[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I'd be curious to see the snap counts but I saw way too much of Ragland for my tastes in this game, especially early. And man, Hitchens is still just awful. Again - that's not a 'complicated scheme' thing either - he was in straight up man on a plodding TE and he just got juked out of his shoes. There was nothing complicated there - just awful execution.

Parker and Murray both missed several tackles to boot.

But yeah, we're reaching nut-cutting time here with Sutton if he just keeps sending those guys out there. It's not because of scheme but rather because of misplaced loyalty and lack of killer instinct.

Because let's be fair - the defense bailed a scattershot offense out in that 1st half. Before that last second TD drive, the best you could say about the offense was that it was finding its way. But for the most part, in that first half the offense just looked bad. The defense stood tall several times and made plays.

But in that 2nd half - the 4th quarter in particular - they just stopped playing. They just lost any kind of aggression. I get it, Sutton was playing a prevent, but even a prevent is designed to slow them down; trade points for clock. We weren't even getting a milked clock as part of the prevent package. And while I think that's largely because the safeties just couldn't cover anyone, it's time for Sutton to get Lucas out there and see what else we have to work with.

We can't just keep losing matchups with Ron Parker on the field and say "well Ron Parker just sucks". Yeah, he does, and for awhile I gave Sutton the benefit of having little else to work with. But I think now he needs to wear the horns for not being willing to take Parker off the field. Or use different packages that keep Raglands slow ass out of there. Or...well shit, I can't blame him for that Hitchens play. Lord Hitchens, that was bad man.

I hear ya the Offense struggled a bit but ya we still HAD to put up 40 to win and still we were an onside kick away from Overtime. Parker lost whatever he used to have and should have never even been brought back, I thought it was a decent move considering Berry but in hindsight we could have started a rookie and been way better off.

This was a Raiders team that couldn't hang with anyone, even the Faider fans are taking this as a victory. This has to be fixed in the offseason one way or another. If we have to suffer through this situation next year where we are in line for HFA and still are afraid because of our defense then we have failed yet ANOTHER year. You only get so many chances man, this just feels like insanity at this point.