I thought our QB position was the weakness of our team all season coming into this game. I was dead wrong. Nate Mays played his heart out and did well under extreme pressure and poor play calling especially in the 1st half. He was not perfect but darn good. Two 3 and outs with runs mostly up the middle over and over at the beginning of the game when we could have taken charge. He is not the problem in my opinion, in fact he is a definite asset. Our O line was over matched and with our play calling very predicable, it made their job difficult and Nate Mays job nearly impossible. Our play calling needs to be less predictable and the qb needs to change out of dead plays. Not sure that is possible under our system.
On defense I was surprised by the breakdowns on the long pass plays and some of the 3rd and longs. Our back end needs improvement and not sure if it is scheme or players or both. Our D line did well I thought and nearly had the QB on many occasions, but he slipped away. On the one TD pass there was holding of our D tackle that was not called. The other way we got called on iffy plays. The refs didn't do us a fair job in my opinion. Probably a result of our history so no fair calls for us in any tossup play.
Hope Nate Mays is ok and can play after all he gave us. And we need him. This week will be almost like week 2 of a season where teams have a chance for the biggest improvement. Our first four games didn't do that. We shall see on Saturday.
