DISAPPOINTING!!!

Skins lose to the Viqueens 17-13. I am disappointed for a variety of reasons. Here are my thoughts:

1. Great opening drive for the Skins. The question is what happened after that? We were clicking on all cylinders on that first drive. We spread the ball around and it really looked great. After that, the offense pretty much disappeared.

2. Too many dropped balls. Both Cooley and Moss dropped balls on a drive in the second quarter that would've resulted in first downs but their drops killed the drive. Armstrong dropped a ball in the fourth quarter right after his bomb that would have set up a second and short. Moss had the ball right off his hands on that slant deep in our territory that ricocheted off of him and ended up getting picked off. Those dropped balls hurt bad.

3. No running game. We were totally one dimensional yesterday. I understand we have injuries to our first and second string RBs but what happened to Keiland Williams? Was he hurt too? Why was that guy they just brought in playing so much? We just didn't commit to the running game and that hurt.

4. Illegal blocks. Riley had two illegal blocks on PRs. The first one didn't really have much of an impact but the second one cost us a Brandon Banks TD. The sad part about that one was that the illegal block had no impact on the play. Banks looked to have already been passed the guy that got that illegal block. That was a killer.

5. Didn't like our defense. We held up pretty well but we didn't do as a good job stopping the run as we should have. I would have liked to see a commitment to stop the run and pressure on Favre and have Favre beat us. We didn't apply the kind of pressure that I would have liked to see because we should have had Favre try and beat us and I'm confident he would have thrown a couple of INTs.

6. Favre's naked bootleg. C'mon! Letting him have that first down was ridiculous. Ole man Favre making that play? The thing was there were like three guys running away from him as he rolled out. If just one of those guys commits to Favre that does not happen.

7. Bomb to Armstrong. It was underthrown. If he had hit Armstrong in stride, it was an easy TD. I understand he had a guy in his face and took a hit but still Donovan has got to make that throw.

There are always would'ves and should'ves but in the end we lost. At the start of the season, I never expected to make the playoffs this year but I was disappointed because this was a game I expected to win and we just didn't show the kind of consistency and improvement I would have liked to see at this point.

Anyways, it's over and it's time to move on to next week.

HAIL SKINS!!!