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(01-08-2025, 12:56 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: [ -> ]what game did we go for 2 and loss instead of kicking the extra point to tie at the end?

The 2nd Ravens game.

That ravens loss was painful, but I'm still not sold there wasn't enough time for Lamar to get into FG range. There was still enough time on the clock. The first Ravens loss is the killer.

(01-08-2025, 12:56 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: [ -> ]what game did we go for 2 and loss instead of kicking the extra point to tie at the end?

The second Ravens game...

To Brad, yeah, there were lots of plays that cost us the chance to be in the Playoffs this season and as TLL says we just cannot start 
out slow like this every season under Zac. Maybe the new coaches will help with this as I know Joe and company are bringing it up 
after this season where we didn't make it into the Playoffs because of yet again another slow start.

I just saw something about that game. If New England lost that game, they would likely have the #1 overall pick and the Bengals would be in the playoffs.

(01-07-2025, 07:25 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: [ -> ]Being woefully unprepared to start the season (again) cost us our season. Turns out continuing to start almost every season 0-2 (0-3 this year, and 1-4) makes things much harder on you and that's not just a Hudson problem.

Being shit on defense (again) cost us our season. Turns out having a scoring defense in the 20s isn't exactly beneficial to being a playoff team. We played 9 games against playoff teams and they averaged 32.9 points per game against us and we were 2-7 (it took us 384 days to get a win over a winning team's starters from our last one).

Trying to distill Hudson's fumble in week 1 as "costing us" our season is just a gross simplification that ignores everything else to hyper-focus in on a single play, which is something that no actually good team would ever do. If your season ends because a fumble in the 2nd quarter of Week 1, you never stood a chance and it would have just been something else.

Exactly

I sure hope ZT and Co. come up with plan B for our preseason prep for 2025 and scrap plan A which has failed miserably to start the 23/24 seasonss. We've started out 1-3 in both the last two season and it's killed our playoff chances both times.

And one play/fumble/missed tackle or whatever is not what killed our seasons. Your first sentence is the reason.

(01-07-2025, 07:17 PM)bfine32 Wrote: [ -> ]The NE loss is the only loss of our season that wasn't the Defense's "fault".

Stevenson had like 100 yards after contact in that game. It may not have been the D's fault, but they didn't help much either.

(01-08-2025, 11:57 PM)jason Wrote: [ -> ]Stevenson had like 100 yards after contact in that game. It may not have been the D's fault, but they didn't help much either.

14 missed tackles.

(01-08-2025, 11:57 PM)jason Wrote: [ -> ]Stevenson had like 100 yards after contact in that game. It may not have been the D's fault, but they didn't help much either.

They don't keep score based on yards, but going by yards NE had less than 300 total.

I didn't say they performed like the 85 Bears, but the D did enough in that game. 

(01-09-2025, 01:10 AM)bfine32 Wrote: [ -> ]They don't keep score based on yards, but going by yards NE had less than 300 total.

I didn't say they performed like the 85 Bears, but the D did enough in that game. 

Yeah. I figure we could've put up 17 in that one.