...And we let them off the hook!
Does anyone else feel very Denny Greenish???
I mean, stats and performance aside, this is just the WORST way to lose. Greed sets in, "oooh, we're gonna send a message to the league, oooh it's gonna be 31-3 at half...oh everyone is going to be talking about us now, let's run it up!"
And to slowly go from knowing you are going to win, to fairly certain, inch by inch, until its, "oh god, oh no." its just as bad as it gets. its a taste that only beating the jets next week can remove. and what's our parting gift for that? we're still under .500.
This game called football, its really quite ridiculous. I mean, who knows what team is going to show up, and for what quarters. Bad teams beat good teams, good teams play great. Great teams lay down. Who the hell knows.
I do remember though, how hard it was to win out and goto the play-offs last year. I don't know why we have to seemingly start slow every damn year of this decade. We can't just go 5-1, and make things easy on ourselves? I swear we must be the best 2-4 team ever. But we're 2-4 none the less. Our defense has seemingly regressed rather drastically from last year. I guess we should have kept Renaldo Hill around. Perhaps he did indeed, really get our alignments and structure set back there.
Our offense has been pretty stellar, but we're just not good enough to beat these great teams we face. All that amounts to us not being great ourselves.
I guess we'll just regroup and try again next week. The play-offs certainly are a longshot now, although our schedule does lighten up a bit. But again, this is just a tough pill to swallow. And it could send a fanbase and team reeling.
I do remember though, there was a thread in here, and it basically said, what would your compromise be after 8 games. Would you take 4-4? And I did indeed say absolutely, so long as our one loss was to the Saints. So hey, ya never know. That could certainly freshen my take on this season, winning our next 2 AFC East showdowns.
But til then, I'm wallowing in this defeat. If we just closed out the 2nd quarter. Bess doesn't fumble, or the refs get the call right and we go into half at 31-3, or 24-3, 24-6. If only. But...if you wanna crown their asses.
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lol, pretty sums it up... I feel sick re-living my inner monologue at 24-3 with 2 min left until half.
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well said
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I didn't feel comfortable with that 24-3 lead. When Bess fumbled, I knew we were gonna in trouble.
The only way the Saints get back into the game was if we turned it over, which we did...twice.
That was also one of the worst/oddly officated games I've ever seen. From the "Replay Machine Malfunction", to the Refs missing Colston down on the one, and the Sharper fumble that should've been a touchback. Not to mention Camarillo with one if the most bone-headed plays I've ever seen.Agua likes this. -
Eh, it was close. I could see where they said it was moving before his knee was down. If the shoe were on the other foot, I would've been upset had they overturned the call on the field.
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LOL...yeah, I had his words ringing in my head yesterday evening...for sure. And, it's so true. We let the Saints back in the game instead of putting them away when we had the chance. We let a very winnable game get away...again.
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It was a fumble, we did not get screwed on that play.
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Nope, but I watched it on a DVD recording about a dozen times as well as the 20 times FOX showed it, the play was too close to overturn.
We can go round and round on this but if you look at it objectively, it was a fumble. I'm not pissed about that call at all. The Sharper touchdown was a world class joke. The ball was CLEARLY out of his hands. Hell, FOX's best replay (which was a bad one) showed the thing in the air and Sharper is at the one yard line. I was stunned that was not overturned.