FROZENHAWK
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I have been a member of this board for many years but don't post often. However, as I am now quarantined for two weeks due to COVID-19 exposure 
ukeface: I have some extra time. I am an NBA fan and on the message board I read for the NBA a poster has something called 4 THOUGHTS. It's a neat little write up after the game and so I put one together for the first time.
4 Thoughts:
1. COVERAGE OR LACK OF
Why do we insist on constantly playing 6-8 yards off of receivers and giving up chunks of yardage and allow teams to go down the field and get cheap points? I have coached football for years and understand not getting beat over the top but this continued behavior is ridiculous. It nearly cost us the NE and MINN games as well. It is maddening to watch. Give a cushion to Hopkins but make it 3-4 yards so you have a chance to make a play on a dig or comeback route. Any time a team wants or needs an intermediate chunk they have it with that D alignment. I am not in the D meeting rooms each week and do not have all the information but IMHO it helped cost us the game (albeit with help from a myriad of other mistakes) as it allowed the Cards to march down the field to end regulation and tie it up and set up the game winning FG in OT. Collinsworth made the comment about it as well on the game winning drive.
2. GAME MANAGEMENT 101
This one drove me nuts last night. On the broadcast Chris Collinsworth noted that Budda Baker kept timing up the snap count and getting pressure. This became a theme last night with the Cardinals as the game went on. I think their DC noticed the same thing that I did last night and that was that RW and the Hawks were consistently snapping the ball with nearly no time or 0 on the play clock. Baker and the Card D were teeing off in part because they knew exactly when the ball was going to be snapped. Get the darn play called make your reads and get the ball snapped at 2-3 seconds and maybe you have a just a little more time in the pocket to make a read as the rusher are a step slower. As the game wore on it got worse and worse. Russ actually burned 2 TO because of it. It is infuriating because the offense can operate at warp speed when it needs to, as a matter of fact I think RW is a better QB in that mode.
3. PLAY CALLING
Do we have any RB screen plays in our playbook? How about a quick slant to the T-1000 a.k.a. DK Metcalf. How about any other blitz beater quick route that every other team in the league seems to have but us. I am sorry folks but we have a once in a lifetime QB who has all the ingredients around him to be successful and our coaches for some reason cannot get the play down to him before the clock is running out or dial up a blitz beater. Also, when in the world did Patrick Peterson become in his prime Deion Sanders? At some point you through a go route to the T-1000 and give him a chance to make a play. We basically went away from whatever side of the field DK was on. It was bizarre to watch.
4. OFFICIATING
This on is a rant but a rant I feel is justified... BWAGS gets nailed for a personal foul unnecessary roughness call that kept the Cards drive alive deep in their own territory and they go down and get a TD. On the other side of the coin the Cards should have been hit with 3-4 major penalties in the game for facemask and targeting. Baker should have been ejected for the helmet to helmet hit on Homer. I know that there are missed calls in every game and the Hawks have benefitted from a few (doesn't seem like to many through the years) but there were some horrible missed calls in the game last night. Refs didn't cost Hawks the game...see above...but a couple of flags really did change the momentum of the game IMHO
ukeface: I have some extra time. I am an NBA fan and on the message board I read for the NBA a poster has something called 4 THOUGHTS. It's a neat little write up after the game and so I put one together for the first time. 4 Thoughts:
1. COVERAGE OR LACK OF
Why do we insist on constantly playing 6-8 yards off of receivers and giving up chunks of yardage and allow teams to go down the field and get cheap points? I have coached football for years and understand not getting beat over the top but this continued behavior is ridiculous. It nearly cost us the NE and MINN games as well. It is maddening to watch. Give a cushion to Hopkins but make it 3-4 yards so you have a chance to make a play on a dig or comeback route. Any time a team wants or needs an intermediate chunk they have it with that D alignment. I am not in the D meeting rooms each week and do not have all the information but IMHO it helped cost us the game (albeit with help from a myriad of other mistakes) as it allowed the Cards to march down the field to end regulation and tie it up and set up the game winning FG in OT. Collinsworth made the comment about it as well on the game winning drive.
2. GAME MANAGEMENT 101
This one drove me nuts last night. On the broadcast Chris Collinsworth noted that Budda Baker kept timing up the snap count and getting pressure. This became a theme last night with the Cardinals as the game went on. I think their DC noticed the same thing that I did last night and that was that RW and the Hawks were consistently snapping the ball with nearly no time or 0 on the play clock. Baker and the Card D were teeing off in part because they knew exactly when the ball was going to be snapped. Get the darn play called make your reads and get the ball snapped at 2-3 seconds and maybe you have a just a little more time in the pocket to make a read as the rusher are a step slower. As the game wore on it got worse and worse. Russ actually burned 2 TO because of it. It is infuriating because the offense can operate at warp speed when it needs to, as a matter of fact I think RW is a better QB in that mode.
3. PLAY CALLING
Do we have any RB screen plays in our playbook? How about a quick slant to the T-1000 a.k.a. DK Metcalf. How about any other blitz beater quick route that every other team in the league seems to have but us. I am sorry folks but we have a once in a lifetime QB who has all the ingredients around him to be successful and our coaches for some reason cannot get the play down to him before the clock is running out or dial up a blitz beater. Also, when in the world did Patrick Peterson become in his prime Deion Sanders? At some point you through a go route to the T-1000 and give him a chance to make a play. We basically went away from whatever side of the field DK was on. It was bizarre to watch.
4. OFFICIATING
This on is a rant but a rant I feel is justified... BWAGS gets nailed for a personal foul unnecessary roughness call that kept the Cards drive alive deep in their own territory and they go down and get a TD. On the other side of the coin the Cards should have been hit with 3-4 major penalties in the game for facemask and targeting. Baker should have been ejected for the helmet to helmet hit on Homer. I know that there are missed calls in every game and the Hawks have benefitted from a few (doesn't seem like to many through the years) but there were some horrible missed calls in the game last night. Refs didn't cost Hawks the game...see above...but a couple of flags really did change the momentum of the game IMHO
