Couple Replies to the posts. Ike isn't Revis and has stone hands so he won't be looking for ints, he just needs to tackle Welker after the catch and knock the ball down once in a while. The reason some Steelers fans have been anit-Ike for the last few years is the guy has Stone Hands and couldn't catch a pillow tossed across the room.
Turnovers, -7 vs Baltimore. Take that putrid game out of the mix and its not as bad as it seems. Yes our D has only generated 4 this year, hopefully, we can improve with that.
As for the Schedule and how that relates to our #1 Pass Offense. Fine that's valid, we haven't faced "world beaters" Schaub is the best statistically we faced, he's 7th in the league right now, but its not like its been the Packers and Saints for 6 weeks. Its all about playing who you face. We haven't seen "elite" QBs, sure thing, there are only about 5 Elite guys in the NFL anyway, Brady, Breese, Rogers, Rivers (still debatable cause he's not a winner) So it isn't like you'll face them every week.
Our opening Day loss was horrible, and our season really looked gloomy til we got the Gigantic Wall off the couch and put him in at left tackle. I think this week we will be starting our 8th Oline Combination, it might be the same as last week, but we'll see. So far we have had 7 different starting lineups on the Oline. Hopefully, we have that set now, we'll see.
I'm looking for a competitive game, I'm looking for the pressure to be brought against Brady forcing the quick passes that allow our DBs to make one on one tackles, keeping things from getting out of hand on those dink and dunk passes that turn into 30 yard plays after the catch. I'm sure the Patriots will open with a run play to the Left, that seems to be a weakness right now in our run defense and I'm sure Brady is going to attempt to throw the ball at least 42 times. I just hope he goes 28 for 42 for 280 1 TD and 1 INT and not 39 for 42 for 395 and 4 Tds.
