What are all you talking about?
Besides all the penalties, bad punting, and the injuries we played very well.
McNabb was accurate for a preseason game. One of his passes was a 63 yard pass to Pinkston but he over threw him about 3 yards (from where I was sitting it looked like Pinkston gave up at the end of the play). He had one bad pass to Pinkston (he was throwing it away) and a drop by Mitchell. He also had a 40 yard pass to Pinkston that was called back because he steped on the sideline. It is the first preseason game, so problems are expected.
We stoped the run very well, I really don't know what you are talking about. Dillon had one 13 yard gain, but besides that he ran 4 times for 10 yards. Mike Cloud (their backup HB) ran 17 times for 45 yards, not good at all.
Our running game was very good, Mahe (who I am not a fan of) looked very good against the Pats first/second string defense (Wilfolk).
Our offensive line looked fine, Blake and McNabb wern't sacked at all, and both had a long time to throw. McNabb had to step up a few times and use his scrabling ability, but he always gave his receivers enough times to get open. They gave him enough time to give Pinkston enough time to run 63 yards (about 8 seconds). McNabb actually looked very well avoiding sacks, he doesn't look as fat and slow as he did last season.
Rayburn looked great, he had a very nice sack on Davey, he just blew up the offensive line. He was the best player on our team IMO.
The biggest problem was our corners. Brown got beat on one play very badly for a TD but Sheppard covered his receiver well. Brown also had a great play on a Brady pass.
Westbrook looked fast, and Buckhalter only had one carry for some reason. Kearse only played the first two series, but he didn't even play all of the snaps, we were extremely careful.
The starting Patriots defense played a lot. Wilson and Samuel were playing into the fourth quarter. Pass (their starting FB) played the whole game, and Davey played most of it. Davey looked terrible against our starters and then when Haw/Wynn/Pinderhughes were our CBs, he lit our defense up. We split the starting QBs into thirds, McNabb played a third, Blake played a third, and Hall played a third (who looked bad, it is his first game but...). Davey played all but two series.
We had so many injuries (Rayburn, Ware, Green, Short, Richmond...) Hopefully they all comeback okay. Dawkins, Walker, McDougle all didn't play for our defense, and as I said, Kearse (and Burgess) played very little.
Brady looked very good. He had one great play where Kalu jumped on him and had his legs and right before he pulled him down he passed to an open Patten. This was right before the TD.
Corey Dillon didn't impress me at all. He had one nice run, but that was more a bad defensive play than a great offensive one.
Wilfolk didn't do anything, it is early though.
Davey looked terrible early in the game, but he looked very good later and put up very good stats. Both of his TDs came against our scrubs (UDFA or players drafted after the 6th round).
Jim Miller was their best offseason move.
The Patriots had a very good game.
That is it, I was overall very happy with our play but the penalties killed us. If there were no injuries, it would have been a very good game. I can't believe that you all think it was bad. I am very happy none of the injuries appear serious.
BTW: I was there, I was sitting around Patriots fans, and they were saying the same thing as me.
