Mr All Turk: Watkins
All Turk Awards: Jackson, Watkins, Godwin, Henry, North, Frazier, Hence
Head Coach: Grade D
The game plan was poor. Stick to what got us here: rushing and our bread and butter, i.e., Jackson. Not sure why we went away from this and also didn't call it on key downs, but we did. It cost us. Instead the game plan seemed to be to rely on Thorson and our wide outs. Bad move. Flush it. We got crushed in 3 losses in embarrassing fashion and gives everyone reason to say we don't belong, but Fitz did a great job getting 10 wins this year. Loves him going for it on 4th down and putting trust in Jackson, the only problem was he should have done that more often today. For that reason, Fitz gets a D-. Jackson was the ONLY way we were going to be able to compete. Rush him 30 times like every other game. WTH was he thinking?
Offensive Coordinator: McCall: Grade F
Had a good recruit in Oliver but never developed him. Has 2 four star QB recruits yet has not been able to develop them. That said, McCall did the exact game plan to lose the game. On key 3rd downs he would pull Vitale off the field. In fact, his game plan was to utilize Vault and have Vitale on the bench for most snaps. The two key players installed in McCall's game plan were Thorson and Vault. Moving Vault to wide out seems like a good plan but utilizing him still as a RB in the wr position is second to just handing the ball off to Jackson. I was told that Thorson was going to be a big part of the offense today but I assumed we wouldn't be so reliant on him and assumed that we would move the pocket and get him out in the open a bit. Nothing. Nothing at all.
DC: Hank: Grade C+
would have been nice to have something more than 4 man rush but overall I think he called a decent game. It seemed to work until our LB"s got absolutely gassed.
OL: Grade B
Olson had some serious problems but I felt that Frazier, Hence and North did fairly well, believe it or not. I actually think this is going to be a good strength for us next year. Trust me, I feel weird saying that this OL did decent today, given we only got 6 points to show, but we literally have NO QB and awful play calling.
WR: Grade F
Nuff said. Even though I expected Vitale to play more than 5 plays in the first half, when they finally went to him in the fourth quarter [not that it mattered] both him and Jones drop the ball. This unit needs a new coach. Period.
RB: Grade A
Both Long and Jackson looked solid. McCall has the wrong personnel in there at times. Having Jackson in the backfield to block on long 3rd downs is awful. C'mon McCall get your personnel straight!
QB: Grade F
That said, Thorson did have some really interesting and solid passes but they were mostly dropped. Seems more comfortable in the pocket which I like. But is too much of a student in the classroom while playing. Just doesn't get it yet. I'd like to see someone develop him. When that happens, watch out. He should be our #1 QB next year as we should stick with him.
DL: Grade C
Early on Lowry held that end down but he got gassed. Thompson had interesting play. Xwas got spent. Gibson was ok. Ifeadi was a no show when the game mattered. Robbins and Lancaster gave good minutes. Kuhar didn't seem to have any push.
LB: Grade B-
Early on, SMith and Walker looked very good. But fell off the map late in the third. Hall must have been gassed as well as he started missing a lot of tackles. We don't have any LB depth. Maybe bringing in a 5th DB more often could have spelled a break for our LB's. Dunno.
DB: Grade A
Once again, a solid unit. Two big plays to TE's but our safeties were AWESOME and our cb's as well.
Special Teams: Grade B-
FG/extra point: Grade F. Nuff said
Return teams: Grade C+
Kickoff/Punt teams: Grade A
All Turk Awards: Jackson, Watkins, Godwin, Henry, North, Frazier, Hence
Head Coach: Grade D
The game plan was poor. Stick to what got us here: rushing and our bread and butter, i.e., Jackson. Not sure why we went away from this and also didn't call it on key downs, but we did. It cost us. Instead the game plan seemed to be to rely on Thorson and our wide outs. Bad move. Flush it. We got crushed in 3 losses in embarrassing fashion and gives everyone reason to say we don't belong, but Fitz did a great job getting 10 wins this year. Loves him going for it on 4th down and putting trust in Jackson, the only problem was he should have done that more often today. For that reason, Fitz gets a D-. Jackson was the ONLY way we were going to be able to compete. Rush him 30 times like every other game. WTH was he thinking?
Offensive Coordinator: McCall: Grade F
Had a good recruit in Oliver but never developed him. Has 2 four star QB recruits yet has not been able to develop them. That said, McCall did the exact game plan to lose the game. On key 3rd downs he would pull Vitale off the field. In fact, his game plan was to utilize Vault and have Vitale on the bench for most snaps. The two key players installed in McCall's game plan were Thorson and Vault. Moving Vault to wide out seems like a good plan but utilizing him still as a RB in the wr position is second to just handing the ball off to Jackson. I was told that Thorson was going to be a big part of the offense today but I assumed we wouldn't be so reliant on him and assumed that we would move the pocket and get him out in the open a bit. Nothing. Nothing at all.
DC: Hank: Grade C+
would have been nice to have something more than 4 man rush but overall I think he called a decent game. It seemed to work until our LB"s got absolutely gassed.
OL: Grade B
Olson had some serious problems but I felt that Frazier, Hence and North did fairly well, believe it or not. I actually think this is going to be a good strength for us next year. Trust me, I feel weird saying that this OL did decent today, given we only got 6 points to show, but we literally have NO QB and awful play calling.
WR: Grade F
Nuff said. Even though I expected Vitale to play more than 5 plays in the first half, when they finally went to him in the fourth quarter [not that it mattered] both him and Jones drop the ball. This unit needs a new coach. Period.
RB: Grade A
Both Long and Jackson looked solid. McCall has the wrong personnel in there at times. Having Jackson in the backfield to block on long 3rd downs is awful. C'mon McCall get your personnel straight!
QB: Grade F
That said, Thorson did have some really interesting and solid passes but they were mostly dropped. Seems more comfortable in the pocket which I like. But is too much of a student in the classroom while playing. Just doesn't get it yet. I'd like to see someone develop him. When that happens, watch out. He should be our #1 QB next year as we should stick with him.
DL: Grade C
Early on Lowry held that end down but he got gassed. Thompson had interesting play. Xwas got spent. Gibson was ok. Ifeadi was a no show when the game mattered. Robbins and Lancaster gave good minutes. Kuhar didn't seem to have any push.
LB: Grade B-
Early on, SMith and Walker looked very good. But fell off the map late in the third. Hall must have been gassed as well as he started missing a lot of tackles. We don't have any LB depth. Maybe bringing in a 5th DB more often could have spelled a break for our LB's. Dunno.
DB: Grade A
Once again, a solid unit. Two big plays to TE's but our safeties were AWESOME and our cb's as well.
Special Teams: Grade B-
FG/extra point: Grade F. Nuff said
Return teams: Grade C+
Kickoff/Punt teams: Grade A
