AJ McCarron
Numbers
23/29, 236 yards, 3 TD
Q4 for the season
38% yards, 32% completions
Very comparable to week 4
4 carries for 18 yards
16 yards in 1 play
Made a guy miss?
Performance
Issues
Overthrew Shepherd on second play
Underthrew Austin Proehl in 3rd quarter
Too slow to pull the trigger on a crosser to Butler in Q4
Sacked T.o.D.
Good Stuff
First scoring drive
7/7, 51 yards
Tempo
Overcame V. Alexander penalty
He was the play caller for most of the 2nd half, maybe?
Very impressive first drive
7 plays, 49 yards, TD
Great ball placement
Darrius Shepherd Scramble Drill
Darrius Shepherd Dropped a deep shot
Austin Proehl connection
2 big ones
Decision making
Play calls when he was running the offense
Who to throw the ball to
Deeper shots
Q1, 4 & 2, Campbell for 14
Q2, 1 & 20, Proehl for 25
Q2, 30 yd TD after big penalty on Vegas
Q3, 1 & 20, Campbell for 37
Q4, 3 & 1, Shepherd for 19
Oh, and he went 19/19 at one point
Wide Receivers
Darrius Shepherd
7/10, 79 yards, 2 TD, long 30
One that doesn’t count to stats was 2 ptc
30 yard TD was uncontested
Getting used to seeing that
Really good at getting open
A little trouble when he’s not open
Not the biggest dude
That’s why he’s in the XFL
Couldn’t get his hands over a defender on another TD
Concentration drop on missed TD
DB fell down
Ball smoked him in the shoulder
Q4 scramble drill
Gets open in corner of endzone
George Campbell
3/3, 54 yards, long 32
Catches came in very clutch spots
4th down
Right after a big penalty
Hakeem Butler
5/7, 36 yards
2 bad drops to start the day
Got a big hit
Looked like he might leave the game
Austin Proehl
2/3, 28 yards
Should’ve been 3/4 for 43 yards
Got the ball in space on first drive, but Jones-Smith holding
Steven Mitchell
1/1 for 6
Quiet game
Ateman mihgt come back next week
Gary Jennings
4 yard jet sweep
Pointed at the guy trying to get him
Also got a huge hit on a punt
Jake Sutherland
No targets
Big fumble recovery on first scoring drive
Durant
Running Backs
Brian Hill
Rushing
13 carries, 62 yards, long 12
Very steady
Hurt on the second drive, didn’t look like he lost a lot during the game
Passing
4/4, 29 yards, long 16
Could’ve been 5/5 for 52 yards
23 yards catch and run, taken back by an Illegal block
16 yard catch got them off of the 1 yard line
Ball Security
One close fumble that got reviewed
One fumble, but they blew the play dead for forward progress
Mateo Durant
2 carries for 11 yards
BAD fumble that Sutherland recovered
Kareem Walker
4 carries for 15 yards, 1 TD, long 16
16 yard run + 1 yard TD run
2 carries for negative 2 yards
Offensive Line
Penalties
Jaryd Jones-Smith
Coming back to the team strong
Wipes off 15 yards from Proehl with a hold on 3rd down
Vadal Alexander
Illegal block on Hill’s 23 yard catch
15-yard spot foul
Ended up being a 30-yard penalty
Hold on 1st down
George Campbell ails the team out
Juwann Bushell-Beatty
Hold on 1st down
Austin Proehl bails the team out
Next play, JBB
Looks like an idiot against a speed rush
Reaching out like a blind cartoon character
He even tried to just grab onto the guy and hold him
Falls flat on his face
McCarron gets sacked
AJ absolutely stares daggers at him
Had an illegal formation penalty that got declined
Q3 Could’ve pushed the pile for an extra yard and get a 1st, but didn’t
Aside from penalties
Best blocking of the season
Shepherd’s 30-yard TD
Vegas brought 5
Great pass pro.
Offense as a whole
The penalties could’ve been the story of the game
AJ and the recievers really bounced back
Some of those plays were BG’s
Some were AJ’s
They were very aggressive to get back to moving the ball
Actually scored after an interception
17 points off turnovers this season
Should be more
33.3% 3rd down conversion
They played a complete game
AJ was spectacular
Defensive Line
Rod Smith
5 carries for 15 yards
John Lovett
6 carries for 19 yards
LaCale London
5 tackles, 1 TFL, .5 sack
Should be 1 whole sack,
Whole line was in on 1
He was everywhere
Constant pressure
Solo tackle in the flat
Did very well when paired with Carson Wells
Elorm Lumor
Lots of pressure
2 near sacks
Perez got the ball off when he was horizontal
Blocked into a sack
Linebackers
Carson Wells
1.5 sacks
Travis Feeney
1 sack
5 QB hits that were non sacks
Best player on defense this game
Forced QBs to tuck or make bad throws
From the beginning of the game to the end
Batted a ball to force a 4th and 12
Defensive Backs
Constantly moving downhill and made tackles
Not always the case
Idk how much YAC there was, but not much
Vipers QBs
23/39, 224, 1 TD, 2 INTs
Lavert Hill
1st INT
Stayed in great position
WR and QB on different pages
Hill was on the same page as the QB and got it thrown right to him
Shouldn’t have been an INT
Call was challenged for a facemask
It was clearly a facemask
2nd INT
Spectacular defense
Ball hawked it right out of the WR hands
Elijah Hamilton
Great tackles in the open field
Phenomenal PBU on 4th down
Would’ve been a TD
Swatted the ball out of the stadium
Nate Meadors
2 near INTs in Q4
9 tackles
1 great PBU on 2 ptc
Rode him like a backpack
They did a bad job covering 10-15 yard out routes
That’s where the scoring drive came from
Defense as a whole
Vipers lead in first half 4/5 games
Not this game
Never let them even get started
57 total yards in 1st half
All punts
Luiz Perez got traded
Vipers exposed weak spots in pass coverage, just inconsistently
Ray Sherman is a garbage pail of a OC
Didn’t know down, distance, or time left on the clock
Maybe unplug your microphone
Special Teams
Donnie Hageman 7/11
Ka KAW of the Week
WHOOPS I LIED
AJ McCarron for being OC
Uh UH of the Week
JBB
Only one who stood out looking like a dummy
DONKEY DICK DONKEY KICK of the week
Michael Carrizosa
Punt to the 3 yard line
Who the hell is that guy?
Lavert Hill
Oh, you lucky bitch of the week
Kareem Walker
1 yard TD
You forgot that you have eyes of the week
Dean Blandino
Facemask
Do less
The vegas in game DJ