Knapp has stubbornly tried to open offensive drives with establishing the run to open up the pass. It has been driving me insane. “Run run run run run ok now let’s start passing” we have been anemic at BEST when running.

It took 8 WEEKS for knapp to figure out that he can set up the run game with short passes all around the field. And it worked. You look at our first td scoring drive with the Julius run. We crammed the pass down their throats, we put carlson in the slot let him work, we did a screen to juice, and a bubble to housh. Then we ran a draw to forsett immediatedly gaining 14 yards and knocking on the door of the endzone. Let’s applaud knapp for finally using the offensive brain he was used for………..
Wait what started this offensive turn around? Jim Mora turned to Knapp and said: Let’s put it up in the air and let Matt do his work….

Thank you Mora. Holmy pulled the trigger to cut Matt loose and it saved our 2007 season. Let’s hope Mora didn’t get gun shy and pull the trigger to late.

Good point about shutting down Johnson, our CBs did their job. I kind of hate to say it, but I think Lucas is now our fourth best CB. When he was replaced by Jennings, the pass defense improved.

Hawthorne made some awesome plays, but some dumb mistakes as well. Our young LBs have to learn to diagnose screens. We got killed on those today.

This team is making progress. Great to see.

The team deserves a lot of credit for today also. Matt made one bonehead mistake, and Griffith made one bonehead fumble. Otherwise, our defense dominated the game against an NFL team that was very hungry for a win and played their best game. Our guys deserve credit.

This week, Locklear should practice all and our starting five O linemen can be ready to go. I think we can run the ball a lot better than we saw today, the coaches just need to believe in the running game. And its time for that now. we just might give AZ all they can handle.