dawg2fan

I'm not sure what's going on with Baker, but i'm not ready to throw in the towel yet. He might still turn things around, but my concerns are valid.

Is he? I’m beginning to worry about him. In the Seattle game when he went down, I was kind (in a way) hoping for Garrett to come in. Seriously!

Again, Baker didn’t see Odell, missed an easy TD

Well, I got hope now. Let’s go

I’ve been complaining about that all game. It’s almost as if Freddie’s trying to lose

Baker has to complete that screen pass. Not sure I have much confidence in him at this point

Every time Baker’s been in the red zone and had to pass, he went straight for the TD. Does he not realize that we could get the 1st down with a short pass?

Other than the Ravens game, he has been that way every game.

It all comes back to coaching. We might have to get rid of our HC and DC

Why did we run Hilliard? This is where we need Chubb. I’ve seen this far too often.

He was head to toe with Sutton. Can’t win them all. He’ll probably pick the next one. The play calling is still a problem.

If you have all this talent, you shouldn't hire a newbie coach. And don't tell me we don't, because we do. You hire a coach that was only an OC for half the season last year. Yes, the team is not discipline, but again who is that on? We had 18 penalty in the first game against the Titans. While it getting a little better, just not good enough. Other coaches can't wait to play us because they know Freddie is inexperienced. We have one of the worst Olines in football, but a good coach should be able to coach around that. Ask Baker (when he's by himself) if Freddie is getting that done. He's been pounded by this horrific Oline and now he's timid in the pockek. How many losses do you think Bill Belichek would have with this team at this point?

Freddie is officially an idiot for going for it on 4th and 16.

Freddie challenging his second penalty. No way he’ll win this one either. Unbelievable.

Where the hell is Higgins? I heard his name once. Still think he is a better option than Calloway. Apparently our coaches don’t.

The other thing I noticed is that Ken Zampeze was our QB coach last season. Now it's Ryan Lindsey. Perhaps that's what's missing, maybe Ryan just can't get it going. I'll reserve judgement until after the Patriots game. If we get blown out, everyone will be pointing fingers. Also, lets see what Steve Wilkes will do now that we have our secondary back. If we still stink, then we're going nowhere.... fast.

The other thing is this should have been caught in training camp. Kitchens is to blame for this, no doubt. Baker's never had problems with throwing to anyone before. My biggest concern is we might have picked the wrong coach. Like I said before, I hope i'm wrong.

Baker's throwing is clearly off. We can see it in many games. Not sure if it's him or the receivers or both. It concerns me with all this talent, but our record is 2-4 right now. Any quality coach would find ways to work around a ineffective oline. He's being used by smarter coaches and unless i'm wrong, we'll continue to see it. And I hope i am

Unless we get some help on the OLine, I can't see more than 6 total wins. Baker's got happy feet and throws his passes offline. My confidence in Kitchens is slowly dwindling.

Exactly what he said. And by the way, the way we're going, don't be surprised if we split with the Bengals.

I'm not worried about their offence, but their D (meaning Steelers, Bills, and Broncos).

The Steelers, Bills, and Patriots all have strong pass rushes. Baker doesn't do very well against those teams. That could be 4 losses. My faith in this team is dwindling, hopefully we get Trent Williams as I have been hearing.

I'd say we did catch some teams injured injured down the stretch, but you can't disagree with the record.

Only problem with reducing preseason to two games is time to evaluate players. I'm not sure there will be ample time to get a true player evaluation. Perhaps with three games, but not with two. The last game with mostly rookies is very important, even though we don't want to see it. So which game do we through out? the third game, where most of the starters play the first half? Still important for the rookies to play the second half though. Perhaps we could get rid of the 1st or second. And the arguement could be made that if Chicago and Green Bay had played their starters in weak 3 of preseason, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

I'm don't think Ratley will be the third receiver out there. Why anyone wouldn't think it would be Higgins is beyond me. But we'll see.