Winning

[THE PISTONS]

(11-19-2019, 10:59 PM)chopperbobby Wrote:

(11-19-2019, 02:26 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: So I was thinking about how other teams win playoff games...all have since we last did. It's routine. Yet here, we've elevated a playoff win to some mythical status...that takes a perfect storm of things to come together.

Well after reading Taylors interviews, winning A SINGLE GAME has elevated to that status. He talks about how we leave a lot of plays on the field and make a lot of errors...and if those didn't happen...we'd win:



When looking at the tape against the Raiders, do you wish you would have run the ball more often?

“We had an unbelievable amount of errors on our (naked bootlegs) last night. It was very frustrating. There were some that we thought we had pretty good opportunities on that we made some errors on. The hard part is, there were some times in the fourth quarter where we were thinking, ‘All right, we just need to run the ball.’ We’re running the ball well, and then we get a minus-two, we got in some tough spots there. We need to find the balance of running the ball and staying one step ahead. We can’t just let them tee off on us in the run game. (We needed to) call a play-action or something to get some rhythm. There’s that balance, like there is in any game. We had our opportunities. We drove the ball down to the 20-something yard-line with however-many minutes left to play, so we were doing the things that would have put ourselves in position to win. We just ultimately didn’t get it done, and that was very frustrating.”

https://local12.com/sports/bengals/11-18-zac-taylor-press-conference-transcript-
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[/get us back in the game. That was where the frustration was - on offense. There were a lot of mental errors. There were a lot more than normal this week. We're challenging our guys today to look really hard at themselves. Everybody left a play on the field that was pretty routine - if each guy would have made that play, I think the outcome could have potentially been different.
This has been his line since game. One guy each play. Different guy each play. Not one player.  Coaching problem

Indeed. Basically everyone makes mistakes.
It's like Taylor needs everything to go perfect to win.