How Much Better Is Team Confidence And Mentality?

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(09-05-2022, 03:31 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: No doubt winning in playoffs and making the Super Bowl should have increased that team chemistry but maintaining it at a high level is hard, the 89 Super Bowl team seemed to be the tightest group (defense/offense) that I can remember but they were not able to maintain it.  

Green/Dalton/Atkins era has a strong core and rarely lost games they were favored but never seemed to move up to the level we expected. 


This team especially with the structure of contracts over the next couple years makes it look like they can add more to that team chemistry and avoid though loses when they are favored over the next couple years

That '89 season was one of the craziest seasons i've ever experienced. 

They started off strong going 4-1, then somehow went 1-4 losing back to back home games against mediocre teams, before alternating W and L the rest of the way. Losing late at home to the Seahawks was a crippling defeat as the 'hawks weren't a very good team then. Then came the Christmas night loss to the Vikings. Penalties and turnovers abound and they just missed the playoffs. 

Losing Ickey in game #2 didn't help at all. They only went 5-3 at home that year after going 8-0 the year before and they lost 4 out of their last 5 road games. They had 4 games where they scored over 40 pts, including 56 and 61 against the Bucs and Oilers respectively, but they scored only 14 or less 5 times. 

Wacky wacky frustrating season.