What player surprised you the most (positive and negative)?

Gladstone

Positive: Victor! What a fucking stud! Can't wait to see him light people up in conference play. #playerdevelopment
Negative: D Washington. Same straight edge running nonsense. Spare me the OL being bad, he was worse.

doogville

They all sucked.

PurpleJ

Positive: Win a fucking game and we will talk
Negative: D-line. Pick anyone. They all looked undersized and couldn't generate a pass rush.

GrundleStiltzkin

PurpleJ said:

Positive: Win a fucking game and we will talk
Negative: D-line. Pick anyone. They all looked undersized and couldn't generate a pass rush.

First half maybe, but the d-line was least of our problems.

PurpleJ

GrundleStiltzkin said:

PurpleJ said:

Positive: Win a fucking game and we will talk
Negative: D-line. Pick anyone. They all looked undersized and couldn't generate a pass rush.

First half maybe, but the d-line was least of our problems.

It said surprised by, not who was the least of our problems. I wasn't surprised at all by the offense. I was surprised that our DL was average. I expected them to be good, but I'm not really worried because I like our DL coach.

dhdawg

Pretty much agree on both.
Not sure anyone surprised me that much in a positive way.
I was expecting at least something from DWash. Didn't expect him to play even close to that horribly

HeretoBeatmyChest

Biggest positive surprise was definitely Victor.

Negative was the run game. I expected we'd struggle to run the ball but figured we'd come up with more than 29 net yards. At least 60-70.

Dwayne Washington's entire game actually improved because he was an effective blocker and looked good catching passes. That gives him some space to work. Unfortunately he just wont do anything against good run defenses and will never be a bell cow type back.

On the series that made it 13-16, he made the wrong read on a play that was well blocked. Would have scored a TD had he made the right read.

LoneStarDawg

Gaines looked good, I never noticed dissly

GrundleStiltzkin

brchco12 said:

Gaines looked good, I never noticed dissly

I did notice Dissly actually. Wasn't amazing or anything but he shows up.

TierbsHsotBoobs

brchco12 said:

Gaines looked good, I never noticed dissly

#OurDissly blew the fuck up out of a guy once.

LoneStarDawg

Aren't Gaines' and dissly's numbers very similar? I kept confusing them in a way only DDY would appreciate

Hippopeteamus

brchco12 said:

Aren't Gaines' and dissly's numbers very similar? I kept confusing them in a way only DDY would appreciate

Gaines is the fatty.

TierbsHsotBoobs

Hippopeteamus said:

brchco12 said:

Aren't Gaines' and dissly's numbers very similar? I kept confusing them in a way only DDY would appreciate

Chris Gaines is the fatty.

Mad_Son

I was most positively surprised by Browning. That is of course relative to expectations.

I didn't really have an expectation before but I most negatively noticed Bierria with his big whiffs. Sure, they could have been awesome hits had he connected but close doesn't count.

TierbsHsotBoobs

The biggest negative surprise is that Mickens is still on the roster.

LoneStarDawg

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

The biggest negative surprise is that Mickens is still on the roster.

Seriously mickens is cancer, the better he plays in spurts the worse he affects the team overall. He's like Mike Cameron hitting 4HRs, then striking out for the rest of the season.

SpoonieLuv

I was impressed with Eldrenkamp. He was pushing guys around on pass block. passes the look test. Run game away a clusterfuck and I didn't see how he performed there.

Negative: wide receivers. Would name one but who cares.

RaccoonHarry

Surprised Browning didn't play better. And don't give me that true freshman bullshit - Josh Rosen absolutely lit it up for UCLA. Hope I'm wrong but he didn't show me much to get excited about. Oh, he could develop but doubt it's this year.

dnc

Positive - McIntosh didn't look worthless and Long Ass Neck looked good at corner
Negative - Peterman

Muttzen

I was most positively surprised when we came out in the beginning of the game. I saw some new formations.

"Finally!, Jonathan Smith opened up the playbook because we have a QB worth a damn"

Then, the game unfolded. Despite the fact that we had some new plays, and lots of motion. We still threw at the line of scrimmage all day.

"Ok, maybe we'll have a screen heavy offense, that's okay, that can win games too, now that we have a QB like browning, we can stretch the defense and this can work. It will help our run game too since our backs are either young, or very flawed."

We didn't try to stretch the field. We kept trying to run lateral passes/screen all day. Again.

And Again

and Again.



"if we keep trying the same thing over and over, it will work eventually. That makes sense. That's what I like to think." - Jonathan Smith







It didn't work.


I'm surprised that I was surprised.

FreeChavez

RaccoonHarry said:

Surprised Browning didn't play better. And don't give me that true freshman bullshit - Josh Rosen absolutely lit it up for UCLA. Hope I'm wrong but he didn't show me much to get excited about. Oh, he could develop but doubt it's this year.

J smith is not rosens OC