Originally posted by Silky:
I will admit I am one of those fans that criticize and wanted more out of the defense at halftime. I am not complaining about the Bucs per say and how that first half went, but I am thinking about the bigger picture. I am looking down the road at the Seahawks, Eagles, and Ravens coming up. We gave up 14 points, two long TD drives again. If we play like we did against the Bucs, the Eagles will easily be in the 20's. I'm praying we can hold the Eagles and Ravens offenses down, but they need to figure out these defensive lapses. The quick passes, screens, runs up the gut were killing us. Eagles and Ravens will toy with our defense if we keep making that stuff available to them.
Thats not how the NFL works though. You can't say "we gave up 14 to the bucs, that equals 35 to the eagles!" Last year we put up many good performances against good teams, and then Jason stidham or whatever his name was with the raiders torched us. You never know and even if we shut out the bucs that doesn't mean s**t when we play the eagles/ravens/etc