05-10-2022, 11:35 AM
(05-10-2022, 11:22 AM)Wyche Wrote: Considering that the prime time woes dated back to the Palmer years, I'd say it was something to do with the coaching. The team always looked tight, and other times they just came out flat. If they fell behind, it often snowballed. We won a few prime time games with Dalton...Denver and Baltimore come to mind...but overall, the team didn't perform well under the lights while Marvin was here.
To the OP....the team won every game in the playoffs, and the lone prime time game last year. The year prior, they won in prime time with Ryan Finley at QB and the defense set the tone early. These players don't wilt when they get behind, that's a huge plus for the coaching staff.
To find a team like last year's team, that could go down 14-21 points to a team like the Chief's and then bounce back, you'd pretty much have to go back to the Esiason/Anderson years. Every other team would just quit and go through the motions to get through the game. (The lone exception to this I can think off is Dalton's 17 point comeback in the 4th against the Seahawks.)
