02-01-2016, 02:56 PM
(02-01-2016, 01:01 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Ultimately, it was multiple things that led to a 4-12 record. The defense dropped off (from 4th in yards to 15th), Benson had a terrible season (3.5 ypc) and the offense turned it over 34 times (23 from Palmer, 5 from Benson).
'10 was also the flip side of all the breaks we got in '09 when we came from behind to win multiple games in the final 2 minutes. In '10 Tampa Bay scored 10 points in the final 1:30 to beat us by 3; we blew a 4th quarter lead to the Falcons; we blew a 17 point halftime lead against the Bills when we let one of the worst offenses in the league outscore us 31-0 in the second half (one of the most painful games I have ever watched in my long history of fandom); the Saints beat us on a td with only 0:31 left that would have never happened if Pat Sims had not jumped offsides on a fourth down when it looked like the Saints were not really going to run a play, but instead were just trying to draw the Bengals offsides.
It was a nightmare season all around. Made worse by the sky high pre-season expectations.
