RECAP: The Drew Bledsoe Show on The Ticket...
Recap by TrickBlue from a sports forum:
Bledsoe:
1. Last week was a dissappointment to us. We felt we had many chances last week and we blew it. It was loud and hostile there, but we spotted them 10 points early and didn't execute when we needed to.
2. I can't recall many games when it was a louder atmosphere excluding some domes.
The Eagles do a great job with their pass rush. As a QB what you try to do is try to go things a little more quickly and try to anticipate more. You have to be able to throw the ball before the WR breaks and know they will be there. I am trying to get a little more experience with some of these guys to develop that.
3. They came at us with alot of different blitzes that forces you to adjust on the fly. With the crowd noise they know it is hard for you to communicate and pick up what may be coming.
4. There are some things in terms of the precision of our offense that when you are under duress you have to be extremely precise and you can really hurt them. We are going to continue to work on consistency in our game. We were able to do it a few times last Sunday, but obviously not enough.
5. We only caught them with a couple of draws with the blitz last week. They were really committed to going for me and they were effective. We had been doing a good job in the previous three games at picking up the blitz. To their credit they were able to get some things working and hurt us.
6. We may need to incorprate the shotgun more. Part of the reason we haven't used it, particularly the other night where we are trying to change plays and the guys can't hear me well from the shotgun in an environment such as that. We are able to do it more at home obviously.
7. The interception at the end of the game. Jason thought the LB was going to undercut the route and swung around him. I didn't know he was going to do that and just missed it. I anticipated wrongly what he was going to do. The guy actually covering Jason is not the one that actually caught the ball. I threw it outside and the wrong guy caught it. I turned running to see if I could get an angle on him, I couldn't. Obviously at that time in the game all I could do was try to strip him, but obviously I couldn't do that and realized the game was over.
8. They were very committed to taking TO out of the game. The first int when my arm was hit I was trying to get one down the sidelines to him. We did want to get him involved in the game but were just not able to do it. There were no words on the sideline. We were all frustrated by the way the game was going but TO was not out of line at any time on the sideline. I did underthrow him but hopefully as we go forward I will understand what he is going to be doing on his routes. I need to learn when he bursts or stuttersteps. It fooled me when he slowed down, stutter-stepped and then burst. I wasn't anticipating that and I underthrew him resulting in a turnover.
9. I have thick skin. You ahve to to play QB in the NFL. I have to just come back next week and rebound. You can't start in the NFL for 14 years if you let criticism get to you.
10. I would have liked to have gotten up and celebrated running for the TD as I don't get to do that very much. The guy hit me pretty hard and I had to just lay there a second.
11. Getting up Monday was hard. I don't get much rest after a loss and you know you have to watch it all over again on film. Wednesdays are alway better as you get to look forward to the next game.
12. I realize the headlines would have been different if I had connected with Witten, but you go through those plays every week in the NFL. The games are very close i the NFL. When you are really competitive it really stings. It's hard to put it behind you, but you have to.
13. Philly has a lot of good players on that defense. They do alot of things to confuse you. They are very smart and they hit very hard.
14. We need to go ut and win this week. The Texans won their last game and had two weeks to prepare for this one. They blitzed alot against the Dolphins. I would anticipate that they will come in and blitz alot. If we handle them well we win the game, if not it could be a long day.
15. On the empty backfield. We have answers for that, but we have to protect that from the inside out. We need to handle the closest guy in. We had some miscommunications on what we should do and it cost us. Until we solve it, it will be like blood in the water every week for us.
Bledsoe:
1. Last week was a dissappointment to us. We felt we had many chances last week and we blew it. It was loud and hostile there, but we spotted them 10 points early and didn't execute when we needed to.
2. I can't recall many games when it was a louder atmosphere excluding some domes.
The Eagles do a great job with their pass rush. As a QB what you try to do is try to go things a little more quickly and try to anticipate more. You have to be able to throw the ball before the WR breaks and know they will be there. I am trying to get a little more experience with some of these guys to develop that.
3. They came at us with alot of different blitzes that forces you to adjust on the fly. With the crowd noise they know it is hard for you to communicate and pick up what may be coming.
4. There are some things in terms of the precision of our offense that when you are under duress you have to be extremely precise and you can really hurt them. We are going to continue to work on consistency in our game. We were able to do it a few times last Sunday, but obviously not enough.
5. We only caught them with a couple of draws with the blitz last week. They were really committed to going for me and they were effective. We had been doing a good job in the previous three games at picking up the blitz. To their credit they were able to get some things working and hurt us.
6. We may need to incorprate the shotgun more. Part of the reason we haven't used it, particularly the other night where we are trying to change plays and the guys can't hear me well from the shotgun in an environment such as that. We are able to do it more at home obviously.
7. The interception at the end of the game. Jason thought the LB was going to undercut the route and swung around him. I didn't know he was going to do that and just missed it. I anticipated wrongly what he was going to do. The guy actually covering Jason is not the one that actually caught the ball. I threw it outside and the wrong guy caught it. I turned running to see if I could get an angle on him, I couldn't. Obviously at that time in the game all I could do was try to strip him, but obviously I couldn't do that and realized the game was over.
8. They were very committed to taking TO out of the game. The first int when my arm was hit I was trying to get one down the sidelines to him. We did want to get him involved in the game but were just not able to do it. There were no words on the sideline. We were all frustrated by the way the game was going but TO was not out of line at any time on the sideline. I did underthrow him but hopefully as we go forward I will understand what he is going to be doing on his routes. I need to learn when he bursts or stuttersteps. It fooled me when he slowed down, stutter-stepped and then burst. I wasn't anticipating that and I underthrew him resulting in a turnover.
9. I have thick skin. You ahve to to play QB in the NFL. I have to just come back next week and rebound. You can't start in the NFL for 14 years if you let criticism get to you.
10. I would have liked to have gotten up and celebrated running for the TD as I don't get to do that very much. The guy hit me pretty hard and I had to just lay there a second.
11. Getting up Monday was hard. I don't get much rest after a loss and you know you have to watch it all over again on film. Wednesdays are alway better as you get to look forward to the next game.
12. I realize the headlines would have been different if I had connected with Witten, but you go through those plays every week in the NFL. The games are very close i the NFL. When you are really competitive it really stings. It's hard to put it behind you, but you have to.
13. Philly has a lot of good players on that defense. They do alot of things to confuse you. They are very smart and they hit very hard.
14. We need to go ut and win this week. The Texans won their last game and had two weeks to prepare for this one. They blitzed alot against the Dolphins. I would anticipate that they will come in and blitz alot. If we handle them well we win the game, if not it could be a long day.
15. On the empty backfield. We have answers for that, but we have to protect that from the inside out. We need to handle the closest guy in. We had some miscommunications on what we should do and it cost us. Until we solve it, it will be like blood in the water every week for us.
posted by The Gryphon at 6:48 PM
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