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I know I know we are not good. This is just a statement on how tight the NFL is right now. ALL of the games I listed were winnable even as mediocre as we are, and with all of our flaws.

And if we won them? 10-4 and top of the AFC East. 8 pts over 3 games determines top of the world or the outside looking in.

And if we won those games, the dialogue on the forum would be so so different, we'd be all pumped up but the team would be the same team. Lousy O Line, no run game, questions at QB but we would be bragging about our position on the top of the division. I doubt the same negativity would linger.

I really don't know the point of this post other than looking around the league and seeing Cards lose to the Lions today, there is a lot of parity week to week.
 
Yes, ironic. I think about those 3 games a lot. They all came down to a couple plays each game. Wish we could have 1 or 2 wins more.

Same applies to the Pats game though...
 
It wasn't the opponent - it was beating ourselves. It's a coaching staff that really doesn't know how to prepare a team to be ready for the start of the season. Tua getting injured behind that line wasn't a random occurrence, it was a result of this team not having proper coaching for the line, not having the proper preparation for the line, and having an offensive staff that was in over its head, running plays that expose our biggest weaknesses and didn't give our QB a chance to get out of it, and the team for the second year in a row riding with middling backs by choice because they just would rather a back run a pretty angle route or something that actually being able to run the ball.

The defense playing underwhelming at the start of the season wasn't just a random occurrence or even a matter of scheme, it was a direct result of the lack of veteran leaders like KVN and guys like Phillips and AVG having roles they weren't ready to fill at that point.

Yeah- we can point to some of these things and hope they aren't repeated next year. But Flores has shown as much capability to manage a full season as Joe Philbin.
 
royalshank said:
Or the one we had last year. 1-3 I think?
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In a vacuum I would say last year is more excusable than this. So many new pieces to fit in and all those first few games we lost were against tough opponents (yes I'd qualify division opponent New England there even though that offense would grind to a halt over the course of the season with Cam). It's when you combine it with the slow starts the other two years that it's a disturbing pattern.

This year is less excusable. We should have been building off a ten win season last year but (partially because Flores lost parts of the locker room with his QB decisions last year) we went into this season with some self-inflicted holes. A rebuild should be a steadily increasing wave, not a surge and then a step back because you got rid of a lot of bridge players before their replacements were ready, or with the same holes as you had the year before because in three years you are creating more holes than you even have draft capitol to replace, even with as many picks as we had.
 
We will see reality the next 3 weeks. No more more playing the Jets, Giants, Panthers. The next 3 teams have legit defensive fronts and LBs.
Watching the Saints play physical and get pressure on Brady tonite should tell Fin fans next week at the Dome is going to be a hard game to win. Same in Nashville.
It would not be surprising if the Fins lose the next 3 games and finish 7-10.
This team still has flaws and in game coaching from Flores is still suspect. He needs serious help with using timeouts, challenges, end of half strategy, 4th down decisions.
 
RMLogic said:
We will see reality the next 3 weeks. No more more playing the Jets, Giants, Panthers. The next 3 teams have legit defensive fronts and LBs.
Watching the Saints play physical and get pressure on Brady tonite should tell Fin fans next week at the Dome is going to be a hard game to win. Same in Nashville.
It would not be surprising if the Fins lose the next 3 games and finish 7-10.
This team still has flaws and in game coaching from Flores is still suspect. He needs serious help with using timeouts, challenges, end of half strategy, 4th down decisions.
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Fake punts
 
royalshank said:
Fake punts
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I will go on the record saying that one of the reasons why Flores got respect in the first place was the number of fake kicks/punts as well as trick plays he was willing to run. He earned respect in 2019 for games he won that he wouldn't have if not for the fakes and things he ran that gave us big swings in games.

The problem is that the length to gain today was smaller than key parts of my anatomy and there was no reason to put that in the hands of our longsnapper and a 4th string safety instead of either our starting offense or at least our backup QB who could have been propelled to the line to gain by a good fart.

I don't mind punt fakes, but not in situations where its clear your offense should be doing the work.
 
LargoFin said:
It will if we develop continuity, But if we get another new OC next year and shuffle OL with 1st and 2nd year players, I am not sure result will be different.
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And that's a problem - I mean we've clearly got a second rate offensive coaching staff but it's a no win situation either way. You aren't setting your QB up for success by having a less than NFL staff bring him along, but you aren't setting your QB up for success if you have a third OC in three years and the team's fourth OC in four years.

Why it would have been nice to not have Flores throw the experienced OC he had under the bus with force starting a rookie the OC wasn't told would start after the bye week even if the starting QB was healthy and hadn't played out of a job, and even more silly that the team was willing to jettison that QB it had force started as soon as the offseason started.
 
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