12-10-2021, 11:13 PM
I have several problems with this article, but the biggest are these:
1. His primary evidence that we're destined to miss the playoffs is SOS...but this needs some context. The toughest team left of our schedule is probably the Ravens, who we pounded in their building. None of these teams are world beaters. Most of them have a worse record than we do...and we face the majority of them at home.
So I think way too much is being made over the SOS.
2. This part:
"But their inconsistencies – whether along the offensive line, from the quarterback, a rookie wide receiver or the defense – were predictable. A symptom of a team in transition learning how to be winners."
The entire AFC has been inconsistent. Especially the teams left on our supposedly daunting schedule. Yet he's impressed with them and our inconsistency is a "symptom of a team learning how to be winners"?
I think this take is a symptom of pulling-narratives-out-of-your-butt-itis.
We might have inconsistencies and various struggles (as do many teams this year), but it has nothing to do with not knowing how to win.
1. His primary evidence that we're destined to miss the playoffs is SOS...but this needs some context. The toughest team left of our schedule is probably the Ravens, who we pounded in their building. None of these teams are world beaters. Most of them have a worse record than we do...and we face the majority of them at home.
So I think way too much is being made over the SOS.
2. This part:
"But their inconsistencies – whether along the offensive line, from the quarterback, a rookie wide receiver or the defense – were predictable. A symptom of a team in transition learning how to be winners."
The entire AFC has been inconsistent. Especially the teams left on our supposedly daunting schedule. Yet he's impressed with them and our inconsistency is a "symptom of a team learning how to be winners"?
I think this take is a symptom of pulling-narratives-out-of-your-butt-itis.
We might have inconsistencies and various struggles (as do many teams this year), but it has nothing to do with not knowing how to win.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
