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(07-16-2015, 12:15 PM)PlayerFormerlyKnownAsMousecop Wrote: You have to admit, losing 7 playoff games in a row is approaching curse territory. If you're good enough to get to the playoffs 7 times but you can't seem to win once you're there, it seems more like a franchise problem.

Although (before I get attacked), the QB and head coach do need to shoulder SOME of the blame, but certainly not all of it. That goes to the organization as a whole.

I'm not going to attack you for saying that. The 0-6 record is baffling. I tend to mostly blame the FO and HC (because the players change, yet the results stay the same), but I have to admit that it's just crazy how they haven't been able to luck into a single win. Heck, it hasn't even been close (with the exception of the 2nd Texans game - which still didn't feel close).

If they fall to 0-7 under Marv, what else can be said? The playoff record will look even more ridiculous, but to me it already seems clear that there's a problem up top. Some like to throw the QB in with it, but the whole team shrinks every time. To me, that's a coaching/preparation problem. 

This isn't aimed at you, but to me it just doesn't seem rational to say that Dalton has sunk the entire team in each of the last 4 games (no matter how many turnovers he has), and that the fact that the team fell apart in identical fashion in the '05 and '09 games was just coincidence. Imo, a more rational explanation would be that the team has been poorly prepared and perhaps a bit too predictable, and that's why we've never had a QB with a passer rating higher than 67 (despite plenty of regular season success between Kitna, Palmer and Dalton) and our defense has been poor in every category (despite having elite defenses pretty much every year).