I don't care who you are. If you are playing 3 games in 11 days that is a tall order, period. I wish we would have went at least 1-2 in that stretch but it is what it is. Injuries are never excuses since every team has to deal with them to varying degree, but it's also foolish not to consider them as part of the issue.
First and foremost, what this team needs is rest. Time to take a breath. Heal up some of those injuries and really have the proper amount of time to practice and install a solid game plan for Atlanta. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by a .500 record after 6 games with a completely overhauled coaching staff and scheme. This simply takes time in the NFL. Sure, there are those Cinderella stories where the new coach lights a spark and gets his new team into the playoffs in Year 1, but that is the outlier.
Time will tell if Mike can get us to the postseason this year. No matter if your glass is half full or half empty, it's just too early to tell how this season will ultimately play out.
Players don't believe it's the new scheme that has been challenging, rather the age-old issues of poor gap containment, angles, etc. Jordan Love spoke on this after the game.
“I don’t want to excuse it to being the new scheme and all that stuff. I think it’s just fundamental stuff. We have to just keep it black and white in the meeting room and address what needs to be addressed in terms of simple stuff. And that’s the good part. That’s the promising part. It’s bread-and-butter things that we’re not executing on. Mike’s really trying to dial it up, and we just have to find a way to mesh and catch our flow. And so we’re still kind of catching that stride and trying to figure it out.”
If some of you want to poor on how crappy this team is, how much they suck, etc, you do you. For me, I am going to give this young team with a whole new coaching staff and scheme a chance to fall down, skin their knee, get back up and keep fighting until eventually they aren't falling down anymore.
It just takes time.
First and foremost, what this team needs is rest. Time to take a breath. Heal up some of those injuries and really have the proper amount of time to practice and install a solid game plan for Atlanta. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by a .500 record after 6 games with a completely overhauled coaching staff and scheme. This simply takes time in the NFL. Sure, there are those Cinderella stories where the new coach lights a spark and gets his new team into the playoffs in Year 1, but that is the outlier.
Time will tell if Mike can get us to the postseason this year. No matter if your glass is half full or half empty, it's just too early to tell how this season will ultimately play out.
Players don't believe it's the new scheme that has been challenging, rather the age-old issues of poor gap containment, angles, etc. Jordan Love spoke on this after the game.
“I don’t want to excuse it to being the new scheme and all that stuff. I think it’s just fundamental stuff. We have to just keep it black and white in the meeting room and address what needs to be addressed in terms of simple stuff. And that’s the good part. That’s the promising part. It’s bread-and-butter things that we’re not executing on. Mike’s really trying to dial it up, and we just have to find a way to mesh and catch our flow. And so we’re still kind of catching that stride and trying to figure it out.”
If some of you want to poor on how crappy this team is, how much they suck, etc, you do you. For me, I am going to give this young team with a whole new coaching staff and scheme a chance to fall down, skin their knee, get back up and keep fighting until eventually they aren't falling down anymore.
It just takes time.