As pointed out in Eric Crawford's column on Sunday: only six combined receptions from our wideout. That sucks. Deion Branch used to pull in six receptions on opening drive.
It's never good when your jersey number gets ingrained to memory for all the wrong reasons, but that's what happened in the section where I was sitting with regard to #21 Troy Pascley and the number of passes he dropped. You can only watch so many dropped balls before it starts to sink in.
During the game, everyone kept asking, where's Doug Beaumont? three receptions for forty yards isn't near enough, especially when the plays he did make were the few clutch passing plays pulled off. Even Strong acknowledged in his press conference on Monday that Beaumont was streaking across the end zone wide open during that failed final drive. If Froman makes that pass, it's a whole different ballgame.
Verdict on Josh Chichester's move from wide receiver to tight end after one game: disappearing act -- and that's tough to do for someone who's 6 foot 9.
It's already been commented on elsewhere that Josh Bellamy's injury screwed up a lot of our game plan, not to mention my prediction for the game. Here's hoping that we will receive positive news about his health and that he can play this week against Eastern Kentucky.
Yes, during their 2010 debut the Cards' receiving corp set the bar, shall we say, a little low. Let's hope that this it all the more rewarding to watch them improve steadily, starting this weekend.
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