It was underwhelming on both sides of the ball, suffice to say. No need to get into “which side,” cost us the game because neither were ultimately very good or as billed.
The D couldn’t get off the field for far, far too long in the game. Getting a couple key stops late is nice but they were also the beneficiaries of the Rams missing a FG and having to settle for two other chip shots or this game could have been out of hand early.
The offense put together exactly two nice drives in the first half to net us two TDs and did shit all the rest of the night. 17 points is not good enough, bad PI call or not. The fourth down call is meaningless if they actually managed to convert in the standard 3 downs like good offenses do.
The OL was underwhelming but I thought having pro bowlers in Martin and Smith was good enough that they should be able to overcome average or bad player like Looney and Steele with coaching, yet tonite they were tremendous sore spots.
Again, chalk it up to strange offseason related rust, but it better get better in a hurry or this team is no better than the 8-8 / 9-7 / 10-6 fake contender it’s always been.