And believe me, things were terrible, but it is just one loss. A bad loss and a loss in which we lose by a last minute field goal both count as one loss in the standings. In all honesty, at the beginning of the season, I would have assumed that this would be a loss. We have still exceeded my personal expectations. It sucks that I got my hopes up, but we are still 3-1 and in first place. I certainly would not have expected that. I hope our leadership helps get this sour taste out of the team's loss. We were embarrassed, but we need to move on. Don't let this loss beat us twice. On to Cincinnati!
I don’t want to sound too dramatic here but this game really exposed us and our weaknesses. It did a lot more damage than some people are willing to admit. This is a blueprint for our opponents now for the rest of the schedule. Teams now know we cannot run the ball at all. Our Oline is decimated. Stack the secondary with Dbacks and dare Ryan to beat them, which we can now see he can’t, at least not against average to better than average defenses. They also know our coach is a stubborn and not very good at play calling a game. They now know that our so-called “speed killls” WRs are overrated and they can’t get separation without trickery. Teams know we’re a one trick pony at this point. Hate to say it but we are what we are, a sub 500 team, maybe 8-8 if things go our way. For us to beat Cincinnati on the road we would have to hope they lay down for us. We are not a physical team.
