Sadly, the big difference between the overall play of the team this year as compared to the team last year: last year, we were slowly but surely improving, although not good, and were getting less 'bad'. This year, I don't think the team is actually any better at all than in game 1.
This applies to basically all phases and areas of the team (receiving, running, blocking, tackling, focus, consistant effort, kicking, punting, returns, etc.). I just can't think of any area where we are actually better than last year. This is the most disappointing part of this season. Nearly everyone thought we'd atleast continue to make marginal improvements on offense, defense and special teams. We expected to be bigger, stronger and better conditioned. I think we might be somewhat stronger, but our stamina and conditioning remains suspect. We seem to fold up and cave in on almost every opponent drive which takes more than 10 plays.
2. Our red zone offense is not much better than our red zone defens - both are only maybe a D+ on a A-F scale. .
3. Special teams are worse than last year!