This team could be worse than we think.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(10 hours ago)Joelist Wrote: It IS baffling. As I noted in prior seasons they usually found a way to make the play at the end. This year it has been the opposite; they find a way at the end to give up the game winning play. So the team this year has been the opposite of clutch. 

Maybe the coaching message isn't working anymore. Maybe their adjustments and tendancies (both coaches and players) have been studied by FOs universally larger than ours so they're better prepared to stop what we try. Or we just are less talented this year than previous years. 

In one-score games in the Burrow/Taylor era we are....
1-6 this year
5-4 in 2023
6-4 in 2022
7-6 in 2021
2-5-1 in 2020
(21-25-1)

Compare that to the Chiefs...
8-0 this year
9-5 in 2023
10-3 in 2022
6-4 in 2021
9-1 in 2020
(42-13)

Maybe we're just never been as clutch as we liked to believe? We remembered the good and forgot the bad? Even at our best we're just a hair above .500.

[pulses]

(Yesterday, 10:50 AM)ERIC1 Wrote: there has been nothing indicated by anyone that would remotely suggest that the coaching staff has lost the players..and the team continues to play hard

You can see it in their faces after games it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Also players calling out coaches that hasn't been happening for a long time. The writing is on the wall.

[Sled21]

(11-23-2024, 11:28 PM)pulses Wrote: He's probably talking about Burrow being the only one who came in on the bye week to do any kind of work.

I'm curious where you saw that, because I would be immensely surprised if it were true. I'd just about guarantee Vonn Bell was in there every day working out.