It feels different!
This is the type of game I expect to lose, and we won!!!
QB - Check
RB - Check
WR - Check
DEF - Check
I am almost in tears! We look so different!
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Game wasn't on here and I was at a birthday party so I couldn't watch it in any alternative way. I was checking the score and stuff on my phone an when I saw we were down 10-0 in the 4th, I thought that was it. When Landry scored, I was thinking huh...still four minutes left. But I did NOT expect us to pull that one out after our offense didn't do a damn thing for three quarters.
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Its most certainly coaching guys. This team was so unprepared last year. So uninspired. So unmotivated. Just going through the motions like Philbin was. We NEVER would have won this game under Philbin. This team would have quit. Dallas Thomas and Billy Turner would have been in, missing blocks left and right, giving half assed effort.
It's not passion, its coaching. It's a system. It's belief in what theyre doing, what they're being coached to do, believing in each other. It's a team. Brought together by it's leader, it's head coach.Tin Indian, cuchulainn, dolphin25 and 1 other person like this. -
It's always said that teams take on the personality of their head coach.
We've had tough guys. We've had softies. We've had smart guys, dinosaurs and worry warts. All of them had some sort of gaping hole(s) in their makeup.
This guy is different. Beyond the smarts, there's flexibility. There's adaptation. There's accountability. He's direct and relates to his players. There's trust and loyalty between players and staff. The players truly have a voice. They have ownership. And they have bought in completely.
Most importantly, there is now BELIEF. You can see it out there every week. They're resilient. They're never out of it. THAT is the quality the good teams have.cuchulainn, dolphin25, Simon and 5 others like this. -
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The good thing is we can see they are flexible and not mired in cement.
We realistically still need upgrades at several spots, but hey ... we're seeing passion and results and that's a hell of a lot more than we've seen for what seems forever.dolphin25 likes this. -
It is a very sweet feeling to be 6-4, there's no doubt about that.
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I think, along with the other things that have been said, players see the beating the QB is taking, and they hear the disparaging words thrown his way, and they man up, and play better, and play tougher. It certainly helps when the coach makes it clear the QB is his guy...the team comes together around their QB. just like the team came together around Grant when he muffed that punt.
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speaking of coaching I am really thankful we did not get fisher as our head coach. Them not going for it on that 4th and 1 was moronic, that would have run out the clock and sealed the game. I also noticed Higbee played less and he and Goff had a nice thing going, not sure why you would take out a weapon your rookie QB feels confident with. Unless Higbee was hurt on the one pass play. Still really glad we did not hire Fisher as head coach.
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Dare I say it.. we all have to give Ross props too for hiring Gase. Guy's a slow learner but he seems to have gotten it right this time.
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