12-03-2018, 05:35 PM
(12-03-2018, 05:10 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: For what? Certainly not for the defense allowing 31.5 points/game, because it's been that bad from jump...and that is our main problem this year.
Eifert is a walking body cast. If the hopes of our season were riding on him, we're fools. This team got lucky, won some squeakers, and now we're leveling out to what we really are (a 7-9 team with stale coaching). This team has a LOT of problems, and pinning it all on injuries is flat out wrong. Sure, now we're without Dalton/Green and losing is to be expected. That said, the slide of this team was apparent before those 2 got hurt.
We won some close games on lucky turnovers or game winning drives early...and that put a nice pretty coat of paint over the ugly issues. They started biting us in losses to Pitt and the blowout to KC. It's only continued from there, and we only had relatively average injuries at that point. I know this is the excuse that will come from Mike Brown and will be parroted by the forever-hopeful...and that's what's so frustrating about it.
I've been around a long time, and I know better. It's beyond time for change.
Exactly how I see it. Even healthy, we still had a bad offensive line and bad LB's. That's 7-9 or 8-8 territory.
The winning close games via turnovers that were flukes kind of has people thinking we're better than we are.
We played pretty bad against the Dolphins and should have lost that one for instance.
