Wow, what a crazy game last night - glad to see we came out on top even with the offense sleeping through the first half and the defense having a rough second half.
One thing that stood out to me was Roddy White looked healthy... the Falcons have been on TV a lot he seemed to be much more fluid in running routes and getting down field. Ryan was shredding our secondary who was playing way too much of a soft zone for me. Fangio called a terrible game, either a soft zone or a house blitz, shore that up buddy.
Willis and Bowman played possessed out there, and we really needed it because Eric Reid had an uncharacteristically bad game... missed tackles and a few blown assignments. I don't really blame him on the White TD, that was a great throw. Reid could've had a play but it looks like he lost it in the air. Dline got no pressure all game, which is worrisome because this is when we started to break down last year and all of our guys are on limited snap counts. Hopefully it was more of a scheme then a glimpse of whats to come... I also thought Brock was giving too much cushion on the outside, he plays the ball really well but we allowed to many 3rd and short conversions because of his inability to press at the line.
Offensively, I thought Gore had a great game. The loss of Bruce Miller was big but we overcame it and one of our better rushing totals of the year - I know lolfalcons but it was good to see. Our tight ends were AWFUL last night... between Vernon being on the sideline most of the first half and Vance being Vance, yuck. Crabtree seemed like he had something to prove, good to see him get in triple digit receiving yards again, he's rounding into form at exactly the right time. Boldin is Boldin, we need to get him extended ASAP.
Kaep had a good game, a few bad throws but for the most part was really accurate and was hitting the 10-15 yard passes with regularity. Still needs to work on his touch throws and if not for a few drops he'd have much better numbers (I'm looking at you Vance).
Good team win, hopefully we can take care of business this weekend and the Rams could do their job as well.
The NFC is going to be a gauntlet next year.
Maybe his powers only work once a week anyway and he already used it up for last week.
