02-09-2018, 12:22 PM
(02-08-2018, 10:17 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Even if you give Marvin that Steelers game, he'd still be 1-6 in the playoffs, and his offense has always sucked on ice.
Then you still have the prime-time record, record vs Steelers and record vs playoff teams.
No reason to force optimism...the guy is not the answer. Our supposed glory days are just woulda, coulda, shoulda. It's sad and we deserve better.
Giving Marvin the Steeler game that he was oh so close on would have killed the "no playoff win" chants.
People have a right to make those chants but in my mind it oversimplifies a bigger issue.
The same people can chant the same "no playoff win" chants about Dalton, yet Dalton didn't even get to play in the playoffs with what would have been his best team in 2015. Marvin without Dalton for his 2015 team.
I see things more in Ranges.
Say a Range of Aptitude for Mike & Marvin.
7 to 10 wins with 11 to 12 possible in the Regular Season. (12 and 4 in 2015)
In my mind, teams that win 10 to 12 games in a Regular season are more than capable of winning a Playoff game.
It would not surprise me one bit if Mike & Marvin win a Playoff game within the next two years because they have been on that Bubble quite often. The chanters imply it to be an impossibility and that the 2015 team even with a healthy Dalton was incapable.
I see a glimmer of Hope here but Mike & Marvin's Range of Aptitude may not extend much beyond say getting that controversial Playoff win someday.
So in short, I think they can build a Playoff game winning team someday and had at least two in the past that were capable. (2015 & Palmer/Henry team)
I am not as hopeful that their Range of Aptitude would extend much beyond a Playoff win or maybe even two, however.
They do not go for it enough with personnel moves to go much further than that and Marvin may not be in the caliber of many of the successful playoff coaches he competes against.
I am trying to dial in a Range of what may be hoped for in a realistic way while having 0 and 7 chanters in my ear.
I don't include you as a chanter. I have found you to be very realistic.
