Let’s get this out of the way first, he absolutely torched our defense last night and had the game of his life. I think a lot of that goes to the scheme the coot coaches put together to use tempo and formational shifts to confuse our back 7 but Bentley made the throws he needed to.

My main observation comes from sitting a few rows back from their bench and paying attention to him and the offensive players when we had the ball. I can’t remember one time I saw him get up to congratulate the defense coming off the field, try to pick them up, or really paying much attention at all. He’d come off the field and go sit on the bench until it was time to go back on the field. IMO it was a pretty big indicator that while he is propped up to be the leader of the team, there is not much leadership that is coming from it. In contrast to the way our DL supports the other units while they aren’t on the field, and the way several other teams have showed a togetherness that I think is important. It just wasn’t there. Maybe I’m nitpicking or reading too much into it but to me it showed a clear lack of cohesion and leadership on their team and one of the reasons why they’re not a threat moving forward even if Bentley returns.