The Big Picture

[SunsetBengal]

(12-05-2017, 11:04 AM)Big Boss Wrote: This team simply grows complacent when they have a lead.  That's all there is to it.  The offense shuts down completely, the defense goes into pitiful prevent mode.  The creative and productive play-calling from the first half all but vanishes into thin air in the second half.  That's no accident.  It goes back to what we've been saying about Marvin for years.  He doesn't play to win.  He plays to not lose.  And he's not even good at that.

To bolded, you're absolutely right.  Marvin is too nice of a guy to keep his foot on the gas, and bury an opponent.  The players are so used to going on cruise control once they have a lead, that they cannot muster the momentum to pick things up again when they need to.