Byrd is looking great…I agree. Nose for the ball, excited, relentless, tackling improving. You can’t take him off the field. He also seems quite fast. Great football speed.

Good to see Fitz starting, but it makes you wish Trent could just clean up up his head (maybe the latest concussion did it) and use his better athletic ability compared to Fitz’s and win us some ball games. For all of you who thought Trent had a weak arm, he has a rocket compared to 14 and I for one, think this might have been, Fitz starting that is, the best thing for Trent’s game and i hope to see him at home against the Texans

Run D is still suspect…it only looked good when all of our starting LBs (Poz, Mitch and Ellison) were in for however short a time they were, week 1 against the Pats

O line looks like crap in both phases, run and pass blocking, and contributed to alot of Fitz inaccuracy, and obviously our inability to run

I think we can win some games coming up, but we have to get healthier and we have to get Trent (the good trent) back in the saddle for the rest of the year. If we can win three of the next four, I think it would be awesome. We’re not too far off of what a lot of people on this site thought we’d be at this point. We should have won the Browns game in alot of preseason predicitons, but between this and the Jets game, we pretty much made up for it.

Also, how demon fast did McGee look on that kick return? Get his ass back on those kick returns at least a a couple times a game. He is still more than capable

In fact, the way he threw the ball, except for two passes to Lee Evans, was downright painful to watch. He sailed the ball on almost every throw. He was inaccurate and high consistently. In my opinion he is lucky that he didn’t get picked. Fitz made me realize why Trent Edwards is our starting quarterback. He was awful the entire game. Those two throws the Lee (the touchdown and the long ball) were pre-determined throws in the huddle. Great decision on his part to take advantage of single coverage on Lee, but overall he was just bad. Bad.
If not for Byrd, and the mistakes of Carolina, we would have lost this game.

I agree that it was sickening to watch that safety. The replays of Levitre getting run over were something out of a horror film. However, I disagree about your Fred Jackson assessment. Our offense was smooooth when he was the only back. I really think his rhythm is thrown off by this platoon situation and thus the whole offensive rhythm is off. It is hard to disentangle the the RB platoon from the injury to Brad Butler as the source of offensive disruption, but I would generally advocate a larger roll for Fred.

I thought it was a terrible idea to split the carries 50-50 in the Dolphins game. I thought it would have been much more effective to let Fred do what he does the first half and then bring in Marshawn as the battering ram in 3rd or 4th quarter to finish the victory. I still think this would be a good plan going forward and use the Saints as an example of how effective this can be (brought in Pierre Thomas late in Bills game, brought in Mike Bell late last night against Dolphins to spur comeback—thanks Saints!).

I also think that Marshawn has a far superior nose for the endzone than Fred and would consider using him as the redzone back, or maybe just inside the 10, but let Freddy run free between the 20s.

Talking about RBs always brings me to the Marshawn/Fred two back set that has got to have been our least successful formation all season. I really hope it gets taken out of the playbook.