01-26-2017, 12:07 AM
(01-25-2017, 10:10 PM)jj22 Wrote: Patriots showed teams for years how to beat Manning. And nobody listened (in the regular season). We have the players, and we have the coaches to copy a game plan. We don't have the culture to pull it off.
I never been this down about the discipline of the team. Part of it is on the Coaches, part of it is a couple players, but we never grew into the poise of some of the playoff teams we saw this postseason. Not even close really. We were the wildcard weekend team that got blew out in games nobody remembers. This after a run of 5 straight. Long way to go. There's no Championship (or playoff win obviously) until this team gets mentally tough. The roster as is isn't likely to flip the switch now.
Pats go out and execute a gameplan. Simple most of the time. Poised. Bengals, never can really get on the same page in big moments to even copy what the Patriots do.
Spot on brother !!
Until the culture here is changed, the results will remain the same. We simply do not have the discipline, moxy, unity etc. to pull it off in crunch time.
This is a team divided in so very many ways. We have no central vision, no true leader. Mike Brown meddles in everything, Paul Alexander is running his show. Marvin comes out and shoots the DC down in public. The OC doesn't have a clue what he's doing and just uses Hue's playbook.
It's a total cluster $%^#