Shout Out to Special Team
Special team has come up big in the past 3 games. And in the last 2 games against Cards and Chargers, it was down to one score differentiation. If ST hadn’t come up big on those 2 games, we could’ve lost. And then the whole narrative could’ve switched to Tua not being ready.
And like many here, I miss Darren Rizzi, but holy cow ST coordinator Danny Crossman is the unheralded coach here! So big shout out to him.
Posted Nov 16, 2020, 8:22 PM UTC
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Whole team effort.
Tua is playing well for only having 3 starts but if not for amazing defensive and special team scoring (when they deliver the ball on the 1 yard line as the D and ST have both done now I consider it their score) then Tua is 0-3. That's the biggest difference between Tua, Herbert, and Burrow: Tua only has to play complimentary football while Herbert and Burrow have to overcome the glaring faults on the rest of thrle team - especially Herbert who has led the Chargers to 3 score leads in 4 different games only to have the defense unable to hold it.
Absolutely! All three phases played complimentary football and that's what make this team so competitive. But if we hadn't scored from ST plays against Cards and Chargers, we would've been down by 7 and the hill would've been a lot harder to climb. Just wanted to give credit to this ST for those scores.