant pass, Giordano picks it off and takes off
RB
Reggie Bush looked lost out there. Made some horrible cuts, and just wasn't thinking straight. Bush did nothing in the passing game either, because the Colts and just about everyone knew the Flat to the right side was coming.
Deuce McAllister looked half decent out there, but that was only when they ran to Dwight Freeney's side. Had they run to that side more often, they could've probably made this game a whole lot closer.
WR
Really didn't do much. I can't recall a single time Brees threw it deep. The only thing I remember is Henderson or Colston on the Slant/Curl near the hashmarks.
Can't really do much with that uncreative playcalling
OL
Did a nice job, and was probably the best unit throughout the team. Contained Freeney quite well. Can only once remember him getting free off of Jammal Brown. The remaining O-Liners did as much as they can, despite the fact that the Colts D knew what was coming.
D-Line
Grant and Smith did a good job, but can't really hit or hurry the QB when he keeps dumping it off to the Mids/Flats with the man wide open. DTs were below average, constantly let Addai through up the middle.
LBs
Horrible. Slow. Bad at covering the mids and flats. TEs and RBs for the Colts kept getting open. Just a horrible game by them.
DBs
Look at LBs, except replace TEs and RBs with WRs... and Mids and Flats with deep routes.
Jason David can't keep his eyes off Peyton Manning's sexy forehead.
So to start off:
Thursday Night Football
@
MVP of the Game
Jason David, #42 CB, New Orleans Saints
Thoughts on the Game
Colts
Colts played their regular game; making a small amount of mistakes, waiting for the opponent to make the first mistake.
QB
Peyton was just Peyton today. Crisp passes, Good reads, Perfect timing with WRs, Dumping off passes to RBs and TEs where no LB coverage was to be found just about as the DE's getting free from his man (which was pretty quick)
WR
They did their jobs. Nothing much can be said except that. Small mistake by Wayne by not covering up the ball properly, but other than that, they played pretty much flawlessly.
RB
After a scare on the first play, Addai was able to play a big part in this game. Good playcalling took advantage of the mismatch in the middle of the field of Gs/C vs. DTs
OL
Below Average/Mediocre game by Tony Ugoh, as Will Smith got free quite quickly and quite often (Just that RB/TEs were available for dumpoffs almost every time). Ryan Diem let Charles Grant through quite a bit as well but of course, Peyton keeps dumping it off. Gs and C (Saturday, Lilja and Scott) played a great game though, and allowed Addai to do his thing.
D-Line
Freeney was just gobbled up by Brown. Only time he made impact was once in the 2nd quarter I think, where he got semi-pressure on Brees. The rest of the line was just your standard fare. DTs got pressure once in a while. Robert Mathis had more of an impact than Freeney, got pressure a bit more often than the DTs.
LBs
They played not to give up anything big, and they got the ball gift-wrapped back to them. Keiaho looked good, Giordano is fast. But they seemingly played well not because of anything by the LBs, but because the Saints called 3 plays over and over again.
DBs
They had nothing to do. I don't even think they had a deep pass coming their way. All they had to do was let the LBs take care of the curls and cover up the flats vs. Bush, because that's just about the only type of pass they had coming their way.
Saints
Generic, repetitive playcalling by Sean Payton on offense, and (what it seems like to me) an absolute refusal to upgrade the LB position was their downfall today.
QB
Drew Brees looked more like Marquis Tuiasasopo out there, rather than his last year's form. Made some bad BAD decisions. Fell in love with whatever play worked before:
Case and Point, the sequence that led to Giordano's INT return for a TD:
2 Plays before INT: Patten lined up in right-side Slot, Slant to Patten, First Down
1 Play before INT: Patten lined up in the right-side Slot, Slant to Patten, On Target, but Patten Drops
INT play: Henderson lined up in the right-side Slot, Looked for Henderson on the Slant, Henderson cuts back out, Brees throws a Slant pass, Giordano picks it off and takes off
RB
Reggie Bush looked lost out there. Made some horrible cuts, and just wasn't thinking straight. Bush did nothing in the passing game either, because the Colts and just about everyone knew the Flat to the right side was coming.
Deuce McAllister looked half decent out there, but that was only when they ran to Dwight Freeney's side. Had they run to that side more often, they could've probably made this game a whole lot closer.
WR
Really didn't do much. I can't recall a single time Brees threw it deep. The only thing I remember is Henderson or Colston on the Slant/Curl near the hashmarks.
Can't really do much with that uncreative playcalling
OL
Did a nice job, and was probably the best unit throughout the team. Contained Freeney quite well. Can only once remember him getting free off of Jammal Brown. The remaining O-Liners did as much as they can, despite the fact that the Colts D knew what was coming.
D-Line
Grant and Smith did a good job, but can't really hit or hurry the QB when he keeps dumping it off to the Mids/Flats with the man wide open. DTs were below average, constantly let Addai through up the middle.
LBs
Horrible. Slow. Bad at covering the mids and flats. TEs and RBs for the Colts kept getting open. Just a horrible game by them.
DBs
Look at LBs, except replace TEs and RBs with WRs... and Mids and Flats with deep routes.
Jason David can't keep his eyes off Peyton Manning's sexy forehead.
