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Dungy 10/6 Press Conference Recap

In case you didn't listen to it, here are the Cliff's Notes:

Overall no takeaways from the film other than the 1st quarter and the last 4 minutes of the game. We played hard but for 3/4 of the game we self-destructed, played without passion and unsound fundamentally. We made progress in the bye but that didn't translate to the field somehow.

Defensively there is some inexperience causing the young players to be going through a thought process about where they should be but moreso we're not playing with enough passion, not flying to the ball like we should be. Hopefully the last four minutes opens the floodgates and set the tone for the remainder.

We can't expect to come from behind on a weekly basis like this. We don't practice that way so we can't expect to be able to recover from poor play like that week-in, week-out.

Defenses are crowding us unlike in the past. This could be due to the lack of cohesion in the passing game or the lack of pass protection causing the deep ball to be less of a threat than historically was the case. Until we consistently make defenses pay with deep passes they will continue to crowd us.

Freeney strained his leg on the first fumble recovery, no update on Kelvin or Marlin, more concerned with how to play better than what the docs have to say. Charlie played because he had more practice time, Tony not demoted.

Spec teams better over the first four weeks, Adam and Hunter kicking better.

Call on Raheem was understandable, increased enforcement on defenders pulling guys down.

Friday is the last day that injury status MUST be published. Nothing we can do about things happening on Saturday.

Unfortunately for Sage, he probably won't get a chance to play through this because Schaub will come back and get the start. Tony would tell him, "You didn't loose the game by yourself." Guys should rally around him and focus on positive not negative.

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Thanks for taking the time to update us!

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
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by peytonsthebest on Oct 6, 2008 6:48 PM EDT reply actions  

A trend that I've noticed..

“This could be due to the lack of cohesion in the passing game or the lack of pass protection causing the deep ball to be less of a threat than historically was the case. Until we consistently make defenses pay with deep passes they will continue to crowd us.”

Ever since the 2004 season when Peyton set the TD record and our offense was known for throwing the deep ball, I’ve noticed a trend where the opposing defense worked to take away our deep ball, and so Peyton had to dink and dunk, move away from the deep ball. But now when defenses are crowding the line of scrimmage and Peyton has the deep ball, it seems as if Peyton has forgotten how to throw it.

by MarkFive05 on Oct 6, 2008 7:56 PM EDT reply actions  

WR aren't catching it

  Well the deep ball is probably still there, but I don’t think these guys are on the same page with not having a good training camp. That miss by marvin deep probably would have gone for TD. And they showed them arguing about it on the sideline after. Peyton has to get healthy so they can get back to their proper pregame and run the tree… That might be the difference in the long ball….

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by bluegirl on Oct 7, 2008 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

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Thx for this update.

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by Brad Wells on Oct 6, 2008 10:02 PM EDT reply actions  

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